It’s a bad day to be an air-breathing organism.
InciWeb shows four fires in New Mexico, two in southwestern Colorado, and an even dozen in Arizona.
The Bush Fire northeast of Mesa is the biggie at 115,000 acres. That’s pretty country out there. Or it was, anyway.
As a consequence, we in the Duke City have been awarded an “Air Quality Alert” by the National Weather Service, and I will testify that the air is of very poor quality indeed. I’d send it back, but UPS says they won’t pick it up.
And there’s no telling when we might get a suitable replacement anyway, with the Bush Fire only 5 percent contained.
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The Bighorn Fire blew out yesterday during red flag condition and gained over 5000 acres working its way East and up towards Mt. Lemon. The mountain is closed and the residents evacuated. We got some smoke from it, and saw a large smoke plume going up, yesterday.
Changing subjects for a second, with your permission of course. I can contact you my email if you prefer. Do you still have that video of Marv playing “Down And Out?” I’m thinking of leaning it, and I would love to share that vid with my guitar buddy Alan. I think of Marv every now and then when I pick up a guitar or heard a busker singing that song in Bisbee before the plague.
Patrick, I got it by searching for Marvin Berkman down and Out on youtube. Sweet, and I will share with Alan.
No worries, man. You would’ve loved Marv. What a character he was. And such a great neighborhood. We’ve been extraordinarily fortunate.
Uggh. I hope the fires are contained soon and you get rain as well!
It’s on the dry side here – the jet stream is swooping low. Of course, when it rains it never just rains anymore. It’s always a storm, often torrential rain, and high winds and sometimes flooding even though the spring melt is long over.
We keep getting teased by the monsoons, but man, those fires, they don’t play.
Remember where there were only four horsemen issued per apocalypse? I think America is enjoying the tender mercies of the entire 666th Cavalry.
That is so good. Hee and also haw.