Where I am, we are being hit by what’s left of Michael, but the wind and the rain is nothing to what hit the panhandle in Florida yesterday. Mexico Beach appears to be the hardest hit. Here’s what it was like yesterday: And now…. people are just getting in there, to find this: Aerial view of devastation at #MexicoBeach, Fl … Read More
Michael, the Hurricane
Unlike Florence, which seemed to take her sweet time coming to the mainlaind, Michael just kind of sprang up in the past few days. It was a tropical depression in the Gulf Of Mexico, and very quickly moved to a Category 3. Today, as it makes landfall, it is a Category 4. Here’s the latest: • The hurricane is expected … Read More
Terrible Images From Indonesia Earthquake And Tsunami
This happened over the weekend. Over 850 dead.
A Weakened Florence Hits The NC Coast
After lingering for days, Hurricane Florence hit the NC coast this morning. It had slowly been downgraded over the past two days, so it hit as a Category One. Still pretty serious. The real threat from Florence isn’t the wind; it’s the rain coupled with its slow speed. This morning, Wilmington got hit with heavy winds, knocking down trees and … Read More
Disaster Days
It’s 9/11 again. Seventeen years ago. This date is starting tom make me feel old. And we have a potential disaster by the name of Florence looming off the coast. So what does our President do? Well, in between tweets about 9/11 (he is watching TV), he is attacking the DOJ and the FBI. How patriotic. But then he left … Read More
Trump Tweets Over 30 Times From Friday To Monday, But One Tweet Gets Him Into Big Legal Trouble
No, that’s not the one. I mean, yes it is clearly racist, but that won’t plunge Trump into legal trouble. Besides, Keith Boykin had the perfect response: In Trump's World:Obama: KenyanLeBron James: dumbDon Lemon: dumbMaxine Waters: low IQblack countries: shitholesblack athletes: SOBsBlack tenants: unwelcomeBlack workers: lazyCentral Park 5: guiltyMexicans: rapistsMuslims: terroristsIndians: fakeNazis: very fine people — Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) August … Read More
Hurricane Maria: Death Toll For Puerto Rico Much Higher Than Official Count
The official count is 64 dead in PR due to Hurricane Maria last September. A new Harvard study places that amount higher. Much higher. MUCH higher: As hurricane season begins this week, experts are still trying to count the number of deaths caused by last year’s devastating Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. The latest estimate: roughly 4,600, many of them … Read More
Amazing Photo And Video OF Kilauea Eruption
For nearly three weeks, images of volcanic activity on Hawaii’s Big Island have been mostly focused on the East Rift Zone on Kilauea’s slopes, where fissure upon fissure has opened up in the earth, spewing forth red-orange lava and sending thousands of residents fleeing from their homes. Yesterday, the volcano’s Halemaumau Crater snapped people’s attention back to the summit with … Read More
Puerto Rico Disaster
CONFIRMED: There is a black out in Puerto Rico. The entire island is without power. There is “ZERO power generation at this point”, according to a spokesman. A fault was detected on the line 50700 which starts in Aguirre Central It may take 24 to 36 hours to restore power. The latest blackout prompted Gov. Ricardo Rossello to call on … Read More
Breaking: Pedestrian Bridge Collapse
Tweet from four days ago: First-of-its-kind pedestrian bridge “swings” into place. “FIU is about building bridges and student safety. This project accomplishes our mission beautifully,” -President Mark B. Rosenberg. https://t.co/x8gPM9A4DG #worldsahead pic.twitter.com/mPEMeh2zmw — FIU (@FIU) March 10, 2018 And in case it gets taken down, here’s a screen cap: Well…. it collapsed. Reports of several dead. BREAKING: New pedestrian bridge … Read More
FEMA Is A Boy’s Club?
This won’t make headlines, but it concerns me because it relates to a governmental body that I consider important. FEMA flourished under the Obama years — it has been less than stellar so far during the Trump Administration, especially its (non)handling of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. And now this: Two top public-affairs officers of the Federal Emergency Management Agency … Read More
FEMA Response To Puerto Rico Even Worse That We Thought
In November, The Associated Press found that after Hurricane Maria, FEMA awarded more than $30 million in contracts for emergency tarps and plastic sheeting to a company that never delivered the needed supplies to Puerto Rico. And now this: The mission for the Federal Emergency Management Agency was clear: Hurricane Maria had torn through Puerto Rico, and hungry people needed food. Thirty … Read More
Breaking: Amtrak Derailment
An Amtrak passenger train derailed and at least one passenger car is dangling on to Interstate 5 in Pierce County, Washington, according to the Washington state Department of Transportation. One train car was beneath the bridge sitting parallel to the roadway, an eyewitness said. Another train car was dangling from a rail bridge that crosses I-5 horizontally. Amtrak tweeted that it … Read More
Trump: Blaming The Victim
This is outright inhumane: Trump is laying the groundwork for abandoning Puerto Rico, and blaming it for its infrastructure problems that existed pre-hurricane. Lost in his “analysis” is that the people suffering there (still no power or clean water on most of the Island) are AMERICANS. If Bush was negligent with Katrina response, Trump is being outright punishing. According to … Read More
Trump’s Bizarre Puerto Rico Visit On Tuesday
He accused Puerto Ricans of throwing the federal budget “out of whack.” He suggested Puerto Rico had not experienced a “real catastrophe” like Hurricane Katrina, since a mere “16 people” had been confirmed dead. He told a family of hurricane victims to “have a good time.” He tossed paper towels to another group of victims, in a church, as if … Read More