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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2683" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.eater.com/22187508/single-thread-sonoma-county-climate-change-2020-california-wildfires" target="_blank"><strong>The Tasting Menu at the End of the World - Eater</strong></a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>SingleThread has been hailed as the pinnacle of farm-to-table dining. But what happens when the farm is under assault by climate change?</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>In mid-August, as a</strong> largely <a href="https://blogs.nasa.gov/hurricanes/tag/fausto-2020/" target="_blank">uneventful</a> tropical storm named Fausto was starting to wind down in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Baja California, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-16/moisture-from-tropical-storm-fausto-fuels-northern-california-storms" target="_blank">a plume of moisture</a> it spun off had metastasized into dry thunderstorms that were rolling across northern California, more than 700 miles away. Recently<a href="https://www.abc10.com/article/weather/extreme-heat-to-grip-northern-california-with-no-relief-in-sight/103-e46ebbe1-253b-474a-99dc-d9bc1d0e3712" target="_blank"> flattened by a record-setting heat wave</a>, the region was blitzed by a 72-hour<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/ca-fires.html" target="_blank"> “siege” of nearly 11,000 lightning strikes</a> from the storms. Hundreds of wildfires sparked to life. As the fires tore across the parched landscape, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/Whatever-anyone-can-spare-How-lightning-in-15538666.php" target="_blank">some of them grew so large they bled into others</a>, coalescing into one of the largest wildfires in state history — the <a href="https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16-walbridge/" target="_blank">LNU Lightning Complex</a>, which would eventually incinerate more than 360,000 acres across five counties.</p><p></p><p>By August 20, the sky above parts of Healdsburg, a small tourist town in Sonoma County, roughly 70 miles north of San Francisco, <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/LNU-Lightning-Comlpex-Napa-County-wildfire-15504734.php#photo-19846058" target="_blank">was choked with dark smoke</a>. When they finally decided to escape the deteriorating air quality, Kyle and Katina Connaughton packed their two cats, two dogs, and one of their two daughters (the other was in Boston) and her fiance into a farm truck and headed toward safety in Washington state.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2683, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.eater.com/22187508/single-thread-sonoma-county-climate-change-2020-california-wildfires'][B]The Tasting Menu at the End of the World - Eater[/B][/URL] [B] SingleThread has been hailed as the pinnacle of farm-to-table dining. But what happens when the farm is under assault by climate change? In mid-August, as a[/B] largely [URL='https://blogs.nasa.gov/hurricanes/tag/fausto-2020/']uneventful[/URL] tropical storm named Fausto was starting to wind down in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Baja California, [URL='https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-16/moisture-from-tropical-storm-fausto-fuels-northern-california-storms']a plume of moisture[/URL] it spun off had metastasized into dry thunderstorms that were rolling across northern California, more than 700 miles away. Recently[URL='https://www.abc10.com/article/weather/extreme-heat-to-grip-northern-california-with-no-relief-in-sight/103-e46ebbe1-253b-474a-99dc-d9bc1d0e3712'] flattened by a record-setting heat wave[/URL], the region was blitzed by a 72-hour[URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/ca-fires.html'] “siege” of nearly 11,000 lightning strikes[/URL] from the storms. Hundreds of wildfires sparked to life. As the fires tore across the parched landscape, [URL='https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/Whatever-anyone-can-spare-How-lightning-in-15538666.php']some of them grew so large they bled into others[/URL], coalescing into one of the largest wildfires in state history — the [URL='https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/lnu-lightning-complex-includes-hennessey-gamble-15-10-spanish-markley-13-4-11-16-walbridge/']LNU Lightning Complex[/URL], which would eventually incinerate more than 360,000 acres across five counties. By August 20, the sky above parts of Healdsburg, a small tourist town in Sonoma County, roughly 70 miles north of San Francisco, [URL='https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/LNU-Lightning-Comlpex-Napa-County-wildfire-15504734.php#photo-19846058']was choked with dark smoke[/URL]. When they finally decided to escape the deteriorating air quality, Kyle and Katina Connaughton packed their two cats, two dogs, and one of their two daughters (the other was in Boston) and her fiance into a farm truck and headed toward safety in Washington state. [/QUOTE]
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