Michael Rages On & 7.0 PNG Quake

Now deep into the Carolinas, once hurricane Michael's 50+ mph winds is still a tropical storm tearing it's way through the southeast. Light rain started here about an hour ago but no heavy bands yet, that is going to change as cold front coming from the west and Michael race toward a meeting in the Old Dominion. Not quite a wild Thursday here but many local events are being cancelled (the meeting to discuss -try and fight or sell- the megasite industrial park poorly planned for my quiet neighborhood). I'm betting there will be few to no after school activities in much of Va. today.

There was a big hurricane named Michael

Just part of the normal, summer storm cycle

Well, it rained and it blew

But, quickly it move through

Reminding us, that's how the Earth does heat recycle!

My burn pile, now 4 years old and more compost than burn, is still smoldering after my torching yesterday. The burning was slow until I took the advice of the man that put it there, turn a blower on the fire, and suddenly I had an inferno. Not enough to burn up the massive stumps in the pile but now I can move the remains into the surrounding forest and let compositing continue. The little rain so far has not put it out but I'm counting on that changing.
A wild day on the shaky planet: a 7.0 magnitude quake in PNG has caused major damage but didn't stir-up a tsunami. There was a 6.1 foreshock 3 minutes before the big quake; aftershocks (5.9 & 6.2 so far) continue. The southern Kamchatka peninsula was rocked with a 6.5 quake today and central Indonesia had quake/tsunami reminders with a 6.0 quake. Over 50 quakes in the last 24 hours, a fairly shaky day.
The week's volcano list has some old favorites: Gamalama in Indonesia is firing up again, how can you not like that name. 5 other erupting mountains in the archipelago nation dominate the week's list of 22. Kilauea is quiet, news in itself, with no activity forecast. The two in the Aleutians are both still erupting but without major consequences. PNG keeps three on the list, as does Russia's Kamchatka (a low number for that giant volcano pile). In the Indian Ocean, Piton de la Fournaise is still erupting but has calmed from a couple of weeks ago, Krakatoa seems to be building to something bigger and India's (claimed) Barren Island is back on the list. (The rain here just got heavy!!Pouring!!) Only one on the list in Central America, 2 in Ecuador and one in Peru. Japan's Aira is, as usual, still on the list.
Nighttime sky viewing won't be possible around here until tomorrow when the waxing moon will be visible sliding across the evening sky. Clear, cool, dry skies will make that something to look forward to over the coming weekend and week.
So, today's goal is to stay dry, and not get blown away (tornado watches are in effect for about my house eastward to the coast in Va, and certainly points south) and while a walk might be fun on a normal rainy day, that might get a little dangerous(thunder just reinforced that idea), Today on Earth.