This is not normal weather for Istanbul: A tornado..
With it came heavy rains and high winds on Saturday..
Some roads were submerged.. firefighters worked through the weekend to pull cars out of water..
The tornado hit after an excessively hot week in the nation..
But though it’s rare, it’s not the first time in very recent memory that Istanbul got hit with a twister..
Back in June, another tornado hit the Eastern part of the nation..
Weather indeed in a changin’…
While some mock it, and others decry the acting skills, I quite loved it. How can it not be loved.. I certainly will not review it, rate it, or recommend it.. unless you’ve got a well established group of friends who, perhaps a wee bit, are under the influence of some sort of legalized liquid mind changer. Otherwise, you’re forced to see the movie for what it is: A tremendous waste of time.
But that’s why I loved it.
Time was meant to be wasted, especially on a Sunday night when the other real new programming on is HOARDERS..
Tara Reid? Oh my.. but making up for her lack of skills to deliver a solid line even in a joke film: Al Roker and Matt Lauer driving sharp objects through CGI sharks. That cannot be missed..
So watch this at your own peril.. try to make it a group thing. If it’s not.. you’ll wonder why you did what you just did..
This Iselle.. it’s currently a hurricane churning the Pacific Ocean.. it is expected to impact all of the Hawaiian islands later this week—precautions are being made and actions are being taken now .. residents are preparing..
Hopefully forecasters are right at the storm will be downgraded to a tropical storm or even less.. but if that happens, it won’t cut down the rain that is expected to fall..
Any fluctuation with the storm, and different models take hold. A potential hit on the big island can still happen..
Fresh water from Lake Erie..
Not safe to drink.. Not safe to shower. Not even safe to look at..
The residents of Toledo, Ohio, are getting even more horrid news today.. Despite earlier allowances by officials to bathe and shower in water (as featured here) in their city, now they are being warned not to use it to clean their bodies.. this after days of restrictions has 500,000 people scrambling to get fresh water..
Story keeps getting worse..
Hopefully the toxicity of the water allows life to resume soon..
But looking at pictures like this, and others featured in news articles about the Erie algae bloom, the water looks more like the vat of chemicals that made Jack Napier the JOKER in 1989 BATMAN movie..
This is a dramatic scene of Biblical proportion devastation—at a Biblical camp ground in California!
More than 2,500 are stranded .. residents of Oak Glen and Forest Falls in the San Bernardino mountains of the Left Coast state were hit by freak flash floods. Mudslides began to create a hell on earth scene .. now those who are cut off include 500 adults and children at a Christian campground…
The pictures and videos tell a thousands stories.. or in this case, 2500
Here’s one of a dramatic wall of water.
Apparently no ark was handy at the moment..
Prayers will be flowing, undoubtedly, by those stuck by nature..
I didn’t pay much attention to world events yesterday, so when I actually read the pages of my local newspaper today, I was informed of something monumentally big that I don’t think too many news networks even covered: A shallow 6.1 earthquake in China has killed almost 400.. 1800 injured.. 12,000 homes have been destroyed.
And now, as though God didn’t do enough, torrential rains are slowing down relief efforts, and probably creating a soggy hell on earth for all hit by the earth event..
The biggest impact was in the city of Zhaotong .. Roads and bridges are out.. the military has been sent in.. As more people are being pulled from rubble, it’s expected to have an increased injury and death toll.. once the rains allow rescue workers to get to them, that is..
Until then.. dramatic photos are being taken and published for the world to see.. The one that most affected me was a Chinese soldier rushing a baby to safety.. But how many innocent others are gone..?
Staff tell of fears as jet from Africa is quarantined after the death of passenger who was ’sweating and vomiting’ before she collapsed
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The woman, said to be 72, became ill on the gangway after she left a Gambia Bird jet with 128 passengers on board. She died in hospital.
Ebola has killed 256 people in Sierra Leone. A total of 826 have died in West Africa since the outbreak began in February. Tests are now being carried out to see if the woman had disease.
The plane was quarantined as officials desperately tried to trace everyone who had been in contact with the woman.
But before emotions get wild and assumptions get made: This is not yet ruled Ebola related. As a matter of fact, the MIRROR goes on to report—deep in the article—
The passenger was taken to hospital and sadly died.
“In line with standard procedures, tests are being undertaken to determine the cause of death.
“The patient’s symptoms suggest that Ebola is very unlikely but as a precaution this is one of the tests being undertaken.
It is a matter of time, of course, before cases pop up outside of Africa.. The world is too connected and close for that not to occur. It’s just the hope that health officials will calmly take matters into their responsible hands.. and that panic will not ensue.
Like today…when the vomiting 72-year-old led to a world crisis.
A 12-year-old girl is the latest victim to suffer horrific burns taking part of the “fire challenge” she saw on Facebook and YouTube.
Can we please go back to the ‘cold water challenge’? I never thought I’d say that..
That or maybe it’s time Marky Mark Zuckerberg placed some renewed age restrictions again..
The Fire Challenge may be the dumbest things dumb kids have done yet. Yet.
Welcome to the lavish gold covered house of God. Where Bishops enjoy all the worldly possessions .. hypocrites ..
Phosphorus levels are lower today than they were in 2007, and in 2007 when they were higher the algae bloom being blamed for this water crisis did not exist.. among the reasons, scientists are now speculating, climate change and warmer temperatures.
But the only wrinkle of doubt and logic I will throw in that theory would be how cold all of the Great Lakes were this year, even up until now…
I was perplexed as the mysterious ‘lady in black’ roamed small town America.. news media organizations followed her, Twitter did too.. Facebook posts and pages were dedicated to her. She was on a ‘religious mission,’ she said.. she said she worked for the Pentagon, others claim she did not.
The woman walked cloaked in black with a walking stick.. the frenzy over her appearances got to the point where, on Wednesday, she apparently had enough. Police officers swept her away from a crowd of dozens of people this past week in Winchester, Virginia. And with that, the long national mystery has become even more mysterious..
The police say “she wants to be left alone.” Which is understandable.. As a matter of fact, on her long voyage on foot through the states she went to, she never went to the media or broadcast her perils or plight to the world. Instead, social media was the buzz buzzing over her existence.. And with it came thousands of comments about what she was doing and where she was going.. some even thought she was a sign of dreadful things to come, in the same way that the Mothman did.. Others saw her as a sad person on a special voyage for personal ambitions.. Facebook posts began defending her and demanding others stop mocking her travels..
Religious voyage?
Woman with mental problems?
Those mysteries may remain just that.. as the lady in black vanishes into the night..
An American infected with the Ebola virus in West Africa was flown on Saturday to the Atlanta area to receive treatment. But not before the plane carrying the patient made a pit stop in New England.
But no one will be harmed by the stopping of the Ebola patient plane..
The paranoia in my is strong: My first inclination was to immediately remember the peaceful scene presented in the book and TV movie THE STAND.. Maine was the place where Frannie Goldsmith lived with her father. Molly Ringwald in the TV version..
Hope Frannie will be ok.
….so this guy, without any protective gear, was sneaking behind walls to take a photo of the Ebola patient arriving in Emory..
Either stupidity.. or perhaps a clear sign that my hunch is right: This was a decoy van for publicity and media attention while the real one was either there already or going in another way..
This is what store shelves in Toleda Ohio look like right now.. organisms in the water.. not a drop to drink. OR boil.
A few reports online say that water is clear out empty in stores 25 miles away from Toledo in Delta, OH.. additionally, people are driving as far as Michigan and Indiana to buy bottled water..
In crisis, people either act like amazing patrons of glory or rabid animals looking for a quick piece of human flesh.. In this Twitter picture, we see a car so weighed down by all the water a woman purchased that her car got stuck..
So the bottled water is gone.. remaining: Propel on the right hand side.. Perrier *(I think)* to the left.. but who drinks that..
A few more news curating duties before turning off the ill-colored monitor.. the light from which has been making my eyes go dizzy over the past week. Not because of the aura of blue it emits, but instead because of the FTPed and HTMLed information that has been given to me on it.. news of the weird and wild, hurtful and harmful.. Ebola on a jet plane and an ambulance ride that the world watched. Obama vs Congress vs the Immigrants. Part 4. Justin Bieber. Ninja Turtles.. Crudeness, rudeness. Overt blasts to the past.. my mind is numb.
But not numb enough to ignore a few more tidbits of information this late Saturday night…
A CNN ‘ireport' shows us the moment when the now world famous Ebola patient walked into Emory University Hospital. The woman was there seeing her father. She heard about the Ebolaman .. she got the Ebola: She left her father to film history.. Not sure if that’s something I’d do. But she did..
There has been fear and loathing in Las Vegas. And also lots of fear over Ebola in Atlanta.. but here’s some facts: This is how you get Ebola, what happens when you have it, and why you die a short time after being infected. If the article was meant to quell fears, it did not of that for me.. instead it just increased my paranoia about Ebola being willingly being brought onto the shores ..
Top WHO officials say that Ebola is outstripping control efforts.. IN Africa. But in the United States, the United Nations tells us still, risk remains low of a Captain Tripps the STAND end of the world scenario. But that’s what they said in the movie too, then the Army blasted their way in to Rae Flowers’ radio show. And the rest was television and novel history.
And finally, on Ebola, call me crazy *many often due*.. but I got to thinking about today’s live coverage on networks of the ambulance—without even a car of police protection in sight—taking the Ebola patient to Emory. I hope, truly hope, that it was staged.. I hope that some wild conspiracy took place, and that actors were paid to throw off the news nets while the real Ebola patient was transmitted the right way.. The more I thought about the slow motion ambulance drive, the more I really began hoping that what we witnessed was simply a staged presentation …
Those in Toledo Ohio tonight have been shocked into a world without water.. warnings have been sounded: Don’t drink, and don’t even BOIL the liquid.. Apparently 600,000 people on the west end of the never clean Lake Erie have been told to avoid the basic ingredient to a good day: H20. Water at a Toledo treatment plant tested positive for microcystin, a toxin known to cause liver and kidney damage.. Governor Kasich declared a state of emergency.. Residents are now forced to wait. Bottled water is going fast..
@Time magazine this week featured a cover story about ‘manopause’ and the male race to increase their manhood.. but we are not told tonight in reports that, quite a long time ago, that a decrease in male testosterone led the world to beautiful art and amazing civilized humans. I knew the Bronies were on to something good…
Some interesting news from the GHOSTBUSTERS 3 universe.. apparently, VARIETY reports, the movie may feature an all-female cast.. Apparently Sony and Paul Feig are conversing over the possibilities.. Maybe even as we speak. It may be a good idea, too.. movies are trending more towards the feminine hero side.. THOR will be a woman, LUCY was the show last week.. and now a team of all women hunting SLIMER may be next..
Now that Bill Murray may be free of GHOSTBUSTERS, minus the predictable cameo we all hope for, he will be busy doing the voice of BALOO in the JUNGLE BOOK.
Here’s some raunchy stuff, since it’s a Saturday night. Forgive me the indulgence if you read it Sunday: Transgender to have a penis made from tattooed skin on his arm. Chances are, if you’re German in Germany, and a male, you have had penis enlargement surgery.. An anatomically correct doll has parents freaking out. And a mastiff dog bit off a man’s penis while he was in conversation. Surely the painful subject of which will be the topic of conversation for many conversations to come.
That’s the story until the morning’s glory.
So if you’re out and about, have a drink on me. I used to go out, but that’s so pre-internet. Right?
Enjoy the music.. play a song and dance. You are the show.
I wish I was enjoying the show like some of my friends tonight in Philly.. Next time, Billy Joel.. next time.
And I’m glad you enjoyed the movie thepete
Evenin’ all.
