Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: Disasters

  • California Fires

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CALIFORNIA_WILDFIRES?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Calif. wildfires force mass evacuations</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>As the fires spread, most out of control, smaller blazes were merging into larger, more fearsome ones. Evacuations were being announced in one community after another as firefighters found themselves overwhelmed by gale-force Santa Ana winds, some gusting to 70 mph.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSeventy mph winds, dry grass and…

  • Near Record Numbers

    I see that the Bison in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) are <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/10/16/news/state/18-rebound.txt">near record numbers</a> at almost 4700 head. Here we have all these Bison running around the park and nowhere do we hear talk about too many bison and over grazing the park. Nowhere do we hear that the Park needs to bring in…

  • Sour Grapes

    The Montana Stockgrowers Association has a <a href="http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=7092734&nav=menu227_5">little beef</a> with Gov. Schweitzer. How much of there problem with him is real and how much is sour grapes I'm not sure. It used to be members of the Montana Stockgrowers dominated the Livestock board but nowadays they don't so I think <u>some</u> sour grapes is involved.<br…

  • Round Two

    <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=FBC46DE0-CE0B-FDF8-DA0FC21D2AC4EB1E">New FMD case confirmed in England</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>he British government has confirmed another case of foot and mouth disease in Surrey County. The new site is about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the farms that were infected in July and August. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has established a 10…

  • A Wee Bit Wet

    Somebody put up their <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/28/news/state/47-helena.txt">hay too wet</a>. You do that and spontaneous combustion can ruin your day, and your haystack.<br />n<br />n<strong>The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Isaac Rubin</strong>

  • Good News Or Not

    I see in the paper that a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/15/news/state/25-easternmt.txt">Type 2 Management team</a> is coming in to take over the Eastern Montana fires. The actual quote is;<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Type 2 management team from California is arriving to fight more than 20 fires in Custer, Powder River and Rosebud counties. Management of the fires will be…

  • Smoke

    <a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Aug2007/US_AMO_2007225_lrg.jpg'><!– s9ymdb:109 –><img width='540' height='334' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smoke08132007.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />n<br />nHere is why it has been so smokey lately in Montana. We keep talking about the fires in Montana but it looks like the ones in Idaho are really big and nasty.<br />n<br />n<strong>I make it a rule…

  • Fire Information

    There is a slew of wildfires in Montana and here is a roundup of stories about them.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/20-fires_z.txt" >Church camps evacuated due to fire threat</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/22-fires_z.txt" >Buildings lost in eastern fires</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/24-fires_z.txt" >Fire officials fear wind shift south of Big Timber, Livingston</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/30-fires_z.txt" >Wildfires dump ash, smoke…

  • Lucky or Good?

    A little fire news for the state.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/13/news/state/20-fires.txt" >Fires scorch Montana, Yellowstone areas</a><br />n<br />nReading this I am of course more drawn to my area and how the fires that started Friday night by the same storm as our fire are doing.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Meanwhile, the largest fire in the area was considered 100…

  • Wrong

    I've been following the foot and mouth disease outbreak in Britain with interest, does this surprise you, but something is a little wrong <a href="http://www.afrol.com/articles/26353">here</a> and <a href="http://english.sabah.com.tr/4AAD700B478D4C33B10AAFEEE0DF7D7F.html">here</a> with the reporting on this issue. Both of these stories are saying that it is <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> affecting the British herds, not foot and mouth…