So I was reading today's newspaper and got to the regular Sunday item called "Earthweek", a listing of brief environmental items and occurances from around the planet. Each story just one or two paragraphs long.
Headlines this week included Whooping Cranes... Asian Chill... Vultures Recovering... Earthquakes... Indonesian Inundation... Tropical Cyclones... Antarctic Fuel Spill... and lastly... YELLOW SNOW ALERT.
It said "Scientists in Russia's Omsk region rushed to discover what had caused a foul-smelling yellow snow to blanket 580 square miles near the Siberianborder with Kazakhstan."
WOW! 580 square MILES of yellow snow!
Now, it turns out that the problem was caused by yellow dust whipped up by a windstorm, not by the "usual reason" for yellow snow.
But still, all I could think of was Frank Zappa's infamous classic song "(Please) Don't Eat The Yellow Snow".
Headlines this week included Whooping Cranes... Asian Chill... Vultures Recovering... Earthquakes... Indonesian Inundation... Tropical Cyclones... Antarctic Fuel Spill... and lastly... YELLOW SNOW ALERT.
It said "Scientists in Russia's Omsk region rushed to discover what had caused a foul-smelling yellow snow to blanket 580 square miles near the Siberianborder with Kazakhstan."
WOW! 580 square MILES of yellow snow!
Now, it turns out that the problem was caused by yellow dust whipped up by a windstorm, not by the "usual reason" for yellow snow.
But still, all I could think of was Frank Zappa's infamous classic song "(Please) Don't Eat The Yellow Snow".
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