Re: Tire Fire in Northern California

In a message dated 9/23/99 6:35:33 PM EST, cnorman@best.com writes:

<< Some areas around here have
 been getting black rain...the soot falling down and coating cars, gardens,
 everything. >>

We didn't get "black rain," but we did get out first good rainfall of the 
season, and I noticed afterwards that my plants had black stuff all over 
them.  I'm pretty sure it was just peat dirt, since we generally have a lot 
of it in the air around here.  They've been doing some Fall plowing, and the 
fine peaty soils here in the Delta are easily picked up and carried on the 
regular breezes we get in the evenings.  (In fact, some of the agricultural 
"islands" in the Delta have lost as much as 25 feet of soil from this cause.) 
 It would be difficult to tell the difference between peat dirt and soot, 
though, because they're both black.  I think the lightning and rain passed 
through Stockton before they got to Tracy, anyway, so the fire had to have 
been started after it had already rained here.  Wasn't there just another 
huge tire fire in the Tracy area some time in the last year?  I remember that 
thing burned for months, also.

Kurt
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