Global Warming anyone?
My friend asked me to go with her on a little road trip to view Lytton.
Lytton is the town that last weekend broke Canada’s heat record, and then some (120f). And then caught fire. 90% of it burned to a crisp – took about 15 min. Not a big place (pop 250), but…
Um. I’m polite. And she’s fragile. So I didn’t say the obvious. Instead: Well, would the highway even be open? What about fire hazard? She responded that trucks of supplies were on their way and the area beside the highway would have been already burned. Okay…but (quite truthfully) I’d just put in a couple hours in the garden, digging dirt and hauling rocks, and I needed water, lunch and a nap. Also sitting for hours in car not my thing. Not said: Well, never mind.
Meantime, we (my kids and I) are reviewing our escape plan: have ready a bug-out bag, cat-cage and cat, vital papers, computers. Car gassed up. Choose one of the roads towards Vancouver (definitely not the other direction, on the Highway to Hell through miles of flammable forest and very few habitations…even tho if we got to the other side of the mountains we had the offer of a place to stay in the Okanagan). This is a much bigger town, much more fire-fighting resources at hand…but we had over-100 temps for a few days and no rain, none in sight, so there’s a chance, even if slight. (We should be prepared anyway, as the Big One is overdue, flooding is possible and there’s the Hope Slide just up the road to remind us that the surrounding solid mountains aren’t all that solid.
And always a possible invasion of zombies…)
But a peaceful day in the garden. Temp reasonable, cool breeze, no smoke in the air… (P.S. – the Gulf of Mexico is on fire)
07/02/2021 @ 10:52 pm
Armageddon looms?
Today someone referred to all the building going on in town as “preparing for the climate refugees.” Scary.
It stayed under 90f today and still too hot for me….
07/05/2021 @ 12:01 pm
Color me behind. ELSA weaves oscillated lines. Seek shelter. Altamont ALOUD whispering.
NW: High Desert Hootenanny. Bring 1 glacier. ‘Strong tropical storm’.
DARPA IMPERIUM. Fast, slow. 1st then doves. How high those larks?
07/07/2021 @ 11:10 pm
My version of AchuWeather now has ELSA imaged as though an alligator on its back SE of Galveston — nostrils nuzzling Corpus Christi, Victoria and Beeville, Tejas.
However venue Wi-Fi is a little bit funny and, HELL, we’re waiting on the THUNDER.
Hey long strange trip just around the corner is an understatement … right now live WEATHER indicates profuse albeit not dire flooding up the Eastern Seaboard.
Early equinox warning wanes to hurricane watch (deep breath) when it rains if pours peripheral tornados rattling the doors old shingles and roofs GONE heave ho — time to go.
07/04/2021 @ 9:58 am
Global warming is fake news and a propaganda conspiracy theory circulated by left wing extremists like ANTIFA, BLM, Race Theorists, and the Chinese who have been working for decades to perfect the weaponization of spontaneous combustion by placing giant magnifying glasses in orbit and directing high intensity ultraviolet light beams to increase temperatures and start fires in places like Oregon, Washington, and Canada….
07/05/2021 @ 12:22 am
So much for all them Jewish space lasers.
07/05/2021 @ 9:12 am
Yup. The Chinese. Years ago I read a good article about the origins of the science of global warming, as to who first figured out it was happening. The answer makes a lot of sense when you think about it. It wasn’t a government, it wasn’t a university. It was Exxon. Their scientists were studying the effects of burning petroleum because they were working on formulas to reduce emissions. At first Exxon let them publish their work but then figured out it was bad for business and made them stop.