"The Lighthouse Café over yonder is not too intrusive either. They were actually stocked with soap and paper." "Yeah, I noticed one night them restrooms were cleaner than you'd normally expect, at least for Homo sapiens' restrooms." "A place as busy as this could really become a mess without good management," said an alligator to another one evening in the mangroves of Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park. Through it all Haskell appears completely in control of her ride, perfectly sane about the hype, lovelier now than when she left us. "All the publicity is a complete joke," she told Detour magazine soon after her island banishment was broadcast, "and I don't know how long this phenomenon is going to continue." Long enough for her to take on an agent, cash in on an endorsement contract with Blistex, and win a role as a love interest in a major Hollywood movie, due out in June. Suddenly a celebrity, Haskell maintained a healthy attitude about the fame thrust upon her. An entire nation fell in love with her voice, her spirit, and her fresh look. Yet the cutest member of the cast of the first Survivor, the spectacularly popular television show she joined almost by accident, shed her anonymity forever by lasting until the show's final six contestants. Browsers who even noticed her behind the register probably never realized they were in the presence of "America's Sweetheart," as Bryant Gumbel would soon anoint her. A student assembling a portfolio at the Miami Ad School, a part-time employee at Books & Books on Lincoln Road. She added that monsoonal moisture will also play a role in the 2021 wildfire story as we’re expecting to see more than in the two previous years, and in fact, it looks like we’re going to see some of that creep into the area late this week which means the likelihood of lightning strikes.Once she was just another young, attractive woman on South Beach. "This is a little bit different, but we are seeing some similarities.” The onset of that was following a very snowy year, a very wet spring, and it was a very sudden onset of the drought," Haskell said. “It looks similar in terms of what’s on the ground to 2017 with the drought. Haskell says it’s not unreasonable to think we might have a fire season similar to our record-setting summer of 2017. The combination of drier than average conditions in recent months, our pending heatwave, and long-range forecast models continuing to project hotter and drier conditions than normal this summer. “What right now is already looking more like late August or a record August type condition we’re trying to manage those expectations in terms of our workload," Haskell told MTN News. It’s already been a busy fire season in the desert southwest, and Haskell says part of their job now is navigating managing a workload while sharing manpower and supplies with 10 other geographic regions - some of which are projected to have severe fire seasons too, "We’re already very dry with our heavier fuels with the timbers and the slash so it’s going to elevate our fire danger over the next week to 10 days.” “This is going to be drying out even our highest elevations where typically we have a little bit of a buffer and we buy some time going into fire season," Haskell explained. Haskell detailed the biggest drawback of the sweltering early summer temperatures. “We’ve already had three heatwaves which is unusual for this time of year anyway, this third heatwave is different because it’s more prolonged and it’s also very extreme in terms of magnitude," said Colleen Haskell, NRCC Fire Weather Meteorologist. MISSOULA - A large percentage of western Montana already is in abnormally dry to drought conditions and the intense and prolonged heatwave expected in the coming days has the Northern Rockies Coordination Center (NRCC) concerned as we sit on the cusp of wildfire season.