by me, Kerry Burgess, 09/06/2026 4:23 PM
Don't believe me?
Well, you should not believe me.
Because I don't know a damn thing beyond name, rank, serial number.
Everything here is largely just my guesswork.
May 10, 2006. That happened.
Now, why did that happen to *me?
How do I avoid this all turning into some sort of mainstream-media echo-chamber?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536
Volcanic winter of 536
From Wikipedia
The volcanic winter of 536 was among the most severe and protracted episodes of climatic cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last two thousand years. The volcanic winter was caused by at least three eruptions of uncertain origin,[citation needed] with several possible locations proposed in various continents. In early AD 536 (or possibly late 535), an eruption ejected great amounts of sulfate aerosols into the atmosphere, reducing the solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface and cooling the atmosphere for several years. In March 536, Constantinople began experiencing darkened skies and lower temperatures.
Summer temperatures in 536 fell by as much as 2.5 °C (4.5 °F) below European normal. The lingering effect of the volcanic winter of 536 was augmented in the years 539 and 540, when another volcanic eruption caused summer temperatures to decline as much as 2.7 °C (4.9 °F) below European normal. There is evidence of still another volcanic eruption in 547 that would have extended the cool period. The volcanic eruptions caused crop failures, and were accompanied by the Plague of Justinian, famine, and millions of deaths and initiated the Late Antique Little Ice Age, which lasted from 536 to 660.
Historian Michael McCormick has called the year 536 "the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year."
excerpt
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/radio-and-television-address-the-american-people-the-nuclear-test-ban-treaty
The American Presidency Project
JOHN F. KENNEDY
35th President of the United States: 1961 ‐ 1963
Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
July 26, 1963
A war today or tomorrow, if it led to nuclear war, would not be like any war in history. A full-scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes, with the weapons now in existence, could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors, as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, "the survivors would envy the dead." For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot even conceive of its horrors.
previously by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpt
by me, Kerry Burgess, 10/24/2024 4:58 PM
Wait for it
Wait for it
On local live-tv news, a joke about Whitney's exploded can of Dr. Pepper and people in the newsroom not understanding why their computers and the floors are sticky.
From 5/8/1994 ( premiere USA TV miniseries "Stephen King's The Stand"::miniseries premiere "The Plague" ) To 10/24/2024 ( ) is 11127 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/20/1996 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Home Court"::"Love, Death & Soda" ) is 11127 days
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 4:35 PM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 09/06/2026
