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When I read the word in the book, I got the basic meaning from context, but looked it up anyway. Concurrently, there was that nagging feeling that I'd just seen the word here on WDC, so a writing-time-killing search ensued. I kind of hope I remember / run across the site source, or that whole precognition thing that swept the Newsfeed a while back could present itself as an option...and that's just a bit spooky.
"Lahar is an Indonesian word describing a mudflow or debris flow that originates on the slopes of a volcano. Small debris flows are common in the Cascades, where they form during periods of heavy rainfall, rapid snow melt, and by shallow landsliding."
I'm with Robert Waltz. I don't have to learn anything else today .
Kare is probably correct. But if it was a newer post, it's possible someone was reading the same book, and decided to use their fancy new word.
Not gonna lie, I do it fairly regularly to reinforce how to use the word. This may shock some readers to their very core, but I do learn new words outside of the 'awesome swears they make up in Quebec' vocabulary.
Lahar... a word remembered from my college course in vulcanolgy. But I looked it up anyways: A pyroclastic flow is an avalanche-like cloud that is a mixture of air, hot ash, and pumice lapilli. A lahar is a very wet, ash-rich debris flow that moves in a relatively fast-moving slurry. If I remember right there were areas of the west side of Cartago in Costa Rica destroyed by lahars. Ash and tropical rains = problems.
As for here... no clue. I checked my two old blogs and elsewhere. Nothing.
You didn't 'think/see' Kalahari by any chance... it has lahar in it and comes up on searches.
My youngest grandson was captivated this morning by the sight of the small excavator digging up my front yard as they prepare to replace the sewer line. His little face was right up against the window, and he was having a great time. I had to take my wallet out of my back pocket, though. It twitched every time that bucket took another bite of yard. It was getting irritating.
This entry comes to you from Buffalo, Wyoming. Located south of Sheridan in Johnson County, Buffalo is the inspiration for the town of Durant in the "Longmire" TV series. I didn't know this, when I decided to spend the night here. I just knew this was the general area for the fictional Absaroka County.
This area is also the home of that famous Wyoming Game & Fish Warden Joe Pickett and his family, whose exploits are imagined and chronicled by C.J. Box. I hope to see the early morning sun shining against the eastern slopes of the Bighorn Mountains, one of Joe's favorite views.
I sometimes get a kick out of paging through those "Best...", "Worst...", "Scariest...", etc. slideshows that pop up on Yahoo! from time to time. Today's was "Most Dangerous Airports Around the World", and the first one "shown" was Telluride Regional Airport right here in Colorado. The accompanying text describes the location pretty well: "The highest-elevation commercial airport in the U.S. sits on a sharp plateau and is surrounded by 1,000-foot cliffs amid the San Juan mountains. It can be difficult to appreciate the lovely views when planes make the terrifying takeoff over the cliff edge." Personally, though, I would have said "...9,070 feet above sea level..." vs. "...9,070 feet off the ground...".
The most interesting part of the Telluride slide, though, was the accompanying photo. The terrain around the airport does not include a lake, and I'm pretty doggone certain British Airways doesn't fly into Telluride.
Remember that scene in Volcano where the lava is racing through the sewer tunnels and you're thinking to yourself: "No way! That's all CGI." I'll go along with you on the 'presence' of lava in LA's sewers, but I've gotta give 'em props for showing how fast it can move. Don't think so? Check this out from that active volcano in Iceland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gqYbZv5vDg
So, here we are at the end of June and I'm looking at my Rubik's Cube-style calendar, not exactly looking forward to rotating around the faces again. Then, it hits me: JUn is followed by JUly. That's 2 faces I don't have to change - yay! Then it really hits me: JUn, JUly...AUgust. The center cube is U all summer! As it happens, these three months represent the only time the center cube doesn't change. It flips between E and A a bunch--DEcember, JAnuary, FEbruary, MArch--but that's it.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic--the medical one in Rochester, Minnesota, not the one responsible for creating different types of white condiment--recently announced preliminary findings regarding their investigation into modes of stress relief and relaxation, particularly as differentiated between men and women. While women tend to sit and chat with each other, either in person or on the phone, men seem more inclined to adopt a couch-borne position. Although a specific gender-related genetic marker has yet to be reliably identified, insiders have been heard to refer to it as Recumbent DNA.
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I didn't know this, when I decided to spend the night here. I just knew this was the general area for the fictional Absaroka County.
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