News: August 2011 Archives
Oh noes! Irene is shaping up to be a real national emergency.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is keeping a line open to President Obama and the First Family as they vacation on Martha's Vineyard and Hurricane Irene -- growing both in size and strength -- appears destined to pelt the Bay State sometime Sunday.An early POTUS pull out has not been ordered, but FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate told the Herald this morning, "We briefed the president yesterday and are keeping him and his team updated."
If Obama goes back to Washington and starts "working" again expect to see the economy plummet.
(HT: RB.)
As a California native, yes, the East Coast Quake was rather weak. The real danger wasn't the moderate shaking, but the zillions of brick buildings.
Joanne Razo, a legal assistant who lives in Washington, D.C., has lived through an earthquake in Los Angeles and said she knows that a 5.8-quake is mild by West Coast standards. But for her, the scary part was not the ground shaking but that "this area is not equipped to handle anything like this."
I never want to live in a brick house anywhere.
London looters are not only organizing via social media, they're also sharing images of their plunder.
(HT: Gizmodo and RC.)
