To: quidnunc
Last summer, we were surrounded by several burns each 30x40 miles across. When you first see that low coal black cloud approaching, blocking out all the sunlight; it does look like the devil himself. Couldn't see 10 feet and was like dusk at mid-day; also could not breath outside.
I can just imagine what went through their heads 200 years back.
7 posted on
05/20/2005 10:04:04 AM PDT by
Eska
To: Eska
That was my first thought--forest fire.
14 posted on
05/20/2005 10:31:17 AM PDT by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: blam; Mr. K; Eska; righttackle44; randog; King Prout; Red Boots; ruoflaw; MHGinTN
The forest fire explanation has always appeared to be the best one, and until someone comes up with a way for a volcanic cloud to remain just wide enough to not be reported outside a fairly narrow piece of the Eastern Seaboard, after having travelled more than 2000 miles (the nearest volcano is probably more distant than this), there is no resort to a volcanic eruption as an explanation for this.
38 posted on
05/22/2005 5:26:30 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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