Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 18, 2024

Put another log on the fire, why don’t ya.

Give up the restaurant business?

Move to earthquake country?

I understand but this plot is taking forever. Somebody move already.

Yes, Mary Lou (and JJ) you should move where A and J are. You can find a bistro there if you really still want that. Gus could even make the move.

I grew up and lived most of my life in South Florida I currently live on the Gulf Coast of Alabama give me a hurricane any day over a tornado or an earthquake. At least you have time to pack up and get out of town.

I’ve lived in California for over 50 years. Earthquakes aren’t the issue. It’s our wildfires.

Swap houses!

Water is rising in Dade county. One couple interviewed said they would never live near water again!

She is very enterprising! I would love to see them all, even Gus, move closer them than the other way around!

The storms are not getting stronger. Several hurricanes occurred in the previous century that killed more people and caused damage. People moving in to the area are building. As she says, that is what is causing the increase in damage. And they are not any more frequent.

All this hurricane stuff is a bit depressing. Tornadoes and hurricanes in my area for the last 14 years not too mention a large forest fire west of my town.

They must be living in an area supporting Republicans. Who knows when the Dems are going to send a hurricane their way …. /s

As the climate warms up and storms become more frequent there may be a bunch of people who decide they’ve had enough and move. We could see another wave of internal migration. I wonder if Trump will round them up as well and deport them? Then he wants to use the military on those who disagree with him, If Trump wins his America will be a very lonely place.

I’ll take the snowstorms we get here in northernmost Maine over any of the other things mother nature throws at the rest of the country. If air conditioning had not been invented, people would not be moving to the South. I lived in NC during the 80’s and 90’s and witnessed the mass migration of northerners moving south. They pretty much wiped out the NC culture…..that ‘Andy of Mayberry’ culture that is now gone unfortunately.

Plot twist!

It is not BS. Enough data exists to show the correlation between the warmth of the oceans, the strength of the storms and how it will continue. <> but I will stop now because YOU will not be cracking open your mind to allow information in. As my grandkids say…OK Boomer.

Panties in bed??

At 1st glance, I thought she was playing Halloween ghost in panel 1.

Having lived all my life in Tornado Alley, I think I would prefer hurricanes. At least you know they’re coming days in advance.

then why are you making them move to a place you want to escape from? :\

This arc is going on forever and going in circles.No end in sight.

Forget the weather stuff…. Is that lower cleavage?

I often repeat that to my family in Florida. On the other hand, we don’t want too many flatlanders to move here, destroys the ambiance. So I won’t say where “here” is.

This strip has lost it’s cute and funniness of late. ??

The storms are not getting stronger.

Put on some clothes, Arlo’s Kid.

I was thinking about their business. I wonder if they have noticed any differences in their growing season or produce output.

The world, Earth, is alive. It is active everywhere and all the tiny life forms on it, and in it, adapt to the way their area moves and changes, or else. If the tiny lives don’t adapt or move they die where they are. We are currently the most insidious tiny life form on the surface of the Earth. We have adapted to almost the entire land surface of Earth. In some respects we have built little turtle shells to protect ourselves, but the Earth shrugs those off without malice or forethought.

Every place has it’s own downside.

Like a dog shaking off fleas.

Uh, ya think?? There are parts of the US that will just become uninhabitable (or uninsurable).

She has a point……

Not stronger——it’s just what fighter pilots call a target rich environment.

I’m in Massachusetts. Very, very rarely, we get a tornado. Aside from that, the worst we get are blizzards and ice storms, but those have become noticeably less frequent over the past 30 years.

he we go again with global warming; 1992 Andrew was one of the most powerful storms ever, the Labor Day storm in 1935 was had a pressure of 892, Camille in 1955 was 900, so yes, they were powerful back then too.

Hurricanes are not getting stronger, nor are they more frequent. Over the last 30 years, there have been noticeably fewer hurricanes than the previous historical average, and they have been weaker.

Building new towns and cities on the hurricane prone coast is still a silly idea, though.

A little help here: Has Mary Lou always been blonde? It’s a trivial piece of information but I’m just curious. Thanks.

We have an RV, we just move where the weather is good. NO stress.

I was thinking the same thing. Time to go home Gene.

I wouldn’t even consider moving into Hurricane Alley unless I could live in one of those concrete hurricane proof homes. The two I had a glance at while visiting the Florida Keys were actually quite attractive homes and from what my cousin told me each had a history of weathering the storms well.

I’d do it. You can do a restaurant anywhere, but doing it under 2 feet of water gets a little difficult.

I think that if Gene and Mary Lou moved near Arlo and Janis it would revitalize the strip. So many more story opportunities. I hope that they do.

O well….Atlantis sank, too…