Yesterday's microburst from Los Alamos over Otowi Smith's Hacienda with a rainbow pointing to the 6' leprechauns yurt down canyon on the Rio Grande :-)
https://node.redfish.com/Documents/cody/timeLapse/output/LosAlamos1/2023/214/LosAlamos1_2023_08_02_00_00.mp4 On Wed, Aug 2, 2023, 3:24 PM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > > On 8/2/23 2:55 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > I just noticed it was overshoot day, and just after the hottest July ever > recorded. Yay! > > > I'll be mixing up a nice ice-cold (luke warm?) cocktail of shame with just > a splash of Cassandrafruede (reminiscent of Absinthe?) at sundown today > (spectacular when orange-tinted from the wildfire smoke and dust blown from > drought-denuded areas)... While I pop the ice-cubes from the tray I'll > remember the recent factoid from someone (McKibben?) that the annual carbon > budget of most people in the third world is roughly that of an American's > refrigerator with an Ice-Maker or a Brit's electric Kettle for twice-daily > tea. If I had AC I'd turn it down to it's coldest setting to spite my > neighbor by belching superheated air into their AC air handler intakes... > but alas I only have adobe walls and brick floors and lots of windows to > absorb night-time coolth... no fun in that! <ahhh... the lingering > aftertaste of Cassandrafruede!> > > The wycked hot here in NM finally broke somewhat for us yesterday with an > hour of rain like the "good ole days" when every afternoon had a rainstorm > starting in July to cool off the second half of the summer. The crew down > in the Bosque building a pumping station to move the water pumped from the > Colorado Basin to the Rio Grande (San Juan to Chama) is busy belching > diesel exhaust plumes and throwing adobe-bricklets from their tires when > they pull out on the highway to become ad-hoc speed control bumps for the > Los Alamos commuters usually roar by at 80 in the 55mph "safety zone" > morning and night. > > All the world is a circle? Or is it a donut? I think maybe I'm > channeling Terry Pratchett? > > Cheers! > > > https://www.overshootday.org/ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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