Posted on 08/06/2021 9:58:22 AM PDT by Brookhaven
Surrounded by fires, parched by drought, and shut down by the pandemic – residents of California’s scenic South Lake Tahoe thought they’d endured everything.
That was until this week, when the US Forest Service announced it was closing several popular sites after discovering bubonic plague in the chipmunk population.
The federal agency announced this week that “based on positive plague tests” in the rodent population around hiking areas, it would close the well-trafficked Taylor Creek Visitor Center and nearby Kiva Beach through Friday.
The closure includes some of the region’s most spectacular hiking spots, which meander through forested glades speckled with wildflowers and along a creek that leads to Lake Tahoe’s shore.
According to the forest service, plague can be spread by “squirrels, chipmunks and other wild rodents”, specifically by fleas that come in contact with infected animals and go on to bite humans.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
What happened to the Murder Hornets?
Locusts and frog rain.
They flopped.
Just like the Delta variant
So now it’s murder 🐿️
What happened to the Murder Hornets?
They have mutated into Murder Chipmunks,
and it’s all because not enough people wore masks...
“What do you mean, Biblical?”
“Real wrath of God stuff, mayor.”
What about the raptors!
What about the raptors!
“Human sacrifice...Dogs and Cats living together...Mass Hysteria!”
Flaming hailstones
What lab did that escape from? /s
Alviiiiin!!!!
From 6 years ago...
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-plague-squirrel-lake-tahoe-20150908-story.html
SSDD.
I call for a mask mandate for chipmunks.
I’m blaming Dale. Any picture of him shows he’s guilty.
Is that near the Corleone compound?
First they came for the chipmonks...
Yikes, Tahoe chipmunks are very friendly. They’ll come sit on your knee and take peanuts out of your hand. I’ve fed them that way myself, about 30 years ago. Then I heard about a bubonic plague scare in the Tahoe area that was going around back then. Never again!
“ Tahoe chipmunks are very friendly.”
Try not giving them your peanuts. You’ll see how friendly they are.
Begging has always been an act. When it doesn’t work, the mask drops.
When chipmunks are outlawed, only outlaws will have chipmunks.
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