Wow!! checked out the urban dictionary for their take … interesting to say the least

For a more trad version …

exhaust /ɪɡˈzɔːst,ɛɡˈzɔːst/

verb: exhaust; 3rd person present: exhausts; past tense: exhausted; past participle: exhausted; gerund or present participle: exhausting

1. make (someone) feel very tired. “her day out had exhausted her” … Similar: tire-out wear-out overtire overtax fatigue weary tire drain, run someone into the ground, run someone ragged, enervate sap debilitate prostrate enfeeble, wear oneself to a shadow, do-in, take it out of one, wipe-out fag-out knock-out shatter, wear oneself to a frazzle, frazzle, nearly-kill knacker poop tucker-out root tiring wearying taxing fatiguing wearing enervating draining sapping debilitating arduous strenuous uphill onerous punishing demanding exacting burdensome gruelling back-breaking crushing crippling killing murderous hellish knackering exigent

Opposite: invigorate refresh invigorating refreshing

2. use up (resources or reserves) completely. “the country has exhausted its treasury reserves”

Similar: use-up run-through go-through consume finish deplete expend spend dissipate waste squander fritter-away empty milk drain suck-dry impoverish blow bleed

Opposite: replenish restock

• expound on or explore (a subject or options) so fully that there is nothing further to be said or discovered.”she seemed to have exhausted all permissible topics of conversation” … Similar:say all, there is to say about, do to death, treat thoroughly, develop completely, expound in great detail about, study in great detail, research completely, leave no stone left unturned, go over with a fine-tooth comb Opposite: touch on

3. expel (gas or steam) from or into a particular place.

“you should never exhaust bathroom air into your attic”

noun: exhaust

1. waste gases or air expelled from an engine, turbine, or other machine in the course of its operation.”buses spewing out black clouds of exhaust”
   • the system through which exhaust gases are expelled.plural noun: exhausts“an exhaust pipe”

We know our engines … basically a contraption that sucks squeezes bangs and blows. The colour of the blow can be telling … white( water ) blue( oil ) grey( oil, pcv, trans fluid ) black( fuel )

We get “blows” here … big stormy blows, lotsa wind, rain etc … interestingly i’ve noticed particular ‘cloud’ formations regularly preceeding said blows … mostly associated with a westerly low pressure weather pattern, slightly to the north -means the wind is blowing rotationally around the centre in a clockwise direction – ie the wind and rain deposit any particulates to the south over land

We’ve just had another ‘blow’, this time from the east. These particular ‘cloud’ formations appeared mysteriously yet again … this time caught on the meteorologic radar published by the metservice

weather radar 2024-04-21T06 58 00+12 00

Such linear formations are not natural. And minimally dispersive. This is linearly intact visibly in picture over a distance of, at least, 150km. And NOT along any normal flight-path (not coming from anywhere, not going anywhere). Anything in this aerosol will wash-out to the sth west over NZs most populous city, Auckland. Having lived in places all over the world i have experienced these events on a daily basis in many/most populated locations.

‘cloud’ formations

Written by Irving Berlin in 1926 ‘Blue Skies’ has been covered by many, Al Jolson sang it in one of the very first ‘talkies’ The Jazz Singer, Benny Goodman, Bing Cosby/Fred Astaire, Bing Cosby/Danny Kaye, Ella Fitzgerald sang a wonderful scat jazz version, Lt Comm Data in Star Trek, and of course Willie Nelson

as sung by Ella…

I was blue, just as blue as I could be
Ev’ry day was a cloudy day for me
Then good luck came a-knocking at my door
Skies were gray but they’re not gray anymore

Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see

Bluebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long

Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you’re in love, my how they fly

Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on

[2]
I should care if the wind blows east or west
I should fret if the worst looks like the best
I should mind if they say it can’t be true
I should smile, that’s exactly what I do

mike moreu 2014 … Conservative Party leader, Colin Craig, giving a speech.

Interestingly, studies from 1957, written-up 1958, explained the issue of coal fly-ash aerosols and ‘cloud’ formation. Since the 90’s, when these formations really took-off, the $Billion$ coal fly-ash disposal problem has disappeared. Now big business purchasing this stuff from China, currently the biggest producer.

I live in an especially beautiful part of the world. Subtropical. Coastal. Rural. Forest. Windy roads – (un)sealed. Offroad. Great motorcycling country. And the weekends remind me of Northern Germany (the Niederlaenders and local petrol-heads would head for us – we had the only hill(s) and windy roads for a couple of hundred kilometrers). Groups of ego-ridden dick-heads riding like they stole it. Probably been watching that “world-end clock” counting down to 2027 …

You learn to stay home weekends.

We have a local cafe. Perched out over the harbour. On piles. Like a wharf. Has a balcony out back. Open. Above the water. Non-Smoking. Top spot for a cone or two. Was sitting there the other day. Primed. Contemplating. As you do. Been coming here for decades. Family have been living in the area for much much longer. Generations.

Sea-Levels 1885-2024

I then rode along the beach. The same beach my family have been using for hundreds of years. West Coast. Full geomorphing powers of tide and weather. Got a feed of mussels from the same rocks used by the same families for generations. Got water and brewed a coffee from the same spring used for generations. Came back thru the harbour mouth using the same wave-cut rock-bench that has been there for god only knows how long.

Makes you think. If you can – that is.