Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Tropical Storm Isaias is coming to call

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  1. Sorry I missed that my pre-posted front page posts had all posted. Better late than never.

    With Isaias blasting up the coast, I'd sure like to hear from Catreona.

    The storm track has shifted west again and now the center line of the track runs through Burlington, Vermont! So I am now about 10 miles east of the center, expecting 2-4" of rain and 20-40mph winds with gusts to 50. If no one had told us this was coming, we might have just thought it was a big thunderstorm. But, of course, it hasn't gotten here quite yet. This evening should be interesting; the rain should be over by midnight and the wind by 3am.

    I brought inside all the Monarch caterpillars and eggs! So we are now raising 16 (8 cats and 8 eggs)!

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    1. I was beginning to wonder if the storm had visited you early, listener. Yes, I'd also very much like to hear from Cat.

      Today's headlines to follow in a little while. High temp today predicted to be 99F, 90F tomorrow.

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    2. Update: Make that 17 caterpillars and eggs. I found the one elusive caterpillar that had been in the second largest habitat.

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  2. OHIO: As of Tuesday afternoon, there have been at least 95,106 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 3,570 deaths, and 11,119 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

    Local schools are suggesting waiting until September 8th to re-open, but I don't think that's *nearly* enough time for the pandemic to wane.

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  3. Stand back; herd of gnus coming this way:

    Pro Baseball Is Courting Disaster [Click] “Financially motivated wishful thinking has collided with reality.” I don’t follow the sports news, but this sort of thing attracts my attention.

    NYC Health Commissioner Quits In Protest [Click]

    Trump Is Terrified of Losing [Click] “His electoral prospects are slim—and he knows it.”

    Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Census Power Grab Throws Rural States Under The Bus [Click]

    Gallup Poll: Republicans No Longer Satisfied with State of the Country [Click]

    New battleground polls from Hodas & Associates, a Republican polling firm:
    Michigan: Biden 53%, Trump 41%
    Pennsylvania: Biden 51%, Trump 45%
    Wisconsin: Biden 52%, Trump 38%

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    1. Oops. The Trump Declares Virus Is ‘Under Control’ story belongs with the bunch below.

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    1. Maybe they're saving "train wreck" for November?

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    2. I wonder what the next step up from a train wreck is; the columnists ought to be composing lists. Meteor strike comes to mind; I imagine a cartoon showing the landscape littered with dead elephants, around a smoking meteorite (appropriately labeled, of course).

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    3. Train wrecks are very rare. Trump flubs aren't. How many fatal car crashes do we have per day?

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  6. VT: 1431 known cases (+4)
    57 deaths (0 x 6 days)
    130 active cases
    Recovered 1249 (+9)
    In Hospital 1 ( 0)
    Tests 98,801(+1563)

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  7. Disenchanted Seniors for Biden [Click] “The pandemic is particularly dangerous for older Americans, and Trump is losing their support.”

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  8. Glad Tidings! Word from Cat!

    “Hi Listener. Thanks for checking in on me. I am indeed tired of the news! Just plain tired, in fact. It must be the hot, humid weather, but I'm not able to get anything much done, except for reading. Thank goodness for audiobooks! Currently on a Mary Stewart kick, rereading books from my teens and reading others, including newer ones for the first time. Nothing else going on. By chance, you wrote on my dad's birthday. Eighty-seven, and he's still going strong. Today he was working on his car, installing a new radio/cassette player and connecting it to the separate CD player. But, there's an electrical fault he needs to track down. Only it started to rain so he had to come in. I wish I had his energy!

    “Please share this message with the blog and send everybody my love.”

    ~ Cat

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    1. Tired of the gnus is adequate cause for a dispensation. Great to hear!

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    2. Glad to hear. Not sure I have her dad's energy, although car work was never my thing to begin with.

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  9. The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away [Click] “No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world.” I particularly took note of the circumstantial evidence that a deadly bovine coronavirus jumped to humans and caused lethal pandemic disease about 120 years ago, then subsided into one of the common cold viruses. Similarly it doesn’t kill cows any more.

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  10. Sorry to disappoint Our Dear Leader, but the huge explosion in Beirut was definitely an industrial accident, not a terrorist attack. About 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate (foolishly stored at a warehouse in the city) exploded, which makes it comparable to the Texas City explosion of 1947.

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  11. I see that GOP operatives are making noises about Trump giving his convention speech from the South Lawn of the White House. I think he ought to make it from Stone Mountain; much more dramatic and redolent of traditional values. Well, redolent of something, certainly.

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  12. Lovely day today. Bright with small winds making gorgeous sunlight/shadow patterns all around.

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  13. Demise of Privacy Shield may be the end of U.S.-Europe data transfers [Click] “Increasing restrictions on data worldwide are prompting companies to rethink how they do business.” Hmmmmmmmm. . .

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