"A continued mix of hot, windy, and extremely dry conditions has raised the fire danger across Utah and parts of Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado.... In California.... In New Mexico.... In Hawaii....
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"Half the nation’s firefighting planes are now battling fires in Colorado....
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And the most important thing is tourism?
"Record heat hampers efforts to fight wildfires; Over 100 degrees for firefighters in Utah and Colo." by P. Solomon Banda | Associated Press, June 27, 2012
WOODLAND PARK, Colo. — Searing, record-setting heat in the interior West kept its grip on firefighters struggling to contain blazes in Colorado, Utah, and other Rocky Mountain states on Tuesday.
Colorado has endured nearly a week of 100-plus-degree days and low humidity, sapping moisture from timber and grass, creating a devastating formula for volatile wildfires across the state and punishing conditions for firefighters....
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I was told earlier they were making progre....
I can't breath. Must be the never-ending spin-job and lies.
"A night of terror.... "
Caused by bin Laden?
"Colorado wildfire destroys hundreds of homes" by P. Solomon Banda and Thomas Peipert | Associated Press, June 29, 2012
COLORADO SPRINGS — Amid the devastation in the foothills west and north of the state’s second-largest city, there were hopeful signs. More than 120 soldiers helped stop flames advancing on the US Air Force Academy, and cooler conditions could help slow the spread of a fire that could become one of the most destructive in state history....
The city is also home to the US Olympic Training Center, NORAD, and the Air Force Space command, which operates military satellites. They were not threatened....
Yes, at least their important things were protected. F*** your home.
The weather forecast offered some optimism for firefighters to make progress, with the temperature expected to reach into the mid-80s — about 5 degrees cooler than Wednesday — and humidity 15 to 20 percent, about 5 points higher. Winds were forecast to be 10 to 15 miles per hour. As of mid-day Thursday, the fire was only 5 percent contained.
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Oh, I'm just filling up with hope.
"Obama declares scorched state a disaster" Associated Press, June 30, 2012
COLORADO SPRINGS — Crews on the front lines made slow but steady progress....
Exhausted firefighters fresh off the front lines described the devastation in some neighborhoods and the challenges of battling such a huge blaze.
‘‘It looks like hell. I would imagine it felt like a nuclear bomb went off. There was fire everywhere,” said Rich Rexach.
President Obama toured the areas Friday after issuing a disaster declaration for Colorado. He thanked emergency workers, saying: ‘‘The country is grateful for your work. The country’s got your back.’’
Until you want to sit down and collectively bargain for pay and benefits.
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Related: Lunenburg native loses home in Colo. wildfire
Crews make progress in fighting Colo. Springs fire
If agenda-pushing and minimizing spin were urine I could put out the fire with my Globes.
"The deadly crash of a military cargo plane fighting a South Dakota wildfire forced officials to ground seven other Air Force air tankers, removing critical firefighting aircraft from the skies during one of the busiest and most destructive wildfire seasons ever to hit the West....
But they are making progress!
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Gotta get that Air Force back up in the air!
"Air Force planes get OK to help corral fires; Tankers had been grounded after deadly crash" by Dan Elliot | Associated Press, July 04, 2012
DENVER — Air Force tanker planes returned to the flight line for firefighting missions Tuesday after a deadly weekend crash, bringing much-needed reinforcements to a strained fleet battling some of the worst wildfires in decades....
Meanwhile, the US Forest Service hoped to add three “next-generation tankers” — British-made BAe-146 aircraft — to its fleet of fire-suppressing aircraft by August, with another four similar aircraft due to be available by the summer of 2013, said spokeswoman Jennifer Jones in Boise.
That doesn't help now!
The decision to suspend the Air Force’s C-130 flights left just 14 federally contracted heavy tankers in use during one of the most destructive wildfire seasons ever to hit the West.
The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, which coordinates wildfire-fighting efforts nationwide, said 45 large fires were burning Tuesday, including 36 fires in nine Western states. In Colorado alone, three fires have destroyed more than 600 homes and killed six residents.
Translation: the West is on fire.
The C-130s can be called into firefighting duty if all the civilian heavy tankers are in use or unavailable....
Sunday’s crash was the first for an Air Force C-130 on firefighting duty since the program started in the 1970s, said Jennifer Jones, a spokeswoman for national fire center....
That's what comes from neglect.
Another firefighting plane, the Lockheed P2V, has had problems in recent months. One crashed in Utah, killing the two pilots, and another one crash-landed in Nevada....
That's what comes from war-profiteering.
Bill Gabbert, a veteran firefighter and author of the Wildfire Today blog, said, ‘‘When you put all your eggs in one basket, you ground 90 percent of those eggs, you can have a problem.’’
See: Putting All My Boston Globes in One Basket
All rotten.
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Related:
Firefighters in West hoping winds die, humidity rises
"The region’s biggest fire had burned almost 400 square miles of ranchland in southeast Montana....
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Milder weather helps contain blazes
Yup.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
"No new parts, support for C-130 wildfire system" Associated Press, July 09, 2012
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The demise of the only company that manufactured a device specially designed to spray fire retardant from the back of US military C-130 cargo planes has some officials worried about the future viability of a program that has helped fight wildfires for 40 years.
The Modular Airborne Firefighting System is a bus-sized device that can be shoved into the belly of a cargo plane and then used to spray retardant, or slurry, at 3,000 gallons in less than 5 seconds.
The $4.9 million device’s only manufacturer, Sacramento, Calif.-based Aero Union, went out of business last August, and no other firm has replaced it. Critical spare parts also are no longer being made.
Aero Union closed after the US Forest Service canceled a contract worth a guaranteed minimum $14.5 million a year for firefighting services by six P-3 Orion air tankers. The Forest Service said Aero Union wasn’t keeping up with inspections for those planes.
That's their excuse. The TRUTH IS ALL OUR TAX LOOT GOES for WARS and to WALL STREET, WELL-CONNECTED CORPORATIONS, and ISRAEL now.
Aero Union is contesting the revocation in federal administrative court. Dallas-based Comerica bank foreclosed on Aero Union and offered the MAFFS-related assets at auction last winter. They failed to sell.
At the end of the day, that is who government slips into bed with.
Besides, banks are pretty good at putting out fires, right?
Actually, they are more likely to start some fraud than extinguish it.
The Forest Service has stockpiled enough major parts, and can source and mend other parts to keep the system running, said Scott Fisher, MAFFS coordinator for the Forest Service.
First of all, that doesn't reassure me when it regards this government, and secondly, DO YOU NEED ANY MORE PROOF you are a THIRD-WORLD EMPIRE, Amurkn?
We are DOING WHAT SANCTIONED and BANKRUPT NATIONS DO!
Oh, well, not to worry then.
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Yeah, maybe there won't be anymore fires.
Also see:
Car, motor home crash in Wyoming; 5 die
Utah trooper falls to death in rescue bid
"4-year-old killed by falling tombstone
A 4-year-old Utah boy was helping his father by trying to make other children smile for a picture when a 6-foot-tall tombstone that weighed hundreds of pounds fell on the boy and killed him, family members said. Carson Dean Cheney was with his family in Park City on Thursday when the headstone toppled onto him after some metal connecting it to its pedestal broke, said his grandmother Geri Gibbs."
Wildfire fears prompt many to cancel July 4th fireworks
3 children dead after yacht capsizes
Sunken yacht to be raised in N.Y.
San Diego fireworks malfunction in big, fast flash
Somebody splash some water on them, fast!
"Storms kill at least 13 in eastern US; Leave 3 million without power during heat wave" by Jessica Gresko | Associated Press, July 01, 2012
WASHINGTON — Millions of people across the mid-Atlantic sweltered Saturday in the aftermath of violent storms that pummeled the eastern United States with high winds that downed trees, killing at least 13 people and leaving 3 million without power during a triple-digit heat wave.
Power officials said the outages would not be repaired for several days to a week, likening the damage to a serious hurricane. Emergencies were declared in Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, the District of Columbia, and Virginia, where Governor Bob McDonnell said the state had its largest nonhurricane outage in history as more storms threatened. “This is a very dangerous situation,” McDonnell said....
The storm that whipped through the region Friday night was called a derecho, a straight-line windstorm that sweeps over a large area at high speed. The storm, which can pack wind gusts of up to 90 miles per hour, began in the Midwest, passed over the Appalachian Mountains, and then drew new strength from a high-pressure system as it hit the Southeast, said Bryan Jackson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
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"Power still out for 3 million after storm damage; Death toll at 14 as utilities slowly restore service" by Ben Nuckols | Associated Press, July 02, 2012
FRANCONIA, Va. — Two days after thunderstorms tore across the eastern United States, power failures were forcing people to get creative to stay cool in dangerously hot weather. Temperatures topped 100 degrees Sunday in many storm-stricken areas, and utility officials said the electricity will probably be out for several more days.
About 3 million residents faced the grim reality of stifling homes, spoiled food, and a looming commute in communities without traffic lights.
‘‘If we don’t get power tonight, we’ll have to throw everything away,’’ Susan Fritz, a mother of three, said of the food in her refrigerator and freezer. Fritz came to a library in Bethesda, Md., so her son could do school work. She charged her phone and iPad at her local gym. Other residents sought refuge at shopping malls, theaters, and pools.
The storms were blamed for 17 deaths, most from trees falling on homes and cars.
On Sunday, Coast Guard officials said they had suspended the search for a man who disappeared Saturday while boating during the storm off Maryland.
The bulk of the damage was in West Virginia, Washington, D.C., and the Virginia and Maryland suburbs of the capital....
Maybe God was sending a message that he ain't to happy with you f***s down there?
From Atlanta to Richmond, temperatures neared or reached triple digits Sunday. Officials urged residents to check on their elderly relatives and neighbors, many of whom had lost air conditioning in blackouts. It was tough to find a free pump at gas stations that did have power, and cars were lined up at fast-food drive-throughs.
That's not going to help the obesity epidemic.
States worked to make sure the power stayed on at water treatment plants so that people at least had clean water. Chain saws buzzed throughout neighborhoods as utility crews scrambled to untangle downed trees and power lines. Neighbors banded together....
The Friday evening storms, a meteorological phenomenon known as a derecho, moved quickly across the region with little warning. The straight-line winds were just as destructive as any hurricane — but when a tropical system strikes, officials usually have several days to get extra personnel in place. Not so this time.
‘‘Unlike a polite hurricane that gives you three days of warning, this storm gave us all the impact of a hurricane without any of the warning,’’ Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley said Sunday on CNN’s ‘‘State of the Union.’’
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"East Coast power failures could last most of week; Utility customers seek explanation for the long delay" by Jessica Gresko and Matthew Barakat | Associated Press, July 03, 2012
WASHINGTON — From North Carolina to New Jersey, nearly 1.8 million people still without electricity were asking the same question Monday night: Why will it take so long to get the lights back on?
Nearly three full days after a severe summer storm lashed the East Coast, utilities warned that many neighborhoods could remain in the dark for much of the week, if not beyond.
WTF?
Friday’s storm arrived with little warning and knocked out power to 3 million homes and businesses, so utility companies have had to wait days for extra crews traveling from as far away as Quebec and Oklahoma. And the toppled trees and power lines often entangled broken equipment in debris that must be removed before workers can even get started.
Adding to the urgency of the repairs are the sick and elderly, who are especially vulnerable without air conditioning in the sweltering triple-digit heat. Many sought refuge in hotels or basements.
Officials feared that the death toll, already at 22, could climb because of the heat and widespread use of generators, which emit fumes that can be dangerous in enclosed spaces....
The lack of power completely upended many daily routines. Supermarkets struggled to keep groceries from going bad. People on perishable medication called pharmacies to see how long their drugs would keep.
In Washington, officials set up collection sites for people to drop off rotting food....
Where they will go to the school lunch program.
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At least Massachusetts kids eat better.
Related: Utility repair crews in race to restore power
2 accidents raise US storm, blackout toll to 26
"US may now be getting peek at climate change" by Seth Borenstein | Associated Press, July 04, 2012
I was wondering how long it would take them to link it to the fart mist.
WASHINGTON — Is it just freakish weather or something more? Climate scientists suggest that if you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, take a look at US weather in recent weeks.
Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. A freak wind storm called a derecho.
Argentina under record cold and snowfall.
Yeah, I KNOW YOU DIDN'T HEAR ABOUT THAT, American!!
These are the kinds of extremes specialists have predicted will come with climate change, although it’s far too early to say that is the cause. Nor will they say global warming is the reason 3,215 daily high temperature records were set in the month of June.
That's such a lie. They remind me of those who didn't predict a football game right, but said they did after.
Scientifically linking individual weather events to climate change takes intensive study, complicated mathematics, computer models, and lots of time. Sometimes it isn’t caused by global warming. Weather is always variable; freak things happen.
And this weather has been local. Europe, Asia, and Africa aren’t having similar disasters now, although they have had their own extreme events in recent years.
But
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTT!!!!
since at least 1988, climate scientists have warned that climate change would bring, in general, increased heat waves, more droughts, more sudden downpours, more widespread wildfires, and worsening storms. In the United States, those extremes are happening here and now....
‘‘This is what global warming looks like at the regional or personal level,’’ said Jonathan Overpeck, professor of geosciences and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona....
If it means no snow, good.
As recently as March, a special report an extreme events and disasters by the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned of ‘‘unprecedented extreme weather and climate events.’’
Who would ever believe those hide-the-decline liars anymore?
Its lead author, Chris Field of the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University, said Monday, ‘‘It’s really dramatic how many of the patterns that we’ve talked about as the expression of the extremes are hitting the US right now.’’
But no individual events can be attributed, blah, blah, blah.
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Getting kind of hungry.
"Heat and drought threaten some states’ corn crop" by Monica Davey | New York Times, July 05, 2012
HARTFORD CITY, Ind. — Across a wide stretch of Midwestern farms, sweltering temperatures and a dearth of rain are threatening what was expected to be the nation’s largest corn crop in generations....
Crop insurance agents and agricultural economists are watching closely, a few comparing the situation with a devastating drought of 1988, while some farmers have begun alluding, unhappily, to the dust bowl of the 1930s. Far more is at stake in the coming pivotal days: With the brief, delicate phase of pollination imminent in many states, miles and miles of corn will rise or fall on whether rain soon appears and temperatures moderate....
For farmers, especially those without insurance, the pressure mounts, they say, with each check on the morning weather forecast....
“You wake up every morning with that churning in your stomach.’’
It's hunger.
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Some specialists sound less pessimistic, saying the ultimate fate of the nation’s corn crop, the largest in the world, cannot be known until later in the summer, after pollination, when it is clear whether kernels or empty spaces fill the ears of corn and whether enough ears appear at all.
Drought going to be the cover story for the great bee die-off?
Also see: Globe Ignores GMOs When Telling You About Bats and Bees
Yup, has to be anything but.
They note that the driest, hottest conditions have steered clear of some key Corn Belt states, including Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and the western region of Iowa, the nation’s most prolific producer of corn....
So there will still be corn flakes at the supermarket?
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by Corey Williams | Associated Press, July 07, 2012
DETROIT — St. Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Indianapolis, and several other Midwest cities have broken heat records this week. And with even low temperatures setting records, some residents have no means of relief, day or night.
The National Weather Service said Friday that the record-breaking heat that has baked the nation’s midsection for several days was beginning to move into the mid-Atlantic states and the Northeast....
It's actually much cooler here today than the last week.
Next Day Update: Temperature drops no cause for celebration
As usual, the AmeriKan media are WRONG again!!
It was hot enough to buckle roadways....
The heat has also taken a toll on agriculture and livestock.
Dean Hines, owner of Hines Ranch Inc. in the western Wisconsin town of Ellsworth, said he found one of his 80 dairy cows dead Thursday, an apparent victim of the heat. He said he was worried about the rest of his herd in terms of death toll, reproductive consequences, and milk production.
“We’re using fans and misters to keep them cool,” he said. “It’s been terrible.”
Elsewhere in the country, communities were coping with the severe thunderstorms. At least two people were killed in Tennessee as a violent storm struck the Great Smoky Mountains National Park....
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"Rangers to reopen parkhit by storms
TOWNSEND — Rangers shifted their focus Saturday from rescue efforts to reopening a popular section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park after violent storms led to two deaths and several injuries. A crew of 44 removed hundreds of fallen trees to allow public access to the park."
Moving on down....
"Tropical storm menaces Gulf coast
MIAMI — Tropical Storm Debby formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, interfering with oil and gas production and putting officials on alert for flooding and strong winds from southern Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle. The storm was about 220 miles south of the Mississippi River, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. It may bring up to 6 inches of rain to the coast (AP)."
Also see: Tropical Storm Debby strengthens off coast
Slow-moving Debby hammers Florida’s Gulf Coast
Tropical Storm Debby puts damper on Fla. vacations
Again with the importance on tourism.
"Former principal held in slayings of 2
LEALMAN — A former Tampa school principal was being held Saturday on charges that he went on a hours-long rampage that killed two people and injured nine. Police said Anthony Giancola stabbed four people Friday at a group home for the hearing-impaired, rammed his car into a group of people, tried to run over a boy, and then assaulted a couple (AP)."
Where were the cops?
"Tests find only marijuana in face-chewer’s system" by Suzette Laboy | Associated Press, June 28, 2012
MIAMI — Lab tests detected only marijuana in the system of a Florida man shot while chewing another man’s face, the medical examiner said Wednesday, ruling out other street drugs including the components typically found in the stimulants known as bath salts.
There has been much speculation about what drugs, if any, would lead to the bizarre behavior that authorities said Rudy Eugene exhibited during the attack that left the other man disfigured. A Miami police union official had suggested that Eugene, who was shot and killed by police, was under the influence of bath salts.
The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner said that the toxicology detected marijuana, but it didn’t find other street drugs, alcohol, or prescription drugs. Eugene also tested negative for adulterants commonly mixed with street drugs.
The department ruled out the most common components found in bath salts, which mimic the effects of cocaine or methamphetamine and have been associated with bizarre crimes in recent months. An outside lab also confirmed the absence of bath salts, synthetic marijuana, and LSD.
Excuse me, readers, but I'm going to go take a bath.
Messages left with the medical examiner’s office were not immediately returned.
An expert on toxicology testing said that marijuana alone wasn’t likely to cause behavior as strange as Eugene’s.
Maybe he really did have a bad case of the munchies.
‘‘The problem today is that there is an almost an infinite number of chemical substances out there that can trigger unusual behavior,’’ said Dr. Bruce Goldberger, professor and director of toxicology at the University of Florida.
Then prohibition has failed.
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Related: Witnesses sought in face-chewing attack
It was a shark!
"Fla. lifeguard fired for rescue outside beach zone" Associated Press, July 05, 2012
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. — Lifeguard Tomas Lopez helped save a drowning man and got fired for it.
The reason: He left the section of a South Florida beach his company is paid to patrol. The Orlando company, Jeff Ellis and Associates, said Lopez broke a company rule and could have put beachgoers in his section in jeopardy....
Two other lifeguards have quit in protest.
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Yeah, he should have just let the guy drown. Imagine the story then.
Woman abandons Cuba-Florida swim
Why? No life guard on duty?
Federal report shows little progress in Everglades
EPA gives OK to $880M Everglades cleanup
How appropriate, tax money thrown into a swamp.
Sunday Globe Special: Snaking Through the Florida Everglades
Yeah, you don't want to go swimming in there.
Speaking of snakes:
Zimmerman statements can be released, judge says
Slain teen’s parents speak to Fla. panel on self-defense law
George Zimmerman’s calls to wife released
Lawyer says George Zimmerman is no threat
No decision on Zimmerman’s bid for release
New bail for Zimmerman is set at $1m
Zimmerman freed on $1m bail
Zipping Shut Zimmerman Case
Because I'm sick of being baited, and because the American people are still ignorant on this issue. They have bought the distortion and lie and internalized it.
Also see: MSM Fog in Florida
Maybe that will help some of you who have internalized the garbage from the MSM.
