HENRI has made Landfall!
HENRI at 5:00pm, over Catreona's house
HENRI at Landfall...
12:15pm Westerly RI 60mph 989mb
New York City received about 4" of rain in a few hours on Saturday evening.
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Predicted high temperature here today 91F; current AQI = 80. Not bad. Visibility seems slightly better than yesterday, but still rather limited.
ReplyDeleteNow that I look more carefully, visibility might be ten miles; I should estimate it had been down to about five at best.
DeleteWeather prediction for Springfield is for weaker winds than formerly predicted, 25-35 mph. Sure would like to hear from Cat, nevertheless.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'd sure like to hear from her. Just because.
Delete“Former President Donald Trump was booed by his own supporters during a rally in Cullman, Alabama Saturday night after he encouraged the crowd to get vaccinated against COVID-19,” per Newsweek. [Click]
ReplyDeleteCDC Not Tracking Breakthrough Infections [Click] Well, how could they? The US simply does not have the infrastructure to track Covid cases.
ReplyDeleteVermont is tracking.
DeleteWe have had 288 breakthrough cases since the start of this year, and 9 of those people have died.
Presumably they had pre-existing comorbidities.
DeleteCorrection: presumably those who died had pre-existing comorbidities.
DeleteThat's of little comfort given that Wil has heart disease and I have a low-normal immune system.
DeleteWall Street Journal: “Hospitals in the South and Midwest say they are treating more children with Covid-19 than ever and are preparing for worse surges to come.”
ReplyDelete“Cases there have jumped over the past six weeks as the highly contagious Delta variant spreads primarily among unvaccinated people. That is leading to more sick kids in places where community spread of the variant is high, public-health experts say.”
Conservatives’ opposition to vaccines and masks is fueled by the conviction that they have lost the battle for public opinion. [Click]
ReplyDeleteGermany’s resurgent Social Democratic Party has new hope of succeeding Merkel [Click] Gee—quite a change of fortune!
ReplyDeleteCuba’s health system buckles under strain of overwhelming Covid surge [Click] I consider the behavior of the US toward Cuba to be completely unacceptable. Why should we be continuing to fight the fight of Fulgencio Batista?
ReplyDeleteIt's not really Batista. It goes back to Cuba telling Eisenhower it was going to do its own thing (executing members of the former regime) regardless of what he thought. But that was a L-O-N-G time ago and You'd think the US would be ready to accept Cuba's independence by now.
DeleteOne might argue that it is much the same thing. Among other things the US didn't like was the revolutionary government's land redistribution plan--which was far more generous to landowners than the US land redistribution plan forced on Japan after WWII, and was copied elsewhere in Latin America under pressure from the US. The US mobsters very nearly gained control of Cuba under Batista; imagine the consequences of the Mafia controlling a recognized national government. But they would be OUR mobsters, so I guess that would be better.
DeleteHmm. I don't recall hearing anything about the land redistribution plan. At least not before the break. Maybe we were reading different newspapers at the time.
DeleteOh, and should I mention that the US rather conspicuously did not do anything to actively support Batista at the time of the revolution?
DeleteExcerpt from Wikipedia article on Batista: [Click] “Back in power [Following the 1952 coup] and receiving financial, military and logistical support from the United States government, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution…”
DeleteWikipedia: Cuban Revolution: Strengthening insurgency and_United_States involvement [Click] “The United States supplied Cuba with planes, ships, tanks and other tech such as napalm, which was used against the rebels. ”
From that second article:
Delete“The United States supplied Cuba with planes, ships, tanks and other tech such as napalm, which was used against the rebels. This would eventually come to an end due to a later arms embargo in 1958.[67]” (italics added)
“Thereafter, the United States imposed an economic embargo on the Cuban government and recalled its ambassador, weakening the government's mandate further.[71]"
The US, soto voce, basically considered Batista and his Mafia connections an embarrassment. But it assumed that any future Cuban government would basically continue to operate as a US dependency.
In fact, the article points out that the US had clandestinely supported anti-Batista revolutionary movements, although not so much Castro's.
DeleteUS arms embargo March 14th, 1958
DeleteBattle of Santa Clara December 31st, 1958
Batista flees Cuba, 3AM January 1st, 1959
January 2nd, 1959: 26th of July Movement troops occupy Havana and Santiago de Cuba, encountering no resistance.
US Ambassadors to Cuba:
Earl E. T. Smith – Political appointee
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: June 3, 1957
Presented credentials: July 23, 1957
Terminated mission: Left post, January 19, 1959
Philip W. Bonsal – Career FSO
Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Appointed: February 16, 1959
Presented credentials: March 3, 1959
Terminated mission: Left post, October 28, 1960
Daniel M. Braddock was serving as Chargé d'affaires ad interim when the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba in January 1961.
Playa de Giron [AKA Bay of Pigs] invasion: April 17th, 1961 (CIA airport bombings two days earlier).
All of which supports my point that the US did not support Batista but, after Castro had won, things went south because the new leader refused to kowtow..
DeleteMy personal review is that Eisenhower took Castro's response as a personal insult. He instituted a trade embargo with the idea, "that'll show the upstart Cuba is totally dependent on the US and has to do what we say." But Castro pivoted to join the Soviet bloc, claiming (falsely, IMHO) that he had always been a Communist.
Deleteoopd. review = view
DeleteNYT Video: Dying in the Name of Vaccine Freedom [Click] Incomprehensible.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like neither wind nor rain will be bad in Springfield.
ReplyDeleteThat's a relative thing with this storm, though. Much depends on how saturated the soils are when they get the 32mph wind gusts. Apparently a tree can be uprooted easily in that situation. But if they make it through tonight intact, the wind gusts tomorrow will be "only" in the mid-20's. So maybe they'll be fine.
DeleteThe prediction I saw was for 15-20 mph winds tonight, decreasing to 5-10 mph tomorrow. Am I looking at the right city?
DeleteAlan, that sounds like the predicted winds, but not the wind gusts. Predictions have shifted with the exact trajectory of the storm, so it could simply be when each of us checked our sources.
DeleteOne upshot of Brexit Johnson didn’t foresee: bringing the Irish closer [Click] Matters continue to evolve; interesting, though.
ReplyDelete👍
DeleteI have emailed Cat a couple times this weekend. Hoping to hear from her.
ReplyDeletepuddle, I don't see a Facebook page for her anymore. Do you?
She mentioned a week or more ago that Facebook had banned her for no discernible reason.
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