posted 07-28-2002 11:49 PM            

unbelievable....

posted 07-29-2002 12:05 AM            

Perhaps you have some personal and/or trivial comments to add regarding my intellect as well? Let's hear it!

posted 07-29-2002 02:01 AM            

A/T,

I believe that the conditions as described by canex are a reasonable interpretation of the events that set off the cloud event....the only thing unusual about the picture is the circle of cold air....and why this phenomena seems to be occurring more frequently...

Perhaps you have some personal and/or trivial comments to add regarding my intellect as well? Let's hear it!

I assure you if I comment here on something it is not triival...as far as your intellect I've never brought it up in this forum before, and don't plan to unless your behavior warrants it....

Besides Seeker, we all know that DARPA is the agency that controls the space program.

that's a left fielder...

I thought colonel dan controlled the space program....

posted 07-29-2002 04:38 PM               

Chemtrails Over Cornwall, England http://www.rense.com/general27/chemov.htm

Cloud-Seeding - How Much Progress Has Been Made? http://www.rense.com/general27/cloud.htm

Sawgrass Rebellion Launched. http://www.sawgrassrebellion.org/
The Klamath to Florida convoy is coming together.

After rainy spring, Wisconsin comes up dry: Parts of state join rest of nation in drought, monitoring agency says

link

cy_says
...Wisconsin officially joins the other 49 states in being classified as having drought-like conditions, said Douglas LeComte, senior meteorologist and drought specialist at the National...

Committee Upgrades Drought To 'Extreme' (WYFF TheCarolinaChannel.com) story.news.yahoo.com/news
State officials upgraded the classification of the drought in most of South Carolina from "severe" to its highest level of "extreme," paving the way for water-use restrictions statewide.

Flames force evacuations in Oregon
9,000-acre fire threatens homes near Columbia River gorge --MSNBC http://msnbc.com/news/763669.asp

posted 07-31-2002 08:45 PM               

Wildfire Forces Evacuations in Ore.

By JEFF BARNARD
ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAVE JUNCTION, Ore.- More residents packed up and left a valley in southwestern Oregon Wednesday as firefighters reinforced a defensive line against a 30-mile wall of flames.

Authorities had urged the area's 17,000 residents on Tuesday to be ready to evacuate within 30 minutes. Trucks and trailers with furniture have been leaving the area since Sunday, and a Cave Junction animal hospital sold out of pet carriers and nearly ran out of sedatives for dogs and cats, an employee said.

Bulldozers dug fire lines connecting a network of Siskiyou National Forest roads to keep the fire's eastern front from four communities along U.S. Highway 199. But the weather worsened Wednesday, with forecasts of strong wind from the north and low humidity.

"We are looking at the fire at this time as uncontrollable," said Greg Gilpin, of the state Department of Forestry.

Firefighters fear two blazes burning about four miles apart will merge. Oregon's Florence Fire, which has destroyed three homes, stands at about 145,000 acres, while the Sour Biscuit fire is about 35,000 acres.

Bulldozers began building another fire line to the north to protect the community of Agness, a hub of whitewater rafting on the Rogue River.

Despite warnings the line may not hold, Shelley Heon said she's not leaving her home until she can see the flames.

"I have five acres of property that needs to be tended to," Heon said. "It's a hard one, but there's no need to leave now."

Elsewhere Wednesday:

-Firefighters battling a 2,415-acre blaze in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado dug containment lines and were helped by at least two air tankers, five helicopters and 30 engines. Crews were accompanied by archaeologists to prevent damage to 25,000 sites left by the Ancestral Pueblo Indians. The park remained closed.

-A wildfire that may have been sparked by a National Guard helicopter continued to burn across 15,000 acres of dry brush and trees in San Diego County, Calif. The fire, which has destroyed five homes and killed four wolves at a wildlife center near Julian, was about 10 percent contained Wednesday morning.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/jul/31/073106136.html

posted 08-01-2002 02:47 PM               

Massive Oregon Wildfires May Merge

By JEFF BARNARD

ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAVE JUNCTION, Ore.- Using a fire hose to douse the grass beside his house, Bob Bell swore to stay until the bitter end as a massive wildfire loomed nearby. "Twenty-five years ago, I had a home burn in the ... Angeles National Forest, and I'm not going to have that happen again," Bell said Wednesday. "I've got a pond in back that's seven feet deep, and I'm going to jump in it," if the fire comes.

Bell and thousands of other residents in southwestern Oregon's Illinois Valley have been on edge in recent days as they await word on a pair of wildfires covering 187,000 acres that have become a top priority in the nation's firefighting effort.

Across Oregon on Thursday, about 13,000 firefighters were battling about 15 major wildfires burning more than 423,000 acres. Pickup trucks and trailers loaded with household goods have been trickling out of the Illinois Valley since the fires exploded Sunday, sending up a 30,000-foot plume of smoke.

But the Josephine County Sheriff's Department said only about 400 of the valley's 17,000 residents had registered with the Red Cross as having left the area. About 100 more have notified the police of their intent to leave.

"We're going to stay here until they tell us it's time to get out," high school principal Ron Brood said at his home outside Selma. "Then I'll turn on the sprinklers on the perimeter and get out."

Strong winds were expected out of the north Thursday, pushing closer the 150,000-acre Florence and the 37,000-acre Sour Biscuit fires, collectively known as the Biscuit Complex.

They were last reported about two miles apart. Firefighters' strategy Thursday was to protect several small towns by torching off backfires along a 30-mile fire line of logging roads and bulldozer cuts.

Fire commanders hope favorable wind will blow the fires set on purpose toward the main conflagration, depriving it of unburned fuel.

Crews were working to clear brush and volatile landscaping to improve their chances of protecting homes, said Tim Birr, spokesman for the Oregon State Fire Marshal's Office. "If it can help keep the fire from getting to my house, more power to them," Brood said as firefighters chain-sawed trees in his backyard.

Elsewhere in the West: - A wildfire that may have been sparked by a National Guard helicopter was burning across 20,000 acres of dry brush and trees in San Diego County, Calif. The fire, which has destroyed nine homes and killed four wolves at a wildlife center near Julian, was about 15 percent contained Thursday morning. - Firefighters battling a 3,300-acre blaze in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado dug containment lines and were helped by at least two air tankers, five helicopters and 30 engines.

Archaeologists accompanied crews to prevent damage to 25,000 sites left by the ancestral Pueblo Indians. The park remained closed, and the fire was about 5 percent contained.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/aug/01/080107497.html

posted 08-02-2002 12:24 PM               

Five dry years force rural residents across state to dig deeper for water
By JOEY HOLLEMAN
Staff Writer

S.C.'S SINKING WATER TABLE

CALHOUN COUNTY - When 87-year-old Ruth Oliver's well went dry for nearly a month, she relied on a variety of "running" water that is becoming all too common in rural South Carolina.

Neighbors and relatives were running water by her house in plastic gallon jugs every day.

While most city utilities with large reservoirs remain flush with water despite the five-year drought, rural folks on wells are suffering. The sinking water table has left many shallow wells - and some deep ones - high and dry.

About 20 percent of the state's households get their water from private wells, according to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.

The well problems in the corner of Calhoun County known as the Midway community is typical of rural areas in the state, said state drought coordinator Hope Mizzell. Asked to name counties where people have complained of dry wells, Mizzell rattled off a dozen before saying it's basically the entire state.

Bud Badr, chief of hydrology for the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, said the water table throughout the state has fallen by 15 to 20 feet during the five-year drought. That means the aquifers, which flow through layers of porous rock like underground rivers, are lower than normal, just as surface rivers are.

Wells drilled a few years ago into an aquifer 100 feet below the surface are pumping sand because the aquifer's water level has sunk below the wells' pipes.

Drilling a deeper well costs from several hundred to several thousand dollars depending on the depth. Well-drillers are having trouble keeping up with demand.

Oliver had to wait more than three weeks to get a new well drilled. She showered at a neighbor's house and used the water from jugs stacked on her back porch for other basic needs.

When water finally came spewing from the new 175-foot deep well on Monday, Oliver couldn't wait to take a long shower. "I should've had a date that night," she said.

Like most hardy rural residents, Oliver perseveres with a smile.

Lisa Felkel managed to maintain her sanity for about 10 days without water in a home with three children, the youngest only 5 months. "It was different, but at least we weren't in school," said Felkel, who teaches kindergarten in Orangeburg.

Mike Swearingen of AAA Well Drilling of Lexington said business has been extremely busy this summer. He said most wells that have gone dry are shallow, 100 feet or less, but some deeper wells have run out of water.

"It's kind of sporadic," Swearingen said. "You'll get three or four in one area, then two or three in another area. There's still plenty of water in the ground. It's just getting to it."

Several aquifers flow under the state at different depths. The deeper aquifers are less affected by the drought, but drilling down to them costs thousands of dollars more. Many municipalities and industries sink wells to those more stable water sources.

So do some farmers. That doesn't stop people from resenting the water pouring from a farm irrigation system when their own nearby wells are dry.

Corn and cotton fields blanket Calhoun County. Residents appreciate the importance of the farm economy, but they wonder whether farm irrigation is sucking their wells dry.

Margaret Felkel, 83, said her well has gone dry twice, and both times the farmers on each side of her were irrigating their fields. "When they run, it takes water away from you," she said.

Badr said that's not necessarily true. "It's very hard to resist (blaming farmers) when you have a dry well and these farmers are irrigating 24-7. But you have to get the facts."

The natural resources department can use water samples and aquifer maps to determine whether farmers are pulling from the same aquifer as local drinking wells. Badr said farmers have been willing to cooperate and reduce irrigation when science proved they were using water their neighbors needed.

Hugh McLaurin, who irrigates portions of his 3,000-acre farm in Midway, said he hates that neighbors might see him as the bad guy. "I sympathize. I know so many wells are going dry."

But he doesn't think he's to blame. The water he uses to irrigate his corn and cotton fields comes either from surface ponds or from wells 400 to 800 feet deep. Neither of those sources should affect the common residential well in the 50- to 200-foot range.

Farmers pay for the deeper wells so they can make a living in dry years. "In this sandy soil, if you don't water, you don't make anything," McLaurin said.

The corn he grows on non-irrigated fields was a total loss this year, while this has been a solid year for his irrigated corn crop.

When the state drought response committee meets again, likely sometime in the next two weeks, it will consider whether mandatory water restrictions are needed. When the committee upgraded most of the state to extreme drought status, it chose to ask for voluntary restrictions.

Several Midway residents said they think mandatory cutbacks would decrease the well problem.

The only other solutions are to drill deeper wells or pray for several rainy months. The folks at Fellowship Baptist Church are trying both.

The Midway church's well ran dry on July 6. While waiting for someone to drill a deeper well, the church has had to rely on another version of "running" water, said John Salazar, the church's pastor.

Each Sunday and Wednesday, they've been running a hose across the street and hooking into a neighbor's water system.

posted 08-02-2002 02:21 PM            

A scientist claims the war in Afghanistan is partly to blame for the failure of the monsoon in parts of India.

The chief scientific officer at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences in New Delhi says large volumes of greenhouse gases have been released by US warplanes.

Murari Lal believes the war has contributed significantly to the global warming factors he says are behind the low rainfall.

He told the Press Trust of India: "The injection of large amount of greenhouse gases and aerosols over Afghanistan, Pakistan and Arabian Sea by US fighter planes during the Afghanistan war in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere contributed to significantly deficient rainfall over north-west and central India."

posted 08-03-2002 01:30 AM               

Aug. 1 — LONDON (Reuters) - The first six months of the year have been the second-warmest ever and average global temperatures in 2002 could be the highest ever recorded, British weather experts said Thursday.

"Globally 2002 is likely to be warmer than 2001, and may even break the record set in 1998," said Briony Horton, the Meteorological Office's climate research scientist.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body that advises governments on long-term climatic variations, blames global warming, caused by rising emissions of greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, for the rise in temperatures, a Met Office spokesman said."We agree with them," he told Reuters.

"Since 1970 there has been a marked trend in the rise of global temperatures."The actual rise prior to 1970 was partly man-made and partly due to natural effects. But since 1970 scientists are in fairly general agreement that warming can be attributed to man's polluting activities."

The Met Office said global temperatures were 1.03 Fahrenheit higher than the long-term average of about 59 Fahrenheit in the period from January to June.

In the nearly 150 years since recording began, only in 1998 has the difference been higher, 1.08 Fahrenheit, and that was caused by the influence of the El Nino weather phenomenon.

The figures also showed that the northern hemisphere had its warmest-ever half year, with temperatures 1.31 Fahrenheit above the long-term average.

posted 08-04-2002 09:50 PM               

Nena Baker
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 03, 2002 12:00:00

Warning to the curious and the kind: If you see a grounded bat, or for that matter a fox or a skunk that's acting batty, do not touch, feed or approach.

Chances are the animal is infected with rabies.

Drought conditions in Arizona are contributing to a rate of animal rabies infections apace with last year's record 129 confirmed cases.

So far this year, the Arizona Department of Health Services has confirmed 91 cases of animal rabies, and exposure to such animals has led to vaccines for 119 people.

More than 100 pet lovers who were exposed to an infected puppy at an adoption center in Tucson earlier this year will push the number of vaccines for confirmed cases to a record in 2002, said Craig Levy, program manager of the vector-borne disease program for the state.

Levy said that in addition to those who are vaccinated because of confirmed exposure, many more are vaccinated every year because they suspect they may have had contact with a rabid animal.

The main rabies risk to humans comes from close encounters with wildlife, health officials said.

Skunks account for 39 of this year's confirmed cases; bats, 28; foxes, 20; and llamas, three. A fox that rampaged through a ranch in Camp Verde infected the llamas, Levy said.

"The most significant cases of outbreaks in animals almost always occur during drought periods," Levy said. "And with a prolonged drought, animals tend to get more concentrated around bodies of water, so you get more animal-to-animal contact."

Cases of rabies in domestic animals are rare but not unheard of, as evidenced by the Tucson incident earlier this year. Health officials said a fox infected the pup.

Nationally, wild animals accounted for 93 percent of reported cases of rabies in 2000, the latest year available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Outbreaks of rabies in raccoons, skunks, foxes and coyotes are found in broad geographic regions across the United States.

This year in Arizona, the prevalence of rabies in foxes is highest in central Arizona, while skunk rabies is concentrated in the southern part of the state. However, infected bats are dispersed throughout Arizona and have been found in the Valley, health officials said.

Any mammal can be infected with rabies. Transmission mostly occurs within the same species, but spillovers occur. Last year, for example, a grounded bat bit a skunk in Flagstaff, which started a bat strain of rabies within the skunk population, Levy said.

For humans, however, it doesn't matter what kind of animal infects them. Left untreated, rabies is always fatal, and there's no way to tell whether a human has contracted rabies until symptoms appear. By then, it's too late.

That's why vaccines are administered even if there's no more than the suspicion of contact.

The last rabies death in Arizona occurred in 1981, and health officials want to keep it that way.

"The big thing for the public is not to play with animals in the wild," state health Director Catherine Eden said. "Be respectful of them, and protect yourself and your pets."

Eden knows firsthand what happens when a rabid animal strikes.

In 1956, when she was 7 years old, a rabid cat leaped out of a tree in her family's central Phoenix yard and bit her and her younger brother.

Both children endured a series of 20 painful shots.

"The treatment is a lot better these days," she said.

A Phoenix woman who underwent rabies vaccinations two years ago said the weeklong series of shots wasn't a big deal.

Ellen Bilbrey got treatment after a bat landed on her neck in broad daylight, which is odd behavior for a bat, and she brushed it away.

"The worst part was worrying that I might have rabies," said Bilbrey, a spokeswoman for the State Parks Department. "The treatment itself wasn't that bad."

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0803rabies0803.html

posted 08-05-2002 09:45 AM               

Midwest Satellite 08-02-2002 0445pm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews/message/2391

Midwest Satellite 08-02-2002 0500pm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews/message/2392

Midwest Satellite 08-02-2002 0515pm.jpg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews/message/2402

Firefighters hail success in Oregon
About 17,000 residents in valley still prepared to evacuate --Associated Press http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=514&ncid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20020803/ap_on_re_us/wildfires_2

Widespread Drought Grips Nation (AP) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020804/ap_on_bi_ge/drought_harvesters_1
... Oklahoma man and his 12-member crew is literally drying up, another blow dealt by the wilting drought that has devastated the harvest....

Government releases funds for drought-hit states, but opposition says it's too little, too late (AP) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020804/ap_wo_en_po/india_drought_2
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee released more funds for drought-hit states Sunday, but opposition parties said it was too little, too late.

Drought Drags on Into Final Heat (Newsday) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/trib/20020803/lo_newsday/drought_drags_on_into_final_heat
It's been bone-dry all summer, and for Lyle Wells, that has meant long, groggy workdays and sleeping in shifts. A farmer, Wells says he's been getting as little as four hours of sleep a night. Some nights, he's in the fields irrigating until 11 p.m.

Canadian Farmers Despair in Prairie Drought (Reuters) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020802/wl_canada_nm/canada_food_drought_col_1
...DECLARED DROUGHT DISASTER Dozens of municipalities have declared a drought disaster since it became clear that...

UN Warns of Drought, Food Shortages in Ethiopia (Reuters) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020802/hl_nm/drought_ethiopia_dc_1
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said Friday that serious food shortages were affecting millions of farmers in eastern, northern and southern Ethiopia due to exceptionally dry weather.

posted 08-07-2002 09:04 AM               

Midwest Satellite 08-02-2002 0445pm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews/message/2391
Midwest Satellite 08-02-2002 0500pm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews/message/2392
Midwest Satellite 08-02-2002 0515pm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews/message/2402
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews/message/2406
Midwest Satellite 08-02-2002 0545pm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews/message/2413

posted 08-07-2002 05:53 PM            

At 0600 this morning I witnessed this directly over my house. I could see the clouds coming in from the West and the chemtrails had been sprayed due East, and it was intuitive that they were diffusing the clouds as they passed through.

posted 08-08-2002 09:33 AM               

With regard to clouds, I studied meteorology since I was a kid. Got the names of various cloud formations down like cumulo-nimbus etc. Chemtrails were GRADUALLY introduced getting notably heavier in late 1998. Using dispassionate observation, you can TELL that the skies are different by watching movies or videos made PRIOR to 1998. Same thing with weather books. Look at their satellite photos or sky photos in the books. We have VERY different skies these days! I noted a thunderstorm zapped a couple years ago when on a trip to an amusement park. Here are the photos I took then:

Death of a rainstorm Photo #1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews/message/200
Death of a rainstorm Photo #2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews/message/202
Death of a rainstorm Photo #3 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews/message/201
Death of a rainstorm Photo #4 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews/message/203

I noted that we started getting little to NO RAIN, mostly 'misty drizzles' shortly after 1998. My words are recorded in newsletter ON RECORD at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews This always includes posts from others making similar observations. It is VERY CLEAR that these dirtbag globalists are getting some serious destruction and CONTROL out of this. If you want to see a scary depiction of our future, the dreams of these globalists... See the movie "The Handmaid's Tale" It has NO ENTERTAINING VALUE but is exactly what's happening and soon TO happen!

posted 08-11-2002 12:39 AM               

Associated Press Writer

Saturday, August 10, 2002; 11:26 AM

GRANTS PASS, Ore. –– The nation's largest active wildfire grew to about 333,890 acres early Saturday, making it Oregon's largest wildfire in over a century.The blaze in the Siskiyou National Forest and adjoining lands in southwestern Oregon and Northern California is now larger than the 1933 Tillamook Fire, which burned 311,000 acres.

Officials said some fires may have covered more ground before the U.S. Forest Service was established until the 1890s.

The wildfire had at one point threatened about 17,000 people in several small towns in the Illinois Valley. Favorable weather limited the fire's advance near Agness in the Rogue River Canyon, but gusty wind and temperatures in the 90s – factors expected to remain a threat Saturday – gave the blaze new vigor in the hills and valleys east of Brookings near the California border.

Sheriff's deputies Friday were asking some Brookings-area residents to prepare to leave their homes immediately if notified. The fire was about 25 percent contained.A voluntary evacuation remained in effect at the southern tip of the fire in Gasquet, Calif., which has a population of about 800 people.

Meanwhile, California's largest wildfire, which has burned about 61,550 acres since it began July 29 near Julian, about 60 miles northeast of San Diego, was nearly surrounded Saturday.

At least 35 homes have been destroyed by the blaze, sparked when a National Guard helicopter clipped a power line. The flames were no longer threatening homes on Saturday, said Martie Perkins, a California Department of Forestry spokeswoman.

A second wildfire in rural eastern San Diego County scorched 350 acres Friday, threatening about 60 homes. In Northern California, a fire burning in Napa Valley consumed about 500 acres.

The National Fire Information Center reports 5 million acres have burned in the country this year, including more than 715,000 acres in Oregon. U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth said the fires have cost $325 million to fight.Elsewhere, portions of Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado reopened to the public Friday, 10 days after a wildfire near its best-known archaeological attractions forced it to close.

Areas closest to the 2,601-acre fire, including the museum, the library and two cliff dwellings, were to remain closed Saturday.

Park Superintendent Larry Wiese said helicopters were still dousing hot spots, and fire crews were still cleaning up.The fire scorched a wall of one archaeological feature, but did no damage to any other park ruins.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2510-2002Aug10.html

_________________________________________________________________

Today: August 10, 2002 at 19:55:02 PDT

Ore. Fire is Largest in a Century

By JEFF BARNARD

ASSOCIATED PRESS

GRANTS PASS, Ore.- The nation's largest active wildfire grew to 333,890 acres Saturday, making it Oregon's largest wildfire in a century.

Fire crews worked against gusty winds and steep terrain to secure a containment line around the southeastern portion of the wildfire. The fire was spotting along part of the line, said Mike Ferris, a spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service. "It slopped over the line that we had established and we're getting it tied back in," he said.

The blaze in southwestern Oregon and northern California is larger than a 1933 that burned 311,000 acres. National forests weren't managed until the U.S. Forest Service was established in the 1890s.

A voluntary evacuation remained in effect Saturday at the southern tip of the fire in Gasquet, Calif., which has about 800 people.

The fire was about 25 percent contained. California's largest wildfire, which has burned 61,550 acres northeast of San Diego, was nearly surrounded Saturday. The blaze destroyed at least 35 homes since July 29, but was not threatening homes Saturday, the state Department of Forestry said.

The National Fire Information Center reports 5 million acres have burned in the country this year. U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth said the fires have cost $325 million to fight.

posted 08-13-2002 06:50 AM               

You can also use the buttons directly above the photos to manually go
through the images also.
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/inwo/slideshow?&.dir=/&.src=gr&.view=t

If for some reason the above URL doesn't work...... Goto this link: http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/inwo

Click on: Photos

Then on the lower right click on: Slideshow

and it should begin loading the 8 photos

Change speed to FAST

The fight for fresh water http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/americas/2188070.stm

State water war trickles down http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/monday/news_d375f4238594313e00a3.html

Drought's threat to jobs, cities worsens http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/3830781.htm

Three Kilometer Thick Pollution Layer Diverted Monsoon

Progress on Oregon fires
3 fighters critically hurt in California --MSNBC http://www.msnbc.com/news/763669.asp

40 Local firefighters battle Oregon blaze http://www.canada.com/winnipeg/news/story.asp?id={BC0E1E2B-7014-4887-AD4E-D96BB6D93F8E}
WINNIPEG -- Forty Manitoba firefighters are in Oregon to help in the battle against wildfires in that state.
They left Winnipeg International Airport yesterday aboard a U.S. Forest Service Jet.
In Oregon, crews are battling wind gusts and steep terrain as they seek to contain the state's largest wildfire in more than a century.

US Drought Drives Wild Animals Into Urban Areas http://www.rense.com/general28/USDroughtdriving.htm

Ore. Blaze, Largest in U.S., Grows Sun Aug 11, 7:32 AM ET - (AP) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&ncid=716&e=7&u=/ap/20020811/ap_on_re_us/wildfires_2
The nation's largest active wildfire grew to 333,890 acres Saturday, making it Oregon's largest wildfire in a century.

Oregon fire state's biggest in century
Grew to 333,890 acres Saturday, about 25% contained --MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/news/763669.asp

More hay headed West SAT 08.10.2002 22.23 PT CBC News http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/08/10/hay020810
CALGARY - Prince Edward Islanders taking part in the campaign to get hay to drought-stricken western livestock are optimistic they can get the feed shipped out. CN Rail has agreed to put on box cars in Moncton, New Brunswick, Truro, Nova Scotia, and Quebec City to ship P.E.I. hay west early next week. Island officials are now trying to arrange to get the hay across the Confederation Bridge. Dozens of farmers and ordinary Islanders have said they will donate money to help defer transportation costs.

Devastating Drought Brings Despair to Much of U.S. (Reuters) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020809/ts_nm/weather_drought_dc_1
... rural residents gathered at the church on Wednesday to seek divine intervention in an extended drought in Ohio and much of the United States that is fast becoming one of the worst in the last century....

Storms north US, Drought a concern (weather.com) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/wcom/20020811/we_wcom/storms_north_us__drought_a_concern
The pattern is a tad slow with the lack of moisture and dynamics providing any widespread storminess. This will change on Sunday as a new vigorous cold front comes into the northern Plains from Canada and then drives across the Midwest and central United States with active thunderstorms. In the meantime, high pressure has ruled with dry conditions persisting in many areas of the East to Southeast. This is a big concern for drought plagued areas that have been suffering through the lack of rain since June 1st, especially the Southeast and Carolinas.

Firefighters Battle Flames Fed By Drought (WLWT ChannelCincinnati.com) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20020810/lo_wlwt/1284136
A large brush fire burned several acres in a Tri-State community Friday afternoon.

CWB Says Drought to Lower Exports, Raise Prices (Reuters) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020807/wl_canada_nm/canada_food_grains_canada_col_1
A drought parching wide swaths of western Canada is expected to dramatically depress production and exports of Prairie spring wheat and barley this year, the Canadian Wheat Board said on Wednesday.

(Fortunately so many of you out there have awakened to the WEATHER MODIFICATION program that the media is having to spin more fairy stories. The modification is coming from specific SPRAYING planes and NOT normal commercial air traffic.)

BBC: Planes' vapor trails affect weather
The vapor trails left in the atmosphere by jet aircraft have a significant impact on the weather, according to new research. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2179845.stm
The vapour trails left in the atmosphere by jet aircraft have a significant impact on the weather, according to new research.
(The REAL trails causing the damage aren't VAPOUR at all! It's filled with a PARTICULATE that is reaching the ground. This is why CHEMTRAILs are so VASTLY different and easily contrasted with normail jet CONtrails.)

Proof at last that high-flying jets affect climate http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/08/1028157991949.html

Forest Fires Char Over 250,000 Acres In Oregon In 3 Weeks http://www.rense.com/general27/forestfireschar.htm

Oregon fires merge into inferno
Illinois Valley's 17,000 residents remain under evacuation advisory --MSNBC http://www.msnbc.com/news/763669.asp

Shelby forced to tap other water sources http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/3820783.htm

posted 08-13-2002 04:10 PM               

Aug. 09, 2002 19:35:00BC-WST--Great Salt Lake,400 Great Salt Lake shrinking in summer heat

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Great Salt Lake isn’t as great as it used to be.

Lack of precipitation and a hot summer have caused the lake’s level to recede sharply. It is now at 4,198 feet above sea level, the lowest since 1980.

Wallace Gwynn, a geologist with the Utah Geological Survey, predicted the lake will bottom out this year about Dec. 1 at 4,197.15 feet. The last time it was that low was in 1972.

Boaters, particularly those on Antelope Island, are now concerned that if trends continue, there soon won’t be enough water to launch off the harbor without significant modifications.

John Sullivan, assistant park manager at Antelope Island, said the marina water level is down 2 feet this year from last year.

"We’re almost in a drastic situation now," he said.

The ends of the docks only have 2-foot-deep water levels now, and that won’t handle some sailboats and certainly not large brine shrimp boats that arrive in October.

As recently as 15 years ago, massive pumps were used to try to keep Interstate 80 from flooding and to reclaim the Antelope Island causeway and other land from high water that caused some $250 million in damages.

The lake normally falls each year from summer into late fall before lower temperatures and moisture raise it again in the winter and spring. The lake level is entirely dependent on the weather.

The lake’s historic peak came during flood years of 1986 and 1987 at 4,212 feet. Its all-time low, 4,191.35, was in 1963. The historic average on which most maps are based is 4,200 feet.

Because it’s such a shallow lake, even minor drops expose much more land around the lake.

At 4,200 feet, the lake covers 1,700 miles. At its 1963 record low, it covered only 950 square miles, while at its 1986-87 high, it expanded to 3,300 square miles.Gwynn said low lake levels, to a point, are a boost to lake industries like brine shrimp harvesters and salt and chemical extractors. Low levels concentrate chemicals and salt while also creating ideal conditions for brine shrimp.

posted 08-13-2002 04:14 PM               

Mon Aug 12,12:56 AM ET

HANOI, Vietnam - Nearly half a million people in central Vietnam are suffering from water shortages caused by a two-month drought, state-controlled media reported Monday.

The drought has hit 84,000 hectares (207,500 acres), or nearly one-third, of the rice fields in the central region, Thoi Bao Kinh Te Vietnam (Vietnam Economic Times) quoted Nguyen Dinh Ninh, deputy director of the Water and Irrigation Projects Management Department, as saying.

About 42,000 hectares (105,000 acres) of rice fields are badly affected and 23,500 hectares (58,000 acres) of crops could be lost, Ninh was quoted as saying.

The drought is not expected to affect Vietnam's rice exports because the central region is not a main rice growing area.

Most reservoirs in central Vietnam cannot supply water for irrigation, because water levels in rivers and streams in the region have fallen 0.3 to 0.4 meter (about one foot) lower than the average for many years, he said.

As water levels in the rivers have dropped, salt water from the ocean has encroached as far as 15 to 30 kilometers (10 to 20 miles) up the rivers, hurting farm production, Ninh said.

The drought has had little affect on coffee production in Daklak province, a key coffee-growing area in the Central Highlands, said an official in the province's Agriculture and Rural Development Department.

As central regions suffer from drought, heavy rains have swollen rivers in northern Vietnam. Water levels in the Red River and Thai Binh River systems in northern Vietnam are rising following more than 200 millimeters (7 inches) of rain over the weekend, the National Center of Hydrometeorology said.

posted 08-15-2002 12:03 AM               

Wednesday August 14, 2002 10:40 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) - Persistent and worsening drought has spread to nearly half the contiguous United States, the government reported Wednesday.

The National Climatic Data Center said that as of the end of July, 49 percent of the 48 contiguous states were affected by moderate to extreme drought. Areas of extreme drought stretched from the Southwest to Montana and Nebraska and from Georgia to Virginia, the center reported.

The greatest area of drought coverage to date occurred in July 1934, when moderate to extreme drought covered 80 percent of the contiguous United States.

There was significantly below average rainfall in 27 states in July, according to the Center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

New York had its second driest July on record, and it was the third driest July in New Hampshire and Colorado, the center said.

``Drier-than-average conditions have persisted in many areas for several seasons - in some parts of the country for several years,'' the agency said.

The past 12 months were the driest August through July on record in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado and Wyoming. They were the second driest in Arizona, Nevada and Delaware. Parts of the Southeast and West have been in various stages of drought since 1998.

The Agriculture Department said more than 75 percent of range and pastures were classified as poor to very poor in five western states - Nebraska, Colorado, California, Wyoming and South Dakota - in early August; more than 50 percent had that classification in 13 other states.

The average temperature in July for the contiguous United States was 76.4 degrees Fahrenheit, 2.2 degrees above average for the period 1895-2001. That made it the fifth warmest July since national records began in 1895.

posted 08-15-2002 01:48 AM               

New Colo. Wildfire Prompts Evacuation

ASSOCIATED PRESS GOLDEN, Colo.- A fast-moving fire broke out early Wednesday in the foothills west of Denver, forcing some residents to flee their homes in an upscale area. A firefighting plane on its way to the blaze was damaged when it veered off a runway while taking off.

Authorities suspected a passing train sparked the fires, which had burned about 100 acres by midday. It was 70 percent contained by Wednesday afternoon. No injuries were reported and no structures had been damaged, said Jefferson County sheriff's spokesman Jim Shires.

Residents were urged to evacuate nearly 100 homes in the Blue Mountain Estates subdivision, Shires said. Some stayed and hosed down their decks and lawns as flames crept within a few yards of the homes.

A single-engine airplane taking off with a load of fire retardant veered off a runway at the Jefferson County Airport during the morning and damaged its landing gear, but the pilot walked away, said Jefferson County spokesman John Masson.

The National Transportation Safety Board, Federal Aviation Administration and Forest Service were investigating the cause of the incident. The plane was on its way to the blaze that prompted the evacuation. It had departed from Fort Collins, made one slurry drop then landed at Jefferson County Airport to refuel, authorities said.

Five contract firefighters were injured in the Northwest when the driver of their pickup apparently fell asleep and ran off a road outside O'Brien, Ore., Forest Service spokesman Tom Valluzzi said.

The five firefighters were headed to the west flank of a 390,000-acre fire in southwestern Oregon and northern California.

Hot weather that has been making life miserable for firefighters on the fire's eastern flank continued Wednesday with temperatures that hit 104 degrees, while moist marine air on the western side helped a small outback subdivision under an evacuation advisory.

The fire, burning for a month since it was started by lightning, was 26 percent contained. The threat to the 17,000 residents of the Illinois Valley continued to ease but an evacuation notice remained in effect warning people to be ready to leave.

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