There was a horrendous crash in Pennsylvania today – deaths and injuries occurred on Interstate 78 ..
It was a major accident that occurred during a snow squall..
Here is one video of someone describing the events, sounding like ‘bombs’ ..
Sadness for the loss of life and injuries..
And a stark reminder of the dangers of snow squalls and how they could change life immediately on roads..
Take caution during situations like this..
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The third largest earthquake in recorded state history rocked parts of western Oklahoma on Saturday morning near the site of other large, recent temblors.
The quake registered a 5.1 magnitude and was recorded northwest of Fairview at 11:07 a.m., according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey.
A 3.9 aftershock followed about 10 minutes after the earthquake, according to the USGS….
Another entry into the ‘death of the coal region’ tag..
This is a pretty big deal, in my opinion.. it’s these events, parades and fireworks, that so often unite small towns with the Americana feel.
The coal region of Pennsylvania, dwindling in population but surging in drug problems and alcoholism, is leading to a rebirth of something much, much worse.
The fireworks are canceled.
The show is over.
All that remains?
A distant memory of thunder over Ashland…
May the county rest in peace.
Too close to home.. This taking place in the heart of the formerly great coal region of Pennsylvania. And it’s disgusting to its core..
A grandmother, watching her granddaughter, kills her.. the story has been picked up globally by the ASSOCIATED PRESS due to the shocking nature of the crime. This is the AP dispatch:
A northeastern Pennsylvania grandmother is charged in the suffocation death of her 14-month-old granddaughter.
Pietrina Hoffman, of Mahanoy City, was arraigned Friday in Schuylkill County.
Police accuse 52-year-old Hoffman of smothering Navaeh Doyle on Jan. 10 while she was babysitting the toddler.
An autopsy determined the girl died from asphyxia by smothering. She was sent to county prison without bail pending a preliminary hearing Feb. 25.
Awful.. Just awful.
I get tremendous rage when innocence is broken. I get angry to my very core when some adult, an adult who is supposed to be responsible and loving, does nothing of the kind and instead murders and destroys the beauty of life.
EW REPORTING:
“In the first return episode screened for reporters (trailer below), paranormal investigators Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) team up with a charming web-series host named Tad O’Malley (played by the usually comedic Joel McHale, here in a dramatic role). The character, loosely based on conservative online personalities Alex Jones and Glenn Beck, bashes the “liberal media” in the episode; at one point, Mulder compares O’Malley to Fox News host Bill O’Reilly (“What Bill O’Reilly knows about the truth can fill an eyedropper,” O’Malley retorts). ”
The home near Perryopolis appeared in “The Silence of the Lambs” is up for sale. In the film, the three-story Victorian was the home of a serial killer nicknamed Buffalo Bill.
But he house isn’t selling.. It looks quite beautiful though has some plumbing issues.. It’s also in a remote area of Pennsylvania..
Perhaps some people think that Bill from SILENCE OF THE LAMBS actually existed? Maybe they think real murders happened?
The cutting curse of fame.
It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets no sale again..
“One bit of advice to the moms: When a baby cries because he’s hugry, feed him. Feel free to feed him here.”“
Bowie died surrounded by family after a long battle with cancer..
From his most recent song LAZARUS, the first line:
Look up here, I’m in heaven / I’ve got scars, that can’t be seen’ to the image of his frail body dressed in black climbing inside an armoire
Bowie was a star for the ages.. an unforgettable personality who swept through culture like a hurricane.. He was the one who ended up dry after the storm.
He gave us hits, classics.. he gave us Major Tom and ground control’s epic final conversation.. He gave us memories. And by God, he gave us amazing music.
He’s gone today.. And he will be missed.
The world is intrigued by Sean Penn meeting with El Chapo.. The Rolling Stone published the interview just as the drug kingpin was re-arrested. . The interview is bizarre. Controversial. People are angry at Penn. The issue even became a campaign talking point for Republicans on the trail, Marco Rubio today saying it was out of line but not illegal. There are, however, some interesting interview comments that the interview has given the world to digest and contemplate.. Among them:
The Steelers/Bengals game turned into a chaotic farce of football Saturday night..
Paul Doughterty, a sports writer from Ohio, expresses the feelings of a nation who watched the dangerous game:
Too many stupid things happened. Passion has its place in football. Reckless stupidity does not.
I won’t go into detail about the game, its frantic finish yet another eye-stab. You saw it. You don’t need to read about it.
It’s mindless to blame a few plays or a few players for a loss that had more twists than a medieval thumb screw. It might have been easier had the Bengals lost 15-0. Chalk it up to another playoff fade. Only, they didn’t fade. They took the lead, 16-15, and with a first down at the Steelers’ 26 with 1:36 left, had the game won.
Only this is January and these are the Bengals so Jeremy Hill, bless him, fumbled. Then Ben Roethlisberger, whose right shoulder was ground meat, took Pittsburgh 74 yards in nine plays. Chris Boswell kicked a 35-yard field goal with 14 seconds left to send Cincinnati to its most crushing loss in … forever.
It was a nasty, nasty playoff game.
No one won the grand Powerball prize. The new grand rise over a billion bucks.. Holy moly all that’s holy
This event is taking place Friday and tonight.. Loud reports of booms in York Pennsylvania.. Officials and authorities are checking the integrity of infrastructure..
The YORK COUNTY paper reports: “Also on Saturday, local authorities contacted dam operators at the Indian Rock Dam around 5:30 p.m. to check the dam’s integrity, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Chris Augsburger said. The dam is operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Dam operators, who walked with local authorities around the dam, did not find any damage, Augsburger said.”
The most recent explanation being given at the hour: Frost quakes…
Sensible perhaps.
But when considering the endless boom and explosions taking place across the planet since about seven Januarys now, this is just another example is something strange below our feet.
This one is close to home for me.
John Schindler writes this in the Observer tonight:
“ Back in October I told you that Hillary Clinton’s email troubles were anything but over, and that the scandal over her misuse of communications while she was Secretary of State was sure to get worse. Sure enough, EmailGate continues to be a thorn in the side of Hillary’s presidential campaign and may have just entered a new, potentially explosive phase with grave ramifications, both political and legal.”
Three hospital staff were injured while trying to stop the destruction and six bodies being prepared in the mortuary were covered by falling debris.
Pictures of the Henan province hospital show collapsed walls and upturned medical devices.
