Future Weather Page #5

and you'd better rise

to the occasion, hon.

Real page-turner, huh?

What's happening now, Ree?

They're lost.

Everyone back at base camp

thinks they've either

died of hypothermia

or eaten each other.

Ooh.

Now, you want to do

something like that?

Work at a weather station

under perilous conditions?

It's just a story.

Well, sure, but...

I mean, people really do

do stuff like that, you know?

You could definitely get that

kind of training in Florida.

And it's a lot warmer

than the Himalayas.

Anyplace is warmer

than the Himalayas, Ed.

The Himalayan glaciers

are actually melting faster than

any glacier in the world,

and over a billion people

depend on them for water.

- A billion.

- Hmm.

Your grandma hates

the cold, don't you, hon?

I live through it.

Every year, Ed.

Ree, did you know

that the Kennedy Space Center

is in Florida, and they have got

every kind of research facility

that you can think of.

As a matter of fact,

right next door to my condo

is the school for meteorology,

Which is global warming,

Right?

Weather patterns.

I'm more interested in

wilderness preservation.

Florida is a wilderness paradise.

Ree...

One of the sharpest kids

that I have ever met.

- What do you want to do?

- You just asked her that, Ed.

Well, no, Greta, I did not.

Whatever it is that

you are after,

you need to promise yourself,

make a promise to yourself

that you will try to get there.

In case you haven't

noticed, Ed,

we are not in the mood for one

of your motivational speeches

because we are

sucking lemons.

'Course, if we were Himalayan,

we'd be making lemonade,

and we'd be grateful.

What do you think, Ree?

I think Florida's gonna be

underwater in 30 years, Ed.

Yeah, that book?!

That book now?!

Yeah, well, I thought the book

would be a good idea.

Just lookit.

She's interested.

- Death and Mayhem.

- I know, I know!

What do you wanna do?

There's so much

tension in this house.

I know.

You're smoking again!

I don't even want to know

what kind of a wreck

you would be

if you had to look after

little Caleb and Courtney

all by yourself.

I suppose I would have

called the police.

Right! Because if Mandy

or Tina disappeared,

that would mean that

they had been kidnaped.

Mine, on the other,

disappeared her own goddamn self!

She ran away, Greta!

Ed, she's a 30-year-old

woman, she's not a runaway.

So I guess looking for her

is out of the question.

I didn't say that.

Well, Lauduree certainly

wasn't warm

to the idea of

moving to Florida.

Well... maybe it's better

if she just stays put.

What, so she can get

knocked up her junior year?

Ed, I'm just talking till

the end of the school year.

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