Decided I better get this thing written and sent into the Lone Oak Newsletter before either of us were blown away. This is Tuesday and the weather folks say that today this end of Hunt county is in an area where there is a good possibility of severe thunderstorms and twisters. Only good thing about that is we might get more rain. We still need rain.
I’m about ready to let the folks who want these kittens come and get them! The little beggars are running around like nut cases trying to climb the walls . . . Literally! Climb the walls. Not kidding here. Ever seen a kitten trying to climb a wall? To bad I don’t have a camera maybe I could win money from that TV show or at least get a t-shirt.
As for my opinions this week. Where to start? The economy?
The economy is supposed to be going up. HAH! The only thing I see going up is the price of gas which means I can’t go hardly anywhere. I might have to find a weight watchers meeting closer to home if this keeps up. Not to mention cut back even further on my trips into the Greenville Wally World. Of course the one in Quinlan is a few miles closer according to the Google maps thingy. Why do I even bother going there? Simple there are things I just can not get here in Lone Oak. Don’t get me wrong now. If I could get those things here in Lone Oak I might still go into the big G just to get the heck out of Lone Oak occasionally. Providing I had the extra gas to do so.
By the way if you are one of those “make lemon aide out of life’s lemons” kind of folks you might be able to turn this problem with gas prices into a business. Probably not a big one but one that might feed you. Cause believe me, while gas prices might go down again they will never go as low as they were a couple of years ago, or even last year. If they do they will not stay there long.
What kind of lemon aide could someone with the right skills make out of this gas problem? Especially here in Lone Oak?
The main reason I’d be going into Wally World or to the Greenville Farmers Market would be for fresh fruit or Veggies, folks! Y’all do realize that there is almost no place in this town where you can go to get a sack of potatoes, a head of lettuce, some ‘matters and onions, apples, oranges, pears, or other such stuff. Yeah you can get a few of those, in small quantity at the LOG, thank goodness (and get well soon Dorothy!). But they don’t and can’t carry a lot of those things at any one time. So there’s a way to make some money right there. Or at least set up a trading situation.
A Farmers Market would be great here in Lone Oak, I think.
Yeah, I know, I know. It’s been tried. But that’s what I mean about someone with the right skills. The skill would be to get the local gardeners to back the thing! Maybe agree to trade the fruit or veggies they have for fruit and veggies they don’t have, or to grow mostly one thing while someone else grows mostly another. Heck, I bet that if someone had a green house that could grow some things like maters and peppers all year they could sure nuff sell them round here. They could at least sell salsa.
But the skill I mentioned above is the most important part of the idea. Getting folks together to back the thing. Trouble is that just isn’t my skill. I know what my skill is. I’m the wild idea person. I come up with them. Just wish I could find somebody who could pull the crazy things off.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Burn Bans, droughts, and swales. Sixteenth Alt Op of the year.
So we aren’t under a burn ban . . . Yet! We are, despite the recent storms, terribly short on rain. No rain equals drought. Drought equals a darn good chance that burn barrel, trash pile or brush pile you plan to light up can get away from you, and get away real fast if it happens to also be windy. But y’all aren’t that foolish, now are ya? Y’all aren’t gonna burn anything during drought conditions while it’s windy! Are you? I hope that opinion isn’t proved wrong, folks. We don’t need a situation here like those poor folks in West Texas have. Especially as I think we may have more houses per square mile than they do out there. Think about that.
That reminds me. Don’t forget about the Easter Bunny coming to town this coming Easter Sunday. The local volunteer fire department will be showing him around town before the Easter Egg Hunt at the high school stadium at one p.m. There will be lots of candy and prize eggs for each age group. So come on down at one for the fun.
Back to the weather. We do need some rain and we need it bad. What we don’t need is the high winds and tornado's. What I think we need is a couple of days of slow steady rain that will soak in and fill up all our stock tanks as well as the lake.
This is also a good time to preach about rain harvesting. Yes. I’m talking about harvesting the rain. It’s something I’ve read about on line and it sounds good to me.
There are several ways to do this. The easiest and most straight forward is with rain gutters on your house or barns leading to "rain barrels." These rain barrels can be anything from the old fashioned wooden barrels to a cleaned out 55 gallon industrial drum or even one of those big white plastic tank like things used to haul liquids. It can be even bigger and become a cistern. Cisterns can be built underground, at ground level or above ground. Those barrels I mentioned earlier can be above ground too. In fact it’s usually better if they are because then you can use gravity to feed that water to a small metal or plastic stock tank, a drip irrigation system or even to a tank to use to flush your toilet (thus saving the water you have to pay for, for drinking, cooking and bathing).
A lot of folks out here are already harvesting rain with the stock tanks that we see in just about every pasture. The stock tank catches the water that would normally flow off of the land and saves it for the cattle, horses, or goats to drink. These man made ponds have a base layer of clay or something else waterproof to keep the water from soaking in and disappearing.
There is another kind of rain harvesting land form called a swale. The idea behind a swale is not to keep the water in one place but to slow it down so it can soak in. Swales, from what I’ve read, come in all sizes, shapes and forms. They can resemble ditches or even just a terraced field. With a swale the water is captured and held in place so that it can soak down into the ground and add to the all important ground water of the whole area. Thus they shouldn’t pose a mosquito problem.
The bottoms of the swales can be anything from sand, gravel, broken up soil, or even grass that can survive the occasional flood. Down hill from the swale is also a good place to plant things like trees or bushes. What ever will shade the swale to keep the water from evaporating and also hold the berm that makes up part of the swale in place with their roots. Oh, yeah. Those plants will benefit from the collected rain water but that’s all to the good. You will not only add to the local aquifer but also get some pears, peaches, blueberries, black berries, corn or what ever. Sound good? Sounds good.
That reminds me. Don’t forget about the Easter Bunny coming to town this coming Easter Sunday. The local volunteer fire department will be showing him around town before the Easter Egg Hunt at the high school stadium at one p.m. There will be lots of candy and prize eggs for each age group. So come on down at one for the fun.
Back to the weather. We do need some rain and we need it bad. What we don’t need is the high winds and tornado's. What I think we need is a couple of days of slow steady rain that will soak in and fill up all our stock tanks as well as the lake.
This is also a good time to preach about rain harvesting. Yes. I’m talking about harvesting the rain. It’s something I’ve read about on line and it sounds good to me.
There are several ways to do this. The easiest and most straight forward is with rain gutters on your house or barns leading to "rain barrels." These rain barrels can be anything from the old fashioned wooden barrels to a cleaned out 55 gallon industrial drum or even one of those big white plastic tank like things used to haul liquids. It can be even bigger and become a cistern. Cisterns can be built underground, at ground level or above ground. Those barrels I mentioned earlier can be above ground too. In fact it’s usually better if they are because then you can use gravity to feed that water to a small metal or plastic stock tank, a drip irrigation system or even to a tank to use to flush your toilet (thus saving the water you have to pay for, for drinking, cooking and bathing).
A lot of folks out here are already harvesting rain with the stock tanks that we see in just about every pasture. The stock tank catches the water that would normally flow off of the land and saves it for the cattle, horses, or goats to drink. These man made ponds have a base layer of clay or something else waterproof to keep the water from soaking in and disappearing.
There is another kind of rain harvesting land form called a swale. The idea behind a swale is not to keep the water in one place but to slow it down so it can soak in. Swales, from what I’ve read, come in all sizes, shapes and forms. They can resemble ditches or even just a terraced field. With a swale the water is captured and held in place so that it can soak down into the ground and add to the all important ground water of the whole area. Thus they shouldn’t pose a mosquito problem.
The bottoms of the swales can be anything from sand, gravel, broken up soil, or even grass that can survive the occasional flood. Down hill from the swale is also a good place to plant things like trees or bushes. What ever will shade the swale to keep the water from evaporating and also hold the berm that makes up part of the swale in place with their roots. Oh, yeah. Those plants will benefit from the collected rain water but that’s all to the good. You will not only add to the local aquifer but also get some pears, peaches, blueberries, black berries, corn or what ever. Sound good? Sounds good.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Alt. Op. #14, almost forgot this one!
My goodness but it’s been windy out there! Glad to see that most folks are being smart and not doing any burning on the day’s that the winds been blowing hard enough to straighten out a stainless steel pretzel, or turn an eighteen wheeler into one. Believe me, fire and high winds DO NOT mix!
Can any of you believe it’s only a couple of weeks or so untill Easter. We’ll be celebrating July fourth before we know it! Mean while, however, all you kids out there better be good cause Easter Sunday the Lone Oak Fire Department will be showing the Easter Bunny around Lone Oak. Then at one in the afternoon he will host the annual Easter Egg Hunt. So be good and help your folks get the yard ready for the Easter Eggs that’ll be hidden around your place.
I really need to get some of these plants I’ve bought into the ground. Trouble is I need to move some dirt to where I want to plant them and my joints just aren’t cooperating. Maybe if all these fronts would just pause for a while in their whirlwind of change the old bones would stop aching long enough for me to get something done.
As for opinions this week, well, I am a might put out with those fools up in D.C. I heard on the news that if they don’t come to an agreement on the budget the government could shut down. No biggy, right. Some times I think we’d do better without it. But then if the government does shut down government workers won’t get paid so the national parks will shut down as well as various other government offices. Some of those government worker who wont get paid would be soldiers! The guy’s and gal’s out there risking life and limb to keep us free. But guess who still gets paid. Yep, the big boys in D.C. who can’t put a budget together because they are too busy insisting that it has to be all one party’s way or the other. Sometimes I just want to yell at them, “DUDES!! Democracy is all about compromise! So compromise already!” Of course I really don’t want them to compromise by cutting my SSD back. Just as others don’t want their favorite things cut. Something has got to give.
Honestly folks. We are all looking at some hard choices. I may have to learn how to kill chickens and other such critters if I want to eat some thing other than a vegetarian diet. I’d really rather buy meat than kill my own. I tend to make pets all too easily. However, with the way the economy is going I may just have to get over that.
Carrots and cabbages now, them I can slaughter at will. As well a lot of other veggies and fruits. Providing of course I can first get them to grow.
Yeah, I know. A vegetarian diet is healthier for you and it isn’t as hard on the planet either. It takes a lot more to raise a pound of beef or even chicken than it does to raise a pound of, say, potatoes. But on the other hand those spuds taste a whole lot better when they are cuddled up beside a nice crispy chicken leg quarter or even a steak. Um, Um, Ummm!
Oh, I just joined Weight Watchers, so I might actually start getting my poundage under control. Talk about your hard choices though. Do I eat this cookie dough that is “OMG!” number of points on the WW scale or do I eat the apple with peanut butter where only the peanut butter has any points and I get two whole table spoons of peanut butter for just five points? Especially when I only have six points left for the day. Fortunately, I love peanut butter and apple so the choice isn’t quite that hard. But that chocolate chip cookie dough . . . Didn’t I just hear it calling my name from the freezer?
Can any of you believe it’s only a couple of weeks or so untill Easter. We’ll be celebrating July fourth before we know it! Mean while, however, all you kids out there better be good cause Easter Sunday the Lone Oak Fire Department will be showing the Easter Bunny around Lone Oak. Then at one in the afternoon he will host the annual Easter Egg Hunt. So be good and help your folks get the yard ready for the Easter Eggs that’ll be hidden around your place.
I really need to get some of these plants I’ve bought into the ground. Trouble is I need to move some dirt to where I want to plant them and my joints just aren’t cooperating. Maybe if all these fronts would just pause for a while in their whirlwind of change the old bones would stop aching long enough for me to get something done.
As for opinions this week, well, I am a might put out with those fools up in D.C. I heard on the news that if they don’t come to an agreement on the budget the government could shut down. No biggy, right. Some times I think we’d do better without it. But then if the government does shut down government workers won’t get paid so the national parks will shut down as well as various other government offices. Some of those government worker who wont get paid would be soldiers! The guy’s and gal’s out there risking life and limb to keep us free. But guess who still gets paid. Yep, the big boys in D.C. who can’t put a budget together because they are too busy insisting that it has to be all one party’s way or the other. Sometimes I just want to yell at them, “DUDES!! Democracy is all about compromise! So compromise already!” Of course I really don’t want them to compromise by cutting my SSD back. Just as others don’t want their favorite things cut. Something has got to give.
Honestly folks. We are all looking at some hard choices. I may have to learn how to kill chickens and other such critters if I want to eat some thing other than a vegetarian diet. I’d really rather buy meat than kill my own. I tend to make pets all too easily. However, with the way the economy is going I may just have to get over that.
Carrots and cabbages now, them I can slaughter at will. As well a lot of other veggies and fruits. Providing of course I can first get them to grow.
Yeah, I know. A vegetarian diet is healthier for you and it isn’t as hard on the planet either. It takes a lot more to raise a pound of beef or even chicken than it does to raise a pound of, say, potatoes. But on the other hand those spuds taste a whole lot better when they are cuddled up beside a nice crispy chicken leg quarter or even a steak. Um, Um, Ummm!
Oh, I just joined Weight Watchers, so I might actually start getting my poundage under control. Talk about your hard choices though. Do I eat this cookie dough that is “OMG!” number of points on the WW scale or do I eat the apple with peanut butter where only the peanut butter has any points and I get two whole table spoons of peanut butter for just five points? Especially when I only have six points left for the day. Fortunately, I love peanut butter and apple so the choice isn’t quite that hard. But that chocolate chip cookie dough . . . Didn’t I just hear it calling my name from the freezer?
Alt Op # 15 from Lone Oak Newsletter
It becomes quite clear that in the opinion of my cat Sympathy I am NOT supposed to be wiggling my fingers around like this while she is laying on my forearms.
Took some convincing but she’s gone elsewhere. Now, if her kittens will just leave me alone long enough to get something written for the newsletter all will be well. Providing of course a goat or two don’t escape by climbing on that limb that came down inside their pen. The one they’ve been cleaning the leaves off of for the past day or so.
The news stations all seem to agree that what hit in Cash and traveled along 1564 to the Villages was an F1 tornado. You don’t even have to go down toward Cash from 69 to see a lot of damage.
That and what’s still happening in Japan gives me my opinion of the week. Emergency preparedness. No, no, no! I don’t mean go out to the Army Navy store, or on line and buy all that survivalist gear! But a nice big first aid kit wouldn’t hurt and might come in handy in all those other small “emergencies” that happen every day. As long as you keep it stocked up.
Some of the survivalist stuff might be handy, but most of it that I’ve seen is fairly pricey and hopefully all you’d really need would be the basics. Water, food and meds for a couple of days for each family member and maybe some camping gear that could also be used for, well, camping. I would suggest keeping it all together however, so you can grab it and run if need be. Like if a wild fire is bearing down on your area. Don’t say such as that can’t happen here. Have you paid any attention to the weather folks on television saying how bad a drought we are in. Yeah. It just rained. But that grass will dry before you can realize it, and green or not, it will burn given half a chance. All you need then for a wild fire is a strong wind blowing it toward town. Some stuff even the bravest, craziest firefighter can’t stop no matter how hard they try. Twisters come to mind quite easily after this past week end. Especially with the weather reports indicating it might happen all over again next Sunday / Monday. With those and strong straight-line winds all any firefighter, paid or volunteer, can do is help clean up afterward. Even then it’s their job to help everyone so they’ll mostly stick to clearing roads and such so that would leave the individuals to take care of cleaning up their own property.
The best thing any one can do to be prepared right now, today, is to remain vigilant. Pay attention to the weather reports on TV at least, and to what’s going on in the sky when you are outside. Be aware that lighting can strike several miles away from the cloud that generates it. If you can hear it you need to be under cover. Same goes for fires. If the police or local firefighters come by and tell you to evacuate, grab what you can and go. You might ask how much time you have but they might not be able to tell you either. Fire usually has it’s own, hidden, schedule which it keeps until it is put out.
You should also keep in mind that there are other emergencies that can come up. Such as if just your house is flooded by a burst pipe, or burned by a pan left on the stove too long. There are various things you can do to prepare for those kinds of emergencies as well. Even such emergencies as being sick and too likely to infect others to dare go out for anything but a Doctors appointment.
Of course the best help in any emergency is good neighbors. Just don’t plan on always being the one who gets the help. You need to stock up on the stuff and the knowledge to give help. Might not hurt to practice some before something big happens.
Took some convincing but she’s gone elsewhere. Now, if her kittens will just leave me alone long enough to get something written for the newsletter all will be well. Providing of course a goat or two don’t escape by climbing on that limb that came down inside their pen. The one they’ve been cleaning the leaves off of for the past day or so.
The news stations all seem to agree that what hit in Cash and traveled along 1564 to the Villages was an F1 tornado. You don’t even have to go down toward Cash from 69 to see a lot of damage.
That and what’s still happening in Japan gives me my opinion of the week. Emergency preparedness. No, no, no! I don’t mean go out to the Army Navy store, or on line and buy all that survivalist gear! But a nice big first aid kit wouldn’t hurt and might come in handy in all those other small “emergencies” that happen every day. As long as you keep it stocked up.
Some of the survivalist stuff might be handy, but most of it that I’ve seen is fairly pricey and hopefully all you’d really need would be the basics. Water, food and meds for a couple of days for each family member and maybe some camping gear that could also be used for, well, camping. I would suggest keeping it all together however, so you can grab it and run if need be. Like if a wild fire is bearing down on your area. Don’t say such as that can’t happen here. Have you paid any attention to the weather folks on television saying how bad a drought we are in. Yeah. It just rained. But that grass will dry before you can realize it, and green or not, it will burn given half a chance. All you need then for a wild fire is a strong wind blowing it toward town. Some stuff even the bravest, craziest firefighter can’t stop no matter how hard they try. Twisters come to mind quite easily after this past week end. Especially with the weather reports indicating it might happen all over again next Sunday / Monday. With those and strong straight-line winds all any firefighter, paid or volunteer, can do is help clean up afterward. Even then it’s their job to help everyone so they’ll mostly stick to clearing roads and such so that would leave the individuals to take care of cleaning up their own property.
The best thing any one can do to be prepared right now, today, is to remain vigilant. Pay attention to the weather reports on TV at least, and to what’s going on in the sky when you are outside. Be aware that lighting can strike several miles away from the cloud that generates it. If you can hear it you need to be under cover. Same goes for fires. If the police or local firefighters come by and tell you to evacuate, grab what you can and go. You might ask how much time you have but they might not be able to tell you either. Fire usually has it’s own, hidden, schedule which it keeps until it is put out.
You should also keep in mind that there are other emergencies that can come up. Such as if just your house is flooded by a burst pipe, or burned by a pan left on the stove too long. There are various things you can do to prepare for those kinds of emergencies as well. Even such emergencies as being sick and too likely to infect others to dare go out for anything but a Doctors appointment.
Of course the best help in any emergency is good neighbors. Just don’t plan on always being the one who gets the help. You need to stock up on the stuff and the knowledge to give help. Might not hurt to practice some before something big happens.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Triple Whammy Hits Japan, Alt Op 13 from Lone Oak Newsletter
Some of you out there may be wandering why I haven’t jumped on the tragedy in Japan. After all I was all over other such disasters.
The problem with the Japanese disasters is the scope of the thing. First that earth quake. A 9.0 is enough to topple just about anything. Something like the great pyramids in Egypt might survive, mostly. But then those things are solid stone with just a few hollows here and there. Frankly, the fact than anything is still standing along the east coast of Japan is a tribute to those folks engineering and foresight (the fact that the quake was centered several miles off the coast helped). I suspect that a number of the towns that were wiped away by the tsunami (unfortunately caused by the quake being underwater) would have survived nearly intact if not for that killer wave.
And there you have the crux of the problem. Natural disaster, heaped on natural disaster compounded by what may well be an even worse man made disaster if those nuclear energy plants melt down. Indeed, if those four reactors do melt down there will be an even greater number of refugees and destroyed towns, cities and farmland. The worst thing about the land lost to those reactors will be that, to the naked eye, it will just be abandoned. The people will just have to leave, to walk away and not go back. Everything will be intact and quite serviceable. It will just be radioactive, and thus deadly if it is used.
That coupled with the fact that so many of those who are missing loved ones lost during the quake and the tsunami will never be able to go back to their homes and look for those who are lost or even try to find the bodies for proper burial is just almost to much to comprehend. Especially in a land where reverence for ancestors and family is something taken so seriously.
So why did they build those reactors where they did? So close to where they could be affected by an earthquake and a tsunami? Well, there’s no other place they could build them in Japan. That whole island is as prone to quakes as the land over the San Andreas Fault in California. Both are a part of the great “Ring of Fire” that circles the Pacific Ocean. It is just that on the California side the North American Continent is over-riding the Pacific Plate, and on the Japanese side the Pacific plate is being sub-ducted (pulled down) below the Asian Plate(s). All that makes for a lot of rubbing and friction which results in earthquakes and volcanoes. The simple truth is there is really no place on this planet where you can be absolutely certain there will never be an earth quake. And the geologists can‘t, and will never, tell you that a quake will never be more than a certain rating. They will say things like “probably,” and “most likely,” or “between x and y on the Richter Scale.” Why? Because they don’t really know. They can say there’s bound to be one, eventually, but that’s about it.
As for engineers being able to build things that can stand up to those little twitches of the earths skin? HA! They, no more than the geologists, can guess what this old planet is going to do. We can engineer and calculate to meet up to the worst we think she can hand out alright, but then we decide we need nuclear reactors, dams or some such and before you know it we are far more worried about the bottom line than the worst possible earth quake, tsunami, hurricane, snow fall, flood or what have you. “Well, it’ll never get that bad!” we tell ourselves and build things a little less strong than we could or closer to faults, rivers, or sea shores than we should. Afterwards things go along just fine for a few years to decades and then . . . Then old Ma Nature comes along , whacks us on the behind and say’s “You knew better than that!” Only she dose it with quakes, tsunami, and other very deadly sticks.
After I wrote this I saw an excellent show on PBS. A NOVA report on this very incident. Try to see it if you can. It gives a much clearer picture of what happened (and is happening) than I can. All else failing I think you can buy it from the PBS folks. Probably at pbs.org or some such.
The problem with the Japanese disasters is the scope of the thing. First that earth quake. A 9.0 is enough to topple just about anything. Something like the great pyramids in Egypt might survive, mostly. But then those things are solid stone with just a few hollows here and there. Frankly, the fact than anything is still standing along the east coast of Japan is a tribute to those folks engineering and foresight (the fact that the quake was centered several miles off the coast helped). I suspect that a number of the towns that were wiped away by the tsunami (unfortunately caused by the quake being underwater) would have survived nearly intact if not for that killer wave.
And there you have the crux of the problem. Natural disaster, heaped on natural disaster compounded by what may well be an even worse man made disaster if those nuclear energy plants melt down. Indeed, if those four reactors do melt down there will be an even greater number of refugees and destroyed towns, cities and farmland. The worst thing about the land lost to those reactors will be that, to the naked eye, it will just be abandoned. The people will just have to leave, to walk away and not go back. Everything will be intact and quite serviceable. It will just be radioactive, and thus deadly if it is used.
That coupled with the fact that so many of those who are missing loved ones lost during the quake and the tsunami will never be able to go back to their homes and look for those who are lost or even try to find the bodies for proper burial is just almost to much to comprehend. Especially in a land where reverence for ancestors and family is something taken so seriously.
So why did they build those reactors where they did? So close to where they could be affected by an earthquake and a tsunami? Well, there’s no other place they could build them in Japan. That whole island is as prone to quakes as the land over the San Andreas Fault in California. Both are a part of the great “Ring of Fire” that circles the Pacific Ocean. It is just that on the California side the North American Continent is over-riding the Pacific Plate, and on the Japanese side the Pacific plate is being sub-ducted (pulled down) below the Asian Plate(s). All that makes for a lot of rubbing and friction which results in earthquakes and volcanoes. The simple truth is there is really no place on this planet where you can be absolutely certain there will never be an earth quake. And the geologists can‘t, and will never, tell you that a quake will never be more than a certain rating. They will say things like “probably,” and “most likely,” or “between x and y on the Richter Scale.” Why? Because they don’t really know. They can say there’s bound to be one, eventually, but that’s about it.
As for engineers being able to build things that can stand up to those little twitches of the earths skin? HA! They, no more than the geologists, can guess what this old planet is going to do. We can engineer and calculate to meet up to the worst we think she can hand out alright, but then we decide we need nuclear reactors, dams or some such and before you know it we are far more worried about the bottom line than the worst possible earth quake, tsunami, hurricane, snow fall, flood or what have you. “Well, it’ll never get that bad!” we tell ourselves and build things a little less strong than we could or closer to faults, rivers, or sea shores than we should. Afterwards things go along just fine for a few years to decades and then . . . Then old Ma Nature comes along , whacks us on the behind and say’s “You knew better than that!” Only she dose it with quakes, tsunami, and other very deadly sticks.
After I wrote this I saw an excellent show on PBS. A NOVA report on this very incident. Try to see it if you can. It gives a much clearer picture of what happened (and is happening) than I can. All else failing I think you can buy it from the PBS folks. Probably at pbs.org or some such.
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