And I hope all the news is good.

Hope all is well with your brother and family.

And at the end of the day the scientists will probably determine it didn't rise to the magnitude to be called a firetornado. I'm guessing that waterspout was short lived as it was fueled by the fire and it ran out of fuel when it hit the river. Nevertheless they coexisted for that short magical moment.

includes using the rising seas to our advantage to bring water into the interior states. water that evaporates is FRESH WATER & rains down as fresh water.

currently vast expanses of our public lands have few grazing wildlife and are over grazed cattle/sheep scorched earth.

only a couple hundred years ago vast herds of wildlife roamed North America and the lands were renewed constantly by the vast herds (spreading seeds & manure) and pristine with grasses & trees. and water.

I had no idea the impact of grazing until I read that chapter.

including wild horses (horses evolved in North America & are excellent grazing species at renewing lands) removing grazing wildlife hurts the land.

Native horses died out maybe 10k years ago, so what we think of as "untainted" resulted from a long-term adjustment to their absence. "Nature" got along fine without them.

These horses are cute but not native, and have different habits and a different effect on the environment. These are an intrusive species and, apart from cuteness and contrarianism, should go away and let the native species do their work.

300 years ago when millions of wild horses spread grass seed along with natural fertilizer far & wide.

over 54 million years of evolution started in North America, the horse is responsible for Americas great American grasslands. They can heal the lands they live on.

Because of bizarre 100 year flooding that nearly took out the damn one year back. As beautiful and awesome as nature is, it is also getting freakish.

Al Gore desperately tried to get something done. Rethugs are scum! didn't lift a finger and now want to make things worse.

I believe we have already past the tipping point. You think the government is going to be honest about that? Hell no they won't for fear of the consequences. It is going to get really ugly in the next 20 to 50 years.

and Texas does nothing to collect, divert, plan for or use the next "extreme rain". State government just lets it flood everyone.

..... purposes and exert his domain over it's natural species and resources for his benefits alone.

Be fruitful and multiply, rape and pillage because God said it was okie dokie in the good book.

shitty lands & crappy schools are for peons, your Realtors & insurance agents are happy to help.

Aral Sea.

Beijing air.

Sharks...were there any sharks?

So the women and children were safe.

the fire storm wiped out a town, killing between 1500-2500. It happened on the exact same day as the great Chicago fire and a huge fire that devastated Northern MI.

The sooner the earth is trashed the better, according to them.

I don't even have words for how terrifying those descriptions are.

People seem to forget Nature Bats Last every single time.

Anyone near any danger please get to safety.

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about the 1910 fire that spanned Washington, Montana and Idaho with very similar characteristics. The 1910 fire was so violent, it burned an area the size of Connecticut in 1 weekend.

The single greatest loss of life was caused by a fire tornado that engulfed the Rikugun Honjo Hifukusho (formerly the Army Clothing Depot) in downtown Tokyo, where about 38,000 people were incinerated after taking shelter there following the earthquake.

Basically people had gone to this location to escape the flames, but the violent wind drafts whipped up a fire tornado and it swirled over the crowd killing almost everyone. If you decide to search for photos, be warned. It's bodies as far as the eye can see.