A tad chilly

The sun is out today here in Kent, the garden of England. A young fox cub is asleep in my garden in the sun. ;)

101 yesterday, 98 today.

Beautiful here this weekend. Bittersweet, really.

This is a bit extreme, g-dog, but it might help you get through the dog days of summer.  :)

Fox cub enjoying the sunshine in my garden. 

What's the temp?

Think it got to about 24c today. ;)

Since that's about 75f, I'll trade temps. :)

88f here today. Which is hot if you don't have an air conditioner.

Conflagration_Planet.... It's too hot where you are, I would go into meltdown. ;)

That's what I'm doing.

OK, careful you don't go into conflagration.

Probably will.

Time to move to the South y'all!

Yipes!  Gotta figure that hole is deeper than the height of those trees.  Sinkholes give me the willies.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/08/22/vo-la-sinkhole-trees.assumption-parish-police-jury.html

I can't believe I haven't heard of this thing before.  The Bayou Corne sinkhole initially formed just over a year ago.  Since then it has become a real problem, displacing a town.  If anyone's interested, here's a link to a lengthy PDF file of a report on the sinkhole commisioned by the Louisiana DNR, presented this past spring.  It has a full history and lots of photos, as well as many 3D diagrams and cross-sections of mapped and modeled scenarios for the sinkhole development and future.

As of April the measured/estimated/modeled dimensions of the sinkhole were given as

• likely diameter = 734 feet;  likely depth =  144 feet
• worst case diameter = 1400 feet; worst case depth = 346 feet

but it has grown substantially since then (Wikipedia currently lists the depth as at least 750 feet). 

Hell of a sink hole!

Goodness. We used to clamber all over those things when we were kids. I'm glad we didn't fall down one.

I remember finding a depression era trash dump in a sink hole. Lots of old glass bottles and jugs.

Doing fieldwork in the karst portions of the southern Appalachians I came across a few of those sinkhole dumps.  There seems to be an ingrained compulsion in our species to throw stuff down holes.  Some of those super-deep unexplored holes in southern Mexico probably contain ancient Mayan washing machines and pickup trucks.