"Freeze threatens crops, chills Southeast" by Associated Press | January 5, 2010
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Severe cold settled in across the eastern half of the country yesterday, threatening crops, closing schools, and making Charleston feel more like New York City.
Farmers in Florida scrambled to save strawberries and tomatoes.
The deep freeze will last for at least the rest of the week. The National Weather Service said the mercury could fall below zero in St. Louis later this week for the first time since 1999. So-called lake effect snow blanketed parts of the upstate New York with more than 3 feet. The weather caused delays and cancellations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and the North Carolina mountains. Homeless shelters, especially in the Southeast, braced for a crush of people and said they would not turn anyone away. Parts of central Florida could have lows below freezing nearly every day this week.
What's that about global warming?
Even Key West isn’t immune. Temperatures there the next couple of days are expected to barely creep above 60 degrees with a stiff north wind - nowhere near average highs in the 70s that draw winter tourists. In Polk County - between Tampa and Orlando - temperatures were in the high 20s and strawberry farmers turned on sprinklers to create an insulation of ice for the berries. The duration of the cold snap is unusual, especially in the South.
Yeah, I think God might be trying to tell Al Gore something?
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Related:
"Snow and frigid temperatures sweep through the United States."
How much more is it going to take, America?
And the WORLD is seeing the "warming" for the fraud it is:
"Korea walloped by most snowfall in modern history" by Associated Press | January 5, 2010
SEOUL - Seoul residents slogged through the heaviest snowfall in modern Korean history after a winter storm dumped more than 11 inches yesterday, forcing airports to cancel flights and paralyzing traffic in the bustling capital.
The snow and icy roads snarled traffic in and out of Seoul, and at least three people died in traffic accidents....
Yeah, the fart-misting LIES are FATAL!
The snowfall, which continued through yesterday afternoon, was the heaviest in a single day since Korea began conducting meteorological surveys in 1937, the state weather agency said....
That doesn't feel like global warming to me.
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More fatalities I blame on MSM fart mist:
GENEVA - Avalanches killed five people in the Swiss Alps over the weekend and bad weather prevented rescuers from reaching three skiers who apparently remained trapped under the snow yesterday, officials said....
Bad weather conditions meant rescuers had to call off foot and helicopter searches....
Officials are examining what triggered the two avalanches. One rescuer said the first may have been caused by skiers failing to keep a safe distance from each other on a steep slope. The second could have been triggered by the noise of rescue helicopters, said Bernhard Scherz, an official with the Rubigen ski club....
Hope they didn't cause these:
"Quake shakes US-Mexico border region" by Associated Press | December 31, 2009
SAN DIEGO - A magnitude-5.8 earthquake in northern Baja California rocked the US-Mexico border region yesterday, causing buildings in downtown San Diego and southwestern Arizona to sway....
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Related: Natural Disasters... or Not?
Can You Hear the HAARP?
It's a way to martial law, isn't it?
At least your buildings stayed up.
"Tajikistan quake leaves 20,000 homeless" by Associated Press | January 4, 2010
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - About 20,000 people were left homeless in the impoverished Central Asian nation of Tajikistan after an earthquake leveled their homes in a mountainous region, officials said yesterday.
No deaths were reported after the magnitude 5.3 quake struck the Pamir Mountains on Saturday, the Emergency Situations and Civil Defense Committee said. Hundreds of mud-brick houses in several villages in the Gorno-Badakhshansky region were damaged.
Isn't life hard enough without piling on this misery?
The quake also cut electricity and communications and blocked the main road between the regional center of Vanch and nearby villages. Those left homeless were placed in emergency shelters in schools and other public buildings or moved in with relatives, Azimjon Shamsiddinov, the deputy chief regional administrator, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. Earthquakes are common in the mountains of Tajikistan, one of the poorest of the former Soviet states. The country of 7.3 million people lies north of Afghanistan and west of China.
Related: Earthquake in Pashtunistan
Did HAARP Cause China Earthquake?
The timing sure seems strange, no?
Also yesterday, the Solomon Islands were hit by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake hit at 9:36 a.m. about 60 miles south-southeast of Gizo, the US Geological Survey said.
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Related: South Asian Tsunami Coverage Receding
The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: Silent Tsunami
Yeah, about that.
"Tsunami crashes over Solomon Islands" by Associated Press | January 5, 2010
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A tsunami unleashed by a major earthquake plowed into the Solomon Islands yesterday, and the crashing waters devastated at least one village. Initial reports said no one was seriously hurt.
Major quakes have rocked the South Pacific region since Sunday, with three powerful temblors striking yesterday, including a 7.2 magnitude tremor. The Solomon Island’s National Disaster Management Office said reports of the devastation were beginning to filter in late yesterday.
Kept it kind of quiet, 'eh, MSM? I guess there are TOO MANY WAR LIES to tell and AGENDA'S needing PROMOTION!
The tremors were centered beneath the ocean floor near the town of Gizo, which was badly damaged in April 2007 when a 8.1-magnitude quake sent a tsunami crashing into the coast, killing more than 50 people. Yesterday’s tsunami devastated a village on Rendova Island, some 188 miles from the capital Honiara, disaster management official Loti Yates said.
“One report from police was that one village was hit by a 6- to 10-foot wall of sea water,’’ Yates said. “It was a total inundation police saw in a flyover.’’ Rendova is home to about 3,600 people....
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"Destructive tsunami crashes over Solomon Islands
HONIARA, Solomon Islands --Authorities in helicopters flew over remote coastlines in the Solomon Islands on Tuesday trying to assess the damage from a large earthquake and tsunami that crashed ashore a day earlier, devastating at least one village.
No injuries were reported some 24 hours after the biggest of a series of quakes churned a tsunami wave that was up to 10 feet high as it crashed ashore. Locals said residents were lucky the event happened during the day when many people were awake and able to flee easily, and noted that they were better prepared since a deadly tsunami in the region three years ago. A magnitude-7.2 quake sent a tsunami slamming into the shores of Rendova Island and nearby Tetepare Island about 9:30 a.m. local time Monday. Eight other quakes greater than magnitude 5.0 have rocked the region since.
A police boat and two helicopters patrolled Tuesday to check the coastline, where many homes are at sea level and close to the coast, making them vulnerable to tsunamis, said Julian Makaa, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management Office. "Two damage assessment teams have been sent to Rendova to walk through and conduct damage surveys, but no casualties have been reported," so far, Makaa told The Associated Press....
A government boat arrived in the area Tuesday with emergency food, water and tarpaulins for survivors....
Gizo resident and dive shop owner Danny Kennedy said the lack of casualties was reflected in the "general rule in villages and in Gizo" that "if there's anything more than 20 seconds of shaking or any sea water recedes, head for the hills...."
I'm already there.
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Also see: AmeriKan MSM Celebrates Tsunami Success
And upon making our way back home....
"Brazil mayor wants nuclear plants closed" by Tales Azzoni, Associated Press | January 4, 2010
SAO PAULO - The mayor of a mudslide-ravaged Brazilian city urged a precautionary shutdown of Brazil’s only nuclear power plants yesterday due to blocked highways, while the discovery of more bodies raised the region’s death toll from rainstorms to 75.
FLASHBACK:
"Mudslide kills 19 at resort in Brazil
Debris from the mudslide covered parts of the Pousada Sankay hotel in Angra Dos Reis, Brazil, yesterday. (Bruno Domingos/Reuters)
Local authorities said nearly 80 mudslides were reported throughout the region, toppling trees and destroying power lines. Rain-related deaths in Rio de Janeiro state from three days of heavy rains reached 50, officials said, and more rain was predicted across the region.
“People had never seen so much rain in this region,’’ Rio de Janeiro’s vice governor, Luiz Fernando Pezao, said in a television interview....
Ten inches of rain have drenched the region since Wednesday.... Crews using rescue dogs, heavy machinery, boats, and helicopters took advantage of improved weather yesterday to hunt for any survivors from the Angra dos Reis slides.... Tuca Jordao, mayor of Angra dos Reis, said about 20 areas in Angra dos Reis were still at risk of mudslides and he said some people were being evacuated....
Lux-coely Amorim Mendes, 57, told Globo TV’s G1 website that she had to identify the body of her 8-year-old granddaughter at the morgue, and found the child wearing the dress Mendes had given her for the holiday. “I couldn’t believe that was actually happening to us,’’ she said. G1 reported that one family lost 9- and 12-year-old daughters....
Oh, the horror!!!!
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Of course, that story is washed away by the stream of s*** that runneth from the Boston Globe.
Back home again, readers.
"Snowfall of 31.1 inches sets city record
Vermont’s largest city has a new snowfall record. The National Weather Service says 33.1 inches of snow fell at the Burlington International Airport from 7 a.m. Saturday to midnight Sunday, a record for a single storm. The previous record of nearly 30 inches was set in 1969. (AP)."
And yet I still find the term "global warming" in my newspaper!
