AKGovSarahPalin Great news for Eagle’s flood victims – manufacturer’s construction crew will build first pre-fab house Thursday! about 7 hours ago from web
AKGovSarahPalin Appreciate all the men & women fighting AK’s wildfires across state. Latest details @ http://tinyurl.com/nms7cd & http://tinyurl.com/ma6tnf about 7 hours ago from web
AKGovSarahPalin Flew over McGrath area burn, met idolized smokejumpers (for bravery, strength, love of outdoors!) I appreciate their work in volatile areas
4:45 PM Jul 8th from TwitterBerry
AKGovSarahPalin Forestry says 64 active wildfires (500,000 acres) so suspend burn permits in Mat-Su/Kenai. That's billowing smoke u see in Interior & Anch
(((Man, the human immediacy of Twitter is something new in the world. You get the operating system and the pulldown menus and the blinking ads and the dancing baloney out of the way, and it's like you can smell people sweating all over the world.)))
*Do these guys tweet? No, they don't, because, unlike modern elected officials, they never have to directly face homeless, smoke-blackened voters who are terrified and freaking-out. They're the ones paying for the disconnect between the climate-change reality-on-the-ground and the basic causes of the ever-growing suffering. More of 'em every day!
http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/climate_change/articles/entry/1376/