Just as fires become a dominant problem in dry California, this happen!
An evacuation notice that popped up on television Wednesday telling residents to “immediately” evacuate Los Angeles was broadcast in error, a sheriff’s office said.
Viewers in Ventura County were watching TV when programming was interrupted to show the message: “Emergency alert system. A civil authority has issued an IMMEDIATE EVACUATION NOTICE for the following counties or areas.” The list included Los Angeles, Eastern North Pacific Ocean, and Port Conception to Guadalupe. It is not yet known how many viewers received the alert.
Authorities quickly issued a release that their warnings should not be heeded ..
Three people have died and five are in hospital after developing a “pneumonia of unknown origin”, Argentinian health authorities have announced.
According to the Ministry of Health in Tucumán – a small region in the northwest of the country some 800 miles from the capital, Buenos Aires – nine people in the sameprivate clinic unit have contracted mystery pneumonia.
Officials commenting on this new virus say that there are multiple similarities to COVID-19, but the coronavirus has been ruled out. Lung scans may look the same as a result, and the strange pneumonia symptoms are there. But, it does not appear that this is a known virus at this time.
One person was killed and two were injured Thursday in an apparent stabbing on the fourth day of class at an eastern North Carolina high school, police said.
Jacksonville Police Chief Mike Yaniero told reporters at a news conference that two minors were taken to Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune with injuries, and one later died.
He said that the attack at Northside High School in Jacksonville appeared to be a stabbing but that the investigation was ongoing.
A teacher was also injured, but not stabbed, and received onsite medical treatment, he said.
Officials have commented that there’s no ongoing threat to the public after this attack.
In this version of the classic story, Christopher Robin is headed off to college and he has abandoned his old friends, which then leads to the duo embracing their inner monsters.
Watch the bloody Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey trailer below!
“Christopher Robin is pulled away from them, and he’s not [given] them food, it’s made Pooh and Piglet’s life quite difficult,” Waterfield recently told Variety, detailing the plot.
This movie is not getting attention because it will be an academy award winner.. but instead because it is shocking in its portrayal of a once innocent character into a monstrous murderer…
Just as the box office experiences its lowest profit weekend of the entire summer, this news is being reported to inspire your business:
For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched “National Cinema Day” to lure moviegoers during a quiet spell at the box office.
The Cinema Foundation is a non-profit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners.. They are involved with this announcement.
The date: September 3.
It will be a nationwide discount day in more than 3,000 theaters and on more than 30,000 screens.
Major chains, including AMC and Regal Cinemas, are participating, as are all major film studios.
In participating theaters, tickets will be no more than $3 for every showing, in every format.
Despite having a few blockbusters weekends this summer, and record breaking movies, the last few years have been pretty awful. COVID can be blamed with theater shut downs.
Now that the COVID nightmare has quelled, the streaming platforms seem to have captured the dull imagination of movie-goers.. We have lost our zeal for a air conditioned and amazing popcorn filled frenzy of new movies.
This group seems to hope to make that return again.
Good luck.
It seems unlikely that we will have the beauty of the experience we once did.
And frankly, during a recession or even depression, spending money sure ain’t available to millions of people. Choosing between necessity and entertainment, we obviously know where the fundage will nbe thrown, right?
That perhaps is what makes this dicey.
Theaters have grown dark–but without movies being played.
At some point it breaks.
We lament when it will, and until then enjoy the moments we get to bask in the pale light of a projector screen inside a building or outside in a drive-in.
Three dollar day may help. A bit. It just won’t be the silver bullet to end all fears for future theaters..
Well the real US (me) is a bit aged beyond that .. but the HORRORREPORT, which originally began as a Geocities site before that shut its online doors, turned into a .com in August 2001.
That is a long time, now right?
In our infancy, we were reckless, unpredictable, and fun. As time goes on perhaps we became a little less keen on constant updates. But life is weird, right? It gets rough. . it gets challenging as the clock continues to tick away.
While personally I shall reveal my REAL age of 41, I began this site back in the hot summer days before I worked full time and had a family and all of the sadness and joys of 20 more additional years.
Just as soon as the official site was born, we focused on horror and all its oddities. Both fiction and real. True horror took place only weeks after the inception of the Horror Report when 9/11 took place. It affected us all.
While we may not be the biggest site, the most attractive, or the most attentive at times.. we sure do like being here and we appreciate all of you through the years who have followed for fun, and contacted me .. true friendships actually were made from this little side hustle.
So you can get back to life again now.. But rest assured, so as long as we are here, we will try to keep plugging away ..
Forgive us for not always being timely. But thank us for always being true to ourselves.
At least 12 people suffered injuries and were hospitalized after a roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey malfunctioned at the end of the ride, the amusement park said.
The El Toro roller coaster had a minor accident around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, according to park officials. As the ride was coming toward its conclusion, something malfunctioned and caused multiple injuries to the passengers aboard at the time.
A part of us feel that it may show low confidence in the film doing very in theaters.
Some have revealed that experiences at test screenings were met with mixed results. Perhaps the movie makers are hedging their bets and creating a back up plan JUST IN CASE word of mouth ruins the film’s prospects opening weekend..
Then again.. it’s Halloween. Even the worst of the films have a decent opening weekend…
Time will tell. Soon too. Believe it or not in just weeks now (where’s time going?!)
For us here in Northeastern PA, we are ready. School clothes purchased. Ayden is “eagerly” “anticipating”.. It all begins..
Buses are being primed and shined for another year. Educators are lamenting the speed at which these summer months vanish. Parents are erratically pondering where school shopping should occur.. Kids, oh the kids.. they are suffering the most.
Watching those last minutes of the calendar tick away.. While on TikTok.
x x x
This is it, folks!
The final week of summer in most areas. School seemingly is beginning earlier than normal every year right?
There are old timers who often talk about their school days dazes.. when they went back AFTER Labor Day weekend!!
Now we have a bias on the Northeastern part of the United States. It may very well be different where you are.
We researched this and we found a number of previous news articles from decades past when school really did start after Labor Day.. It wasn’t until the late 90s that things changed–and it appears that the winter of 1994 can be blamed for all of it!
Back in that time frame, there were a LOT of school closings. The blizzard of 93 was one thing, but the winter of 1994 was cold. Snowy..Really really cold. Really really snowy with storm after storm after storm.
I recall it fondly, as Mr. Shappell in 7th grade Immaculate Heart became angered more and more each time another snow storm was predicted.. (winters after became largely warm for the final half of the 90s after the blizzard of 1996) ..
But that winter of 94 really messed with school planning.
An August 30th 1995 editorial in the Pottsville Republican seemed to suggest that the school calendars were completely torn to shreds by the previous winter. As a matter of fact, the fishwrapper reported that the summer of 1995 was hot (I remember this kindly sorta not really fondly.. grass was so dry it crunched like chips) .. The editorial penned, or at that time, typed:
“The pre-Labor Day start of classes is as result of the Winter of 1994, when a seemingly endless series of snow and ice storms wrecked school calendars and forces sessions to continue into late June.”
Once schools went pre-Labor Day one time, it seemed like it continued, earlier and earlier each year.
IT WASN’T ALWAYS LIKE THIS
At one time in history, children did NOT have the summers off. Read that again. Yes. No summer vacation… no traveling. No Hershey Park. NO beach. No Mount Rushmore.
The public education system started in the 1800s..
Based on the location you lived in, calendars varied. In cities, schools were open all year–240 days!
In rural America, farming and the land forced schools to open for 5 months, or two sessions, in the winter and the summer.. In the fall, school closed so kids could help harvest.. Spring time they helped plant.
It was not until the early 20th century that urban and rural districts combined their efforts and created the 180-day school year. It started AFTER labor day and ended in June.
It continued that way for decades. By the 1990s, pre-Labor Day schooling began.. It has increased the ability to build in longer vacations for Christmas and Easter, but depending on snow days those days off start getting chipped away at during colder times.
I STILL BLAME THE WINTER OF 1994 FOR ALL OF IT
It seriously is when it all changed.
So let me take you back. . . I was in grade school.. and yes, like all dorky kids like me, watching winter patterns and watching Weather World on PBS at the time. Oh those fond memories of my strange childhood.
I was also loving Rooftop Weather on WYOU with Barry Finn while all the other adults were glued to Tom Clark.
Barry Finn was extraordinary that year, he was rare. He loved winter. He loved the snow. Other forecasters pooh-poohed it while Barry just shivered on the rooftop up at the Scranton studios giving Northeast PA their daily dose of scary blizzard forecast in 1994.
As a matter of fact, Barry Finn warned people in September of 1994–back when kids still started school after the Ashland ABA parade.
Coat the East Coast in nasty ice storms. “Oh, you don’t want to know,” said psychic Peg Verity Barber of Wilkes-Barre. “It’s going to be a devastating winter, not snow as much as ice. It’s because of global changes, and the tilting of the earth’s axis.”
Wallop the region with snow.
“Meteorologically speaking, there’s no way to know,” said Barry Finn, chief meteorologist at WYOU-TV in Scranton. “But I’m going out very soon to buy a snow blower.”
Vince Said it Would Be Like This Sweeney also got an honorable mention with this quote:
Weatherman Vince Sweeney of WBRE-TV dismisses the hoopla. “I’ll tell you about this winter: it’s coming,” he said. “If you don’t like the weather, move.”
So that is it..
A winter in memory to blame for what we have now? Sure some will surmise it has to do tiwh tourism, jobs.. whatever.
It has to do with weather. Weather changes us culturally and economically. And in 1994, it changed when children’s melodrama of nightmares would begin.
May God bless the students about to journey into a new school year.
By now you have seen the Tiktok and other social media videos: People joyously beginning their slide down a massive creation until they get into it, and bounce around like sacks of potatoes.. neck and back alignments at local doctors could very well be taking place today.
A local news report about the popular Giant Slide in Belle Isle from this weekend:
But was it just all user error!? There seemed to be a certain way to conduct your body on the slide to prevent it from the shocking convulsions so many seemed to face?
Just lean forward. Don’t stop leaning forward. And of course, hold on tight.
One user on Tiktok filmed the slide gone awry.. from the perspective of the slider.
Did he hold on tight or just let go with all his might?
This slide looks like the real life version of what Phinneas and Ferb would make during summer vacation.
And despite the videos showing bouncing bodies, don’t tell me you wouldn’t try it!
Kind of like those who attended Woodstock 99 and were interviewed by Netflix for TRAINWRECK: It was body and chaotic.. but they all say they’d do it again.
Calling our lawyers. Personal injury attorneys’ phones may be busy tomorrow.
