Category Archives: Geography

A side view of the Ranch 2 Fire

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Doc Searls

What you see there is a flammagenitus cloud rising to the north above Ranch 2, a wildfire about fifteen miles east of here in the San Gabriel Mountains, just north of Asuza (one of too many towns to remember, in … Continue reading →

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Digging in Radio.Garden

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Doc Searls

Radio.garden is an amazing and fun discovery, perfect for infinite distraction during life in quarantine. (James Vincent in The Verge calls it “Google Earth for Radio.”) Here’s a list of just some discoveries I’ve made while mining that Earth with … Continue reading →

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On renting cars

Posted on February 9, 2019 by Doc Searls

I came up with that law in the last millennium and it applied until Chevy discontinued the Cavalier in 2005. Now it should say, “You’re going to get whatever they’ve got.” The difference is that every car rental agency in … Continue reading →

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When a thunderstorm appears right on top of an airport

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Doc Searls

This is the situation at Newark Airport right now: Those blobs are thunderstorms. The little racetrack in upstate New York is an inbound flight from Lisbon in a holding pattern. Follow the link under that screen shot. Interesting to see, … Continue reading →

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Geology answers for Montecito and Santa Barbara

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Doc Searls

Just before it started, the geology meeting at the Santa Barbara Central Library on Thursday looked like this from the front of the room (where I also tweeted the same pano): Our speakers were geology professor Ed Keller of UCSB and … Continue reading →

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Making sense of what happened to Montecito

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Doc Searls

Montecito is now a quarry with houses in it: So far twenty dead have been removed. It will take much more time to remove twenty thousand dump truck loads of what geologists call “debris,” just to get down to where … Continue reading →

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An evacuated view on the #ThomasFire

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Doc Searls

Here’s the latest satellite fire detection data, restricted to just the last twelve hours of the Thomas Fire, mapped on Google Earth Pro:That’s labeled 1830 Mountain Standard Time (MST), or 5:30pm Pacific, about half an hour ago as I write … Continue reading →

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#ThomasFire live

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Doc Searls

[Update: 7:22am Monday December 11] Two views of ThomasFire developments. First, MODIS fire detections, plotted on Google Earth Pro, current at 7am Pacific time: Second, a screenshot of the NCWG (National Wildfire Coordinating Group) map of the area, 7:18am Pacific … Continue reading →

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Bad and dead air

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Doc Searls

That was yesterday. Hard to tell from just looking at it, but that’s a 180° shot, panning from east to west across California’s South Coast, most of which is masked by smoke from the Thomas Fire. We weren’t in the … Continue reading →

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Still no serious coverage of pirate radio

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Doc Searls

Here’s what I wrote about pirate radio in New York, back in 2013 . I hoped to bait major media attention with that. Got zip. Then I wrote this in 2015 (when I also took the screen shot, above, of a local pirate’s … Continue reading →

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