Hey, it happens from time to time.
Tired of crab legs? I am. Here’s some good football:
Want some more? Kaiden on two:
Every team in the country could do that and I’d watch every clip.
Here’s another feel-good piece: Clements volunteer firefighters seek refuge beneath trucks when tornado shelter fills to overflowing:
But there wasn’t room for everyone. The volunteer firefighters, led by Mary’s husband, Fire Chief Jesse Rager, let local residents use the safe room while they hunkered down beneath the fire engines parked in bays inside the cinder-block station on U.S. Highway 72 in western Limestone County.
Chief Rager, on his way from work in Huntsville, was attempting to reach the station but didn’t arrive before the violent EF3 tornado struck not long before 5 p.m. It touched down at Bay Hill Marina and cut a path up the highway, killing two people, downing at least 100 utility poles and cutting power to 16,000 residents, overturning and smashing dozens of mobile homes and ripping roofs from others.
Jesse Rager said as many as a dozen people sought refuge beneath fire trucks.
“We had 10 or 12 people, some crew members, some members of the public, who took shelter under trucks,” he said. As they huddled beneath the engines, firefighters, including Davy and Dawn Hill whose house next door to the department was damaged, could hear the station roof being lifted and set back down. Two metal bay doors were bowed and a fluorescent light fixture was torn from the ceiling.
When the storm had passed, firefighters could see light in places where they believed the roof was separated from the building.
Here’s a great interactive map: Mapping Poverty in America.
‘We’re headed down the road to decimating our armed forces:’ Sen. Richard Shelby blasts budget cuts:
Odierno said the cutbacks would cause a “significant” level of risk and force the services to assume any conflict would be short-lived and backed by allied support.
“If any of those assumptions are wrong, then our risk goes much higher than it is today,” Odierno said. “And so I think we’re on a dangerous path if we have to go to full sequestration, in our ability to what I consider to do is protect our national security interests.”
“We’re headed down the road to decimating our armed forces, aren’t we?” Shelby asked.
“I think it’s going to be difficult,” Odierno replied.
That story touches on multiple campaigns and missile defense. Let’s talk about carriers and the navy, though.
Witnesses: Orlando police car hit bicyclist, then drove off:
He told officers that he was pedaling north on Narcoossee Road in a bicycle lane about 7:35 a.m. when a police car turned right at Dowden Road and hit him. The car’s turn signal was not on, he told investigators.
Two other drivers said they saw the police car hit the bicyclist, then take off. One of the drivers said the cruiser left the scene at “a fast rate of speed,” the report states. The other said the police car’s turn signal was not on.
(Days later update: They have two witnesses and all manner of ways to ascertain the whereabouts and possible routes of police officers, yet there seems to be no indication that Orlando authorities have figured this out, which is mystifying.)
A train derailed in Virginia. There is compelling drone footage. I need a drone.
