Good morning.
It’s a rainy day, of thunderstorms, ahead for Whitewater. The high temperature for the day should be in the upper eighties.
From the Wisconsin Historical Society, a reminder of a late-nineteenth-century tragedy, but also of resiliency:
1894 – Forest Fire Destroys Phillips
On the afternoon of this day, a forest fire swept over the Price Co. town of Phillips from the west, destroying nearly all the buildings and forcing 2,000 people to flee for their lives. When the sun came up the next morning, 13 people had been killed, the entire downtown was in ashes, and exhausted survivors were wandering through the ruins in a daze. The fire ultimately consumed more than 100,000 acres in Price County. Much of the town was rebuilt within a year.
Wondering where all this heat came from? Brian Keim at Wired Science has the answer in a post entitled, How the Heat Wave Started. (Image courtesy of NOAA.)
