Pictures
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
As i sat yesterday evening at home,
listening to the constant radio reports about the fires i didn't realize how close the fire was to Maspalomas until my mother gave me a call and told me: "...go out and take some pictures of the red sun...". So i took my cam and went outside and saw that the smoke was almost over us. The smell of burnt wood was impossible to go unnoticed:
I couldn't really see much, so i took my car and went to higher grounds, i made it a few kilometers above 'El Salobre', the neighbourhood over 'El Tablero'. Here is what i saw:
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I couldn't really see much, so i took my car and went to higher grounds, i made it a few kilometers above 'El Salobre', the neighbourhood over 'El Tablero'. Here is what i saw:
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Posted by klopapier
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The forest fire i talked about yesterday,
which was aparently controlled, was stoked up due to the high temperatures and the extreme wind that hit us last night. The municipality of 
What a day!!
46º degrees as you see on the picture showed the thermometers this midday in Maspalomas. The streets were almost desert and those who had the courgage or the obligation to walk the streets looked like they were being tortured.
This, so called, 'CALIMA' is warm sticky air from the sahara is not unusual here but seldom reaches as high as today.
The extreme heat favour the formation of forest fires which have been the order of these last few days. There was one in Mogan a few days ago and a bigger one in the center of the isle, talking over to the municipalities of San Bartolomé De Tirajana and Tejeda. In Spite of the 3500 hectare that it has already burnt down the president of the Gran Canaria Council if confident that it should be controlled by todays evening.
Wow, that is some ... 
Tomorrow is the big day,
here on the isle, and everywhere else. The simpsons make it to hollywood in "The Simpsons Movie". The official release date is this friday (27/07/07) but some theatres will screen it tomorrow. This weekend was the pre-release in the small town of Springfield, in the US state of Vermont, who won the airing of this movie in their town after a voting contest with 13 other Springfields'.
Yesterday was the premiere in L.A.(California) with about 300 invited guests. The Simpsons as a show for its own celebrate this year their 18 years of airing, with 400 episodes yet aired in 18 seasons, but "the Simpsons-franchise" celebrate their 20th birthday since it first started to see the light in April 1987 in "The Tracey Ullman Show".
Whatever your age, sex, political orientation or religion is, i think this movie will be great!! 