Spent a day checking out the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We were lucky to get the van to the summit of Clingman's Dome as the snow was waist high on the sides of the road. Trisna was lucky to walk the kilometre up to the true summit as she was wearing ugg boots. Sean was lucky to not get knocked out when he threw a snowball at me, but missed and hit a husband and wife couple. From the top we could look east into North Carolina and west into Tennessee. Stunning views.
Remember acid rain? It sounds pretty "nineties" now, and may have dropped off the radar lately, but it is still having an impact here. From the summit you can see that thousands of the trees are dying as the precipitation is 5-10 times more acidic than it should naturally be. This impacts soils, streams, plants and animals. Acid rain is caused by pollution from vehicles, industry and power generation being taken up by clouds and falling back to the earth with snow and rain.
Remember acid rain? It sounds pretty "nineties" now, and may have dropped off the radar lately, but it is still having an impact here. From the summit you can see that thousands of the trees are dying as the precipitation is 5-10 times more acidic than it should naturally be. This impacts soils, streams, plants and animals. Acid rain is caused by pollution from vehicles, industry and power generation being taken up by clouds and falling back to the earth with snow and rain.
Trisna was wearing ugg boots.... Hahahaha... Ahh, Trisna! :)
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