Barbara Keating on Substack: "Ally, it’s hard to relax at all when that kind of tension is thrumming in your mind….hope all in the Valley & surrounding hills/mountains are being extra cautious (and no thunderstorms on the horizon…)….I fear this is the new dry weather normal for much of the west (and, now, Ca…"

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Heather Cox Richardson

Jul 14, 2023

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Ellene

Jul 14, 2023

Thanks for your well informed news roundup tonight. An early night for you and me here in Oregon. We are seeing our first summer fires and fire activity growing with the high temperatures. I am wondering about flooding in Vermont and elsewhere in NE we only get snippets of it out here. A good reminder that change like weather is about what is happening locally.

Ally House (Oregon)

Jul 14, 2023

We're under a "fire watch" here in the Willamette Valley.

Barbara Keating

Jul 14, 2023

Barbara’s Substack

Ally, it’s hard to relax at all when that kind of tension is thrumming in your mind….hope all in the Valley & surrounding hills/mountains are being extra cautious (and no thunderstorms on the horizon…)….I fear this is the new dry weather normal for much of the west (and, now, Canada…and….and…and).

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Jul 14, 2023

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