Chuckle Post

From randompictures, one of those pics that's both scary and funny at the same time. Moscow is suffocating under smoke from out-of-control raging forest fires due to record high and prolonged heat. Dryness means fire, we know that in the Pacific Northwest and now Russia knows it too.



I've already emailed a co-worker friend who had intended to travel there soon. The BBC news says, "don't travel to Moscow right now".

ETA: The captions tell the story of the record heat in 130 years of record keeping. More fires break out every day and once the peat bogs catch, it's nearly impossible to get them put out. Pictures and news from the NPR