Austin Smith

Fire Protection Engineer & Photographer with a slight skiing problem..
🎿 📸 🏔️ 🎣

[Austin Smith @AustinnSmithh]

@BillOzanne @BigChick3nDinna @liftblog So what do you think they actually got then? Washington is already north of 60" and Stowe is right around there

[Hogdale @Hogdale_]

CHAPMAN FINDS A WAY AND SLAMS THE DOOR SHUT AND THE SOX WIN GAME ONE OF THE WILD CARD SERIES

[ClutchPoints @ClutchPoints]

Celtics fan: "I'm just happy that Kyrie [Irving] got to understand that the world is only flat in Boston because it revolves around us."

"Now, wonder what Kyrie is doing today?"

"He's probably trying to get his way back in, it ain't happening." 😭

[Zack Cox @zm_cox]

And a hammered Tom Brady parade shirt. Legend.

[Taylor Snow @taylorcsnow]

PAYTON PRITCHARD DID IT AGAIN

[Kyle Van Noy @KVN_03]

Yooo I’m all caught up in the Karen read case in Massachusetts because I lived in canton mass so it hits home! This is a wild case! Feel so bad for the o’Keefe kids!! Is the canton police settin this up or what? Sketchy sketchy info so far!…… GO Celtics btw!

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Daily users of marijuana are reshaping the consumer economy by buying more frozen food, and they’re also ordering on delivery apps such as DoorDash and Uber Eats more than average, per Bloomberg.

[Bill Simmons @BillSimmons]

“We hate Mac Jones” was just hilarious

[Bill Simmons @BillSimmons]

Ever refill a rental car’s tank with the crappiest gas possible before you turn the car in? That’s what the Red Sox owners are doing in 2024. They are clearly selling the team — and filling the tank for us with Super-Shit Unleaded.

[Brad Williams @funnybrad]

Nick Saban out at Alabama at age 72
Bill Belichick out at New England at age 71
Pete Carroll out in Seattle at age 72

Members of Congress at age 90

[In My Mind @MeAloneInMyMind]

Patrick Mahomes after the Chiefs and the Bills game.

[B.W. Carlin @BaileyCarlin]

I’ve been working on this show for 9 months.

This was easily my most jaw-dropping, enjoyable moment

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

From a Canadian firefighter who knows what’s going on:
#canada #wildfire #smoke
(Worth the read)

“I know you may know, but people need to know and understand that most Canadian wildfire management agencies have fire “zonation” policies similar to Alaska.

This means in large areas of their jurisdictions, especially in the northern part of the country, wildfires are left to run there natural course w little or no direct action or suppression. We’ll protect values at risk, ie. infrastructure, communities, critical habitat or culturally significant features on the landscape, we’ll map them and maybe try to burn them to natural barrier, fight one flank and let the rest roll (limited action) but we are not putting them out.

On many of the fires we don’t even try. A number of these fires are huge boreal gobblers (I am currently assigned to a 250,000 ha fire, well over 600,000 acres and you could fit the org. chart on one side of a beer can).

The only thing that is going to put out this fire out and many across the country is winter, 5 months from now. It’s going to be a long, smoky summer for everyone. You have a wide reach, it would be great if you can help people understand these dynamics in the Canadian wildfire scene when they’re bitching about the smoke.

Cheers 🍻 and thanks.”

Pretty decent picture of what’s going on. Thanks for the insight.

In the industry we call this letting a fire “Do its thing”. It’s especially common in these vast boreal forests. Siberia does the same thing. Identify hazards and values at risk, mitigate, let it go.

Cheers.

[Austin Smith @AustinnSmithh]

@YoungLucs Say less 🫡

[ɪ ᴀᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴋᴀʏᴛʀᴀɴᴀᴅᴀ @chaclobro]

Ja Morant after spending 2 days in rehab

[Jared Carrabis @Jared_Carrabis]

But it’s just exhibition games! Nobody cares!

[Michael Hurley @michaelFhurley]

Just like last year, my issue is this: There were ZERO calls for defensive holding before Bradberry was flagged. Zero. All game. Players play to the game that's being called.

The infraction, such as it was, was far from egregious. Just can't call it. Cannot.

Frustrating.

[Zack Cox @zm_cox]

Bill Belichick was asked on Tom Brady's podcast what he saw in the QB that others didn't. His response lasted five minutes and included this fascinating story about what he learned from Brady.

Said Brady sees the game better than anyone he's ever met

"I mean, it was incredible"

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Record low temperature recorded in the US as wind chill in New Hampshire drops to -105°F (-76°C).

[Austin Smith @AustinnSmithh]

When New England becomes the planet Hoth

[Intel Point Alert @IntelPointAlert]

BREAKING: Wind chill reaches -104° F on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, becoming the coldest ever recorded in the United States