This is about 50 yards from my house and a Chinook helicopter has been lifting equipment to the repair site. The water supply for the city of Columbia is dependent upon the integrity of the canal. The street in front of my house has been a staging area for welding 50' I-beams (3 together) for the repair.
Vrede too wrote:It's also infested with South Carolinians.
Given a choice, JTA and Doc excluded, I'd generally take the ants. Not that there aren''t some really nice people in SC, but it seems they never get elected to anything.
Vrede too wrote:It's also infested with South Carolinians.
Given a choice, JTA and Doc excluded, I'd generally take the ants. Not that there aren''t some really nice people in SC, but it seems they never get elected to anything.
You noticed that, too?
People are crazy and times are strange. I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range.
I used to care, but, things have changed.
... But it might only take a few decades for Antarctica's growth to reverse, according to Zwally. "If the losses of the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica continue to increase at the same rate they've been increasing for the last two decades, the losses will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years - I don't think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses." ...
"The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away," Zwally said. "But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for." ...
The French government has cancelled the planned massive march and rally slated for the upcoming December UN "COP21" climate conference. It could be entirely understandable security concerns, or . . .
I was going to post something about all the SC babies that will be born 9 months from now. Maybe not.
