More than 90 million people are under winter weather alerts and more than 87 million are under wind chill alerts. The alerts stretch across 37 states, dipping as far south as the Texas/Mexico border.
The number of people under winter alerts and wind chill alerts has grown to over 100 million people, or roughly a third of the US population, according to the National Weather Service.
The cold will stick around for Christmas weekend, making this the coldest Christmas in roughly 40 years for portions of the Plains and Midwest.
— Read on www.cnn.com/2022/12/21/weather/christmas-arctic-winter-storm-wednesday-wxn/index.html
Day: December 21, 2022
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Frightening Christmas weather: A ‘once in a generation’ winter storm will impact nearly every state and cripple travel
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Happy solstice .. the sun is set to rise again.
This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath, the door
of a vanished house left ajar…Margaret Atwood
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Man with WWI explosive lodged in his rectum sparks bomb scare, hospital evacuation
They reassured us by telling us that it was a collector’s item from the First World War, used by the French military,” the hospital stated.
Stunned doctors subsequently began the process of trying to remove the object — which measured almost 8 inches long and more than 2 inches wide — from the man’s rectum.
— Read on nypost.com/2022/12/20/man-with-wwi-explosive-lodged-in-his-rectum-sparks-bomb-scare-hospital-evacuation/It is surmised that the man inserted the explosive into his rectum for sexual gratification. And now the world knows his secrets..