Got caught in the rain today, and waited out the shower under a rhododendron. Not a bad way to spend fifteen minutes. Entertained myself watching a crow across the street, looking picturesque in a blooming dogwood.
@rochelle This is unbelievably frustrating. Is the "Zionist perspective" Jews saying after being genocided, "Man, I sure wish we had a safe place to live?"
@amyfou
I was a bit younger and in central California and we had ash falling. I think I remember it being darker out too but that may have been as the ash moved and not directly due to the initial eruption.
@amyfou My grandparents were in Yakima visiting my great aunt and found out about the eruption when the priest ran into the church covered in ash and told everyone to go home. They also talked about how crazy dark it was in the middle of the day.
I've still got a jar of ash my grandpa collected in my garage somewhere.
One of the primary ways that false election rumors take shape is through misinterpretations and/or mischaracterizations of “real” evidence. A recent tweet thread about anomalies in Washington state voter registration demonstrates two dimensions of those misinterpretations.
Mount Hood looks stunning from up here on Table Mountain. I was informed by a frankly terrified-looking day hiker that black bears were seen up here last night. I’m proceeding with caution and will update you if I encounter them. 🐻🗻☀️
One last batch of photos. This weekend I plan to explore the next 25-mile section north on the PCT for the first time. The following weekend the weather is looking good for an out and back of the Rogue River Trail.
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) co-funds the Amtrak Cascades intercity
passenger rail service with the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT).
Ridership during the first quarter of 2024 was resilient, ending with an impressive March,
which posted the highest ridership of any month since the 1994 inception of the Amtrak
Cascades in Oregon with 14,263 riders. https://www.oregon.gov/odot/About/GR/2024_Q1_Passenger_Rail_Report.pdf#AmtrakCascades#PassengerRail#oregon#WashingtonState
As many of you know already, I am especially interested in the use of #consumerProtection statutes to ground suits against irresponsible sales and marketing by member of the gun industry. In #WashingtonState, the state legislature and state AG #BobFerguson have been using this approach to deal with large capacity magazines. 1/2 #LawFedi#gunViolence#ConsumerProtection
Hey people in Washington State, have you written to WSDOT to ask them to revise their Amtrak Cascades long term plans to include faster travel times? Comments close on April 18, so please write now!
@alan I wrote and just submitted an approximately 1,700-word assessment of the Amtrak Cascades Service Development Plan Preliminary Alternatives, specifically on Bellingham and Whatcom County impacts.
@alan Lolz. ... Beyond the medicore top speeds others have been stressing, for Bellingham and Whatcom County, I worry that a lack of rail corridor improvements in British Columbia will continue to hamper the reliability of southbound trains south of the U.S.-Canada border, despite the increased number of roundtrips and limited track improvements at Custer, Ferndale, South Bellingham and the BNSF Delta Yard in Everett. ...