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What caught your eye today.
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03-Sep-2009, 08:17 PM
Sad to read about the devastation caused by the fires in California and hope that the situation improves soon -Greece too has suffered again this year and the prospects for Australia don't look too good in some areas as it is already very dry and the hot weather has not yet started.
Maybe we should be grateful for our wet stuff after all.
03-Sep-2009, 11:52 PM
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Originally posted by anacortesdamp I'd much rather have a mild earthquake every 10 years or so than have to put up with the hurricanes that Rocket Man sees almost every year. Frank Quite, Frank. I can remember where I was the last time one hit the part of the North West I'm in! Mind you, it had a tin roof, so a hurricane might have been fun, too!
03-Sep-2009, 11:54 PM
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Originally posted by Lynne no matter what the Scots did it would have been wrong And, frankly, better to be thought wrong letting him go than proved wrong convicting him :-(
04-Sep-2009, 12:52 AM
The trial of the two young children who beat up and almost killed the other two children. How sad is it that we are bringing up children with no concept of right or wrong. How confused are they and what type of parenting did they have. So very sad for all of these children.
04-Sep-2009, 10:03 AM
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Originally posted by muffers The trial of the two young children who beat up and almost killed the other two children. How sad is it that we are bringing up children with no concept of right or wrong. How confused are they and what type of parenting did they have. So very sad for all of these children. And how sad our police don't seem caspable of being able to stop them before they become killers like poor little Jamie Bulger's killers who have been given new identities, let out early to protect their "human rights" what a nonesense no wonder we are the laughing stock of the world.
06-Sep-2009, 03:30 AM
Violence across the whole community, against children, youths, the aged and vulnerable has increased out of sight in New Zealand- the Clean green image is tarnished. When i first arrived in 1975 there was one murder(at least on the news) that year and everyone was horrified. Now it is a daily announcement. Our children are suffering dreadfully and I hate to sound racist but it is mainly amongst the Maori population. A child dies from abuse every 5 weeks in NZ. 2 bodies found under a house yesterday paint yet more gruesome images of what is happening in this relatively peaceful corner of the earth!!
06-Sep-2009, 05:22 AM
Among all the angst posted here, what caught my eye today was the weather. We woke up this morning, after a gorgeous 75-degree (F, of course) summer day yesterday, to grey skies, 45F, rain and strong winds (35 knots gusting to 50).
I commented to Eileen, at breakfast, that "You'd think it was the start of the Blackpool Illuminations". Imagine the surprise, when I opened today's BBC News on line to find that they were switched on Friday evening! I understand the Blackpool winds were there on cue also, as the planned radio broadcast from the top of the Tower was abandoned because the Tower was closed due to wind! The other thing in today's weather reports that still gives me a moment's reflection when I hear it, is the snow level report. This morning, hikers were warned that the snow level would fall from 14,000 feet to around 6,000 feet and to expect up to 2 feet of snow at the higher elevations. Even after living here all these years, it's still a wake-up call when you realise that hiking trails go all the way up to 10,000 feet, less than 50 miles from home. After reading about the various forms of mayhem reported in other parts of the world, I'm really happy with things here in Anacortes. Boring as hell sometimes, but relatively safe. We don't have any CCTV set-ups in the municipal areas. A few folks have them on their expensive waterfont homes and the bus company I used to work for has them at the main station in Mount Vernon, 20 miles away. Frank
Frank Damp (wife Eileen, nee Nixon)
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968, retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999. 
06-Sep-2009, 05:58 PM
Frank, What caught my eye was the fact that once again, England has somehow managed to bye-pass summer. The official reason is that the gulf stream is positioned too far north. Why this happens NOBODY knows. But as we had been promised a `BBQ Summer`, somebody at the met office got it dreadfully wrong.
I am not sure to what extent climate change is affecting us at the present time, but what I DO know is the fact that NOTHING we can do can alter the pattern. A far greater problem lies in the fact that the earth`s magnetic field is changing (as it has done, many times in the last million years). Can you imagine the North Pole really being the South? What about GPS and EVERY compass in the world being wrong?
Jim
06-Sep-2009, 06:38 PM
Jim, someone in our paper today was complaining that the weather forecast of a BBQ summer had been right for their area. Apparently lawns across Kent are brown from lack of rain and the lowest daytime temp has been 22C. So the Met Office were right.... but only for Kent!
06-Sep-2009, 07:01 PM
Linda, Ten days ago we visited relatives in Frinton on Seas in Essex. They had not seen rain in over three weeks and Marjorie had to visit a chemist in order to obtain medication for severe sunburn after only 1 1/2 hours ambling along the beach collecting fossils.
Jim
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