A vast cloud of Sahara dust is blanketing the Caribbean as it heads to the U.S. with a size and concentration that experts say hasn't been seen in half a century.
Air quality across most of the region fell to record "hazardous" levels and experts who nicknamed the event the "Godzilla dust cloud" warned people to stay indoors and use air filters if they have one.
"This is the most significant event in the past 50 years," said Pablo Méndez Lázaro, an environmental health specialist with the University of Puerto Rico. "Conditions are dangerous in many Caribbean islands."
Many health specialists were concerned about those battling respiratory symptoms tied to COVID-19. Lázaro, who is working with NASA to develop an alert system for the arrival of Sahara dust, said the concentration was so high in recent days that it could even have adverse effects on healthy people.
As someone who has no Native American blood that I know of, I feel it is my duty to take offense at your posting. Please cease and desist immediately and take it down. You, you-that’s what you are.
Re: Who has Saharan Godzilla Dust Cloud on their Bingo card?
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 5:42 am
by Joe Guy
Is that your chief complaint?
Re: Who has Saharan Godzilla Dust Cloud on their Bingo card?
You can't since it's already called Godzilla. Silly person.
Re: Who has Saharan Godzilla Dust Cloud on their Bingo card?
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 6:04 am
by MajGenl.Meade
Asiatic bias again! When it gets here, it should change its name to something more fittingly local!
Re: Who has Saharan Godzilla Dust Cloud on their Bingo card?
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 6:09 am
by TPFKA@W
There used to be a wrestler named Billy Red Cloud. We can name it in his honor.
Re: Who has Saharan Godzilla Dust Cloud on their Bingo card?
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 6:23 am
by MajGenl.Meade
Was he related to Billy Two Rivers?
He wrestled over there in the USA as well as Canada, UK. A Mohawk from the Territoire Mohawk de Kahnawake in Quebec.
Re: Who has Saharan Godzilla Dust Cloud on their Bingo card?
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 1:26 pm
by Bicycle Bill
I'll call your wrestler and raise you one Medal of Honor winner,.
Mitchell Red Cloud Jr. (2 July 1925 – 5 November 1950) was a United States Army corporal who was killed in action while serving in the Korean War. Corporal Red Cloud posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroic actions "above and beyond the call of duty" near Chonghyon, North Korea, on 5 November 1950 during the Chinese First Phase Campaign. Before joining the army, he had been a United States Marine Corps sergeant who had served in World War II.
Born in Hatfield, Wisconsin In Jackson County, Red Cloud, a Ho-Chunk Native American (formerly known as the Winnebago tribe before the tribe began to re-identify under its former name in the late 1900s), dropped out of high school to enlist in the Marine Corps during World War II. He first served in combat with the Marine Raiders during the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942 before health problems forced him stateside in 1943 to recover. Red Cloud avoided a medical discharge, and served with the 6th Marine Division during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
Red Cloud enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1948. After the Korean War began in June 1950, he was sent to Korea with the 19th Infantry, 24th Infantry Division, which was among the American troops who fought the first battles of the war, being pushed back during the Battle of Taejon and the Battle of Pusan Perimeter. The 19th Infantry also was part of the Eighth United States Army advance into North Korea. On the night of 5 November 1950, Red Cloud was manning a forward observation post when he spotted an imminent surprise attack by Chinese forces. Red Cloud single-handedly held off the Chinese forces despite being shot eight times, at one point ordering his men to tie him to a tree because he was too weak to stand by himself. His company found him the next morning, surrounded by dead Chinese troops. He was credited with alerting his company to the ambush and saving them from being overrun. For these actions, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
There is a memorial in his name currently standing outside the Ho-Chunk Casino and Motel outside Black River Falls, WI. While it is viewed by many people who would otherwise be unaware of his existence and sacrifice, I still can't help but feel that this cheapens his legacy somewhat — almost like they are saying, "He gave his life so you can play blackjack." -"BB"-
