The R-C Morning Report

You have the right to carry shampoo onto your flight in a plastic bag. If you do not have a plastic bag one will be provided for you at government expense.

You have the right to wear shoes with laces on an airplane. However, if you are asked to remove your shoes, it is your responsibility to get them back on in time to make your flight.

You have the right to breastfeed. Anytime you try to breastfeed on an airline, anyone made uncomfortable may raise the issue against you. Then you have the right to find another ride.

You have the right to be heavy, except in coach on a discount airline, where you will be placed into a seat Kate Moss would find cramped.

You have the right not to complain. If you give up this right, you will be patronized or ignored.

Happy busiest travel day of the year.

If your idea of flying is to drive a high-profile vehicle through Washoe Valley during a wind storm, then you're in luck.

The wind is howling outside at 6 a.m. and it's just going to get worse today. According to the National Weather Service, a cold front is charging into Western Nevada, which will drive wind gusts of up to 45 mph during the day. By tonight, when the front passes over, wind gusts could hit 70 mph in the Valleys.

A gust of 32 mph was reported in Minden this morning.

A high wind advisory is in effect until 8 p.m. That's when the high wind watch kicks in with predicted sustained winds of at least 40 mph or gusts of 58 mph or stronger. Ouch.

Oh and of course there's a wind advisory in Washoe Valley.

Firefighters in Yerington got a workout on Tuesday when a 10-acre brush fire a mile south of Highway 339 and Goldfield Road caught at about 11:56 a.m.

East Fork Fire District units were moved to back up Lyon firefighters should something else happen. It's late in the year for a brush fire, but it goes to show how dry we've been so far this year. Snow coming, maybe Sunday.

It looks like Genoan and former Douglas County District Attorney Steve McMorris won't have to move after all. Gov. Kenny Guinn appointed James Todd Russell of the Carson City law firm Allison, MacKenzie, and way more names than I care to mention here, to the judgeship being vacated in Carson. Steve was a finalist for the job. In addition to being district attorney here, he compiled the Douglas County code and was Tahoe Township Justice of the Peace for many years.