Posted on 06/01/2006 1:08:49 PM PDT by Buck Ninety-Nine
WASHINGTON, May 31 — After vowing to steer a greater share of antiterrorism money to the highest-risk communities, Department of Homeland Security officials on Wednesday announced 2006 grants that slashed money for New York and Washington 40 percent, while other cities including Omaha and Louisville, Ky., got a surge of new dollars.
Homeland security officials said the grants were a result of a more sophisticated evaluation process
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Er...I lost the URL, Irish...seeing your score, my grandson is now intrigued...
Hello, Folks!
Sitting here waiting to find out if my hubby's getting sent out on a new fire assignment....
Hey, Girl...I'm only here for a minute, then I have to run again.
It's ugly here, but more due to the monsoons in AZ than the fires in NV.
We have salt water, and lots of seagulls here, but no ocean...it's not the same...
Elko's burning up again...but there's the double nickle not too far away from you....lots of lightning i've been seeing on the lightning maps...
When I get my computer set up again, I'll get those URLs from you...the temps and the lightning strikes. I have no place to put them now...:o|
Just let me know...I have lots and lots of links for weather, fire, lightning, hurricane, earthquake...Just call me Calamity KAC.....
You used to have an inland sea. It was called Lake Bonneville.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://geologyindy.byu.edu/faculty/rah/slides/Rock%2520Canyon/Lake%2520Bonneville/Pleisocene-Lakes.jpg&imgrefurl=http://geologyindy.byu.edu/faculty/rah/slides/Rock%2520Canyon/Lake%2520Bonneville/paleo_map.htm&h=525&w=400&sz=331&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=fEPqo9WNG9FbvM:&tbnh=132&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3DLake%2BBonneville%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26c2coff%3D1%26rls%3DRNWE,RNWE:2004-20,RNWE:en%26sa%3DN
That's just a big lake.
I look up at the bench that marked the ancient shoreline and feel awe to realize how much water was here once upon a time.
It was a BIG lake.
And even after the water broke out and ran down the snake river channel, it didn't drain all of the lake...the change in climate did that.
Things to meditate on, when you realize how things do really change.
Here's a geological description of the event. Whoa!
http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/hydr/lkbflood/lbf.htm
Here ya go:
http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~lee/deanimator.html
Goodnight!! :D
Good Night, Irish!
Try to give your trigger finger a rest.
One of the high points of my childhood was finding fossils in the foothills. Most of them were just lying on the ground, or could be had with very little digging.
I used to like climbing trees.
I've slowed down on that.
It's not falling that hurts - it's when you stop!
Who said anything about falling?
Young male humans are good at brachiating.
I used to climb trees, too. And I could throw farther than anyone my age. But not today...I don't even climb stairs, and the best throw I have now is two points for wadded up paper into a waste basket. ;o]
It's three points from the other side of the room.
You need to practice throwing things if you want to remain skilled at it. When's the last time you threw a tantrum?
But it pales to what happened when the Lake Missoula icedam failed...and that failed perhaps more than once!
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