Looking Around: One version of inversion
Blog: Culture Check
November 29, 2009
The bowl-shaped Columbia River valley filled up with the usual winter gunk Sunday morning, but I'm not complaining. It's easy to get above this mix of clouds and smoke and (probably) smog by driving up Badger Mountain. Beautiful views. In fact, the vapors seem to delineate peaks to make them seem even higher and craggier. Telephone poles? Well, they just stand there.
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2 years, 2 months ago
Looking Around: One version of inversion
Hmmm, looks like they finally legalized pot in our valley.
irwin 2 years, 2 months ago
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It did seem that most of the haze in the valley Sunday was from smoke. Could it be from wood stoves, though? It wasn't even that cold outside. Oops, I think we had our fireplace going for much of the morning.
2 years, 2 months ago
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...it can be reported to DOE. Yep, courtesy of Evergreen State College the DOE will be hot on your tail and will foist their rules and regs upon you until your cry "uncle" and write out a check to their much esteemed Environmental Preservation Fund located in their hip pocket, of course. ;-P
2 years, 2 months ago
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Hey Mav, Love it or leave it. If you can't follow the rules here in America, then perhaps you don't deserve to be an American. Canada is only 150 miles north. Maybe you'd like it there better?
irwin 2 years, 2 months ago
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Martin ... I'm familiar with inversions here and across North Central Washington, and have been for decades. But I'm not always sure what these trapped vapors are made of. Smoke seems like one element, but maybe not all of it. Couldn't it also be water vapor (clouds), auto emissions, and maybe even dust? Yes? No?
2 years, 2 months ago
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If you believe Mav, they're made of pot smoke. Not Hummer exhaust, not factory emissions, not Mike Irwin's chimney, not even coal smoke from China (or the eastern U.S.). Pot. Yep. That's what it must be.
It's amazing that people can look at these pictures and then have the gall to suggest that mankind can't possibly change the Earth's climate. Apparently, they refuse to believe their own eyes. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
And Mav, not wanting to believe that his Hummer or chimney or consumer habits have anything to do with the smog lashes out at who? Pot smokers--the eternal whipping boy for every problem facing the world today.
That's the easy solution; just blame pot smokers. Crimes up? Blame pot smokers. Economy is down? Must be pot smokers. Al Queda attacks? Pot smokers again, for sure. Children so stupid they can't tie they're own shoes? I'm sure pot smokers are behind it somehow.
Yep. Pot smokers single-handedly brought about the downfall of western civilization. It's just so much easier than thinking for oneself. And way easier than looking in the mirror.
2 years, 2 months ago
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LOL! Y'all need to see the smiley face in my post, but since you didn't, I'll tell y'all how I really feel and what I really think: I think the DOE is a rogue organization that depends on tattletales and busybodies to play informant on their neighbors. Have I put up with neighbors burning furniture in their back yard when they really should have known better? Yes, I have. That's because I don't like turning in a neighbor. It goes against my better judgment and principles. I didn't like smelling the smoke either, but putting up with the smoke was preferable to playing Gestapo and turning in my neighbor to the DOE. You see, folks, the unwanted smoke is temporary, but a neighbor can be a neighbor for a mighty long time.
2 years, 2 months ago
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Mike, that looks to be mostly fog in your pic. Wenatchee Heights or thereabouts?
2 years, 2 months ago
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Mav, The article was only one paragraph, but you couldn't be bothered to read it? Even if he hadn't said so, the picture was OBVIOUSLY taken from Badger Mountain, looking west. How long have you lived here, Mav? You need to get out more, bud.
2 years, 2 months ago
Looking Around: One version of inversion
Mav says, "I think the DOE is a rogue organization that depends on tattletales and busybodies to play informant on their neighbors."
Isn't the DEA also "a rogue organization that depends on tattletales and busybodies to play informant on their neighbors"?
2 years, 2 months ago
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2 years, 2 months ago
Looking Around: One version of inversion
2 years, 2 months ago
Looking Around: One version of inversion
I get along with my neighbors just fine, Mav, except for the guy who constantly puts his garbage in front of MY driveway every week, when he has over 100 feet of curbside in front of his land where he could put it. I have to get out of my warm car and move HIS garbage cans before I can get out. I'm sure you too would have a problem with this if it happened to you just about every week, year after year. And yes, I've tried to talk to him, but he speaks only Spanish and I speak only English (and a little Chinese, but that doesn't help me much), and he just looks at me with a confused look on his face. I wish people would be more considerate of others. Frankly I'd be a little ticked about the guy burning the couch, too.
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