Gap Fire, 2:35, July 5

July 5, 2008 in Places, Geology, problems, Life, News, Events, Journalism

InciWeb just updated 8 minutes ago, with this report: Fire continued creeping to the north, east, and west with limited movement due to competing wind that kept the fire from making any significant runs. On …
Gap Fire 5 July 8:15am

July 5, 2008 in problems, Places, Life, Events, News, Health, Journalism

First, kudos again to Edhat’s news list for not only gathering info from many sources, but for giving equal weight to both professional and amateur sources — and for hosting a great many …
Gap Fire progress shots

July 4, 2008 in problems, Places, Geology, Life, Events, News, Travel, Health, Journalism

I’ve loaded too many pictures onto this blog, so for this round I’m going to just point to shots elsewhere: in this case to a photo set of maps built with .kml files from …
July 4 workfire

July 4, 2008 in Life, Future, Places, Events, Travel, Journalism, News, Politics, Uncategorized

Here is a Fox News video* that tours the Gap Fire area from the air. It’s clearly submitted by an amateur using a helicopter, judging from the monolog, flavored with casual explitives. To …
Jesse’s gone

July 4, 2008 in News

Among the most amazing things to me, during my many years as a North Carolinian, was the eagerness with which a majority of voters there elected, and kept re-electing, Jesse Helms to the U.S. …

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