Quite often, during monsoon season, we enjoy colorful red sunsets like this one. Notice the virga falling just below and to the left of the center. Click on the image to enlarge.
Oversized Load Coming Through Town
I hope someone gets a picture of this heavy-hauling behemoth as it crosses the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge. I honestly don’t know how this rig will be able to navigate through the two traffic circles in Wickenburg but I guess they have thought it through.
Photo Credit : Precision Heavy Haul.
PHOENIX – What weighs 285 tons, moves uphill at 15 mph and takes eight days to travel from Hoover Dam to the mining town of Miami, east of Phoenix? It’s a huge anode used in the electrical process for refining copper.
The largest oversized load to cross the new Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge will enter Arizona from Nevada [tonight] and start a 380-mile journey that’s expected to create significant travel delays for some drivers who wind up traveling behind it.
A Phoenix-based hauling company, Precision Heavy Haul, is carrying the anode on a specially-designed truck and trailer rig stretching 225 feet long. The oversized load started its trip from Salt Lake City on Aug. 2.
It is now scheduled to cross the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge just after midnight Tuesday morning (Aug. 9) and continue a slow trek to its destination – the Freeport-McMoRan mine in Miami – about 80 miles east of downtown Phoenix.
Motorists should expect delays in the vicinity of the oversized load, which will take up to two lanes, and will be escorted by Department of Public Safety officers and pilot cars. There will be no traffic impacts for weekend travelers.
A complete travel schedule may be found here.
More Fishhook Cactus Flowers
These flowers came as a surprise to us when we went outside the courtyard yesterday. Today, the one-day wonders are gone. Click on the image to enlarge.
Semper Vigilans – Canine Style
Cabela perches herself on the top of the love seat in the great room to keep watch out the front window. Semper Vigilans is the motto of the Civil Air Patrol: Always Vigilant. In her case, she is in early warning mode, since she will sound the alarm at almost any activity in front of the house. Click on Damsel’s image to enlarge.
The Doorbell Video
At first, I got a chuckle out of this viral video (courtesy Power Line), but after thinking about it a while, it’s a very sad video, indeed.
69% Polled Believe Scientists Lying About Climate
Seven out of ten Americans surveyed in a Rasmussen poll say it’s likely that scientists are falsifying climate data. Keep in mind that most of them are being subjected to a very warm summer. Go figure.
The debate over global warming has intensified in recent weeks after a new NASA study was interpreted by skeptics to reveal that global warming is not man-made. While a majority of Americans nationwide continue to acknowledge significant disagreement about global warming in the scientific community, most go even further to say some scientists falsify data to support their own beliefs.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of American Adults shows that 69% say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs, including 40% who say this is Very Likely. Twenty-four percent (24%) don’t think it’s likely some scientists have falsified global warming data, including just six percent (6%) say it’s Not At All Likely. Another 10% are undecided.
Of course scientists activists ignore the actual science.