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Dkos WxCenter: Peak of the hurricane season means big activity
Top story in the tropics tonight are Maria, Jose, and Lee. Maria is headed to the Leeward Islands this week. Jose is headed northward, perhaps grazing southeast New England, and Lee, thankfully, may...
View ArticleMaria to make a Category FIVE strike on Dominica tonight, St. Croix and...
This is breaking as I write this, recon is finding intense winds within the core of Hurricane Maria.Hurricane Maria Tropical Cyclone UpdateNWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL152017745 PM AST Mon...
View ArticleNorthern CA Firestorm Worse than 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm CHECK-IN THREAD
This will serve as a check-in thread and a news thread.Jpmassar has been covering this in depth for the last few days and while I don’t want to step on their toes, this catastrophe needs a lot more...
View ArticleA tropical cyclone to strike Ireland/Great Britain? Maybe! (It's happened...
The 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season is a lot like the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Except where the 2005 season was a long and relentless pounding that lasted into January of the next year, this year...
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Ophelia likely to be the worst post-tropical storm to strike Ireland in decades
Six. That’s the number of hurricanes that have made major status this year (that is, winds higher than 115mph). Ten. That’s the number of storms that have made hurricane status this year---in a row....
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Ophelia turning extratropical, rocketing toward Ireland, will likely be worst...
Moving over cooler waters, Ophelia began its transformation from a tropical system to an extratropical one, a process it will complete later this evening. In its path however is Ireland which is...
View ArticleCities should be wary of Amazon, but they won't be
Picture two worlds. For brevity’s sake, we’ll call them world 1 and world 2. Yes, I know, how creative, but anyway.World One is the one we currently live in and it rather sucks, but you don’t have to...
View ArticleA Democratic donor preys on young black gay men---and one of those young men...
For any region in this country, there’s a craigslist site. And on those sites, there are personals, and within those personals men gay, bisexual, straight, and otherwise look for other men gay,...
View ArticleWill 2018 be "The Year Of The Earthquake?"
Earthquakes cannot be predicted.That right there is a fact you can take to the bank, and one that will remain good for probably a very long time. There are a lot of reasons why, but the main one is...
View ArticleI've been a hard*ss about this, and I'm really not sorry about it either
When the news first broke about Senator Franken my heart pretty much sank, and then when later developments showed this news was going to get bigger, it got even worse.I knew then that I felt he should...
View ArticleInfrastructure Kos: The bill's coming (LOL), also, Elon Musk really doesn't...
Just a short note since we still have nothing to go on. Apparently the infrastructure bill is coming once “taxes” are done (as in, the rich people get to loot the treasury.)The White House is still...
View ArticleThis is literally the worst thing I've read in months
What the whole everloving, pluperfect fuck, Politico?I……..you know what? I can’t even write a whole five paragraph essay about this thought experiment sharted out by Eric Posner et. al. on immigration....
View ArticleAutonomous car kills pedestrian like human operated cars do every 96 minutes
Every 96 minutes, someone in the US steps off a curb and dies, crossing paths with a motor vehicle powered by a human being.Yet outside of certain transportation planning blogs (all of which I read),...
View Articlehell hath no fury "like a woman scorned? really?
I was re-watching, as I frequently do, an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was one of the better season 7 episodes, a season not really known for its strengths, the one where, in some kind...
View ArticleSignificant M6.9 earthquake strikes Big Island of Hawaii
Around 12:37pm Hawaii time (6:37pm Eastern) a large earthquake struck the southeast portion of the Big Island of Hawaii. This earthquake is the largest in a sequence accompanying a major eruption of...
View ArticleMen? WTF (NY AG Schneiderman resigns after physical abuse allegations surface)
AG Eric Schneiderman? Really, bro? Come the fuck on man.Yeah, the LATEST in a long line. Men, famous ones, who are all up in #MeToo, who also abuse women. What the fuck. The New Yorker:ric...
View ArticleMeta: is anyone or anything destroyed when an awesome "mic-drop" argument is...
Some short meta, because people still do this and I’m curious as to why.So, there are some diarists who still use this construction in their headlines: “[PROGRESSIVE SOMEBODY] DESTROYS [CONSERVATIVE...
View ArticleDK Weather Center: Kilauea to likely have a major eruption soon
For those new to Daily Kos, I’m Terry, and I sort of “run” the Daily Kos Weather Center. No, I’m not staff. I’m just a long-time member of the community. I’m hoping to make it a weekly diary again as...
View ArticleIf you're not comfortable with law enforcement using GEDMatch, you can delete...
In the last month one very huge series of cold cases in California, and another lesser known cold case in Seattle, were solved by cold case detectives. In both cases, there was DNA, but no one to match...
View ArticleHarvard survey indicates nearly 5,000 died as a result of Hurricane Maria
When a hurricane strikes land, often it can keep on killinglong after it’s moved on and dissipated. This is in fact policy set by theCenters for Disease Control. In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria likely...
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