Unless there is a sudden, large change in the weather patterns .....
Which seems to have happened. The storm will be passing to the south.
Students, do your homework! There will be school in Connecticut.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Ready For A Long Weekend? Not This Time
Unless there is a sudden, large change in the weather patterns .....
Which seems to have happened. The storm will be passing to the south.
Students, do your homework! There will be school in Connecticut.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Not So Good News
The good news - you won't miss school on Wednesday, so the end of the school year won't be extended.
The bad news - all you teachers will have those wonderful meetings tomorrow.
On the other hand, as of right now there is a good chance of a snow day on Monday, and at least a late opening on Tuesday!
And yes, I will be back in Connecticut then.
(If it makes you feel better, the snow scheduled for Wednesday has moved south and will be raining on me.)
The bad news - all you teachers will have those wonderful meetings tomorrow.
On the other hand, as of right now there is a good chance of a snow day on Monday, and at least a late opening on Tuesday!
And yes, I will be back in Connecticut then.
(If it makes you feel better, the snow scheduled for Wednesday has moved south and will be raining on me.)
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Next Snow Day?
Here we go again. Another storm, and no one is sure where it will go. The polar vortex is visiting us again, shoved down by an increasingly erratic jet stream.
As of right now, there will either be a little bit of snow on Wednesday, or the storm will shift north and slam Connecticut.
As the computer models change I will be updating this.
I can't see any snow at all from where I am on the Gulf of Mexico.
I do love brown pelicans.
As the computer models change I will be updating this.
I can't see any snow at all from where I am on the Gulf of Mexico.
I do love brown pelicans.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Doves Too!
This morning the first sound I heard was a mourning dove singing.All winter they have huddled in the snow, pretending to be rocks.
Now the days are longer, the sunlight is cooking up a testosterone cocktail in the male doves brains, and they are singing. Spring is here!
Click here to hear his song.
Idiot Threatens Thousands With Death In California
Measles is highly contagious and has lots of nasty complications. You can read more about measles at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.
About a million people worldwide die from it every year. In the U.S. the
vaccine is cheap and easy to get.
So why don't people get this easy to get and inexpensive vaccine?
Because idiots on the web get attention by claiming that their baby or some one else's baby developed autism (a genetic disease) after birth by getting vaccinated. Then more idiots believe it because if it is on the internet, it must be true, right? Right up there with the Earth is flat (or hollow) and tin-foil hats can keep the government from reading their brainwaves, and the Flintstones cartoons portray reality.
Now public health officials in Contra Costa County near San Francisco say a Berkeley student had measles when he rode the Bay Area Rapid Transit train between Feb. 4 and 7, 2014, possibly exposing thousands of people to this contagious and dangerous virus.
The man, confirmed to have a case of measles, was unvaccinated and had recently traveled to Asia, where he may have contracted the disease. Measles had been wiped out natively in the U.S. by the 1990s, but local epidemics can be triggered when unvaccinated people travel to other countries. This has happened over and again here in America in the past few years, which is why measles cases tripled in 2013.
That's right. A disease which was wiped out in this country, and shouldn't exist anywhere by now, has come back to kill us because idiots don't get vaccinated.
Remember: When you get vaccinated, you are not just protecting you and your family. You’re also helping protect babies too young for their shots, older people, and people with compromised immunities (for example, those who are on immunosuppressants for cancer or arthritis treatment). Herd immunity is real, and important. And when you don't get vaccinated, you are potentially responsible for their deaths.
About a million people worldwide die from it every year. In the U.S. the
vaccine is cheap and easy to get.
So why don't people get this easy to get and inexpensive vaccine?
Because idiots on the web get attention by claiming that their baby or some one else's baby developed autism (a genetic disease) after birth by getting vaccinated. Then more idiots believe it because if it is on the internet, it must be true, right? Right up there with the Earth is flat (or hollow) and tin-foil hats can keep the government from reading their brainwaves, and the Flintstones cartoons portray reality.
Now public health officials in Contra Costa County near San Francisco say a Berkeley student had measles when he rode the Bay Area Rapid Transit train between Feb. 4 and 7, 2014, possibly exposing thousands of people to this contagious and dangerous virus.
The man, confirmed to have a case of measles, was unvaccinated and had recently traveled to Asia, where he may have contracted the disease. Measles had been wiped out natively in the U.S. by the 1990s, but local epidemics can be triggered when unvaccinated people travel to other countries. This has happened over and again here in America in the past few years, which is why measles cases tripled in 2013.
That's right. A disease which was wiped out in this country, and shouldn't exist anywhere by now, has come back to kill us because idiots don't get vaccinated.
Remember: When you get vaccinated, you are not just protecting you and your family. You’re also helping protect babies too young for their shots, older people, and people with compromised immunities (for example, those who are on immunosuppressants for cancer or arthritis treatment). Herd immunity is real, and important. And when you don't get vaccinated, you are potentially responsible for their deaths.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
More Signs of Spring
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| A male cardinal in my back yard, during warmer weather |
Click here to hear his song.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Southerners
This guy doesn't like the deep snow in my back yard. He came out to eat bird seed, but is having trouble getting out of the path that I dug to the feeders.
There was a time when possums lived only in the warm south. No longer. They are one of many species that are moving north. Alligators have only reached the Carolinas. It will take a while for them to get here.
There was a time when possums lived only in the warm south. No longer. They are one of many species that are moving north. Alligators have only reached the Carolinas. It will take a while for them to get here.
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