October 22, 2007
Fall Creek State Park, Tennessee
Photographer states :: 2007 drought in the southeastern U.S. has seriously lowered water levels in streams and lakes. Forests are extremely dry. Fall colors are greatly reduced.
This is from The Atlanta Journal Consitution:
Feds must help us to weather drought (click here)
By SAM OLENSPublished on: 10/23/07
Someone has pulled the stopper from the bathtub and all the water is draining out!
Metro Atlanta and North Georgia, as well as most of the Southeast, is in the grip of what may prove to be the worst drought on record. At the same time, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is releasing extreme amounts of water from Lake Lanier — our region's key water supply source — to enhance the habitat of two species of mussels and to keep a small coal-fired power plant in operation....
Everyone knows about the drought in Atlanta? No joke. People are going to have tankers of water trucked in before too much longer. No one in the federal government gives a hoot. NO ONE. They should have been building desaliation plants a decade ago. Are they yet? It's not going to get better. Did you understand those words? It's NOT going to get better. The USA is profoundly dry under a thick blanket of CO2 and it's only increasing. That drought is not stopping. Ten hurricanes at this point won't stop it and there is no water vapor to support those hurricanes to happen anyway. Wake up. I have to say it? Really?
October 22, 2007
Irvine, California
Photographer states :: A fire east of Irvine produced major air polution
Smoke kills, okay? Ever hear of smoke inhalation? It's not a matter of a 'Bad Fog Day.' I mean I have to be this insulting? You can't protect your house, you can protect your lives.
I'll tell you something, this is more than just a news item. These are people's lives disaffected by government negligence for decades of allowing an oil greedy upper class to dominate the discussion on energy and transportation. These are NOT, I repeat NOT normal Santa Anna winds. No way. The troposphere over the USA is dry and continues to increase in drought conditions.
Politicians that don't care will come to a scene after the tragedy occurs seeking photo ops with residents as if to say, "I am here now." So what! Where were they THEN? Responding to emergencies of a nation is a Republican Specialty. They wean the American people off a supportive government structure, send their National Guard into combat and then show up when the going gets tough to sympathize. Who needs it? There is such a thing as quality of life. THAT is what Americans need to get used to again and not the Bushs and Giulianis of the world ! Time to come home America. You haven't had enough of government abuse yet?
...According to reports the wildfires which are near the Santa Ana desert continue to put thousands of homes at risk of being destroyed....(click here)
