Bitching about Boston

I knew some part of the state had the target on its back. Storms, they said.

(I thought to myself, that it was following the "new" Tornado Alley East.)

June 1, 2011, a series of deadly and destructive tornadoes tore across the state.

http://www.wcvb.com/article/6-years-later-deadly-mass-tornadoes-in-pictures/8120747

June 1, 2011

Gov. Patrick urged people to dial 2-1-1 to receive non-emergency information. He also encouraged residents to check on their neighbors if it is safe to do so, and said he won’t know specifics about shelters until officials can determine how many people have been displaced by the severe weather.

The governor asked schools in the 19 affected communities to close for the day Thursday.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/06/01/tornadoes-touch-down-in-springfield-westfield/
 
Vornado the Realty Tornado tore up Downtown Crossing in Boston. Vornado was not a sincere, productive contributor. They were a scam office. Mayor Menino did not know that he let spider into the butterfly tent.

Surprise, surprise, Vornado is mixed up with Putin's private Russian mafia. Jared Kushner has Putin's fangs in his arse, because Little Jared bit off more than he could chew.

666
Emperor Nero strikes, again.

May 31, 2017


"Kushner-Gorkov encounter was first reported in March—Kushner had left it, along with dozens of other meetings with foreign governments, off his White House disclosure forms—but it’s under new scrutiny now that the Washington Post has reported the extent to which Kushner tried to hide his dealings with the Russian officials from the Obama administration."


http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/05/31/why_did_jared_kushner_meet_with_the_russians.html

Kushner had been courting foreign lenders for a megaloan to renovate his family’s overleveraged office tower at 666 Fifth Ave.
 
First burst, of what is in the air.

"...manager at a Chelsea Market Basket is accused of physically attacking a Market Basket clerk."

The clerk wanted to go on break, and he was hit, for getting upset for being denied (people jumped in to break it up) and beaten down to the floor and kicked.

Of course, it was caught on video.

yikes

I hope there plenty of cool heads, and quick minds, on the lookout, during the Boston Pride parade this weekend. 40 floats. More groups marching, than ever.
 
Very warm day, for the Bunker Hill parade

The 90-degree temperatures even extended into some parts of northern New England (with the distinct exception being the summit of Mount Washington).

By 4 p.m., the high in Boston had indeed hit 91 degrees, the service said.

The heat wave is expected to continue through Tuesday, with near-record highs.

https://www.boston.com/weather/loca...uld-get-sunday-afternoon-across-massachusetts
 
They're Shipping In: Boston Hosts More Than 50 Tall Ships

June 14, 2017

50 grand sailing vessels from 14 countries

Boston Harbor

Tall ships from Europe, South America and the U.S. are converging on the city as part of the Rendez-Vous 2017 Tall Ships Regatta, a trans-Atlantic race spanning the United Kingdom, Bermuda and other locations. Boston is the only U.S. port on the route.

They'll then dock at various piers in Boston and remain open for public boarding until they depart for Quebec City, Canada, on June 22.

http://www.wbur.org/artery/2017/06/14/sail-boston-tall-ships

The morning local news reminded people about security checks, and rules to follow.

Check the list! First rule- Small backpack. They will be looking inside it, if you go through a checkpoint.

Boston, MA was once a free-for-all. (There was no fear of a terrorist using the opportunity to kill people. Freedom of choice, in what you choose to do. If you chose to be violent, the Boston Police Dept. would show up, quickly.)
 
wow The storms that make it difficult to steer a ferry, usually happen during the winter.

The tall ships are here, and the weather misbehaves on Cape Cod. A ferry slammed into a jetty because the waters were so rough. Windy, wet night. High tide was at 7:36 p.m. in Hyannisport, MA. The crash happened 9:30 at night. Only a few people were injured. The ferry is taking on water.

http://www.capecodtimes.com/news11/20170616/ferry-strikes-hyannisport-breakwater-several-injured
 
The sound of fireworks, last night, was a mystery.

Were the tall ships using their cannons, last night? Did Donald Trump hijack the Boston's pride and joy, and use "Old Ironsides" to attack ships in the harbor ?

Nope.

There were fireworks over Boston Harbor, last night.

BFD spokesman Steve MacDonald reports the privately financed show was put on by Atlas Pyro of Jaffrey, NH for an events-production company called Fresh Wata in Las Vegas, NV


http://www.universalhub.com/2017/people-enjoy-mystery-fireworks-over-harbor

Then, again, every town in MA gets their celebrations out of the way early. Drought transforms the landscape into a tinderbox. We recieved a good soaking, this week.
 
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...under-meningitis-outbreak-20170626-story.html

June 26, 2017


Pharmacy co-founder blamed for meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people gets 9 years in prison


The co-owner of a (compounding) decrepit dirty, filthy, moldy, pharmacy responsible for the deaths of 76 people (and making 700 people damaged for life) was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison after he tearfully apologized to victims who described watching their loved ones die or enduring excruciating physical pain from a 2012 nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak caused by contaminated steroids.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...under-meningitis-outbreak-20170626-story.html

Meanwhile, the ENRON boys that laughed about grandmothers roasting to death in stalled elevators, never paid for the fraud they committed.
 
oooOooOOoOoo!

Unsolved murder, at Hah vaahd

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...-get-chance/PY1xtN0QyBavie7wYPNeKO/story.html

Girl dies, boy dies very soon,
afterwards...

Former United Press International reporter Michael Widmer, who covered the January 1969 murder of Jane Britton, stood outside her apartment building on University Road in Cambridge, near Harvard Square. Now he is fighting to see law enforcement records about the unsolved case

(suspect, is said to have died in prison)

Release the information!


In classic Massachusetts fashion, the Middlesex DA has gone to great lengths to block public access to the records,” said Widmer, who said he’s been haunted by Britton’s unsolved murder since he covered the case as a reporter for the United Press International in Boston.

But Widmer and former New Yorker journalist Becky Cooper, who is writing a book on the case, are continuing to fight. He has filed five separate appeals so far; she has filed three.

Jane Sanders Britton, a Harvard graduate student found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge apartment one wet, wintry day in 1969.



Bio & Incident Details

Age: 35

Tour: 4 years

Badge # Not available

Cause: Gunfire

Weapon: Handgun; 9 mm

Offender: Never identified

Patrolman Alje Savela was shot and killed while making a traffic stop on Route 122, in Barre, at 8:20 pm. A farmer heard several gun shots and found Patrolman Savela's body with seven 9 mm gunshot wounds.

One of the subjects in the case later shot and killed Assistant Superintendent James Godwin, of the Florida Department of Corrections, during an escape attempt on April 4th, 1955. The inmate died in prison.


Rebecca Murray, recently asked the attorney general’s office for assistance after the Worcester district attorney refused to provide records on a 66-year-old murder


https://web.archive.org/web/20170616195004/https:/www.odmp.org/officer/11790-patrolman-alje-m-savela


Patrolman Savela is buried at North Cemetery in Lunenberg, Massachusetts.
 
Tornado Alley East was very active. The trail of pop-up tornadoes ripped their way up from Western MA, continued into New Hampshire, and went all the way to Maine.

But, not like the mega-ultra tornadoes in Mid-West. Yes, they are destructive, but they do not crush and flatten whole villages. Just that some charming. bucolic, sweet street has a target on its back. Plenty of people lost power.

Tornadoes, and everything that they bring. Torrential rain, floods, high winds, wind damage, hail.

Strangely, enough, waterspouts operate differently on the North East coat.

http://www.pressherald.com/2017/07/01/western-maine-on-flash-flood-watch/


http://www.wmur.com/article/severe-...ampshire-causing-damage-and-flooding/10250312

Several roads have been washed out in New Hampshire. Including in Orford where parts of Route 25A were washed out. There were also reports of flooding in neighboring towns Bath, Bethlehem, and Haverhill.


Impressive amounts of flooding, at some spots. Instant mini- waterfalls. Rivers rising moderately.

Parts of Vermont have their share.

of the oldest covered bridges in Vermont has been damaged by the rising waters.

Officials say the Big Eddy Bridge that crosses the Mad River in downtown Waitsfield was hit by a tree limb that was pulled down river. The bridge has been closed to traffic and officials are still trying to determine the extent of the damage.

http://www.wcax.com/story/35796305/more-rain-flooding-on-saturday

Needham and Newton, MA have had the wonder of summer hail for decades. The rest of the state was made to understand, the phenomena, this week.) This past week was a little too exciting. The hail was large enough to be damaging.

June 27, 2017

"Tuesday, storms streamed through Western and Central Massachusetts, then moved into Eastern Massachusetts.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...mid-section/K347gw6dLUcQwCsIT0jJDN/story.html

That much wide-spread lightning, is not normal, for here. Neither, was the Perfect Storm.
 
In the path of Tornado Alley East

Evidence of a micro burst

MA and N.H. towns, targets on the dartboard

Yes, they were ordered to seek shelter, at Fenway.

http://www.necn.com/news/


New Boston Fire Chief Dan MacDonald was looking to see if a microburst hit that part of town.

"You can see the breaks are very unusual," MacDonald said. "They've splintered down some of the trees, and there's no damage around them except right through this path that was opened up by the wind."

http://www.wmur.com/article/line-of-severe-storms-cause-damage-power-outages/10279414

Vermont hit by storms

Green Mountain Power reports 1,645 customers in 26 towns without power. This number is down from 2,400 without power at 5:30 p.m.

Maine gets smacked

The storms were carrying 60 mph winds and penny-sized hail, the weather service said. Most warnings were lifted by midafternoon, but a special weather statement warning of small hail and gusty winds for the Lakes Region was still in effect at 5:30 p.m., Cannon said. That warning had been lifted by 7:30 p.m.

http://www.pressherald.com/2017/07/08/thunderstorms-roll-through-western-maine/
 
Mega-monster, NBC manages to interfere with a number of local Boston news outlets.

There is a recent picture of a New England rotating supercell. But, the weather announcer had no time to say anything about it. Just, that it had something to do with the storms that blew through Boston on Saturday.

The weather system ripped a path from one end of New England, all the way to Maine, where it spawned seven suspected tornadoes. The homeowners with destroyed property would be happy to have proof.

*sigh* APRIL 20, 1917 report that a tornado killed people. Newspaper, the Boston Post, killed by TV in 1956 They reported the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.

April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. Wilson cited Germany’s violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war. On April 4, 1917, the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. The House concurred two days later. The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917.


https://history.state.gov/milestones/1914-1920/wwi
 
The mercury increases its climb upwards, and the number of "bath salts" indulgers, spilling into the streets, increases, too.


KISS radio station, 108-FM in Medford is alarmed by a deranged man-


http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...parking-lot/TsOmCToUfdh9gU53Bq5uCI/story.html

"...woman who works in the area, said she was smoking a cigarette (outside) when the man pulled up in his car and asked her to “play the ax song.”

“I asked him, excuse me, what song?” she said. “And he pulled out a big [expletive] ax and put it back in his hand like he was about to throw it at me.”

The man then said, “I want them to play the ax song,” McConnell said.

“That’s when I was like, oh my gosh, he has a weapon, he has a weapon, and started to run back” inside, she said.

(The man tried to enter the radio station, but all entrances were locked.)

"Eventually, he was boxed in by the building’s loading dock, and a police negotiator was brought in. The man did not move (out of the parking lot)for several hours,(he forced the police to chase him around for two hours.) but eventually surrendered and was taken to a hospital."

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...parking-lot/TsOmCToUfdh9gU53Bq5uCI/story.html

gsgs comment- Requesting that the DJ play Insane Clown Posse's My Axe, should not involve a SWAT team. Or, throwing sharp, dangerous weapons at the police.
 
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Puppy Doe court trial due to begin, this coming week.

The death of the dog happened in 2013, but it will not benefit the man that was charged with animal cruelty.

The year-old pit bull mix was found in Quincy in 2013 with skull, spine and rib fractures, shoulder, elbow, wrist and ankle dislocations, a stab wound to the right eye and a split tongue. The starving female dog was euthanized.

This man tortured a puppy for two months. He abandoned the suffering puppy at a park, near a playground.


Thank goodness Puppy Doe's DNA was sent to Veterinary Genetics Laboratory at the University of California, Berkley, School of Veterinary Medicine.

JULY 23, 2017

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...art-tuesday/F0dBIoIREYfpjIyjJZ28wJ/story.html

There is a bench with Puppy Doe's picture on it, at the Whitwell Street Playground in Quincy, Massachusetts.
 
At last

Kendall Square Cinema



LADY MACBETH (R)
1 hrs, 29 mins



Set in rural England in 1865, the austere, riveting drama Lady Macbeth stars Florence Pugh in an unforgettable performance as Katherine, a young woman stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, and his cold, unforgiving family. When she embarks on a passionate and dangerous affair with a young worker on her husband’s estate (Cosmo Jarvis), a force is unleashed inside her so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Winner of 11 international awards. Written by Alice Birch, based on Nikolai Leskov’s novella. Directed by William Oldroyd

"...English north east of the 19th century."

"The house itself is a potent character. We are not given a clear establishing shot of what it looks like from the outside, in the traditional style; we are just aware of its gloomy prison-like interior. You can almost feel the bone-chilling draught as you hear the incessant creak and squeak of floorboards, and doors opening and closing, like an empty church. It is a world without comfort, without upholstery, and a world in which movement is readily audible and easily monitored. It feels like a vital act of defiance when Sebastian and Katherine have loud sex on the prim marital bed, making the frame rattle, judder and grind, pretty well getting the woodwork to splinter."


https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...-florence-pugh-william-oldroyd-peter-bradshaw

"..there is something else striking about Lady Macbeth: Katherine’s maid, Anna, is black. The cocksure groom Katherine takes as her lover is also dark-skinned. Two more major characters who appear late in the story are black. In fact, there are practically more characters of colour in Lady Macbeth than there are in all the Austens, Dickenses and Downtons put together.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...-diversity-british-costume-period-drama#img-1
 
Florida received a surprise, with 7 inches of rain per hour. Raindrops the size of laundry detergent packets, for Boston.

Tornado Alley East served as a super highway for high winds, hail, and pouring rain. Daytime lightning!

Just grateful that 14 feet of water was not poured into the subway system.
 
Boston PBS is calling attention to museum of contempory arts in North Adams, MA , matching the museum and park in Lincoln, MA

Massachusetts seems to be forming a necklace of museums.

The history of MASS MoCA’s site spans more than two hundred years of economic, industrial, and architectural change, tracing—in the microcosm of this one factory-campus—the arc of industrialization and post-industrialization of New England, and indeed the world. The 16 acres of grounds in North Adams, Massachusetts, encompass a vast complex of 19th-century mill buildings and occupy nearly one-third of the city’s downtown business district. Listed in the National Historic Register, the site’s 26 buildings form an elaborate system of interlocking courtyards and passageways rich with historical association. Bridges, viaducts, elevated walkways, and red brick facades lend a distinct architectural ambiance to the complex, which throughout its history has been a place for innovation and fabrication using the most advanced knowledge and technology of the day.

http://massmoca.org/about/history/


Summer music at the new museum, music and beer at the older museum in the fall.
 
Our lovely Boston weatherman/Meteorologist, Dick Albert has died.

He was 73 years old.


http://www.wcvb.com/article/dick-albert-dies-at-age-73/8212753


"The things that were important to Dick came from his heart. Yes, he was a scientist... but he was warm and he was loving to the people around him," Susan Wornick said.


Albert was voted the second most popular weathercaster in the nation by "Television/Radio Age" in 1987.

:rose:
 
Awwww, c'mon! You have got to be kidding.

People in Brookline are not bothering to lock their cars ?

On second thought-
Maybe, it has something to do with all of the smashed windows...
 
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These off-the-wall car crashes must be drug related. Too many,mostly naked men are involved in bizarre crimes. Is it possible for someone under the influence of "bath salts," to drive a car ? Last week, three heroin addicts injected themselves, while in a moving car. The driver nodded off, and crashed the car.
 
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