Sunday - November 19, 2006

The Great Flood?

May 10, 2807 BC - Noah and his sons finally had all the animals aboard and Noah knew that the bright light in the Southern sky was the hand of God about to descend on the idol worshipers and sinful people of Earth. All he could do was wait and pray the ship held together. Suddenly, the ground shook beneath the huge ship and it rocked on the beams propping it up as if the planet was wrenching in agony at some mysterious intrusion.

Gradually, over the course of the next few hours, the trembling slowed down with occasional tremors moving the giant ship around more and more. Slowly the sky began to darken as day turned into night. The animals stirred restlessly and outside large crowds of those God intended to destroy gathered and began pounding on the sides of the ship.

Then the rains came and lightning flashed across the sky in mighty rumbling sheets of righteous energy from the hand of God. Noah and his family huddled together and prayed while from the South a huge wall of water several hundred feet high approached at blinding speed, washing all before it. The cleansing had begun ....

At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Each covers twice the area of Manhattan with sediment as deep as the Chrysler Building is high.

On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep ocean microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by cosmic impacts. And all of them point in the same direction — toward the middle of the Indian Ocean where a newly discovered crater, 18 miles in diameter, lies 12,500 feet below the surface.

The explanation is obvious to some scientists. A large asteroid or comet, the kind that could kill a quarter of the world’s population, smashed into the Indian Ocean 4,800 years ago, producing a tsunami at least 600 feet high, about 13 times as big as the one that inundated Indonesia nearly two years ago. The wave carried the huge deposits of sediment to land.

-- “Ancient Crash, Epic Wave” (NY TIMES)

This asteroid landed in the seabed (30.87 S / 61.36 E - See Map Below) and sent a 600-900 foot high wall of water - a megatsunami - around the Indian Ocean, impacting land as far away as Australia, and crashing onto the coast of Africa, up the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, and quite possibly into the Mediterranean Sea as well.

This asteroidal impact would have sent a huge surge of water into the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, flooding the ancient land of Sumeria, the source of the Biblical flood legend. Indeed, Sir Leonard Wooley, the archaeologist who discovered the city of Ur, found 30 feet of flood-deposited sand that separated the most ancient levels of the city from newer habitation levels on top of the flood debris.

Abbott’s findings of deep-sea meteor/asteroid strike craters (which she has developed the technology to discover) indicates that large-scale cosmic strikes hit the earth much more frequently than scientists have previously postulated - perhaps every 1 to 3 thousand years, instead of every hundred thousand or so.

Large asteroid strikes also produce weather alterations, and many more global phenomena. Interestingly, the period 2800BC is when the first dynasty of Egypt started.

-- “Origin Of The Flood Legends” (HISTORY CHANNEL)

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/19/2006 at 03:19 PM   
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   Tuesday - October 17, 2006

Blue Skies

Here it is, only mid-October and in St. Louis we’ve been sitting in cold, freezing, drizzly rain for the last few days. Yes, the Cardinals-Mets playoffs were rained out again last night. Nighttime temps are dropping as low as 32 and daytime highs are struggling to reach the mid-50’s. Yet the weather shamans say we’ll have a mild winter?

Well I have a weather prediction myself. I can feel it in my joints. I predict .... that the weather gooobers are just making this shit up as they go along - with partly cloudy predictions followed by slightly overcast mumbo-jumbo.

_{Bob Englehart - The Hartford Courant (CT)}

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   Wednesday - October 11, 2006

Chill Out

Brrrrrr. We’re feeling the first effects of the “Polar Express” here in St. Louis this morning. Cold, drizzly rain is coming down outside and temps are in the low 50’s, projected to drop to freezing (32°F) tonight. It’s too early to break out the winter duds.

This must be more of that glowball warming thing that’s going around. Things will supposedly warm back up next week ... or so the weather shamans say. I’m still waiting for them to check the chicken entrails and let me know what kind of winter we’re going to have.

Then again, between Al Gore and Punxatawney Phil we already have 100% accurate predictions for the next hundred years, right ... ?

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   Monday - October 02, 2006

Something Is Missing

 
 
Fall is in full progress, we’re already into October and I feel like something is missing this year. I can’t quite put my finger on it but I know there were dire predictions by Al Gore and the environwackos last year about some deadful weather that was coming our way this year.

I believe it had something to do with global warming and hotter ocean temperatures or some such. I recall them saying that last year’s terrible storms were a sign of things to come. Why has everything been so quiet this Summer and Fall. What’s missing .... ?

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   Wednesday - August 30, 2006

Katrina: In The Rear View Mirror

In this exclusive mid-week editorial, Michael Reagan looks at Katrina in the rear view mirror - one year later. A year has passed and not much has changed ... the Bush administration has allocated the $11.8 billion asked for to rebuild New Orleans but the money is being held up as the local Democrats in Louisiana argue over how to spend it and blame Bush for the sorry mess their area is still in.

Some things never change ... especially the stoopid people who keep voting for the Donk weasels in spite of the fact that the Democratic Party is intent on hosing the little guy for no other reason than to gain political advantage. Politicians will always pimp themselves out for your vote but a decent prostitute will at least give you your money’s worth instead of just screwing you over, giving you a case of the clap and then blaming somebody else ...

Katrina Revisited
by Michael Reagan

For a long time now we’ve been listening to the Democrats and their toadies in the media complaining about the Bush administration’s handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster and its aftermath.

They charge it up to what they call the administration’s incompetence, implying that had the Democrats been running the show, things would have been handled much better.

It takes a lot of gall to make that charge because as one Town Hall blogger, Cato’s Corner, recently pointed out, the Democrats were in charge before, during and ever since Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.

In the United States, the authorities at the state and local levels are responsible for what happens in their areas. In Louisiana the governor is a Democrat, and the mayor of New Orleans is a Democrat. They were the so-called first responders, and their response was pitiful. They can blame President Bush all they want, but it was their job to handle the disaster and their handling of it was a disaster in itself.

That incompetence continues, especially in New Orleans where the cleanup and rebuilding efforts are lagging far behind where they would have been had they done their jobs competently. And they can’t blame that on the president or the federal government.

The fact is that $11.8 billion has been allocated. That’s everything that New Orleans asked for. They got $6 billion in December, another $4 billion in May, another $1.8 billion recently, and yet they haven’t spent the money.

One big problem: New Orleans has yet to come up with a master plan that will allow people to know what they can do and how to do it.

“The citizens of New Orleans need to know what the plans are, so the citizens can make their plans on whether they should rebuild, repair or sell their homes,” Norman Francis, chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which oversees federal aid given to Louisiana told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

“A lot of people are holding their money back pending an affirmation that the city really has a broader idea of where it’s going in the future. What kind of a city is it going to be?” added Ken Topping, a California planning consultant hired to help.

Moreover, the city refuses to relax the red-tape provisions to allow the people to get the money to be able to rebuild, which is exactly the opposite of what Mississippi’s Republican Governor Haley Barbour has done in his state. He cut through the red tape to allow the people to get the funds necessary to go ahead and rebuild.

Another reason is that the folks in Mississippi are working together, not standing around waiting for the federal government to rebuild. Officials in Louisiana are still whining, waiting for somebody to do everything for them.

The federal government has supplied the funds. It is the local government that refuses to distribute the money. I was talking to a member of Congress from Louisiana who recalled that the Congress had authorized $6 billion last December but New Orleans made the determination that they were not going to spend any of it until they got the whole $10 billion they were then demanding.

In Mississippi, on the other hand, as they were getting the money they were finding ways to spend it to help the people rebuild.

Tragically, the President is playing into the hands of his critics by implying that he is somehow to blame for the situation. He’s allowing the Democrats to use him as fodder in their attacks on him. He needs to stand up and shout, “We’re not to blame. We gave you the money. If the people in New Orleans don’t have the money it’s not because the federal government hasn’t done its job; it’s because your local government officials refuse to do theirs.”

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Posted by The Skipper     on 08/30/2006 at 02:00 AM   
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   Saturday - August 26, 2006

Katrina Anniversary Party

August 31, 2005: Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana/Mississippi coast. Now, one year later, Ernesto is coming to town and the idjits in charge of New Orleans and Louisiana will probably screw the pooch again. Why don’t they just go ahead and cut to the chase ... start blaming FEMA and Bush now and get ahead of the crowd. I predict Mayor Nagin will start whining and complaining in 5 .. 4 .. 3 .. 2 .. 1 .....

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH COAST OF HISPANIOLA FROM THE HAITI-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC BORDER WESTWARD TO THE SOUTHWESTERN TIP OF HAITI.

A TROPICAL STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR JAMAICA.  WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED FOR JAMAICA LATER TODAY.

A HURRICANE WATCH WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED FOR THE CAYMAN ISLANDS LATER THIS MORNING.  INTERESTS IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS AND WESTERN CUBA SHOULD MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF ERNESTO.

AT 800 AM AST...1200Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 15.0 NORTH...LONGITUDE 70.6 WEST OR ABOUT 245 MILES...395 KM...SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF SANTO DOMINGO IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND ABOUT 455 MILES...730 KM...EAST-SOUTHEAST OF KINGSTON JAMAICA.

ERNESTO IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 15 MPH...24 KM/HR ...AND THIS MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. ON THIS TRACK...THE CORE OF ERNESTO WILL BE PASSING SOUTH OF THE SOUTHERN COAST OF HISPANIOLA TODAY.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR 50 MPH...80 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS.  ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 115 MILES...185 KM FROM THE CENTER. THE LATEST MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE REPORTED BY AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT IS 997 MB...29.50 INCHES.

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   Tuesday - August 08, 2006

That Was Then, This Is Now

It’s not news ... it’s SCAREY NEWS! Twenty-fours a day, seven days a week. If they can’t find news to report, they’ll make it up. Evidently, journalists today slept through science class in the second grade or they’d understand that it gets warmer in Summer. We’re still waiting to find out what Al Gore’s excuse is ...

_{Dick Locher - The Chicago Tribune}

• Heat Wave Draws Attention to Dry Skin Care Treatment (EMAXHEALTH)


• Summer Heat Deaths Up To 30 (CBS-2 CHICAGO)


• Summer Heat Wave Killing Car Batteries (WQAD-TV CHICAGO)


• Heat wave overcrowds Humane Society with abandoned, unwanted pets (KTKA TV - ABC KANSAS)


• California’s Deadly Heat Wave Takes Toll on Peaches (NEW CALIFORNIA MEDIA)


• Obese people may collapse more in heat wave (CHINA DAILY)

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   Friday - August 04, 2006

Now In Theatres Everywhere

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   Wednesday - August 02, 2006

Knock-Knock

AT 800 AM AST ... 1200Z ... THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM CHRIS WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 19.0 NORTH ... LONGITUDE 63.0 WEST OR ABOUT 65 MILES… 105 KM...NORTH OF ST. MARTIN.

CHRIS IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 10 MPH ... 17 KM/HR ... AND THIS GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.  ON THIS TRACK...THE CENTER OF CHRIS WILL REMAIN NORTH OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AND PUERTO RICO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HOWEVER...SOME OF THE STRONG RAIN BANDS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHRIS MAY AFFECT PUERTO RICO AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS LATER TONIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY MORNING.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR 65 MPH ... 100 KM/HR ... WITH HIGHER GUSTS.  SOME STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS...AND CHRIS COULD BECOME A HURRICANE LATER TODAY OR EARLY THURSDAY.

TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 75 MILES...120 KM ... MAINLY NORTHEAST OF THE CENTER.

THE ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1001 MB ... 29.56 INCHES.

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   Tuesday - August 01, 2006

Weather Woes

We’re all going to die ....

The Bad News: The current heat wave is not getting any better.

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   Friday - July 28, 2006

Glowball Warming: The Good News

Just to prove there is good news inside the evil Glowball Warming Conspiracy, the UK’s GUARDIAN is pleased to announce that due to the high heat expected along the Mediterranean shore of Europe, more Euro-Weenies will be coming to Britain for the cooler weather. The bad news: Blackpool will now be completely covered with obnoxious Frogs. The invasion is coming ....

Climate Change Could Bring Tourists To UK
_{(GUARDIAN-UK) - Friday, July 28, 2006}

Climate change could “dramatically” change the face of British tourism in the next 20 years, with European tourists flocking to the UK to escape unbearably hot continental summers, experts say. Research shows that European tourists may choose to holiday in Britain as resorts nearer to home become too hot.

Weather changes may provide revival opportunities for northern seaside towns such as Blackpool and put new strains on roads and development in southern coastal resorts, a study in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism said. Academic David Viner, a researcher at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in Norwich, produced the report after analysing the work of experts around the globe.

“The likelihood [is] that Mediterranean summers may be too hot for tourists after 2020, as a result of too much heat and water shortages,” the study said. There were “opportunities for the revival of northern European resorts, including Blackpool, in the next 20 years, as climate change and rising transport costs offer new holiday opportunities,” it said.

The study added: “Climate change will impact on many holiday destinations. For many this will be problematic, for others it will produce benefits.”

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   Thursday - July 27, 2006

Dry Heat

98 degrees in St. Louis yesterday? Horse feathers! Both temperature gauges, the one on my patio and the one in my Jeep, read 103 degrees when I checked around noon. The bad news is 55,000 homes were still without power here in St. Louis nine days after the storm that knocked power out on July 19. There have been nine heat-related deaths in the last week and a half here.

Ameren promises to have power back on to everyone today or tomorrow. Considering there were half a million without power (including yours truly) right after the storm, I figure they’ve done a fairly decent job of getting us all cooled down. Temps across the rest of the nation aren’t much better. Drink lots of water, stay indoors or in the shade if possible and don’t overly exert yourself during mid-day hours.

Just in case you’re feeling sorry for yourself, take note: today’s forecast for Baghdad is 119 degrees. It’s even hotter if you’re hoofing it, out on patrol in Injun Country. By the way ... the cartoon below the weather map is not funny ....

_{Cameron (Cam) Cardow - The Ottawa Citizen}

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   Friday - July 21, 2006

Here We Go Again

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   Thursday - July 20, 2006

Darkness Falls

There I sat, watching Fox News chewing away on leftover pizza and suddenly the bass drums and cymbals started up and bright lights started flashing. The opera was about to begin. It was around 6:30pm last night and hadn’t even got real dark yet. It was about to.

BOOM! BOOM! CRASH! KA-BOOM! All around us. I hadn’t heard racket like this since I lived in New Orleans and we had to put up with the thunderboomers every single afternoon.  The storm gods were having a field day. Then they decided to get serious. A few REALLY loud crashes and all of a sudden Shep Smith was cut off in mid-sentence. Silence. More crashing for about an hour then nothing. The electricity in the apartment went away to hide from its big brother playing around outside. Darkness descends.

The apartment started to get warm so I decided to throw in the towel and turn in. The UPS’s on my servers protected everything but they were only good for about 30 minutes. I powered the home network off and settled into bed in dead silence. Until the clock on the wall decided to tick louder than thunder. Remove battery from clock, go to sleep.

About 2:00 I woke up in miserable heat. An excursion to the basement, where it was cool, ended up uncovering my night’s resting place. Sometime around 5:15am, I was in the bathroom on the throne, reading the Weekly Standard by candlelight (you ought to try it some time) when power finally came back on. Relief, at last!

Now for the bad news, if you live in St. Louis get ready. The weatherman just said we stand a good chance of a repeat performance tonight. Ya know, I kinda miss the Gulf Coast and those annoying little hurricanes ...

Storms Cut Power, Snap Trees, Topple Trucks Across Region
(St LOUIS POST-DISPATCH) - 07/19/2006

A powerful summer storm slammed into the St. Louis area Wednesday evening, toppling buildings, street lights, tractor trailers and hundreds of trees. At least 476,000 customers lost power, Metrolink was shut down and just one-third of flights were getting in and out of Lambert Field.

“This is one of the worst storms we can all remember to hit the city of St. Louis in recent years,” St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay said at a hurriedly called news conference. The power outages will present a challenge to utility crews trying to get the power back on in temperatures expected to exceed 100 degrees today.

Until Wednesday, the two biggest storms to hit the area in the last few years were in July 2004, when about 225,000 lost power, and in August 2005, which affected about 250,000. It took AmerenUE crews four days to restore power to all customers in 2004 and five days in 2005.

The storm brewed quickly in central Illinois and swept southwest toward the St. Louis area shortly after 7 p.m. Meteorologists said the storm was unusual, not because of its path, but because a powerful “gust front” preceded the rain and thunder, causing damage from St. Charles County in the west to Madison County in the east, but hitting St. Louis and St. Louis County hardest.

Skies darkened with blowing dust, shingles flew from roofs, and windows were shattered, all before a drop of rain fell. Blowing dust and debris and then torrents of rain limited visibility on roads.

Westbound lanes of Highway 370 were shut down at the Discovery Bridge across the Missouri River because of at least two overturned tractor-trailers, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol. In downtown St. Louis, part of the Switzer building near the Eads Bridge collapsed onto the bridge, trapping a driver - eight months pregnant - in her car for some time.

By noon today, airline travel had returned to normal at Lambert Field. Passengers whose luggage was stranded at the airport’s Main Terminal because of the Wednesday night power outage returned to the baggage claim area to hunt for their bags.

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