It'sfinally getting a little cooler here. It's still in the 90s, but the lowerand mid 90s.We'recloser to our average normal temps. Sofar, no 100s this month, though it is early in the month. We had a little fire just south of town yesterday,but they got it out fairly quickly. It only burned 45 acres.
There's been a mine cave-in down in central Utah. There are 6 people traped in a coal mine about 1500 feet deep and 2 and 1/2 or more miles from the mine entrance. It seems very scary to me to think of working that far under ground for any length of time. I'm afraid I'd get claustophobic. Maybe you get used to it. The mine owner claims that the collapse was caused by an earthquake. Scientists are claiming that the mine collapse caused the earthquake,which seems a little wierd. Yesterday, they were claiming that there was no quake,that the siesmic trace was just the mine collapse. I'm pretty sure that the miners and thier families don't care too much about the cause just now. They're more interested in being rescued,assumming that they are still alive,which nobody knows just yet. It may take several days to get to them, but they are drilling holes in the mountain above where they're supposed to be in order to get them air and supplies and communicate with them. That should be done sooner. In the meantime, everyone just hopes and prays.
Then there is the bridge collapse in Minniapolis. That certainly was a horrific site. The surprising thing was that there weren't more deaths.Maybe it fell slowly enough for people to get out,although the first people to go down probably had less chance. There have been warnings for a long time about the status of America's infrastructure. It's a shame it takes a disaster to get people to do something. I guess that's one problem with our form of government, it's run by committee. At least there's been inspections here in Utah, and I imagine most other States are doing the same.
We'reall going to see"the Bourne Ultimatum" tomorrow. It shoud be good.I enjoyed the first 2 a lot. Well, enough gab for now.
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