I just want to pick up where I left off yesterday before moving on to some Saturday and Sunday stories and go for as long as we have power because it is nasty out there today.
"Storm dumps snow, slows traffic, grounds flights; Mid-Atlantic region clobbered as it moves north" by Michael Rubinkam | Associated Press, December 09, 2013
PHILADELPHIA — A powerful storm that slowly moved across the country dumped a mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain on the Mid-Atlantic region Sunday and headed northeast, threatening to bring as much as a foot of snow to sections of Delaware and New Jersey.
I'm not going to start spewing about global warming because it IS December.
NEXT DAY UPDATE: January-like weather barged in a month early
The storm covered the fields of the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers with white and forced the cancellation of thousands of flights across the United States....
The storm slowed traffic on roads and led to a number of accidents, including a fatal crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Morgantown that led to a series of crashes involving 50 cars.
The National Weather Service says snow accumulation in some sections of Delaware and southern New Jersey could reach 9 to 11 inches....
In North Texas, bitter cold settled in Sunday after sleet, snow, and ice had pelted the region....
To ease the pain of travel delays, the Dallas-Forth Worth airport has been giving away free coffee and sandwiches. It also has brought in entertainment to the terminals, including musicians, comedians, and balloon artists....
The authorities at airports always make things such fun.
Forecasters said the storm caused freezing rain and icy conditions in parts of Tennessee as it surged across that state late Saturday and early Sunday....
In Kentucky, a winter weather advisory remained in effect for most of the state until late afternoon.
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I'm sure this will warm up New Yorkers:
"N.Y. winters no bar to new cockroach" Associated Press, December 09, 2013
NEW YORK — The High Line, a park that turned a dilapidated stretch of elevated railway on Manhattan’s West Side into one of New York’s newest tourist attractions, may have brought a different kind of visitor: a cockroach never seen before in the United States that can withstand harsh winter cold.
Rutgers University insect biologists Jessica Ware and Dominic Evangelista said the species Periplaneta japonica is well documented in Asia but was never confirmed in the United States until recently.
The scientists, whose findings were published in the Journal of Economic Entomology, say that it is too soon to predict the impact but that there is probably little cause for concern.
Probably? Too soon to predict? Why minimize? What is with the selectivity, $cienti$ts? I'm sure the Asian Carp wasn't supposed to be a problem (an issue that took a deep dive in my lame$tream media), either.
‘‘Because this species is very similar to cockroach species that already exist in the urban environment,’’ Evangelista said, ‘‘they likely will compete with each other for space and for food.’’
So they will kill each other off.
That competition, Ware said, will probably keep the population low.
The newcomer was first spotted in New York in 2012, by an exterminator working on the High Line.
The scientists suspect the little critter was probably a stowaway in the soil of ornamental plants used to adorn the park.
Oh, pestilence is a little critter(?) that was brought here by globalization.
I know they are a vital part of the ecosystem and are going to outlast us all, but do you want to share an apartment with them? I know many do throughout this country and world, but is that a healthy existence?
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Are you sure it is real?
And the item that inspired this morning's post:
Fracking doesn’t always have to necessitate fractious debate
Yeah, the methane is minimized as the carbon is maximized for the obvious rea$ons, but it's so good to see environmentali$ts and indu$try getting along.
Of course, the Colorado floods and all the damage they did to the fracking wells has washed down the media memory hole so....
Commute expected to be slick for drivers in Boston
I didn't or couldn't because of the snow.
Speaking of weather..... Media Fakery and Geo-Engineering
I was wondering how they did that with the yard markers.
Is there really anything you can believe on your TV or in print anymore?
