The Bronx…I Mean, Russia Is Burning
It’s nothing like the bombings in Ukraine, but it’s an A for effort
In 1977, one of New York City’s five boroughs, the Bronx, suffered an end-of-times spate of arsons. In the section of the city where the “house that Ruth built” is located, the cut in services brought about by the city’s bankruptcy was particularly devastating for the residents of the South Bronx. Sometimes, fires started and burned themselves out because firefighters didn’t come.
Watching Yankee games, it was common to hear the famed announcer Phil “Scooter” Rizzuto talking about the smell of smoke.
Has it gotten this bad in Russia? Not yet, simply because Russia is the largest country on the planet. But if it was possible to take all of these explosions of the past three months and then put them into one region of Moscow, I think we could be on track for calling this the “Summer that Russia Burned.”
Overnight in Adler, the little town between Sochi and the local airport, the one everyone uses when coming to Sochi or to Putin’s Black Sea resort, an oil storage tank was hit by a drone at 5 a.m. Locals said it sounded like a clap of thunder followed by a sunburst with flames reaching geyser-like into the sky — Good morning, Sochintzi (this is what local residents are called)!
