Here's another experiment that started off on the wrong foot and ended in an unexpectedly positive way, which attests to what I've always claimed: perseverance and consistency, coupled with creativity, lead to surprising results. Be stubborn, persevere, and in most cases, you will be rewarded. In the rare event of a different outcome, always maintain a positive mindset: it won't be time wasted, but rather an opportunity for personal growth.
For #WaterfallWednesday, here's a photo of Triple Falls in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon that I made in September 2022, five years after the Eagle Creek Fire had burned the area.
Firefighters in southwestern Washington were working on Tuesday to extinguish a wildfire that has destroyed 10 homes and burned more than 530 acres since it broke out on Sunday, the authorities said.
🌡️ HEAT ADVISORY until 23:00 Wed
🔥 RED FLAG WARNING until 23:00 Wed
Sunny, hazy, and hot with a high near 35°C. Breezy and dry this afternoon and evening promoting extreme #fire behavior including during peak #fireworks time. If there was ever a day to be an anti personal firework evangelist, it’s today.
Similar conditions tomorrow; temperatures moderating toward the weekend.
@ai6yr someone on the birdsite mentioned that IG is dropping a new platform called #Threads on July 6 that is supposed to fill in void when the birdsite implodes... I wish #fire and #publicsafety people would find #mastodon instead....
18:10 Monday - Another large #wildfire between Prosser and Benton City, Washington. This one has jumped the Yakima River and Interstate 82. Many roads, including the interstate, are closed.
I was lucky enough to get an all access tour of the fire ravaged Clandon House in Surrey last week. Not your usual #NationalTrust property! #photography#fire
"“Some people like to say this is the new normal. I really do not like that term. Normal suggests a steady state. We’re not in a steady state. We’re in a downward spiral in Dante’s circle of hell,” Michael Flannigan, a lead #fire researcher at Thompson Rivers University, told me." https://heatmap.news/climate/are-wildfires-predictable #ClimateChange
#Smoke from wildfires in #Ontario has started smelling more like burnt plastic. This results from the smoke lingering in the atmosphere long enough for UV days to cause chemical changes leading to a change in smell.
"But even on their own, each of those 17,517,490 files was meaningful to someone—the veteran they represented, a genealogist on a research mission, a writer for whom tiny stories are themselves worth telling. Or a granddaughter, wanting to know more about her grandfather." —Megan Greenwell on a devastating fire at the National Personnel Records Center in 1973 for Wired.
« Montreal has the worst air quality in the world this morning, according to IQAir. More polluted than New Delhi, Tehran and Sao Paulo. Because of the smoke from forest fires in northern Quebec. »
Fire still blazing on ship at Port Newark where 2 firefighters died. Cause remains unknown. (www.nj.com)
The tragedy sparked pointed and growing questions about whether Newark's fire department was prepared to battle a shipboard fire.
Sick with covid (i.redd.it)
Expanded version of this.
What is going on in the fourth panel?
Tunnel Five Fire in Washington Burns Homes (archive.ph)
Firefighters in southwestern Washington were working on Tuesday to extinguish a wildfire that has destroyed 10 homes and burned more than 530 acres since it broke out on Sunday, the authorities said.