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My last entry was very sad indeed.
This is a very neglected blog -- and I had such hopes for it.
However, less grandiose aspiration, perhaps a tone more suited to an inner purpose of mine, and I will dare make occasional entries here.
"Rain"
Let's have a few words about rain.
We, here in New Mexico, have just lived through one of the worst spells of drought in living memory. Some counties dryer than in the worst years of the Dust Bowl. It was so dry that we even deservedly made the world news by almost having our nuclear bomb factory in Los Alamos ignite. A close call.
Meanwhile, vast acreage of beautiful forest turned to ash, the biggest forest fire in New Mexico history. And that's a history regularly punctuated with giant catastrophic forest fires, most and worst recently, since we are enduring the consequences of a century or two of misguided forest fire suppression policy, topped with "climate change", sometimes and otherwise referred to as global warming. The fires burned long and fiercely, but the laboratory and residential areas of Los Alamos were spared.
And now the monsoon has finally arrived. Wimpy, sporadic, hissing and rising in clouds of steam from the parched land, but rain nevertheless.
What we hoped for for so long has become a threat to a much wider area than the forest fire could ever have extended to. The rains, intense in some areas in the higher elevations, are pulling down huge swaths of ash from burned areas, chocking up the streams, killing all life in them, and diverting their courses by mulling up in parts and creating huge, black, squishy dams.
Worst of all, the water diverted and running loose, runs over sites contaminated by the nuclear lab in all the years past, and drags the life threatening pollutants to all the communities downstream: the Pueblos, Santa Fe, Española, and into the Rio Grande toward Albuquerque and beyond. Perhaps to Texas, perhaps to the Gulf of Mexico, perhaps to a beach near you on the sunny coasts of England, Ireland, and all at the receiving end of the Gulf Stream.