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OMG! This was too funny!
I truly am not a winter person. I don't like cold, I don't like snow. Shovel sucks. It's just not fun at all. Granted this winter as well as others, we've been REALLY lucky and missed out on some nasty stuff, but it doesn't look like we're gonna miss out this time.
Two feet of snow, 50 mph winds, white out conditions, ice...yeah, FUN IN THE CITY!
My co-worker's daughter lives in Dallas. Schools are closed there. DFW was shut down for an hour because of ice. Her daughter called the police because a trampoline was flipping over a fence into the road. Yes, winds like that and the stupid idiots that live upstairs from me decide to put a freakin' tree that's a house plant out on the balcony. Seriously? Do you have a brain? What possessed them to do that, I have no clue but if that damn thing blows over and does damage to my car or windows, the police better come and take me away cuz I'm gonna beat them with it!
Anyhoo, storm is moving at 60 mph so it'll be here soon enough. Happy joy, happy glee...http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ECIR4.html
Florida was the holdout on Wednesday as the National Weather Service reported all the other 49 states had snow on the ground, MyFoxBoston reports.
Snow covered 69.4 percent of the United States as of Tuesday. The weather service said that is more than double the snow cover from last month.
Hawaii even saw flurries as Hawaii News Now said snow fell on the Mauna Kea volcano on the Big Island.
Because events like this are not tracked by the weather service there's no way to say how rare it is, but it is at least the second time within a year's time.
The Associated Press reported on Feb. 13, 2010, that 49 states had at least some snow cover.Florida had snow while Hawaii and its 13,800-foot Mauna Kea did not.
There are no reports of all 50 states having snow at once. The AP reported that Jan. 19, 1977, had snow in all states but South Carolina.
Colder air is on the way with temperatures up to 25 degrees below average.
That leaves Florida with time to join in.
April 1996 my dad went in for a double by-pass that turned into a triple. He came through the surgery with flying colors, amazing even his surgeons from Northwestern. In the fall of 1996, they "ballooned" a blockage in his leg. Truthfully, he wasn't the same after that. Winter of that same year, he told me he was going to be fine. He would walk me down the aisle and dance with me at my wedding. January 11, 1997 at approximately 8:15 am, my mother wakes me up panicked. My dad had half fallen out of bed and couldn't get him up. Approximately 8:20 am, I help her get him up to find him cold, blue with blood around his nose. I run to call 911. Oddly, I'm remotely calm which for some reason I recall finding a bit humorous. Why? I really don't know. I run downstairs and stand in the cold on that bright, sunny Saturday morning waiting for the paramedics to arrive. It seems like they took forever but I know it was only a matter of minutes. You hear sirens everyday and really don't think anything of it. Believe me, it's creepily disturbing when you know they're coming for you. The paramedics arrive. I relay the facts - Diabetic, 51 year old male, not responsive. They go up to the second floor. I follow after locking the door. I remember waking into the kitchen wondering why everyone was just standing there. Why wasn't someone doing something? "We're sorry miss. There's nothing we can do. He has been gone for some time now. We're sorry for your loss." My loss? What did I lose? I remember my mother crying. My legs going out from under me as my chest tightened. I remember hearing the wheezing in my head. My mother screaming, "She's asthmatic." Firemen grabbing for me, holding me up asking me if I was okay, can I breathe, do I have an inhaler? I remember looking around dazed. In a matter of 15 minutes time, my life changed forever. And here it is 14 years later and I can remember every detail of that morning. How he looked. How freakin' sunny it was. All of it. And as I sit here typing this with the snow falling behind me, the tears are falling and I feel that pain all over again.
RIP Dad. I know you're in a better place. I know you're not suffering anymore, but damn it if all of that just doesn't suck.
The 9-year-old granddaughter of former Cubs General Manager Dallas Green was among the six people killed in a rampage in Arizona that targeted Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Green is now an executive advisor for the Philadelphia Phillies, which he managed to the World Series championship in 1980.
“She was a talented young girl with a bright promising future. Her untimely death weighs heavily on our hearts,” Philadelphia Phillies president David Montgomery said Sunday. The Phillies said the girl’s name was spelled Christina-Taylor Green; Arizona authorities provided a different spelling, Christina Greene.
Greg Segalini, an uncle of the girl, told the Arizona Republic that a neighbor was going to Giffords event at a grocery store and invited her along because she had just been elected to the student council and was interested in government.
Christina, who was born on Sept. 11, 2001, was involved in various activities, from ballet to baseball, and had just received her first Holy Communion at St. Odilia’s Catholic Church in Tucson, Catholic Diocese of Tucson officials told The Arizona Daily Star.
Her birth date no doubt helped prod the girl’s interest in politics, her mother, Roxanna Green, told the Star. She was one of 50 babies born on Sept. 11 featured in a book called “Faces of Hope.”
“She was born back East and Sept. 11 affected everyone there, and Christina-Taylor was always very aware of it. She was very patriotic and wearing red, white and blue was really special to her,” her mother said.
Los Angeles (CNN) -- -- The Los Angeles area bank robber had an outrageous disguise for an audacious plan, authorities said.
He wore pink hospital scrubs, a Darth Vader mask, black wig, and gloves.
His unusual weapon: a hatchet.
His target: a Bank of America teller inside a Los Angeles area grocery.
The menacing get-up worked, and the robber allegedly got away with an undisclosed amount of cash on Thursday, authorities said.
But the heist was successful for only three hours, authorities said Friday.
Investigators found the alleged robber back at the scene of the crime -- this time working his job as a courtesy clerk inside the same Albertson's grocery in Rowland Heights, California, authorities said.
"It's not difficult to see where he got the idea to rob the bank," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker.
Authorities declined to disclose how they tracked down the alleged robber.
Gregory Sanchez, 46, of West Covina, California, was charged with the bank robbery and was being held on $100,000 bail, Parker said.
CHICAGO (AFP) – A Michigan factory worker used as the unwitting model for the wartime Rosie the Riveter poster whose inspirational "We Can Do It!" message became an icon of the feminist movement has died.
Geraldine Doyle died Sunday, a spokesman for the Hospice House of Mid Michigan told AFP. She was 86.
Doyle didn't realize she had a famous face until she was flipping through a magazine in 1982 and spotted a reproduction of the poster, her daughter told The New York Times.
But while Doyle recognized her face under the red and white polka dot bandana, the strong arm held up in a fist wasn't hers.
"She didn't have big, muscular arms," Mrs. Gregg said. "She was 5-foot-10 and very slender. She was a glamour girl. The arched eyebrows, the beautiful lips, the shape of the face -- that's her."
Doyle was just 17 when she took at job at a metal pressing plant near Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1942.
She quit about two weeks later after learning that another woman had badly injured her hand on the job -- she was worried she'd lose the ability to play the cello, her daughter said.
She was there, however, when a United Press International photographer came to the factory while documenting the contribution of women to the war effort.
A picture of Doyle was later used by J. Howard Miller, a graphic artist at Westinghouse, for the poster which was aimed at deterring strikes and absenteeism.
The poster was not widely seen until the 1980's when it was embraced by the feminist movement as a potent symbol of women's empowerment.
The iconic image now graces a US postage stamp and has been used to sell lunch boxes, aprons, mugs, t-shirts and figurines.
The term "Rosie the Riveter" stems from a 1942 song honoring the women who took over critical factory jobs when men went off to war.
Another Michigan woman, Rose Will Monroe, was the best-known "Rosie" after being featured in a wartime promotional film about female factory workers.
Doyle was quick to correct people who thought she was the original Rosie the Riveter, Gregg told the Lansing State Journal.
"She would say that she was the 'We Can Do It!" girl," Gregg said. "She never wanted to take anything away from the other Rosies."
A funeral service is set for Tuesday. Gregg did not immediate return a request for comment.
