No Mountain Of Japan's Tsunami Debris Is Arriving In Fort Worth Today

Today we have a slight variant in our popular series of bloggings about news items I see in west coast online news sources, usually the Seattle Times, which would likely not be something I would see in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

The caption under the photo says...

A barge carrying 1 million pounds of debris that washed up on Alaska and Canada coastlines — half of it from the 2011 Japan tsunami — signals a larger cleanup that needs to be done.

That mountain behind the mountain of debris is Mount Rainier. That bird flying over Mount Rainier is a seagull.

I don't think a barge carrying a million pounds of anything could float very far on the Trinity River.

Half the mountain of debris came from the tsunami which struck Japan in 2011. What does this tsunami debris consist of, I can not help but wonder? How does a debris collector tell that debris is from Japan's tsunami, rather than junk thrown off a cruise ship, or some other source?

Has Japanese tsunami debris washed up on the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, too? Or did it all end up north of the border?

What is Washington doing with that million pounds of debris? Is a lot of it recyclable?

So many questions, so few answers. I maybe could have clicked on the link and read the article. But I think my Seattle Times five articles a month quota has already kicked in.

Up With The Sun The Second Monday Of November Thinking About Incoming Japanese Floating Balls

The dawn of the 2nd Monday of the next to last month of 2011 has arrived with the sun illuminating what appears to be a clear blue sky.

Even though currently the sky is clear, rain is in the forecast for today. A 20% chance of wet stuff falling. With a greater chance of getting wet tomorrow.

Currently, at this early hour of the morning, the outer world is being heated to 67 degrees. The high today is scheduled to reach the low 80s.

I had my windows open all night long. I do not previously remember leaving my windows open, at this location, all night long in the middle of November. This almost switches me back to being a global warming believer.

I saw two interesting things in the news this morning. Both involved Japan. I was surprised to learn that Japan's economy expanded at a 6 percent rate during the most recent quarter. That is a much bigger expansion than the American economy experienced in the most recent quarter.

And, unlike Japan, we in America have had no HUGE earthquakes or tsunamis to deal with.

Speaking of which, that's the other interesting news this morning that relates to Japan.

The debris field washed out to sea, following the Japanese tsunami, a debris field the size of California, is due to start washing up on our west coast shores any day now.

That should make for some interesting beach combing.

When I was a kid I recollect beach combing on the Pacific beaches in the Ocean Shores/Copalis zone of the Washington coast. At that point in time the Japanese fishermen still used glass balls to float their fishnets. Those glass balls would  break loose from the fishnets and make their way to west coast beaches. I recollect only finding one. A small one.

Speaking of small balls floating long distances, it is time for my morning swim before it gets any hotter.