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(Some Guy)   California geniuses report that windblown desert dust is polluting their cities. Ralph Nader announces plan to sue nature   (sanluisobispo.com) divider line
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tin_man
2007-03-30 8:04:44 PM  
I hope the Army Corps of Engineers fine nature heavily.
 
Epsilon
2007-03-30 8:11:56 PM  
Dirt is considered pollution now? That's not gonna be an easy problem to fix.
 
HomoHabilis
2007-03-30 8:47:57 PM  
I live in a desert and I'm getting a kick out of your responses.

/too early?
 
Aevum
2007-03-30 8:48:17 PM  
You got your desert in my city!
You got your city in my desert!
 
good ole flopp
2007-03-30 8:50:23 PM  
if you live in california but you don't live on the coast, you probvably have sand in your vagina anyway.
 
LouDobbsAwaaaay
2007-03-30 8:50:48 PM  
Maybe they should try not living in/next to a desert then?
 
wildcardjack
2007-03-30 8:53:33 PM  
There is only one solution to this.

PAVE THE PLANET!
 
johnpblake2
2007-03-30 8:55:42 PM  
LOL
Im from ur desert pollutin ur cities
 
stirfrybry
2007-03-30 8:56:10 PM  
pave the beach
 
bmihura
2007-03-30 8:56:35 PM  
That one reads like a "The Onion" article.

Next up from the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District, headed by Ric Romero: "Being alive has a 100% death rate!"
 
buzzvert
2007-03-30 8:59:27 PM  
Given that it's San Luis Obispo, I'm suprised the residents aren't trying to capture said dust, heat it in a spoon, and shoot it into their veins.
 
RockIsDead
2007-03-30 9:02:29 PM  
HAHA!

Nader sues volcanos for improper dispersal of volatile fluids.
 
RockIsDead
2007-03-30 9:03:30 PM  
RockIsDead: HAHA!

Nader sues volcanos for improper dispersal of volatile fluids.

And...they settle!
 
CornFedIowan
2007-03-30 9:04:43 PM  
Desertification, meet Californication.
 
good ole flopp
2007-03-30 9:04:46 PM  
heh just rtfa, natural air pollution rules!
 
Lincoln
2007-03-30 9:05:09 PM  
I was curious until I saw it was about SLO. fark SLO.
 
fappomatic
2007-03-30 9:10:09 PM  
[image from img139.imageshack.us too old to be available]
 
TheOther
2007-03-30 9:11:36 PM  
I enjoyed the recent analysis that sand blown out of the Sahara snuffed last year's hurricane season.
 
FarkmeBlind
2007-03-30 9:14:32 PM  
RockIsDead: And...they settle!

Well played.
 
offacue [TotalFark]
2007-03-30 9:16:46 PM  
HomoHabilis

/too early?

When they are this stupid, it's never too early. As a matter of fact, you were two too late.
 
Tawnos
2007-03-30 9:23:03 PM  
Buzzvert
Who says we aren't? ;-)

I'm getting a huge kick out of these replies, as I formerly lived in Palm Desert, and am now in San Luis Obispo.
 
spaten
2007-03-30 9:24:07 PM  
I'm getting a kick from all these responses.

I work as a archaeological monitor in Riverside, San Bernadino, San Diego and LA Counties.

These dumbass developers are building the f... out the desert. Anyway who the hell is going to pay for an ugly ass tract home for $300,000 low end in the desert?

I hope they lose their shirts.

/Although it does pay my bills.
 
olddinosaur
2007-03-30 9:24:45 PM  
I used to live in Southern California, so I am getting a kick out of these replies.

At certain times of the year, the hot Santana winds blow in off the desert, come out of the East and fan any petty blaze into a full blown forest fire.

In Texas it is somewhat the reverse: The wind usually blows in off the ocean from the East, but from time to time it reverses, and blasts out of the West, hot and dry, and leaves red sand all over everything.
 
ensign_noname
2007-03-30 9:27:18 PM  
They could always move to Seattle

/Ducks
 
BGates
2007-03-30 9:27:22 PM  
Unless its dirt from the TTR or someplace similar, they have nothing to worry about.
 
TheOther
2007-03-30 9:28:41 PM  
olddinosaur: In Texas it is somewhat the reverse:

I was sure you were going to say the wind blows so hard, it blows wildfires out.

/don't want to hear any more about any damn drought here
 
Atario
2007-03-30 9:29:09 PM  
submitter: California geniuses report that windblown desert dust is polluting their cities.

Always nice to see yet another opportunity to gratuitously bash California not going unused.

So, the study found that the fine particulate pollution they were seeing is in fact dust. Finding a certain result makes them retards? [image from img1.imagefuse.com too old to be available]
 
N_Bluth
2007-03-30 9:29:25 PM  
Tawnos

No Sh*t? I grew up in Palm Desert and now go to Cal Poly.
 
FarkmeBlind
2007-03-30 9:30:21 PM  
Can OK, NE, and KS blame their tornadoes on this phenomenon? Cuz they're gonna want to blame SOMEBODY, shortly.
 
Detroit_Bob
2007-03-30 9:32:10 PM  
Not NEARLY as ridiculous as 'We built our city below sea-level, right next to the sea, in a hurricane prone area. What could possibly go wrong?'
 
FarkmeBlind
2007-03-30 9:37:36 PM  
Detroit_Bob: Not NEARLY as ridiculous as 'We built our city below sea-level, right next to the sea, in a hurricane prone area. What could possibly go wrong?'

As much as I detest the meme, New Orleans was founded by the French. Surprise, I know.

/they thought they built that city on rock and roll
 
tin_man
2007-03-30 9:38:52 PM  
FarkmeBlind: Can OK, NE, and KS blame their tornadoes on this phenomenon? Cuz they're gonna want to blame SOMEBODY, shortly.


I'm blaming you right now.

Not really, but can I stay at your place, until this shait blows over?
 
Tassach
2007-03-30 9:39:39 PM  
Atario: yet another opportunity to gratuitously bash California for not going unused

It's not that there's anything wrong with California itself... it's mostly a nice piece of real estate, providing that you don't mind ground that moves occasionally.

Californians, on the other hand, frequently exhibit a tendency to harbor utopianistic fantasies, and to try to implement those fantasies via legislation.
 
FarkmeBlind
2007-03-30 9:41:49 PM  
tin_man: Not really, but can I stay at your place, until this shait blows over?

Sure, come on down. I live in Oakland.

/evil laughter
 
knedgecko
2007-03-30 9:45:26 PM  
we have these signs out here in AZ at constructions sites that say "blowing dust complaints? call ....".
I am going to replace them all with "blowing dust complaints? don't live in the desert, retard!"
 
Yoda's Pen Is
2007-03-30 9:47:45 PM  
2007-03-30 09:24:45 PM olddinosaur


I used to live in Southern California, so I am getting a kick out of these replies.

At certain times of the year, the hot Santana winds blow in off the desert, come out of the East and fan any petty blaze into a full blown forest fire.

Santana winds? Carlos has gas?
 
deevo
2007-03-30 9:57:05 PM  
All I am is dust in the wind, so I am really getting a kick out of these replies.
 
Tawnos
2007-03-30 10:21:05 PM  
N_Bluth
As do I. I'm in your facebook profile, stalking your electrons!
 
ShadowLurker
2007-03-30 10:34:12 PM  
Yoda's Pen Is

Dude, that's Santa Ana winds. And no, they don't usually spontaneously burst into forest fires while blowing through the Socal valleys.


Also, one random California city has a dust problem and the subby feels the need to insult the whole state and talk about "their cities" being dumb? Why the hate?
 
Harry Freakstorm [BareFark]
2007-03-30 10:36:09 PM  
Maybe they should build I giant swiffer that will move from north to south once a month picking up all the dust. People will be alerted to the arrival of the huge state wide cleaning device by the sound of Devo "Whip It". When the device hit the Mexican border it will gently shake any excess dust in to Arizona before heading back north for next month's cleaning.
 
doublebonus
2007-03-30 10:41:05 PM  
utopianistic?
 
Tawnos
2007-03-30 10:41:38 PM  
I point out that here in SLO we don't really have a dust problem. Palm Desert, perhaps (windstorms that would turn 4 lanes into 1 as dunes built up on the sides)... What we have here is a "old people who like to complain" problem... which seems to be the growing case pretty much everywhere.
 
Purelilac
2007-03-30 10:44:09 PM  
Windblown wildfire ash is polluting my city as we speak. Not to mention that I can't hear the TV over the helicopters. Damn it.
 
Goodfella
2007-03-30 11:08:11 PM  
Oh, I get it. Ralph Nader opposes pollution.

What a nutcase!!
 
your mother
2007-03-30 11:11:58 PM  
ah, we can live without california
 
Nietzsche the Bunny
2007-03-30 11:17:23 PM  
[image from img293.imageshack.us too old to be available]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_VURr6jnWQ

Sam Kinison: YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!! UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU LIVE IN A FARKING DESERT!! NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING'S EVER GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it's gonna be 100 years from now? IT'S GONNA BE SAND!! YOU LIVE IN A FARKING DESERT! We have deserts in America, we just don't live in them, a--holes!

/ok, maybe we do live in them
 
quansem
2007-03-30 11:23:10 PM  
[image from i12.photobucket.com too old to be available]

obligatory.
 
eikni
2007-03-31 12:07:37 AM  
Unsafe at Any Wind Speed**. **Funded secretly by water.
 
MollyHell
2007-03-31 12:27:12 AM  
In addition to sand particles blowing onto the Mesa from the beach, dirt roads on the Mesa also contributed to the problem.

Beach. Not desert, Beach.
 
fastbow
2007-03-31 12:31:31 AM  
FarkmeBlind: Can OK, NE, and KS blame their tornadoes on this phenomenon? Cuz they're gonna want to blame SOMEBODY, shortly.

No, those of us who are from Kansas have no need to blame tornados on anyone other than Canada. But we've gotten to the point where we barely notice anymore...
 
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