Monday the temperature was in the 90’s. Today, it won’t break 60. Autumn.
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Category: Weather
The northernmost band of Rita visited St. Louis this morning, stayed a while, dropped some rain, blew gently on some trees, and then went its way. I watched a squirrel outside my window as it came out from under a car and stopped when faced with a small river that flowed down the middle of […]
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The last to be rescued
Excerpted from the Humane Society article After the flood, animals find way to survive in the Big Easy. Adrift in this floating living room, the golden-coated pit bull found shelter in the only place the water couldn’t reach: a black-metal frame encasing the air conditioning unit in a nearby window. At least that’s where the rescue […]
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Bye Brown
As expected Michael Brown has resigned as head of FEMA. However, though a move in the right direction, it’s not enough. As the article mentions, the government needs to move FEMA back out into a department of its own, and, contrary to some who may believe otherwise, return it to dealing with natural disasters rather than this obsession […]
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Going Forward Three
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dr. Jeff Masters of the Weather Underground wrote an opinion piece on Katrina yesterday that discusses the concept that Katrina was an ‘Act of God’ and therefore something that couldn’t be foreseen. In response he wrote: A horror unimagined by anyone, except by every hurricane scientist and government emergency management […]