Isle on fire…
Monday, July 30th, 2007
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 Mogan got the worst part, since there have been people evacuated from their homes to avoid human casualties. Almost 60 to 70 homes have been already affected by the fire and around 2000 people evacuated. The towns of Ayacata, La Plata, Veneguera, Barranquillo de San Andrés and Cercados de Araña are within the heavily affected area.
The area burnt until yesterday was about 3500 hectares, wich should be unfortunately way over 4000 hectares. Lets hope all the firemen and all volunteers manage to extinguish it as soon as possible. :(
Some of the evacuated people shelter at the beach in 'Mogan Playa' were the ashes carried by the wind fall to their feet.
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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!! 