Smoke thickens in choking Thai north - Reuters

[Eugene]

Smoke thickens in choking Thai north
14 Mar 2007 10:03:50 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Sukree Sukplang

CHIANG MAI, March 14 (Reuters) - The smoke haze choking northern Thailand
thickened on Wednesday as officials urged people to water the land and streets
in hopes of getting enough humidity into the air to provoke rain.

Chiang Mai officials sent fire trucks to hose down streets and spray into the air
in hopes of bringing rain to wash away smoke produced by dry season stubble
burning, forest fires and wood-fired cooking.

Thailand's second city and tourist capital of the scenic north urged its residents
to do the same, hoping the collective effort would increase humidity as the
seasonal scourge reached its most dense levels in 15 years.

After three days of failure to provoke a deluge from the sky, rainmaking teams
added water to their chemical mix of fertiliser and salt sprayed from planes to
make rain in hopes that would be more effective, officials said.

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BKK291966.htm

[Javaman]

1. So let's waste water trying to "create" rain, instead of using water to...

PUT OUT THE FUCKING FIRE!!!

Sign.

my brain hurts.