[unsupp0rted]

> Outside, the sky over Escalante Valley, Utah, is blinding blue and cloudless,

I don't enjoy articles that preamble about the lack of clouds in the sky.

Here's the meat:

> Kevin drowned in a kayaking accident at a friend’s birthday party. At 14, he had just published his autobiography. He was making plans to expand his 350-acre farm to buy up surrounding farms to convert to regenerative agriculture. He was saving money to build a house for his parents and another for his autistic older brother. He was polishing a movie script and a series of children’s books teaching business literacy for kids. He was looking for a celebrity to endorse his line of luxury toiletries made from the milk of his goat herd. He was breeding heritage turkeys. He was writing guest essays for notable bloggers higher up the political food chain. And, in his spare time, he had the task of grading the road to his farm using the John Deere tractor he bought new for himself for his 11th birthday.

and

> A friend once remarked, “You guys aren’t even raising him; you’re just kind of the audience watching him raise himself.”

[yaomtc]

The lack of clouds was relevant. The next few words you left out:

> promising no rain as it has for nearly a year

The area was experiencing a drought.

> And then, after 14 months without rain, the well that supplied their house went dry. For nine months the Coopers hauled water by the barrel for their household needs.

[lucb1e]

Sounds like those words could have stood on its own without the fluff about what the present weather is like at the time of writing.

[LastTrain]

It’s a human interest story not a shipping manifest.

[PedroBatista]

Cue the Simpsons meme gif “Old man yells at the lack of clouds”

[sschueller]

"Kevin drowned in a kayaking accident" is very vague and makes me ask: Could he swim? did he wear a life jacket?