DISCLAIMER: None of the stuff below is written or endorsed by the Outpost, and we’d be willing to bet that at least some of it is crazy and/or wrong. Use critical thinking.
Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021
RHBB: St. Joe’s ICU Full and New COVID Rooms Crafted as Equipment and Staff Shortages Make Situation Desperate; Other Hospitals Facing Similar Situations
Wild Rivers Outpost: NOAA Predicts 70 Percent Chance of Rainy La Niña Weather Across the Pacific Northwest This Fall, Winter
FIRE UPDATE: McFarland: Evacuation Update, August 26 (McFarland Fire Wildfire)
Wild Rivers Outpost: $30,000 WRCF Grant, Donations Feed Hospital Workers During COVID Surge
RHBB: Delays on Hwy 36 Again West of McFarland Fire Closure
SoHum Parlance: Suicide bomber attacks killed American troops
FIRE UPDATE: Monument: Monument Fire North Zone Update, August 26, 2021 (Monument Fire Wildfire)
KINS: Talkshop 082621 – Paul Craft
County of Humboldt Meetings: McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee Agenda - Zoom Virtual Meeting
FIRE UPDATE: McCash: McCash Fire Updat - August 26, 2021 (McCash Fire Wildfire)
Siskiyou Daily News: Wondering what the ruckus was about yesterday near Rain Rock Casino?
Politico: Sadness and death: Inside the VA’s state nursing-home disaster
Politico: Drought, fires and politics put Biden's California water plans on hold
Yahoo News: Yes, You Can Catch the Delta Variant Outdoors
RHBB: Fire in the Salmon Creek Area West of Miranda
NPR: Judge Pushes Back On Protections For The Sacklers In The Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy
SoHum Parlance: California Experiment
NPR: An Explosion Has Been Reported Outside Kabul's Airport
CNN: Climate change be damned. More Americans are moving to high-risk areas
The Hill: Too hot for climate change: Limiting population growth
SF Chronicle: 7 counties in Northern California are seeing all-time high rates of hospitalized COVID patients
The Hill: 7 Northern California counties seeing record COVID-19 hospitalizations
Belliingham Herald: 4 dead, 3 homes burned in hours-long Tri-Cities rampage by gunman
East Bay Times: First new park and campground in decades along SF Bay to open at former quarry site
FIRE UPDATE: McFarland: McFarland Fire Morning Update August 26 (McFarland Fire Wildfire)
NY Times: Spies for Hire: China’s New Breed of Hackers Blends Espionage and Entrepreneurship
Washington Post: Federal judge in Michigan orders pro-Trump lawyers disciplined over lawsuit seeking to overturn 2020 election
Washington Post: Hospitalizations hit 100,000 in United States for first time since January
The Hill: Opinion: Biden's infrastructure bill doubles down on bad housing policy
The Hill: House probe focuses on Trump's mental health and martial law
The Hill: Judge rules Texas governor can't enforce mask mandate ban
The Guardian: Who can afford to live in the American west when locals can’t?
The Guardian: ‘It’s a miracle crop’: the pioneers pushing the powers of seaweed
The Guardian: American west ‘Fire weather’: dangerous days now far more common in US west, study finds
The Guardian: Oregon motel of climate refugees with nowhere to go – photo essay
City of Eureka Meetings: Open Space, Parks & Recreation Commission - Aug 26, 2021
The Guardian: Suckers, trash fish and the fight over food traditions in Oregon’s Klamath Basin
The Guardian: Portland gunfight fuels alarm over growing use of weapons at rallies
KTLA: Delta Air Lines will make unvaccinated employees pay $200 monthly charge
LA Times: Hospitalizations for COVID-19 continue to rise in California
LA Times: Appeals court blocks long-sought expansion of Squaw Valley ski resort
Sacramento Bee: Unvaccinated fitness guru gets COVID and spends 47 days intubated. ‘I made a mistake'
Del Norte Triplicate: Tree rings from old growth Douglas-firs on the Oregon Coast show evidence of 1700 tsunami
Curry Coastal Pilot: Curry County at the epicenter of COVID surge
KRCR: Redding police seize large amount of fentanyl in downtown Redding on Tuesday
KRCR: Jury trial continued for Arcata woman arrested in viral Oysterfest video
KRCR: NRDC environmentalist speaks on statewide wildfires
Redding Record Searchlight: Dixie Fire still burns in Lassen park, pushes north toward Highway 44
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