Chikwithme
street fashion…NICE, South of France(Cote d’azur).
He charged me 1 euro to take his picture. I dont blame him
He has got style
(She didn’t like it though… I think)
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
TREASURE
Well It loos as if there is a Tornado in The Bahamas well down the the road from me! btw we never have tornado, snow hale any of that shit only rain, extreme heat and hurricanes. So I’m like:|
But I don’t think it would be anything serious (hopefully)
Looks like I need to live on the beach because this heat is ridiculous. I heard we may get a heat wave O_O This cannot be life! I need to find a way to breathe underwater quick!
give it baaaaaaaack
Better Than EVER!!
It has definitely been a minute since I have provided an update of my goings-on. With preparations for 4 work events and my vacation, I was extremely busy. I and happy and sad to be back and with a bit more swag if I don’t say so myself.
Lord only knows what a week away can do for you, especially when you are on a sunny beach with a beverage or 3 in your hand(s). I went away to Miami for a few day. Was fortunate enough to avoid the weekend crowd since I arrived on a Tuesday and left on a Friday. My Beau and I stayed at Whitelaw hotel on South Beach which was an avenue away from the main strip and the beach. Our time there was spent reconnecting with our respective friends that have relocated to that area. I can’t say we induldged too much in the “Miami experience”, but we did hit up Wet Willies for a Rainbow (Combo of Call a Cab, Sex on the Beach, Shock Treatment & Some other foolishness).
From Miami, we went on our very first cruise to the Bahamas with my family. Honestly, I was concerned about being confined on a boat at sea with ALL of these NUTS, but was pleased by the time we spent together and apart. Come to find that Majesty of the Sea is one of the smaller cruise ships. I was quite surprised that despite the amount of people on the the boat (4000 or so including staff), there were a few hide outs that were not as densely pouplated at any given time.
I was a kid in a candy shop with a fitness room/spa, half a bball court, arcades, 2 pools, jacuzzi, 2 night clubs. I mean, I could go on, but the only of thing that brought me joy was the abundance of FOOD. WindJammer an all you can eat buffet; Starlight & Moonlight, two sit down restaurants; Sorrento’s Pizza, the late night spot Johnny Rockets. GEEZ-US, I must have tried every single thing they served. I tried to make up for my madness by working out. I can’t say I am eager to step on a scale. That aside, I definitely recommend trying a cruise out if you haven’t. It is the easiest trip you can plan.
So yes, this is a quick update to let you know I am back and will be more in touch. I am even considering doing the 30 Day Challenge. We will see ;)
KK
Shelby and I are going to rob Atlantis dry Spring 2012 with our combination blackjack and roulette skills.
TREASURE
Massive storms kill over 200 in 6 states
Massive storms kill over 200 in 6 states
As day broke Thursday, people in hard-hit Alabama surveyed flattened, debris-strewn neighborhoods and told of pulling bodies from rubble after the storms passed Wednesday afternoon and evening.
"It happened so fast it was unbelievable," said Jerry Stewart, a 63-year-old retired firefighter who was picking through the remains of his son's wrecked home in Pleasant Grove, a suburb of Birmingham. "They said the storm was in Tuscaloosa and it would be here in 15 minutes. And before I knew it, it was here."
He and his wife, along with their daughter and two grandchildren, survived by hiding under their front porch. Friends down the street who did the same weren't so lucky — Stewart said he pulled out the bodies of two neighbors whose home was ripped off its foundation.
Alabama's state emergency management agency said it had confirmed 162 deaths, while there were 32 in Mississippi, 32 in Tennessee, 13 in Georgia, eight in Virginia and one in Kentucky.
President Barack Obama said he would travel to Alabama on Friday to view storm damage and meet with the governor and affected families.
The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said it received 137 tornado reports into Wednesday night.
Some of the worst damage was in Tuscaloosa, a city of more than 83,000 that is home to the University of Alabama. Neighborhoods there were leveled by a massive tornado caught on video by a tower-mounted news camera that barreled through late Wednesday afternoon.
"When I looked back, I just saw trees and stuff coming by," said Mike Whitt, a resident at DCH Regional Medical Center who ran from the hospital's parking deck when the wind started swirling and he heard a roar.
On Thursday morning, he walked through the neighborhood next to the hospital, home to a mix of students and townspeople, looking at dozens of homes without roofs. Household items were scattered on the ground — a drum, running shoes, insulation, towels, and a shampoo bottle. Streets were impassable, the pavement strewn with trees, pieces of houses and cars with their windows blown out.
Dr. David Hinson was working at the hospital when the tornado hit. He and his wife had to walk several blocks to get to their house, which was destroyed. Several houses down, he helped pull three students from the rubble. One was dead and two were badly injured. He and others used pieces of debris as makeshift stretchers to carry them to an ambulance.
"We just did the best we could to get them out and get them stabilized and get them to help," he said. "I don't know what happened to them."
Back from an aerial tour Thursday morning, Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox said the tornado tore a streak as many as 4 miles long and a half-mile wide of "utter destruction." There are at least 36 people dead in the city's police jurisdiction, and searches continue for the missing.
"We have neighborhoods that have been basically removed from the map," he said.
Because the city's emergency management building was destroyed, authorities are using Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama as a command post.
University officials said there didn't appear to be significant damage on campus, and dozens of students and locals were staying at a 125-bed shelter in the campus recreation center.
The storm system spread destruction from Texas to New York, where dozens of roads were flooded or washed out. The governors of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia issued emergency declarations for parts of their states.
Dave Imy, a meteorologist with the prediction service, said the deaths were the most since a tornado outbreak killed 315 people in 1974.
In Alabama, where as many as a million people were without power, Gov. Robert Bentley said 2,000 national guard troops had been activated and were helping to search devastated areas for people still missing. He said the National Weather Service and forecasters did a good job of alerting people, but there is only so much that can be done to deal with powerful tornadoes a mile wide.
Obama said he had spoken with Bentley and approved his request for emergency federal assistance.
"Our hearts go out to all those who have been affected by this devastation, and we commend the heroic efforts of those who have been working tirelessly to respond to this disaster," Obama said in a statement.
The storms came on the heels of another system that killed 10 people in Arkansas and one in Mississippi earlier this week. Less than two weeks earlier, a smaller batch of twisters raced through Alabama, touching off warning sirens, damaging businesses and downing power lines in Tuscaloosa, but there were no deaths there then.
In Kemper County, Miss., in the east-central part of the state, sisters Florrie Green and Maxine McDonald, and their sister-in-law Johnnie Green, all died in a mobile home that was destroyed by a storm.
"They were thrown into those pines over there," Mary Green, Johnnie Green's daughter-in-law, said, pointing to a wooded area. "They had to go look for their bodies."
In Smithville in northeastern Mississippi, the police station, post office, city hall, an industrial park with several furniture manufacturing facilities and a grocery store were among dozens of buildings ripped apart. A church was cut in half, and pieces of tin were wrapped high around the legs of a blue water tower.
Jessica Monaghan, 24, walked through the wreckage with her 9-month-old son, Slade Scott, strapped to her back, and the baby's father, 23-year-old Tyler Scott, by her side.
Their house was still standing, though the home belonging to Tyler Scott's mother was flattened. He was at work — he's a firefighter in nearby Tupelo — and Monaghan was at home watching TV when broadcasters warned the town could be hit within 10 minutes. By then, she said, the storm was there about that time.
"The baby was already in the closet. I grabbed the cat and got in the closet, too," Monaghan said. "You could just feel the pressure. It really was like a freight train."
And in Pleasant Grove, Samantha Nail surveyed the damage in the blue-collar subdivision where hers was the only home still intact. The storm slammed heavy pickup trucks into ditches and obliterated tidy brick houses, leaving behind a mess of mattresses, electronics and children's toys scattered across a grassy plain where dozens used to live.
"We were in the bathroom holding on to each other and holding on to dear life," Nail said. "If it wasn't for our concrete walls, our home would be gone like the rest of them."
Source: Yahoo
Tornado rips through Iowa
Tornado rips through Iowa
Authorities say a tornado that was three-quarters of a mile wide (watch video) destroyed about half of the town of Mapleton, Iowa (see it on a map). So far there are no reports of deaths or injuries, but several homes and businesses are severely damaged. Iowa's governor also declared the county a disaster area.
Source : MSN
America's Most Miserable Cities 2011
America's Most Miserable Cities 2011
Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the governor of California at the end of 2003 amid a wave of optimism that his independent thinking and fresh ideas would revive a state stumbling after the recall of Gov. Gray Davis.
The good vibes are a distant memory: The Governator exited office last month with the state facing a crippling checklist of problems including massive budget deficits, high unemployment, plunging home prices, rampant crime and sky-high taxes. Schwarzenegger's approval ratings hit 22% last year, a record low for any sitting California governor.
California's troubles helped it land eight of the 20 spots on our annual list of America's Most Miserable Cities, with Stockton ranking first for the second time in three years.
No state taxes $50,000 of income like California, with a rate of 9.55% for that middle-class tax bracket. Sacramento is a one-team sports town, and that team has been awful in recent years. The NBA's Kings have won just 26% of their games the past two-plus seasons.
The median home was valued at $275,000 in 2006; today it is $95,000. And don't leave your car on the street in Modesto, where 3,712 vehicles were stolen in 2009, making for the second-highest auto theft rate in the country. It ranked first in four of the previous five years.
The economic downturn and busted housing market hit Merced harder than any other area in the country. Average unemployment of 16.2% since 2008 is the highest in the U.S., as is the city's 64% drop in median home prices
The sun and lack of a state income tax are the only things keeping Miami out of the top spot. Foreclosures hit one in 14 homes last year. Corruption is also off the charts, with 404 government officials convicted of crimes this decade in South Florida.
Unemployment has averaged 14.3% the past three years, which is third worst in the country among the 200 largest metro areas. The housing market collapsed as well, with home prices down 58% over the same time. All the California cities on the list are struggling with the inherent problems the state is facing, including high sales and income taxes and service cuts to help close massive budget shortfalls.
Source : Yahoo
Milwaukee Blizzard
Milwaukee Blizzard:Chicago Weather, Different opinions and clocks encountered through most of southeastern Wisconsin, including the counties of Milwaukee and Waukesha, Monday through Wednesday. It is increasingly clear that for a long time and important snow occasion will be implemented over the next three days in parts of southeastern Wisconsin. A notice in force because the winter morning of Monday mid-afternoon Tuesday for southeast Wisconsin. The 1st round of snow will arrive in the afternoon or evening seriously Monday and final Tuesday. This 1st preliminary round demonstrates the potential of 7.3 "of accumulation of the uppermost figures along the lake.
A stream of wind east-north-east will create lake-effect snow along the snow lake better because the system 1st moves during. Then on Tuesday, the lake effect snow showers are possible to fall a few inches of snow in areas affected by snow bands. Note the lake effect snow is extremely tricky to predict given the narrowness and the bands that affect localized areas. Later Tuesday afternoon, a hurricane timepiece is in force for all provinces in our area, with the exception of Dodge and Fond du Lac, and these two provinces are under the supervision winter storm. Winter storm watch continues in the afternoon on Wednesday. Tuesday night and Wednesday is when the excessive southeast Wisconsin will see snow showers will develop again as a main progress of the winter storm in the Ohio Valley. Southeastern Wisconsin will be at the extreme north of the snow, and more particularly to areas south of Milwaukee and along the lakeshore will see more snow Tuesday night to additional Wednesday morning. Snow totals in the 2nd round has the potential to be important with an additional 6 "+ in the points, which means that some places, especially south of Milwaukee could see the potential snowfall of a foot or more in next 3 days. Flights will start right becomes dangerous at night from Monday to Wednesday. We are in the early stages of this forecast and will be finalizing the schedule and snowfall expected in the upcoming shows.
- Milwaukee Blizzard , Milwaukee Blizzard
Anne Hathaway to guest star on 'Glee'
Hathaway recently made a deal to appear on the hit musical show, playing a very different role. She also just landed the part of an iconic villain for a major film.
Hot KHI
It is so damn hot here in Karachi. The humidity is even worse. The moment you get out of an air conditioned place within seconds it becomes unbearable. Your face is all weird and humid. You could feel and see everyone looks soooooooo hot and wet and uncomfortable!
Yesterday, I was writing something on the blog and was in the middle of some research when the electricity had gone. It was so sickening to end the write up without the fan. And the UPS too wasn't at its best because there are no fixed timings of this loadshedding so the fan was not really working either. And we can't get it fully charged these days.
Our cats too are just so restless these days because of the heat. They just keep on sleeping on the floor because it's cooler. Fluffy, our Persian cat is the worst one ... he can't take the heat at all because of his longer hair. Minnie too had a surgery at a bad time because the weather is so bad.
I don't complain about such things that often but this year it's really bad. I wonder what's it like in other cities...
I am sure we are still better than so many others. But if things are so unbearable for us...imagining how things would be for people who'd be homeless or living under difficult circumstances is so painful. I hope it rains soon here!
- Zaira
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