[pup55]

Oh, yeah....

I forgot temporarily that hundreds of Fed Ex planes go in and out of there every night, in the middle of the night.... should have remembered after staying at the Memphis Airport Holiday Inn a couple of times.....

So, the probable root cause is still aircraft-related dimwittery....

[Sixstrings]

Hm, even the birds in the birdhouse were dead

[TWilliam]

Hm, even the birds in the birdhouse were dead

Purportedly from what appears to have been a fairly diffuse misting with kerosene? Hmmm...

[efarmer]

I lived 8 miles from the runway on the common approach by a major midwest airport a few blocks from the outer marker transmitter. Not uncommon for humidity to hit the high 90 per cent range. Not sure what the practice is now, but I was on board flights when they dumped fuel before landing back in the 1980's, and on the ground I could smell kerosene some times when it was very humid, but never noticed it in the winter when the air was dry. Not sure if the cold winter air allowed them to have margin for a touch and go if necessary and keep the fuel aboard or it just evaporated better.
Perhaps our airline pilot poster will chime in...

[Lore]

Is this the start of our food scarcity for the time to come? Couple this with higher energy prices for the foreseeable future and the year 2012 could be a ball busting pivot point for life on the planet.

Grain Prices Surge as U.S. Cuts Crop Estimates, Signal Tighter Food Supply

Corn and soybeans jumped to the highest prices since July 2008 and wheat rose after the government cut forecasts for U.S. inventories, signaling tighter food supply as demand increases and adverse weather hurts crops.
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“There’s no room for error anymore” on farms around the world, said Dan Basse, the president of AgResouce Co., a commodity consultant in Chicago. “With any weather issues, we’re going to make new all-time highs in corn and soybeans, and to a lesser degree, wheat futures.”

Drought ruined wheat fields in Russia last year and too much rain diminished supplies of the grain from Canada. Adverse weather led to a drop in 2010 corn production in the U.S. and a smaller harvest of soybeans than expected, government data show.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-1 ... tlook.html