Wednesday, January 20, 2016
A Farewell to Arms
http://www.weather.com/weather/alerts/localalerts/l/USDC0001:1:US?phenomena=BZ&significance=A&areaid=DCZ001&office=KLWX&etn=0001
The Weather Channel
Blizzard Watch for District of Columbia, DC
From 12:00pm EST, Fri Jan 22 until 6:00am EST, Sun Jan 24
Issued by The National Weather Service
Baltimore/Washington, MD
11:32pm EST, Wed Jan 20
... BLIZZARD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT... ... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON HAS CANCELLED THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY.
* HAZARD TYPES... HEAVY SNOW AND WIND WITH BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. SLEET MAY MIX WITH THE SNOW FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING EAST OF INTERSTATE 95... BEFORE CHANGING BACK TO ALL SNOW BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
* ACCUMULATIONS... SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 18 TO 24 INCHES.
* TIMING... HEAVY SNOW FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO DETERIORATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON WITH THE HEAVIEST SNOW... STRONGEST WINDS... AND POTENTIAL LIFE THREATENING CONDITIONS EXPECTED FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY.
* IMPACTS... UNTREATED ROADS EARLY THIS MORNING WILL BE SNOW COVERED AND SLIPPERY... AND THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL HAZARDOUS. FOR FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT... HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW WILL CAUSE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS AND WILL BE A THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY. TRAVEL IS EXPECTED TO BE SEVERELY LIMITED IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. VISIBILITY WILL BE REDUCED TO NEAR ZERO AT TIMES IN WHITEOUT CONDITIONS.
* WINDS... NORTH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH.
* TEMPERATURES... IN THE UPPER 20S.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR WEDNESDAY EVENING... A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES... AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.
FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY... A BLIZZARD WATCH MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER IS POSSIBLE. USE THIS ADVANCE NOTICE TO PLAN AHEAD! ADJUST TRAVEL PLANS... AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES. STOCK UP ON NECESSITIES. MAKE PLANS FOR ELDERLY FAMILY AND THOSE MOST AT RISK. PREPARE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF POWER OUTAGES DURING SNOWY AND COLD CONDITIONS. USE THIS TIME TO MINIMIZE IMPACT ON YOU... YOUR FAMILY... AND YOUR COMMUNITY.
A BLIZZARD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FALLING AND/OR BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND EXTREMELY POOR VISIBILITIES. THIS CAN LEAD TO WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AND MAKE TRAVEL VERY DANGEROUS.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 3:25 AM
Subject: Tank City
Damn, I was so close on that.
In recent days the meteor I imagined striking the planet's surface would hit in the southwestern United States where atomic testing has happened. I gave that some serious thought. I thought how that would be a warning to Barack Obama. I thought about how dangerous a meteorite strike would be there because it would kick up radioactive contamination.
But nope, a few hours ago the meteor I read about bursting over a large city was in Russia. Known as Tank City during World War 2 because of production facilities I also read it is considered the most polluted city in the world because it was the center of plutonium production.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 15 February 2013 except ends]
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=last-resort-2012&episode=s01e01
Springfield! Springfield!
Last Resort
Captain
They need to understand, I'm a man of my word.
http://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/80121/Hemingway_-_A_Farewell_to_Arms.html
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Ernest Hemingway
BOOK FOUR
33
“Tell me,” he said, “what is happening at the front?”
“I would not know about the front.”
“I saw you come down the wall. You came off the train.”
“There is a big retreat.”
“I read the papers. What happens? Is it over?”
“I don’t think so.”
He filled the glass with grappa from a short bottle. “If you are in trouble,” he said, “I can keep you.”
“I am not in trouble.”
“If you are in trouble stay here with me.”
“Where does one stay?”
“In the building. Many stay here. Any who are in trouble stay here.”
“Are many in trouble?”
“It depends on the trouble. You are a South American?”
“No.”
“Speak Spanish?”
“A little.”
He wiped off the bar.
“It is hard now to leave the country but in no way impossible.”
“I have no wish to leave.”
“You can stay here as long as you want. You will see what sort of man I am.”
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=last-resort-2012&episode=s01e01
Springfield! Springfield!
Last Resort
Captain
Three, two, one.
That's not good.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 9:45 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 20 January 2016
