March in like a lamb out like a lion this year.
"Midwest bracing for spring flooding" by Dave Kolpack and Jim Suhr, Associated Press | March 6, 2010
FARGO, N.D. - Spring could bring disastrous flooding again to the Upper Midwest, government forecasters are warning. And folks along the Red, the Mississippi, and the Missouri rivers are taking precautions, especially after calamities last year and the year before....
The National Weather Service said heavy snow cover and ground that is already saturated could lead to severe flooding in as little as a few weeks. Exactly how severe will depend on how fast the snow melts and how heavy the spring rains are....
Some of the 4 million bushels of grain stockpiled in a World War II-era river terminal in Meyer, Ill., are being sent to storage sites inland, said Gerald Jenkins, overseer of the Ursa Farmers Cooperative.
WTF? Anyone tell these guys we have people starving in this country and world?
Globalists hoarding food for themselves in preparation for the End Game, huh?
But he said it can’t all be moved to safety in time. Ice jams on the Mississippi slowed barge traffic.
Ice jams on the Mississippi in this period of global warming?
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And how can you not hear the tornadoes, Boston Globe?
PHOTO ONLY:
TORNADOES RACE ACROSS ARKANSAS -- Jessica Escobedo carried her month-old son, Sammy, yesterday, while walking with her daughter, Maria, 5, through what was left of their neighborhood in Center Hill, Ark. Tornadoes tore across the state Wednesday night, killing one person. About 1,600 customers were without power yesterday morning.
Have they got it back yet?
Cute family, too.
Looks like the Glob finally felt the wind:
An uprooted tree rested on power lines in Hartsdale, N.Y., yesterday after storms ripped through sections of the Northeast. (Craig Ruttle/ Associated Press)
"Six dead after heavy wind, rains buffet Northeast; half a million lose power" by Associated Press | March 15, 2010
EGG HARBOR CITY, N.J. — The Northeast mopped up yesterday after a bout with high wind and heavy rains that uprooted trees, downed power lines, and flooded some creeks and rivers. Six people died in storm-related accidents and hundreds of thousands were without electricity.
More than a half-million customers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut lost electricity at the peak of Saturday’s storm, which carried wind gusts of up to 70 miles per hour. It came about two weeks after heavy snow and hurricane-force winds left more than a million customers in the region in the dark....
And they still are for all we know, Glob!
Among the more notable events:
Authorities in Teaneck, N.J., said two neighbors were killed Saturday by a falling tree as they headed home from a prayer service at a synagogue....
Yeah, that did get first mention in the Zionist newspaper.
In Uniondale, N.Y., the Nassau Coliseum lost three pieces of its aluminum facade about 90 minutes before the start of the
Then make 'em play outside like they were meant.
What's the carbon footprint on all that ice-making, anyway?
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Must have taken a few splashes to the face, too:
"Fast-rising river imperils Minn., N.D." by Associated Press | March 15, 2010
FARGO, N.D. — North Dakota and Minnesota residents who fought off record flooding a year ago in a frantic one-week sandbagging effort were jolted yesterday by the prospect of doing it again.
The latest flood forecast from the National Weather Service shows the river rising to 38 feet in Fargo by week’s end before leveling off. That would be 20 feet above flood stage and about 3 feet below last year’s record. The crest had been expected later this month or early April.
The cities of Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., have been filling sandbags for the last two weeks, but hadn’t planned to hand them out until later.
Last week’s unprecedented mild temperatures and persistent rainfall led to the accelerated crest forecast, weather service spokesman Greg Gust said yesterday. “The spring snowmelt runoff has kicked into high gear across the southern half of the Red River basin,’’
Just said. Just as we were warned, right?
Yeah, more like the rain not the temps.
Think I believe the lying fart-misters of the paper on that one?
Volunteers worked around the clock to fill and stack about 6 million sandbags, many of which were delivered on flatbed trucks with police escorts.
Yeah when you get past the Zionist prism you find out we are good people here in America.
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Except locally.
That thing they say about aloof New Englandahs who say you can't get thar from h're?
True --literally -- after this weekend.
"Storm drenches region, causes power outages; Flooding forces some evacuations" by Matt Byrne, Globe Correspondent | March 15, 2010
The storm that pummeled New England all weekend, felling trees, downing power lines, and wreaking havoc, promises to cause headaches in cleanup and repairs for many communities today....
About 6,000 residents across the state were without power late yesterday afternoon, said Peter Judge, spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency....
The National Weather Service put most of Massachusetts on a flood watch until further notice, including seaside areas susceptible to coastal flooding. Some cities and towns reported flooded or washed-out roads.
In many Boston neighborhoods, backed-up sewers began spilling into residents’ homes, according to the Boston Water and Sewer Commission.
Oh, God!!!!
Coradean Lavergne, 52, said she smelled the problem before she saw it.
Yeah, I'LL BET, and I'M NOT MAKING ANY JOKES!!!
Lavergne opened her bathroom door in her Victory Road apartment in Dorchester and found sewage spilling onto the floor....
Lavergne said Boston officials told her there was so much water in the city that the water level has risen, causing the sewers to back up into homes....
Update: Rain forces MWRA to dump raw sewage into Quincy Bay
Thank God I don't live in Boston.
So much for water quality, huh?
Related: Peek-a-Boo Briefs
Oh, they got a fine from the feds(?), huh, Bostonians?
In the late afternoon, two lanes of Interstate 93 were shut down at the parkway, from about 4 to 8 p.m.....
Oh, that must have been a real pisser for all the city dwellers that flee to surrounding states for the weekends. I have gotten caught in some of those jams and they are no fun at all. Puttering along on the highway like a bunch of creeping tin cans for what sems like forever with no end in sight except red taillights glaring at you.
In Manchester, N.H., Marco Cinquini, 42, of Sanbornton, N.H., was killed when a large tree came down on the 2004 Volvo he was driving on I-93 south.
I'd rather be stuck in traffic (frown).
The tree was in the center median, according to the New Hampshire State Police. Two passengers in the car were taken to Elliot Hospital in Manchester with injuries not life-threatening.
That must have been a horrifying experience for the survivors.
(For the record, readers, happened to a guy around here a few years back. Lost his wife to a tree as she was coming over the hill. Played hoops with him, although not anymore. He is an official now)
MBTA officials suspended Green Line D train service yesterday evening between the Reservoir and Kenmore stations after the Muddy River swelled to more than 15 feet. Workers were building a dam with sandbags at the entrance of a tunnel just east of Fenway Station.
That can't be good.
The closing will last until the Muddy River recedes, said Joe Pesaturo, a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Transit Authority spokesman. He said a similar situation in 1986 caused millions in damage after water flooded Kenmore Station....
And here I was ensconced inside watching basketball and Star Wars this weekend with only an occasional howl outside.
And speaking of which, I have a game to play in about two hours, so I will be signing off until later tonight when I will return with some Around New England posts before turning once again to foreign affairs.
The first hints of spring-like weather will probably appear tomorrow, according to meteorologist Alan Dunham, with highs in the 50s, according to the Weather Service. That more pleasant weather is expected to continue into Wednesday.
We'll see.
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