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  • Are Wind Turbines Killing These 100,000 Pound Mammals?

    10/10/2023 8:55:22 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 17 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 10/10/23 | Matt Macgregor
    Former President Donald Trump said recently that "windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before."(Illustration by The Epoch Times)His comments, made at a campaign rally in South Carolina, were quickly ground through the fact-checking mills of legacy media outlets such as The Guardian and the BBC."They’re washing up ashore. I saw it this weekend, three of them came up. You wouldn’t see it once a year. Now they’re coming up on a weekly basis," President Trump said.The Guardian called his allegation a "lengthy and largely baseless attack on wind turbines for causing large numbers of whales to...
  • New England braces for post-tropical cyclone Philippe with threat of heavy winds, rain and power outages - as New York City is put under ANOTHER flood warning

    10/06/2023 7:47:32 PM PDT · by Libloather · 15 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 10/06/23 | Martha Williams
    The Northeast looks to another wet weekend ahead as the remnants of Tropical Storm Philippe and an incoming cold front will soak New England and potentially flood New York for a second time in a fortnight. Tropical Storm Philippe lashed Bermuda with heavy rains and winds but lost steam and was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone Friday as it churned northward on a path toward Atlantic Canada and New England. But the East Coast won't be spared by the storm as its remnants combined with a eastward-moving cold front will make for another rainy weekend. Maine is set to be...
  • NYC and Boston brace for Hurricane Lee as forecast models show Category 5 storm could slam into the East Coast with 160mph winds and enormous storm surges

    09/08/2023 2:35:56 AM PDT · by Libloather · 56 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 9/08/23 | Harriet Alexander
    Models show Hurricane Lee could slam into the East Coast next week, bringing deadly storm surge and heavy rains to Boston and New York City, as it conjures memories of Superstorm Sandy's catastrophic impact on the region. On Thursday, Hurricane Lee was churning in the open waters to the northeast of the Caribbean as a Category 4 storm and heading toward the Leeward Islands. The storm has picked up steam in the last day and now has winds in excess of 130mph. 'Lee continues to strengthen at an exceptional rate,' the National Hurricane Center stated. The European model of the...
  • Buttigieg knocks ‘East Coast elite’ over criticism of East Palestine train derailment response

    03/05/2023 12:05:29 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/05/2023 | Stephen Neukam
    Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg fired back at Republican criticism over his response to the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, blasting his critics as “card-carrying members of the East Coast elite.” “It’s really rich to see some of these folks — the former president, these Fox hosts — who are literally lifelong card-carrying members of the East Coast elite, whose top economic policy priority has always been tax cuts for the wealthy, and who wouldn’t know their way around a T.J. Maxx if their life depended on it, to be presenting themselves as if they...
  • East Coast flooding threat from bomb cyclone likely near Superstorm Sandy levels

    12/22/2022 8:44:40 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 63 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/22/2022 | Chris Oberholtz, FOX Weather
    One of the worst major coastal flooding events on record — likely near Superstorm Sandy levels — is imminent for parts of the Eastern Seaboard as a soon-to-be bomb cyclone enters the Northeast. This comes in the absence of blizzard conditions on the warm side of the dangerous winter storm that is walloping the Midwest and Great Lakes as it begins to spread toward the East Coast ahead of the Christmas holiday weekend. The Fox Forecast Center said windswept rain is expected Friday in the Northeast as powerful winds blast the region with widespread 50-plus-mph wind gusts. In addition, 60-...
  • High Octane Gas Has Never Been This Expensive Versus Regular As Supply Crunch Crushes East Coast

    06/14/2022 6:37:12 PM PDT · by blam · 10 replies
    Zubu Brothers ^ | 6-14-2022
    In a time of rising gasoline demand and refinery bottlenecks, the US could use more octane as the spread between premium gas (octane level of 93) and regular gas (octane level of 87) has blown out. Premium fuels eliminate engine knock in high-performance vehicles that have high compression engines. For most vehicles, using regular gas is advised and cheaper. Wholesale premium fuel sells for 62.50 cents more per gallon, a record high. Bloomberg explains the blowout of the spread is due to “low supplies of octane,” which may exacerbate gasoline supply tightness this summer for premium fuel, adding it could...
  • Large, Parachuting Spiders Could Soon Invade the East Coast, Study Finds

    03/08/2022 2:24:14 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 29 replies
    Smithsonian Magazine ^ | March 8, 2022 | Margaret Osborne
    The authors say the arachnids are harmless to people and pets and may even eat pests like stink bugsLast year in Georgia, the non-native Joro spider population exploded. Golden webs draped porches, powerlines and mailboxes across at least 25 counties in the state, per the Hexapod Herald’s Michele Hatcher. “I have several hundred, and they actually make the place look spooky with all the messy webs—like a scene out of 'Arachnophobia,'” entomologist Will Hudson of the University of Georgia Extension told the Herald last fall. The spiders are large and eye-catching, about the size of a human adult’s palm, with...
  • Snowstorm could develop into first bomb cyclone of 2022

    01/07/2022 5:20:59 AM PST · by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh · 72 replies
    msn ^ | 1/7/2022 | Colin Martin
    The second major snowstorm in five days hit the East Coast on Thursday, and AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Joe Lundberg said it could develop into the first bomb cyclone of 2022. A bomb cyclone is said to occur when a storm's central pressure plummets 24 millibars within 24 hours. The mid-latitude cyclone rapidly intensifies, causing the atmospheric pressure to quickly drop and strengthening the storm. The lower the pressure, the more powerful the storm. Lake-effect snow has already hit Buffalo, NY, accumulating almost 10 inches as of 10 a.m., according to AccuWeather. "Heavy snow at the Buffalo airport this morning has...
  • Escape From LA: More Container Business Flees To East Coast

    12/22/2021 2:31:36 PM PST · by blam · 11 replies
    Zubu Brothers ^ | 12-22-2021 | Greg Miller of FreightWaves
    If so many container ships are stuck in the Pacific Ocean, waiting for weeks for a berth in Los Angeles or Long Beach, why not reschedule calls to another port? Why not make like Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken in the circa-1996 film and “Escape from LA”?It’s not that simple, given how much warehousing and transloading capacity is built around the Southern California gateway — and congestion is affecting every port in America. Even so, shippers and carriers are indeed moving to sidestep Los Angeles/Long Beach. In the ongoing battle for Asian imports between the West Coast and East Coast,...
  • People in the eastern United States should be concerned about earthquakes… Here’s why

    08/07/2021 4:01:45 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 29 replies
    ss ^ | 8/7/21 | ss
    Why should people in the eastern United States be concerned about earthquakes? 1) Severe earthquakes have occurred in the eastern U.S. In November of 1755, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.0 and a maximum intensity of 7.0 occurred about 50 miles northeast of Boston, Massachusetts. Boston was heavily damaged. Other strong earthquakes recorded in the continental US were centered in southeastern Missouri near the border with Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee. In the winter of 1811-1812, a series of three powerful earthquakes of magnitudes about 7.0 to 7.8 and hundreds of aftershocks occurred near New Madrid, Missouri.
  • Experts say a long resolution to pipeline cyberattack could hit consumers' wallets

    05/09/2021 8:50:41 AM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 39 replies
    FOX 5 Atlanta ^ | May 9 2021 | Brooke Zauner
    ATLANTA - Days after an Alpharetta-based energy company reported a ransomware attack and halted its operations amid an investigation, it's still unclear how consumers will be affected and if a fuel shortage on the East Coast is imminent. Colonial Pipeline moves gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and home heating oil from refineries primarily located on the Gulf Coast through pipelines running from Texas to New Jersey. It is a major supplier of fuel and delivers an estimated 45% of all fuel consumed on the East Coast. The Georgia-based company said it transports more than 100 million gallons of fuel daily, through...
  • Ransomware attack shuts down largest gas pipeline in USA…

    05/08/2021 10:33:09 AM PDT · by Beave Meister · 38 replies
    Citizen Free Press ^ | 5/8/2021 | Kane
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. energy company says a cyberattack forced it to temporarily halt all operations on a major pipeline that delivers roughly 45% of all fuel consumed on the East Coast. Colonial Pipeline said the attack took place Friday and also affected some of its information technology systems. The company transports gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and home heating oil from refineries primarily located on the Gulf Coast through pipelines running from Texas to New Jersey. The Alpharetta, Georgia-based company said it hired an outside cybersecurity firm to investigate the nature and scope of the attack and has also...
  • Cyberattack Forces a Shutdown of a Top U.S. Pipeline Operator (carrying almost half of East Coast fuel supply)

    05/08/2021 7:17:53 AM PDT · by george76 · 56 replies
    DNYUZ ^ | May 8, 2021
    A cyberattack forced the shutdown of one of the largest pipelines in the United States, in what appeared to be a significant attempt to disrupt vulnerable energy infrastructure. The pipeline carries refined gasoline and jet fuel up the East Coast from Texas to New York. The operator of the system, Colonial Pipeline, said in a statement late Friday that it had shut down its 5,500 miles of pipeline, which it says carries 45 percent of the East Coast’s fuel supplies, in an effort to contain the attack on its computer networks. Earlier Friday, there were disruptions along the pipeline, but...
  • New York Gov. Cuomo: ‘The worst is over if we continue to be smart’ about coronavirus

    04/13/2020 10:35:42 AM PDT · by abb · 28 replies
    CNBC ^ | April 13, 2020 | Dan Mangan, Noah Higgins-Dunn, Kevin Breuninger
    New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday the state is “controlling the spread” of the coronavirus, and it appears that “the worst is over ... if we continue to be smart going forward.” But he pointed to a flattening of the daily death toll, the flattening in the net number of hospitalizations and a drop in the number of people on ventilators as evidence that radical measures such as the shuttering of nonessential businesses have helped to contain the virus. Cuomo said he will make an announcement later Monday about plans for reopening the state in conjunction with some other...
  • Fireball spotted in sky above New York

    01/09/2019 7:30:03 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 45 replies
    N Y Post ^ | January 9, 2019 | 4:08pm | y Tamar Lapin
    More than 190 people reported seeing the gleaming rock between 6:35 a.m. and 6:45 a.m., in seven states on the East Coast, according to the American Meteor Society, a not-for-profit that tracks meteor sightings. Video posted on Twitter shows what appears to be the fireball dipping down in the clear blue sky over West New York in Hudson County, N.J. One person reported seeing the astronomical event in Flushing, Queens, at 6:35 a.m., and two minutes later, another lucky onlooker spotted the fireball from Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, AMS said. Thousands of fireballs and meteors occur in the earth’s...
  • Florence Forecast To Become A Major Hurricane And Risk To The East Coast Is Rising

    09/08/2018 2:33:33 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 26 replies
    npr ^ | September 8, 20183:21 PM ET | SHann Van Sant
    Tropical Storm Florence is quickly approaching the eastern United States, and according to the National Hurricane Center, the storm's threat to the East Coast keeps rising. The storm is traveling over warm water, and is expected to increase its speed and become a hurricane Saturday night. The National Hurricane Center forecasts Florence will be a dangerous major hurricane near the southeast U.S. coast by late next week, "and the risk of direct impacts continues to increase." "However, given the uncertainty in track and intensity forecasts at those time ranges," the National Hurricane Center tweeted, "it's too soon to determine the...
  • Rick Perry cheers first natural gas export terminal on East Coast

    09/05/2018 6:48:37 PM PDT · by Coleus · 11 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 07.26.18 | John Siciliano
    Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Thursday christened the first natural gas export terminal on the East Coast, at the Cove Point facility in Maryland outside of Washington. “We can become a reliable competitive alternative anywhere in the world, and we will,” Perry said in remarks opening the second natural gas export terminal in the country. Energy exports are key to Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda, and Perry said the president fully supports the new terminal. “This president understands the power of energy and he is eager to unleash our bounty to the world, which is why he is so supportive of...
  • Thundersnow hammers the East Coast, and so do the jokes

    03/07/2018 3:39:08 PM PST · by EdnaMode · 65 replies
    CNET ^ | March 7, 2018 | Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
    Because the snowstorm currently hitting the East Coast isn't enough, it's also bringing with it thundersnow. That weather phenomenon is exactly what it sounds like: a snowstorm that features thunder and lightning. Very, very frightening. "Thunderstorms accompanied by snow are usually of a different character than the 'normal' thunderstorm," Weather.com explained in 2015. "Thundersnow develops when the air is below freezing near the ground, and unlike most summer thunderstorms, it isn't near-ground air that rises all the way into the tall thunderstorm top. The instability is in only a shallow layer aloft. In thundersnow, the 'action' mainly takes place in...
  • The Winter Storm Slamming The East Coast Is Becoming A 'Bomb Cyclone' — NWS - 'Life Or Death'

    03/02/2018 9:43:48 AM PST · by blam · 194 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 3-2-2018 | Kevin Loria
    At the start of 2018, a nor'easter winter storm intensified so quickly that it became what meteorologists call a "bomb cyclone." It appears that's happening again. Winter storm Riley, as the Weather Channel has named it, is bringing potentially record-setting flooding to the Northeast, dumping rain and snow, and whipping the East Coast with wind gusts that are expected to reach hurricane force. The storm is now undergoing a rapid intensification process called "bombogenesis," which means its central pressure is dropping quickly (an indicator of a storm's strength). Such bomb cyclone conditions are not uncommon for nor'easter storms. But this...
  • Stunning Photos From Space Show The 'Bomb Cyclone' Blasting The US East Coast (Awesome)

    01/04/2018 2:41:39 PM PST · by blam · 146 replies
    The huge storm was born when a surge of moist ocean air spiraled north to meet a frigid blast of Arctic air — the perfect recipe for a Nor'easter. The winter storm has gained considerable strength over the past 24 hours, leading to what may be the region's most intense (and rapidly intensifying) in more than 40 years, according to Eric Holthaus, a meteorologist and writer. Thousands of flights have been canceled as a result, stranding travelers all over the US. Although the storm's power is impressive from the ground, it takes on a whole other dimension in images taken...