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November 11, 2013 0

Places to Donate for Haiyan Relief

By News Desk

From KVUE TV in Texas TO FIND VICTIMS AND SHELTERS: Google launched a crisis and relief map including evacuation shelters, crisis areas and relief drop zones. Go here for the map. Google also launched a person finder

November 11, 2013 0

Does the World Need a Category Six For Cyclones

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Tweet With the disaster in the Philippines wrought by super typhoon Haiyan , once again the unseemly arguments appear about exactly how fast the winds were blowing at landfall and aw gee there were worse storms , the damage to global GDP was minor .  Eli however, and some others have another question.  Would it be useful to reformulate the Saffir-Simpson scale?  Actually two.  Would it also be useful to coordinate the new Saffir-Simpson scale with the Enhanced Fujita scale for tornadoes? The argument, at least the one the Bunny is making, has nothing to do with climate change, and everything to do with policy, construction codes, public safety and history.  Both the Saffir-Simpson and the Fujita scales were designed for public officials to use in determining how to react to cyclones and tornadoes.  The ranks are set not so much by wind speed and other parameters such as precipitation, as to the expected damage that a storm would do

November 10, 2013 0

Your friendly water district lobbyist, reporting out

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Tweet Our water district goes to Washington DC twice annually to either look for help or avoid regulatory problems with our environmental restoration, flood control, and water supply projects, and my turn was this last week. The team had 21 meetings in 2.5 business days, occasionally splitting up.

November 8, 2013 0

The Better Tasting Jellyfish Appetizer

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Tweet Among the things that the bunnies will have to adapt to is the better tasting jellyfish appetizer.  Served everywhere in China, the best anyone has to say for it is that it is tasteless, somewhat like eating boiled rubber bands, but not so flavorful and twice as chewy.  Dano brings the bad news to Rabett Run

November 5, 2013 0

While Eli Freely Giggles

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Tweet While Eli freely admits to being left of center in US terms, but somewhat in the center or even a bit to the right as far as civilized countries, the Bunny’s reaction to many things varies between puzzlement and amusement.  No better venue for both to play than today’s Virginia gubernatorial election where indeed, the players deck has been shuffled with a vengence.