The scary part about being in the Pacific Northwest is that our department of health is claiming that there is no radiation problems in Western Washington, that the radiation levels are well below levels that would cause health concerns.

However, it appears as though milk from dairy cows are being tainted and when it gets to the point that it is in the milk, it's in the environment as well because their food and water sources are affected.

They stopped doing the full battery of testing 90 days after the Fukushima disaster and returns to their standard routine testing.

It makes me wonder if it really is La Nina that is affecting our weather or if it could be related to the earthquakes in Japan and in South America this year; as well as the radiation coming over from Japan.

It is cool here in Western Washington, much cooler than the averages for our region.

[sic] I have noticed some things around our area - dead grass, what looks like acid rain tinged leaves on certain plants, etc.

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