Keeping The Heat On!!

The protests and resistance to the Louisa Mega-site plan continues to spread like wild fire through the county. The Lake Anna Chamber has joined the fight and their concerns echo many others; why is the county going into the real estate and development business? Seems like the republican board has decided to take a more Socialistic approach.  (Is Louisa Health Care For All coming next?) The county should be working with land owners to both protect and grow the county, not buying up land and spending tax dollars "for the good of us all". Tomorrow evening's board of supervisors meeting is shaping up to be crowded and well covered by both Richmond and Charlottesville media. As my favorite curmudgeon, Edward Abbey, once said, " society is like a stew, if you don't keep it stirred up (and stay involved) a lot of scum rises to the top". There are lots of spoons stirring things up now!
So, while the heat is on the board, the Earth's heat in on the southeast today and it's looking like most of the week. A monstrous high pressure dome is parked over Va. and seems to be little inclined to move, at least until the coming weekend.  That dome is going to push the tropical system developing off the Florida peninsula to the west for an encounter with the Gulf coast mid-week. Another system, already named Florence, is far out in the Atlantic and so far, seems like a fish storm but still bears watching. One weather forecaster mentioned some models are showing it perhaps headed for the eastern seaboard. As I constantly mention on this blog, the planet has no plan or pattern we can figure out and we won't know for sure what happens with Florence until a couple of weeks from now when it has faded as a storm. Until then, the summer's heat has built and built and we are right in the heart of hurricane season, anything can happen.
No big quakes today (again, so far) but some interesting spots, east of Jamaica, off Newfoundland and in the heart of the Colorado rockies. Less surprising, along the Mariana Trench and PNG and quite a few smallish ones in Alaska. Haven't heard any big volcano news so I'm sure that's just more from the Ring O Fire usual suspects.
The moon is a thick waning crescent, easiest to see by non-nightowls in the southwestern morning sky. The planet show continues in the evening but all (except Venus) are dimming with each passing day. Still worth a nightly check but plan for dense muggy air, Today On Earth.

How come the powers that be

Think they know better than we

About how to spend our money

We voted you in to do best of for the county

Not to use your position for personal bounty