September 22, 2020 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, September 22
Good morning! I hope you enjoyed the 21st night of September.
- Air quality studies indicate that since the Sterigenics plant in Cobb County reopened following the explicit request of the Governor, levels of ethylene oxide are at least as high – and in some cases higher – than they were prior to the County forcing the medical sterilization plant to close last year.
- When I heard this story on Marketplace, and they were talking about issues with the unemployment system in California, I thought, “Hoooooo, it’s not just California, folks!” And no, it isn’t. These problems, delays, and SNAFUs with UI are pervasive — and they are far and away the most frustrating issue I have ever tried to assist constituents with in my 13 years in elected office.
- Pine-Sol is approved to kill the COVID-19 virus on hard surfaces: all the more reason your house should smell like a Carolina pine forest.
- Theoretically, senior care centers can open for visitors. Practically, however, they first have to meet a pretty high bar.
- More disturbing evidence indicting lethal injections.
- High tides are submerging Tybee Island’s beaches and flooding parts of Highway 80.
- This article is from July, but I am sharing in case you are also fascinated with how sound engineers apply crowd sounds at crowd-less sporting events.
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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The official start of fall – the fall/autumnal equinox – is this morning, at 9:30 AM EDT. This marks the time when the day-to-night line, called the terminator, is perfectly vertical from pole to pole and the sun is directly over the equator.
Fall is the traditional hog killing season for small farmers. That’s the domesticated variety. Georgia also has feral hogs in every county causing millions in crop damage annually. Hogs breed prolifically, they’re smart, they’ll eat most anything, and they’re gaining on us.
Montana and Ontario don’t have hog problems as bad as Georgia (or Texas or California) and they’re working hard to to defuse the ‘feral swine bomb’.
https://undark.org/2020/09/14/feral-pig-swine-bomb-ontario-montana/
https://www.georgiaferalswine.com/feral-swine-updates/georgia-a-leader-in-collaborative-feral-swine-control-efforts
I live out in the country and have experienced running into a group of pigs. My dang dogs will rouse them up and next thing I know the mama pigs are chasing my dogs away.
People shoot them all year long out here but they are too prolific. Trapping large groups at one time is the only way too “root” them out effectively.
There is a program to help landowners for setting up traps but having folks to monitor them and deal with the pigs after they are caught is the hard part. The traps have to be well designed because the pigs can run up and over a 4-5 ft cow panel.
https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/nuisance/feral_hogs/
An interesting video:
If you have not listened to this episode of Reply All, please do! https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/n8hw3d
Good stories.
The rich folks in places like Asheville, NC imported European boars for hunting, Some got loose and found the domestic pigs running around in the woods eating acorns.
2015:
https://cdn.outdoorhub.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/01/outdoorhub-north-carolina-hunters-bag-massive-707-pound-wild-boar-2015-01-29_17-08-57.jpg
Thanks for the ReplyAll link. Funny stuff.
Valleyhaed Highschool, in Valleyhead Alabama just to the South Dade used to have a day off for hog killing day. Not sure if they still do but that was just less then 10 years ago.