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| - | A plant that’s everywhere is fueling a growing risk of wildfire disaster | + | Their five minute airplane chat led to lasting love [[https://trip36.win/|tripskan]] |
| + | On a recent transatlantic flight from Florida to London Heathrow, married flight attendants Hunter Smith-Lihas and John Lihas locked eyes across the aisle. | ||
| - | + | The two men smiled at each other, before swiftly returning to serving champagne to first class travelers. | |
| - | A ubiquitous, resilient and seemingly harmless plant is fueling an increase in large, fast-moving and destructive wildfires in the United States. | + | |
| - | Grass is as plentiful as sunshine, and under the right weather conditions is like gasoline for wildfires: All it takes is a spark for it to explode. | + | This shared smile was fleeting, but spoke volumes. And later, when Hunter |
| - | Planet-warming emissions are wreaking havoc on temperature and precipitation, resulting | + | “I met you for five minutes |
| - | “Name an environment and there’s a grass that can survive there,” said Adam Mahood, research ecologist with the US Department of Agriculture’s research service. “Any 10-foot area that’s not paved is going to have some kind of grass on it.” | + | “You never think when you meet someone for the first time like that, that it’d go this far. So it’s kind of surreal. And it honestly just makes you so happy, because you’re like, how did I get here?” |
| - | Grass fires are typically less intense | + | Airplane meeting |
| + | Honeymooning: | ||
| + | Traveling together: Today, the couple live together in Florida. They' | ||
| + | Airplane meeting: John Lihas, left, and Hunter Smith-Lihas, right, met while working for Spirit Airlines in 2016. They had a brief conversation and then went their separate ways. | ||
| + | Airplane meeting: John Lihas, left, and Hunter Smith-Lihas, | ||
| + | Hunter Smith-Lihas | ||
| + | First date: On their first date, Hunter flew from his home in Pittsburgh to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina to meet John, who was there on a layover. Here's the couple that evening. | ||
| + | Long distance: John and Hunter | ||
| + | Growing relationship: | ||
| + | Surprise trip: For Hunter' | ||
| + | New adventures: After just over a year of long distance, John and Hunter moved in together and both moved to Detroit. "It was an adjustment," | ||
| + | Puerto Rico proposal: On a trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Hunter asked John to marry him. "It all clicked, like the rest of my life is coming together perfectly," | ||
| + | Honeymooning: | ||
| + | Traveling together: Today, the couple live together in Florida. They' | ||
| + | Airplane meeting: John Lihas, left, and Hunter Smith-Lihas, right, met while working for Spirit Airlines in 2016. They had a brief conversation and then went their separate ways. | ||
| + | First date: On their first date, Hunter flew from his home in Pittsburgh to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina to meet John, who was there on a layover. Here's the couple that evening. | ||
| + | Photos: How two flight attendants fell in love on an airplane | ||
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| + | How Hunter and John got here was via a series of unexpected moments and decisions starting six years ago, in 2017. | ||
| - | Over the last three decades, the number of US homes destroyed by wildfire has more than doubled | + | Back then, Hunter was just known as Hunter Smith. He was in his early 20s and working as a gate agent for Spirit Airlines. He’d aspired to work in aviation since he’d starting watching a flight attendant who chronicled her job on YouTube. |
| - | The West is most at risk, the study found, where more than two-thirds of the homes burned over the last 30 years were located. Of those, nearly 80% were burned in grass and shrub fires. | + | “I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is the best job ever. I definitely want to do something like this,’” Hunter tells CNN Travel today. |
| - | One part of the equation | + | |
| - | Building | + | After he graduated college, Hunter secured a gate staff position |
| - | More than 80,000 homes are in the wildland-urban interface, in the sparsely populated parts of Kansas and Colorado that Bill King manages. The US Forest Service officer said living on the edge of nature requires an active hand to prevent destruction. | + | Working |
| - | Property owners “need to do their part too, because these fires – they get so big and intense and sometimes wind-driven that they could spot miles ahead even if we have a huge fuel break,” King said. | + | But Spirit Airlines’ employment pool was so big he rarely met the same flight attendants twice. |
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| + | One morning, one of Hunter’s gate attendant coworkers asked if he could pass on some papers to the captain of a soon-to-depart Spirit flight, which was heading to Orlando, Florida. | ||
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| + | This kind of task, says Hunter, was “typically not my job, I did not normally do that.” | ||