Dry Weather Coming & A Big Shake

About 5 hours ago, and after quite a few foreshocks, Palu, Indonesia was rocked with a magnitude 7.5 earthquake; lots of aftershocks, too! The Palu quake was on land in the north of the archipelago and there was no tsunami warning, while most of Indonesia is well populated, Palu seems likely to be less crowded than most place in the 4th most populous country on the planet. That was the first quake in a week out of the mag. 5 range but magnitude 5 is plenty shaky. The lovely island of Martinique was also shaken today with a 5.4 quake, but at 40-ish miles offshore damage was likely limited on the island.
22 volcanoes on the weeks updated list: Russia's Kamchatka peninsula and surrounding islands leads the list with 5 rumbling mountains, not surprisingly. Two in the Aleutians with Veniaminof actually erupting lava and ash clouds, warning planes away. Kilauea is very quiet though there is still lava pooling, just not flowing, again, first break in 11 years. Guatemala's Fuego is still going strong as are Pacaya and Santa Maria in the small Central American nation. Shaky Indonesia has 4 on the list, PNG only 2 this week and Piton de la Fournaise on Reunion Island has basaltic lava on the move off east Africa. The fiery planet still going strong.
The big news for the Atlantic coast is the sun has burst through the clouds and the rain is gone, for perhaps a week, a much needed break with rivers in North and South Carolina still yet to crest. 12 1/4" of rain for September will be the count here at the tire house, and somewhat unusually, that's way more than either Richmond or Charlottesville. Well over 50" so far for 2018, quite the soggy year after last's years drought; ain't nothing but change!!
More changes in the Louisa mega-site debacle, word is out the board is thinking of trying to push through a smaller version, only wasting a couple million tax dollars. Still, any land purchase and move forward with the site is just an excuse to bring the boondoggle water line, still far from complete, east instead of west as it was originally sold. The hubris of folks given any power should not be a surprise and yet it still shocks and amazes. The resistance remains vigilant.

There was a beer chugging boy named Brett

And, drunk, no girlfriend could he get

So he held women down

And, waved his peepee around

But, on the top court he shouldn't be set!!

Yesterday's senate debacle and attempt to confirm a slimy, self-righteous Brett Kavanagh was more of the same good ole boy, how dare these women bring up things that have tainted their lives now, that has been the way it was on the patriarchal Earth for the last 5 millennia. And, the hypocrisy of the party that blocked the last president from making an appointment to the court, as usual blame the other side for everything, DaNile, the American way.
My guess is, the often drunk Kavanagh did crap like this so much he didn't remember this incident, just one more forgotten moment he thought was just more fun and games with his collection of boy buddies that all had poor social skills and didn't and still don't really respect women. His explosive charges cast indignantly about, again blaming democrats for the process, that was set up by republicans to prevent anyone finding out much about him and his anti-individual, pro-industry, anti-contraception and now, obviously misogynist views. Hope he never has do deal with his daughters being assaulted by his friend's sons, but he'll likely blame his daughters and not believe them. Thanks dad! Supreme Court! He shouldn't even be allowed to coach kids.
That felt better! Get out and vote these bozo's out come November! Time for a stroll in the sunny, cool forest to settle me down, today on Earth.