A recent study by the Global Forecast System model recorded an intense spike in carbon monoxide over the US west coast. This spike ranged from 5,000 parts per billion over southwestern Canada to 40,000 parts per billion over parts of southern California. There seemed to be an extreme peak zone ...

My favorite sight all my life was sitting on the mountain top watching the setting sun dropping toward the Pacific horizon when the valley below me began to ripple like waves on the beach and a great chasm opened wide swallowing the city below I sat unable to speak. The mountain below my feet shook ...