Originally published at: "Lovely aurora" seen over town was something else entirely - Boing Boing
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Red glows in the sky bring back bad memories of foot and mouth disease.
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oh, damn. I’m afraid i understand that reference too well.
in south florida, red glow like that means they are burning the sugar cane fields.
a purple glow is from a legal, massive cannabis grow op, probably Trulieve.
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I can own up to something similar.
After a couple of months of not being able to visit Iceland in 2021 as the first Fagradalsfjall eruption was being utterly spectacular, I was able to make the trip. When I got on the plane, the volcano was erupting - not as powerfully as before - but erupting. I knew a really great place to stay on the outskirts of Grindavík, so myself and a couple of friends rocked up, checked in and went to have some food. It got dark outside and the sky to the South and East was glowing a fierce orange-red. Could it be?
We jumped in the car, drove through the darkness, over the ridge by Þorbjörn insanely excited to see a lava flow at night - and - and - it was an enormous greenhouse growing experimental barley crops.
The eruption had petered out almost the moment our plane had landed.
We still trekked up the next day to the site of the eruption and it was AMAZING.
(I also managed to just miss the most recent eruption - one day Iceland, one day…)
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When I was a teen we lived an hour west of the city. My sister came home late one evening and announced to the family that the northern lights were out, so we all headed to the yard to have a look. We were facing North, but my sister was pointing East, at the city glow.
That’s how “the Eastern Lights” became a family joke.
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Either the annual tomato migration is late this year or Tomato Rapture.
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I thought they switched from tomatoes to turnips recently?
I had a wild experience as a kid, when I was riding my bike in the evening and came across the most incredible aurora I could have imagined, every color of the rainbow, just moving, shifting, for what seemed an hour, splashed wide in images so mind-blowing that line after line of cars had stopped to watch, and some images even looked like Clint Eastwood and other cowboy guys, and there was a stagecoach racing a train, and then suddenly a cartoon popcorn box was telling me to go to the drive-in refreshment stand. I’ve never seen anything like that since. Nature is breathtaking!
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this story reminded me of the slag pours in sudbury, ontario.
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