The Isolated Blurt Thread XL : This Shit Is Pointless

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for my crime podcast peeps, i have listened to a new show called Hanging

Hanging

Its only 6 eps but dudes, the first one hurts the heart as it explains what happens to the poor child
 


It's amazing to see how much weight can be lost by a bout with a summer cold. In the past three days, I've lost five pounds and now weigh a mere six pounds more than I did when I was eighteen.


I don't recommend it; it's a lousy way to lose weight.



 



Following a 12-year period where no major (defined as Category 3 or higher) hurricanes struck the U.S. mainland, a lot of people had been lulled to sleep about the devastation that powerful hurricanes can wreak. This is nothing new; there have been major hurricanes recorded ever since European contact with the Western Hemisphere.

Dominica is a desperately poor island that was all but demolished by Maria. Because it is volcanic in origin, it lacks the white sand beaches that attract tourists. It has world class dive sites and whale watching as there are sperm whale breeding grounds in the adjacent offshore.



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In Devastated Dominica Ham Operators Become Vital Communications Link

When Hurricane Maria smashed into the tiny island of Dominica in the Eastern Caribbean earlier this week, phone service went down, virtually cutting off the island. But within hours, amateur radio operators got on the air and have been providing a vital link to the outside world.

Speaking to ABS Television/Radio in his first interview since Maria made landfall, Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, on a visit Antigua, said at least 15 people were dead and at least 20 others missing amid "unprecedented" destruction.

An estimated 95 percent of roofs on homes in some towns were blown off in the 160 mph winds brought by the hurricane, which topped out at Category 5 when it hit the island. Debris-strewn roads are impassable, he said. "We have to access villages by sea and also by helicopter," said Skerrit, whose own home was among those severely damaged in the storm.

"Every village on Dominica, every street, every cranny, every person was impacted by the hurricane," he told ABS, saying that the main hospital in the capital Roseau is without power because authorities are afraid of starting back-up generators due to extensive flooding.

"It has been brutal. We have never seen such destruction. Unprecedented," he said...



more...
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ominica-hams-become-vital-communications-link





 
Dammit dammit dammit. No milk. Just what I didn't want to do. Go to the store.
 
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