July 17, 2025
Tim McGraw wrote:
LOL! The video below is from Seattle TV news about a fire at Lake Cushman in the Olympic Mountains west of Seattle. The idiotic announcer says that Mt. Olympus is seen from Seattle and shrouded in smoke from the fire. LOL! You can’t see Mt. Olympus from Seattle. The peaks shown in the video are called “The Brothers.”
Decades ago, I’d take the kids out to the Olympics to go hiking. The highway goes by Lake Cushman. It’s a beautiful lake, but the logging trucks were constant. I had to be on my toes to drive safely.
Also, this was back in the 1980s, the Seattle TV news then was all aflutter about sharks being found in Lake Cushman. They were dead and discovered on the shore. Scientists at the University of Washington posited that there was an underground channel from Lake Cushman to the sea. Turns out that a local fisherman caught some dogfish (small sharks) and dumped them in Lake Cushman as a joke.
