Sunday, June 12, 2011

Globe's Western Weather Report

Uprooted Springfield family vows to resettle

The tornado that gouged a path through the city June 1 destroyed some 800 homes in the region, leaving families like the Runnellses with nearly nothing to their name and nowhere to go.

Removing Mass. tornado debris may cost tens of millions

Mother killed in tornado is mourned

Powerful thunderstorms rip across Mass.

Patrick seeks federal funding for damage from storms

"A massive wildfire in eastern Arizona that has claimed about 30 homes and forced 10,000 people to evacuate is likely to spread into New Mexico soon, threatening more towns and possibly endangering two major power lines that bring electricity from Arizona to Texas....

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Where can we get some water for the fires?

"Floods may widen spread of invasive carp" June 11, 2011|Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — As scientists battle to keep an invasive fish species out of the Great Lakes, some worry that spring floods along the Mississippi River may be spreading the Asian carp downstream.

Duane Chapman, a US Geological Survey biologist and Asian carp expert, says the fish are likely to show up in places where Mississippi floodwaters intruded. They can weigh up to 100 pounds, grow to be 4 feet long, and live for 25 years as they crowd out food sources of native species.

“I think there is a very serious issue,’’ said Chapman. “We may now be finding them in lakes, ponds, bayous, anywhere the river water went. Those things will be full of carp now.’’

Asian carp is a term applied to several related species of carp brought to the United States in the 1970s to control algae in catfish farms in the South. Floods washed them into the Mississippi in the 1980s.

Since their escape into the wild, the carp have established themselves in both the Mississippi and Missouri river basins....

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Related: The Boston Globe's Carp Conspiracy

Also see: Tornadoes, Floods, and Fires

Media proclaiming hot summer even with snow still on the ground in St. Paul

"Propaganda does not get more obvious than this. The mantra continues to be "Global Warming, Global Warming, Global Warming, etc." even though snow remains on the ground in Minnesota. But the corporate media has been given their orders to convince you that the world is warmer and it is all your fault, with forgiveness and redemption possible only through tax-sacrifice on the altar of Al Gore and obedience to the Carbonazis' global government. This is why the media can proclaim a record hot summer even as snow fell here in Hawaii over last weekend. Screw the facts; ABCNNBBCBS has the warmista agenda to push!" -- Wake the Flock Up

Meanwhile, below average temperatures in Massachusetts today. The furnace even kicked on this morning, sigh.