Jul 29

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 31 Day 210 \ Ave. Sky Cover 6% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 75° \54° 
Wind 1mph \ Gusts 5mph  Air Quality Fair
Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 9mi \ Nearest Lightning 16mi
Jul Averages for Flagstaff: 82° \ 51° (8 days of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

Thru Sep.5 National Marina Days (From Memorial Day to Labor Day)  Link

23-31  National Moth Week

23-27  National Scrabble Week Link

24-30   National Tequila Week Link RAGBRAI—Iowa Bike Race Women in Baseball Week

28-30 Great Texas Mosquitos Days Link  Quilt Odyssey Week World Lumberjack Championships

28-31 Lollapalooza

29-31   Garlic Days Link   Annie Oakley Days Satchmo Week

Daily Observations

Army Chaplain Corps Anniversary
National Get Narly Day   
Global Tiger Day
International Chicken Wing Day
International Tiger Day 
Lasagna Day
Lumberjack Day
National Chicken Wing Day
National Lipstick Day
National Talk in An Elevator Day 
Rain Day 
System Administrator Appreciation Day 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Storms and therefore flooding continues. Hoping for the best for the area.

Flagstaff watersheds in burn areas are now saturated and even only negligible rain leads to flooding below the burn areas. It is turning into a destructive monsoon season.

The rez area around Tuba also got heavy rains and more are expected today thru Saturday. Many dirt roads are washed out. School starts next week and road crews from BIA, Tuba Chapter, Navajo Nation, and ADOT are working to get the roads repaired before school buses have to haul children.

Gun manufacturers made $1billion over the past decade selling assault rifles. No wonder they have little incentive to make these guns less deadly.

Now that Biden in testing negative, we should celebrate to giant steps in controlling COVID. Much better than a few years ago.

Russians may be open to a trade: a female b-ball player with drugs in her luggage and a Canadian with American citizenship convicted of spying for the Russian ‘Merchant of Death’.  A tough call for sure.

Interesting: Hulu Streaming, a Disney company, will not run political ads on sensitive issues: abortion, climate change, gun laws; but will allow non-sensitive issues: taxes and education.

Favorite Memes

One Hit Wonders

The Chantays: 'Pipeline'

An instrumental one-hit wonder that is worth remembering, the Chantays were known as a surf rock band from Orange County, California. The five members came together at Santa Ana High School and managed to score a major hit with “Pipeline” in 1963. Two members, Bob Spickard and Brian Carman, wrote the song when seniors in high school. 

Historical Events

·        1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile (Arch of Triumph of the Star) in Paris, France.
·        1945 – The USS Indiana torpedoed and sank. Only 318 of 1,196 crew members survived.
·        1948 – After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
·        1954 – The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien published.
·        1958 – NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) established.
·        1981 – A worldwide TV audience of over 700 million people watched the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
·        1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Chunnel).
·           2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet, Eris.

Birthdays Today

@102 – ‘Professor’ Irwin Corey, American comedian, actor (D. 2017)
69 – Tim Gunn, American television host and actor
@61 – Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (died in 1945)
56 – Martina McBride, American singer-songwriter
50 – Wil Wheaton, American actor
40 – Allison Mack, American actress