Half-Price Sale in Polychrome Heroics

The September fishbowl made its $300 goal, so there will be a half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics from Monday, September 14-Sunday, September 20.  Plan your budgets accordingly. 

Birdfeeding

Today is sunny and mild.

I fed the birds.

I picked up a trolley of dead weeds and put it on the firepit.

EDIT 9/11/20 -- I cut up dead brush to put on the firepit.

Zombie Fires

Zombie fires are underground fires burning through permafrost.  Like other underground fires, they are all but impossible to put out.  Previous examples I had seen included coal seam fires and oil or natural gas fires such as the hellmouth.  Permafrost fire was new to me, but makes sense given the relation to peat, which is harvested for fuel.

Oregon Wildfires

Massive fires are burning out of control in Oregon, near Portland.  You can see them on a map.

Back in junior high, my parents and I visited the West Coast on vacation.  I looked at the water situation and the way people were building and I said, "This is a bad place to be.  There's already not enough water, more people are coming in, and they're building in all the wrong places.  It's going to wind up with Water Wars and wildfires."

Most of them thought I was nuts.

But I told you so.

Also, current forecast: this is as least-bad as it's ever going to be on a human timescale.  The atmosphere is getting hotter and that part of the country is drying out more and more.  It's going to keep burning, patch by patch, until there's not enough fuel left to sustain that kind of fire.  And there will be less and less water to fight with.