Archive for September, 2019
9/3/2004: A three-day hostage crisis at a Russian school comes to a violent conclusion with the deaths of more than 300 people, many of them kids.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
More than 30 people were unaccounted for Monday morning after a deadly fire on a diving vessel off the coast of Southern California. Fatalities expected.
Monday, September 2nd, 2019Southeast USA beginning to feel the impact of Dorian
Monday, September 2nd, 2019
Surface Wind / Pressure
Steering Wind & Mean RH
9/2/1666: The Great Fire of London
Monday, September 2nd, 2019Lasted 4 days before it was extinguished, destroying 4/5 of London.
“……The Great Fire of London was a disaster waiting to happen. London of 1666 was a city of medieval houses made mostly of oak timber. Some of the poorer houses had walls covered with tar, which kept out the rain but made the structures more vulnerable to fire. Streets were narrow, houses were crowded together, and the firefighting methods of the day consisted of neighborhood bucket brigades armed with pails of water and primitive hand pumps…..”
The Bahamas: Dorian left behind “catastrophic damage.”
Monday, September 2nd, 2019
“…….As it pummeled islands in the Bahamas, the hurricane left behind “catastrophic damage,” the Hope Town Volunteer Fire & Rescue said on Facebook. Damage was reported in Elbow Cay, Man-o-War and Marsh Harbour in the Abaco Islands, where buildings had been destroyed and partially submerged with water flooding all around them.
The Abaco Islands are a group of islands and barrier cays in the northern Bahamas, east of southern Florida. Dorian made landfall there as a Category 5 hurricane just after noon Sunday.
The northwestern Bahamas will be drenched in up to 24 inches of rain, with some areas expecting up to 30 inches of water, the hurricane center said……”
Cyclosporiasis — United States, May–August 2019
Monday, September 2nd, 2019
Geographic Distribution of Reported Cases of Domestically Acquired Cyclosporiasis—Since May 1, 2019*
At a Glance
- States reporting cases: 33
- Deaths: 0
- Hospitalizations: 92