“Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!” Those were the last words spoken by David A. Johnston, an American volcanologist with the U.S. Geological Society when Mount St. Helens erupted at approximately 8:32 a.m. PDT. Johnston was manning an observation post about six miles away when he died as a lateral blast swept the post and JohnstonContinue reading “Please Remember Those Who Died Near Mount St. Helens On This Day”
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Take Some Time To Smell The Roses
I had intended to write up a post of Cobra Kai‘s first half of their sixth and final season today. But I overestimated the amount of work I can do on my body even with the nice 80-something degree temperatures. I ran some errands earlier today and went swimming doing some exercises but after showeringContinue reading “Take Some Time To Smell The Roses”
‘Lake Placid’ Takes The Plunge
Lake Placid is one of those horror movies where once you’re introduced to the main cast, you can tell that there is no threat to any of them. Normally, that would take some of the thrills out of the plot. But the movie remains one of my guilty pleasures of a creature feature/when nature attacksContinue reading “‘Lake Placid’ Takes The Plunge”
Some People Must Really Want To Watch The World Burn
We’re not even a third of the way through 2024 and I didn’t have heavy flooding in Dubai on my Bingo Card. If you haven’t heard and you just read that previous sentence, I didn’t mean Dublin, Ireland which has about 26-27 inches of rain recorded a year. No, I mean, Dubai the capital ofContinue reading “Some People Must Really Want To Watch The World Burn”