Reply #10: Sorry, it won't be like this...

[skepticalndnc]

The sky will more of a sickly gray from the pollution from the great cities to the North and south of the mountains. Forget seeing a beautiful sunset there, all you see is gunmetal gray any more. And the trees? Most in the higher elevations are being killed off by some disease or insect or combination of the two. The pollution helped the massacre along by weakening the trees making the unable to fight the onslaught. Somehow, I don't think the Great Smokies are what they were when Roosevelt made the dedication. I have hiked many a mile and have seen the devastation, seen the lovely blue haze change to a gray smog . It saddens me. That Bush is going there for earth earth days is more evidence either of his hypocrisy or his denial and ignorance.