MiniBlack holes zap earth all the time...
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there's a minor war going on between Thailand and Cambodia, killing 18 and displacing 80 thousand...
The Philippines offers to mediate.
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Mayor Lim is trying to stop "piracy" in Manila...I think they are referring to counterfiet goods and cd's/DVD's...
Guess they'll have to travel to Quezon City to get the latest films on DVD...
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FilAm Moro graduates from West Point...patriotic but also proud of the fighting spirit of his ancestors.
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Gateway Pundit notes 232 people still missing in Joplin, half of whom are seniors.
"Shelter" in hospitals/nursing homes/clinics usually mean getting to the inner corrider...and if you are bedridden you might not get all the patients moved in time...
The "Time" factor is also a problem if you are in a car. A tornado will pick up the car and toss it, killing you. But in the flat midwest, the nearest "shelter" might be a drainage ditch...the article notes one kid killed in the parking lot of a store (he didn't manage to get inside quick enough). The elderly similarly might just try to shelter in their houses, since there was no time to get to a shelter.
Yes, I remember one time when the neighbors had to help me hurry Lolo to the neighbor's shelter (across a flooded street in the hail and rain)...he got into the shelter 30 seconds before the sky turned green, and the noise got worse and we shut the door...then everything went quiet. Luckily it was a "small" tornado, hitting nearby in the fields north of town, but missing us by half a mile.
Lolo insisted our brick house would be enough shelter, but of course it wouldn't be if it was a larger tornado...
These tornadoes are not rare in the midwest. You mainly hear of them when they hit cities
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ABC NEWS reports
You've probably heard of shrimp on the barbie, but what about shrimp on a treadmill?
The National Science Foundation has, and it spent $500,000 of taxpayer money researching it. It's not entirely clear what this research hoped to establish.
So here's your tax dollars at work:
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