The Weather Is Here. Wishing You Were FIne.

[laundromat]

vog

When the winds are traveling east,the vvolcano steam gets real dence and causes vog.Today was great but this past weekend in Hilo,you couldn't see your hand in front of your face and it smelled horrible.You can compare the stench to the steam comming up from the underground sewers in cities like New York and Baltimore in the mid Winter months.I had to where a bandana mask to be able to filter the air.It has averaged 82F daily and 65F nightly.Went paddle surfing this past weekend too.

 

[sudsmaster]

55/43 here, and still raining after about a week of same. It's supposed to clear up tomorrow and reach 60/45 by Thursday.

The magnolia in the front yard is blooming. The daffodils are showing their heads.

 

[panthera]

We've had several interstate closures

over the last month and I had the great good luck to be on the road after my folks' city was closed twice.

Both times, I saw over 50 cars off the road in a 37 mile stretch.

With one exception. One. ALL were four-wheel drives/all-wheel drives.

Mother Nature does not care the least little bit about ABS, traction-control, stability control, 4-wheel drive and winter tires. Nothing will keep a vehicle on the road when the weather conditions are bad. A great deal will take a vehicle off the road when the driver is foolish enough to believe that all these wonderful technological breakthroughs trump Mother Nature.

Red in tooth and claw, she never loses. Ever.

What puzzles me most is that driver's ed was struck from the curriculum in the 1990s. We're over 6,000' here and kids of 15.5 years are out driving with no experience and no way to get it except what Mother Nature chooses to punish them with.