Here she blows at 6pm// Irene strong still as it SLOOOOOWLY moves north..

17 INCHES OF RAIN IN NORTH CAROLINA!

17 INCHES OF RAIN IN NORTH CAROLINA!

once in a lifetime thing.. The floor of Grand Central, so clean you can eat off of it! … well maybe not that clean..

zainyk:

gq:

Grand Central Terminal, Saturday afternoon, Aug. 27

[via @nickconfessore]

The floor of Grand Central looks so clean. If Victoria station were emptied the floor would basically just be tramps urine.

Surf’s up…

How is everyone dealing out there?

Readers from North Carolina, Jersey, D.C., Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and the lovers in Virginia: HOW ARE YOU ALL HOLDING UP?

Here is where the dangers are for the East Coast..

Here is where the dangers are for the East Coast..

Irene at 4pm.

Flapping in the wind:

Virginia Beach hit by a hurricane.. 
Reporter hit with wind.
Viewers hit with a streaker 

She’s a monster. Can you spot Irene?

breakingnews:

Full Disk Image of Earth Captured August 26, 2011 by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr.

Hurricane Irene can be seen on the U.S. East Coast.

Update: This satellite movie, released earlier today (August 27) by NASA, shows Hurricane Irene moving through the Bahamas and making landfall at Cape Lookout, North Carolina at around 8 a.m. EDT today.

shortformblog:

More from Irene: The flooding is the real danger, guys. It’s a huge storm and is dropping a ton of rain. Enough to engulf a car, apparently. An incredible shot. (via Twitter user @MsNakiaB, who has posted a ton of photos today)

Game over: This AP photo taken by H. Rumph Jr shows a young Phillies fan watching the tarp cover the field.. The game is off. Florida Marlins vs Philadelphia postponed until after Irene.

A few tourists remaining in Times Square. Depending on which side of New York City Irene travels, they may be forced to leave rather quickly.

Irene.. Landfall. Good luck all

Finally some hope over hype

A silver lining as one forecaster says Irene will fizzle north of Delaware..

New York reacts

How are New Yorkers reacting to Mayor Bloomberg’s order to leave? They’re going to the beach!!

Irene is for lovers….

STATES BEGINNING TO DECLARE EMERGENCIES.. CHRISTIE TELLS SUNBATHERS TO ‘GET THE HELL’ OFF THE BEACH

Will the eye pass over NYC!? Developing..

AP writes: New Yorkers, many of them without cars, don’t have much time to get out of the way before the city shutters its subways, buses and trains on Saturday

BLOOMBERG MAKES THE CALL: TELLS 300,000 NEW YORKERS TO LEAVE THE CITY

SUBWAY SHUTDOWN

"Waiting until the last minute is not a smart thing to do. This is life-threatening."

Wow..

Mean Irene: POWER OUTAGES COULD LAST FOR DAYS // FLOODING COULD BE MASSIVE // HOMES CAN BE DAMAGED // BUILDINGS CAN FACE DAMAGE // THIS IS GOING TO BE HUGE

Mean Irene: POWER OUTAGES COULD LAST FOR DAYS // FLOODING COULD BE MASSIVE // HOMES CAN BE DAMAGED // BUILDINGS CAN FACE DAMAGE // THIS IS GOING TO BE HUGE

Latest:

Forecaster: “Very bad”
Airlines cancel flights..
State of emergency New Jersey..
Hurricane supplies moved to Northeast..
Prepping for the worst..
New York City readies..
Cape May County, New Jersey, beginning mandatory evacuations Friday..
New York City: 30 feet above sea level.. Atlantic City: 8 feet above sea level .. Asbury Park: 21 feet above sea level.. Ocean City: 8 feet above sea level.. 
US Navy predicting 30 feet waves for New York region.. 
Forecasts: Baltimore: up to 8 inches of rain.. Ocean City: Up to 10 inches of rain.. Philadelphia: Up to 8 inches of rain .. Cape May: Up to 10 inches of rain.. New York City: Up to 12 inches of rain.. More in Providence, Hartford, Portland, and all the way up to Maine.. Hurricane or tropical force winds expected..

We’ll sing this soon.. until then get ready

Watch this video-- THEN PREPARE!!!!

Watch this video-- THEN PREPARE!!!!

I'll be honest...

I’m worried for my followers and readers.. and especially New Yorkers… Please be safe. Get supplies. This will be a storm unlike any in recent memory, if not your life… This is big, this is bad.. last time NYC got this type of a storm was the 1890s…. 

For some, storm clouds can’t stop vacation..

She just destroyed the Bahamas… and … who knows what’s next

Once in a 50-year-storm possible... ready?

Irene just destroyed the Bahamas.. it’s coming to the east Coast.. NYC is going to face some very difficult conditions.. 

The coal region is not immune.. lots of thoughts of the famed Agnes coming back

How is everyone prepping? 

A 5.8 earthquake rocking the entire eastern half of North America. A very freaky day…ending with this spectacular sunset over Reading, PA.

WHAT THE FRACK?! ALARM RAISED OVER GAS DRILLERS FRACKING ON CEMETERIES!

WHAT THE FRACK?! ALARM RAISED OVER GAS DRILLERS FRACKING ON CEMETERIES!

Oh boy… 

Good luck to us..

This weekend, my son Ayden decided to crawl and sit and the same time… and crawl he does.. Fast.. child proof time here, I’d suppose.

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Right back where we started

Thank you for following this ...

Just wanted to send a quick note to the old, new, and constant followers of the Coal Speaker. I am humbled. And probably wouldn’t be doing this and the HorrorReport.com is no one was paying attention.

Watching a wave

A tropical wave has the ability to become a named storm and perhaps even hit the United States.. That’s according to forecasters at Accuweather who are throwing the possibility on their website today.

If the storm can escape dry air attacking it now, warm waters in the Atlantic could help strengthen it quickly.. 

Where it is at now: 550 miles east of the Lesser Antilles, separated from the U.S. by a week’s time..

BANK OF JUDGEMENT?

Perhaps there is a sign somewhere in here

Bank of America.. 

Layoffs will soon begin. 3,500 going to lose their jobs..

And how does God respond? Lightning. Indeed.

Tropical threat along the East Coast in the coming week

Tropical threat along the East Coast in the coming week

Tremendously sad story..

msnbc:

Pittsburgh emergency responders throw a life vest to Robert Bailey, 80, who climbed onto the roof of his car after being caught in the flash flood. (Chris Langer / AP)

We’re keeping our eyes on Pittsburgh today, wehre last night a pair of storms caused a flash flood that submerged more than a dozen vehicles, killed a woman and two children and left another person missing and presumed dead.

It's always sunny on earth

Scientists aim: Predict sunspots by monitoring sound waves…
Hope: Forecast solar storms..
Prayer: It will help..
Fear: Sunspot will develop, cause a massive solar storm and it will disrupt just about every thing on earth. 

61-year-old lifeguard refuses his speedos as sues over mandate to wear them..
I don’t think many people will have a problem with that…….

Prayers for the city of Pittsburgh, PA

Update: Tragic Pittsburgh: 3 dead from flooding..
…one missing..
Rescue workers floated over the car of woman and two dead children in the city—not even knowing it was there due to high water that fell from nasty storm system..
The storms were quite severe. After rolling through Western Pennsylvania, they landed in coal country causing heavy rains and intense winds.. 
Storms scare me this time of year. Spring and late summer.. some of the worst weather can happen during change of seasons.

Somehow this makes perfect sense.. the irony..

Bank of America tower in New York City struck by lightningMaybe they should rethink the thousands of layoffs they are planning?

Get ready America

These summer nights are so fleeting. My hope that all of you, out there, are enjoying the remaining dog days of August before the whirlwind of fall arrives.

Just another day in economyland

Downer: The DOW falls yet another 400!
Jobless claims rise..
What happened to that global recovery?
Global risks..
Obama on vacation on a sunny island..
Thousands gather in Atlanta for a job fair..
Twas always thus. And always thus shall be.

Now revealed: Why Art Bell got of Carville the alien: His family thinks it’s haunted..

(I miss this guy!)

Am I the only person outright frightened of solar flares?

?

This is not a bit

First the Ed Sullivan theater ransacked and now this

An extreme Jihadist online is calling for the killing of David Letterman ..

Betty White does it again...

The most popular woman in America.

The chip to end all chips

IBM is at it again.

The future is now

If you’re not queasy at technology’s implications this may get you there: IBM is revealing that it made a chip that can mimic the human brain.. 

As the sun turns

Sunspots heating..

And now unfortunately are pointing at earth.. Today NASA released a stunning movie that is galvanizing experts. This as the sun turns to the pale blue dot…as the solar flares churn and the sun burns. 

A frightening August image.. Late summer at a purposely unnamed hospital somewhere in Pennsylvania..

I'm guessing this could be a pretty big deal?

Pakistan allowed Chinese military engineers to photograph and take samples from the top-secret stealth helicopter that US special forces left behind when they killed Osama bin Laden, the Financial Times is reporting..

You probably already knew it, but now science is coming along to the potentially correct belief: We may all be aliens

You probably already knew it, but now science is coming along to the potentially correct belief: We may all be aliens

David Cameron says the UK won't let fear take over. That said, he's still going to crack down hard on freedoms and liberties..

David Cameron says the UK won't let fear take over. That said, he's still going to crack down hard on freedoms and liberties..

Mark Zuckerberg is on Google plus.. before he upped his privacy settings that’s how he looked. After he looked even happier. FORBES has more. 

SF cell shutdown: Safety issue, or hint of Orwell?

SF cell shutdown: Safety issue, or hint of Orwell?

Now this is really cool stuff..

Imagine a planet.. absorbing all light? It’s the darkest ever planet found, it’s coal black with a slight red glow, and it was found by Kepler.

Discovered: Huge black planet that absorbs all of its light from its star
It’s coal black..
Reflects no light..
Darknest known planet..

Chimp attack victim reveals new face..

Life in the fast lane.

Whenever we get to the month of September, I begin thinking about the year in review prospects for my other site, the HorrorReport.com.. after all there would only be four months left to the year.. And now, here we are, mid August — already! The time is moving faster than I ever remembered.. is it because I have a child? A new life this year making my own zoom ahead in fast forward? Or perhaps it’s because I hit the 30-year-old mark.. halfway home depending on my social security age health..? I don’t know. But what I do think, though no science will ever prove it, the idea of time does change and it does, for some reason, go faster as you get older.. My mom and dad almost 70… my brother and sister in the 40s… and my life changing rapidly daily. All as the earth rotates into infinity..

A scene of horror before Sugarland as a surprise storm rampages state fair in Indiana

Perry in... Pawlenty out

Perry in... Pawlenty out

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The end .. is the beginning.. is the end.. is the end.

The end of today.

Goodnight.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Update

Three people were killed and 24 injured Saturday night when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair, the Indianapolis Department of Public Safety said.

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breakingnews:

Blurry video captures the moment the stage collapsed at a Sugerland concert at the Indiana State Fair, leaving at least four dead and two dozen injured.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

What do you see?

I see sleepiness…….?

Just breaking

A stage at the Indiana State Fair has collapsed, injuring an unknown number of people.

Well at least he didn’t like Michelle Bachmann… This is my son Ayden fervently paying attention to a one Herman Cain…. Maybe Ayden will just grow up to be a fan of Godfather’s Pizza….

C-Span for kids

My son seems to be mesmerized by Herman Cain. WHO AM I RAISING?!?

All night Iowa straw poll coverage on C-Span

Not sure if I should laugh or sleep.

Ron Paul ALMOST won

Ron Paul ALMOST won

No way....

Bachmann!

More on those interesting Perry and Bush similarities

More on those interesting Perry and Bush similarities

Bat attack on airline.. The CDC is now looking for 15 passengers..

Bat attack on airline.. The CDC is now looking for 15 passengers..

Good Saturday evening everyone. Hope my Iowa readers are rocking the straw polls.

Call me crazy but I’m pretty sure George W. Bush announced he’s running for a third term. I think.

I think I'm going to buy a chalkboard..

and every time Michelle Bachmann speaks, I’ll screech my fingernails across it… since I’d rather listen to that than her.

A little worries over how far a Prime Minister can go…

London’s response to riots: Lose your hat, your home, and cell phone signal..
Going to tackle ‘social problems’..
David Cameron: The iron fist?
Rights groups are uneasy about the Cameron crackdown..
Was it a ‘welfare road’ to riots?

Look to the sky this weekend

Annual Perseid meteor showers light up night sky..
Beautiful August meteor shower..

Cholera outbreak spreads in Somalia..
Famine as well..
Somalia cholera outbreak related to water and sanitation .. spreading quickly .. 
Frustration over famine relief..
Somalis flee ‘child conscription’..
Children flood hospitals..
And speaking of Somalia..the United States has been busy—hiring contractors! The US is hiring security firms to train troops.. Bancroft gets the mission .. the US is relying on contractors in the conflict..

There seems to be something fundamentally wrong with this planet, so many times over, and over again.. Prayers for Somalia (and everywhere else strife and famine rule the way)..

Police arrest dozens in Philadelphia for violating curfew

Police arrest dozens in Philadelphia for violating curfew

Prediction: Rick Perry will be the Republican nominee for President.

Other predictions:

1. Ron Paul will run as an independent.


2. Big bankers will give big money to both Perry and Obama.


3. Obama will still win. 


4. The Great Depression will continue.

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Awake now..

Goodnight now.

Sleep but avoid dreams.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Something to be a little proud of

The digital theater opens at the Schuylkill Mall

Something to be a little proud of

After midnight...

…a meteor shower is set to dazzle watchers… Good luck watching. If you have kids, as I do, you’ll most likely not be able to make it.

Another reason the future scares me

Another reason the future scares me

Friday night in August

I cannot believe how fast summer ‘11 has been..

Why do we so often forget to use a camera on a picture perfect day?

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Goodnight. 

It’s 12am on a Friday. But we’re close. 

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Ron Paul don't take no crap

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Anticipation. For…?

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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Where exactly have all the flowers gone….?

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Amazing image from London.. flames on the streets..


This image will become one of the most famous from the riots in London..


This is not a scene from Hollywood. It’s real life in London..

The world is on fire: Economy leading to unrest all around earth..
London is burning..
Poverty and prejudice..
Police flood streets..
The night the cops lost control..
BBC: From the scene..
London burning.. 
Cameron returns..
Rioters take over city streets..
Fears over 2012 Olympics..
Rioters forcing people to strip naked on the steers..
Coming next: Plastic bullets.. Water canons..
Police powerless..
Cameron pledges crackdown..
10,000 more police on the streets in London.. What’s next?

How are my readers in London tonight?

Give me any information on the latest

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The only song I can think of for a night like tonight. London on fire.. solar flares dire… Wall Street for hire. What a bad day… hopefully it will just get better tomorrow… …*Why do I doubt it will?*

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Wall Street….. take a load off. Relax. Have one, or two.. Or three. Wake up Tuesday and do it all again. It’s going to be a rocky week.

Experts warn: A second and more severe United States recession is imminent

Experts warn: A second and more severe United States recession is imminent

This man … did this!? Did Soros Make $1B Betting on US Downgrade??

zainyk:

Google map of reported riots and civil disturbance in London.

More from London... And not good news, either

Joblessness, service cuts could fuel more UK rioting

Momma said there’s be days like this. And I’m sure ‘mum’ did too.. Too much in bad news today.. my head is spinning.