Wednesday, January 13, 2010

…1/13-10: natural forces

29º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6ACode Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; someone commented on my Blog entry; NM, the ‘alpine state’?; no money to pay its staff, no refunds or photos from Coronado Mall store that filed for bankruptcy; Ruidoso race track & casino is in financial difficulty, asking for tax breaks, or it may be forced to move to Las Cruces; another Duke City teacher, now in jail, accused of having sex with a student; no sulfuric acid spilled on I-40 yesterday, just snow & water; five year old girl killed in a house fire; prematurely awoken this AM; safety blitz at Santa Fe Rail Runner crossings; first Native American bishop will be laid to rest; former NM GOV Gary Johnson says pot should be legalized & taxed;

asthma alerts, but still no major flu problems; even plants have to follow the ‘eighteen inch rule’; coffee pot cannot be plugged into surge protector; electrical inspection today; clean hands is the major concern; Code Purple at 1:10P; I remain the person you love to hate, and the person who can find ‘lost’ documents; patient has to meet with his probation officer; another cold AM R/R; Dr. Katz has had his license revoked, he cannot reapply for it until 2013, the earliest;
showers in San Antonio, SLC & Yellowstone; W Coast rain; light lake effect snow; slowly getting warmer in FL; wet in TX; snow in the Sierras; temps from the 20s to 70s;
Obama asks for $33 billion more to fund the wars in AFG & Iraq; 60% of chemicals in cosmetics are absorbed into the skin; work at home scams are increasing; GM takes back the free cars from Tiger Woods; the Montana glaciers may be gone in 28 years; no cameras at the ‘gay marriage’ trial; PA state trooper was shot, as well as two other persons; NV man accused of animal cruelty, neglecting 100 farm animals; the Batman umbrella; prize winnings can bring unexpected surprises to the winners; big budget movies do not always mean big money making movies: the reverse is also true; ‘Heroes’ actor searching for his missing parents, who live on Haiti;two million people live in Haiti’s capital, Port-Au-Prince, a city in rubble; thousands are dead or missing; there have been 32 aftershocks from this ‘horizontal tremor, the worst in 200 years; where the N American & Caribbean plates meet; social media providing details of the aftermath; it was a shallow quake, just 1.5 miles below the surface; Haiti has a very poor communication system, and most airports remain closed, the NATL Palace is destroyed; UN HQ has been destroyed; tens of thousands may be killed; Haiti was aware of its position near a fault line; flight took off as tremors began; phone lines are down; the quake was felt in GITMO & Jamaica; cell phones are out of service, but FaceBook is working; the Red Cross has run out of medical supplies; teacher & eight students from the US are trapped on that island, as well as thousands of Americans who reside there; Haiti is a land of low-rise, poorly constructed structures; scam artists have already started before the rumbling has ended; prisoners are on the loose; person with TB still allowed to fly; leader of al Qaeda cell killed in Yemen; oil is $79.52 per barrel; gold is now $1,128.40 an ounce; the TESLA $50K luxury electric car; Haiti is also on the path of hurricanes;

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