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Tornado Hits New York City

Gothamist has details: “According to The National Weather Service, the tornado has touched down on the Flatbush Avenue area of the Belt Parkway (and is moving eastward). Queens and Brooklyn have been put on tornado alert until 11:30 a.m. They recommend that residents immediately go indoors and/or to the lowest floor of your building for shelter, and to stay away …

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CHARLOTTE: Teabaggers Dismayed When Thunderstorm Prediction Holds True

I’m still soaked an hour later after running from the convention center to the arena in the torrential thunderstorm that took place exactly on schedule, much to the dismay of teabaggers everywhere who had claimed that Obama actually cancelled his speech because he couldn’t fill the stadium. Stadium ticket holders had been expected to arrive up to ten hours early …

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Wingnuts: Obama’s Stadium Speech Is Cancelled Because It Wouldn’t Be Full

From the Daily Caller article in Fischer’s link: In a series of tweets on Wednesday morning after the news broke, Panovich said there’s only a 20 to 30 percent chance of rain or storms and argued that “if you are going to move inside for this small risk you could have done that days ago.” Said Panovich: “My main point …

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Weather Forces DNC To Move President Obama’s Acceptance Speech Inside

This will be a huge disappointment to the tens of thousands who won the public ticket lottery, including several of my friends. Democratic Convention officials said today that Obama’s Thursday night acceptance speech is moving from Bank of America Stadium to the Time Warner Cable Arena because of weather concerns. “We have been monitoring weather forecasts closely and several reports …

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God Hates Southern Decadence, CTD

World Net Daily jumps on board. The arrival of Hurricane Isaac exactly seven years after Hurricane Katrina blasted New Orleans has some people wondering if there’s more to it than random chance, and suggesting the popular homosexual festival Southern Decadence may be part of a judgment from God. A hurricane hitting a celebration of decadence … twice in seven years. …

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God Hates Southern Decadence

“Katrina was the greatest natural disaster ever to hit America. Now seven years later, to the day, another hurricane is heading towards this city. The fact the events are seven years apart is very significant as this number is biblically important. It is the number of completion: God created the universe in seven days. The church, city and nation have …

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Limbaugh: Obama Faked Hurricane Forecasts To Force RNC Cancellation

“It’s the government. It’s Obama. And I’m noticing that that track stayed zeroed in on Tampa day after day after day. And the Republicans react to it accordingly over the weekend, canceling the first day of the convention. What could be better for the Democrats than the Republicans to cancel a day of this? […] Okay, 6:45 p.m. Saturday night …

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Isaac To Make Landfall Tonight

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God Sent Isaac Because Of Israel

World Net Daily of course. “This is the second straight Republican convention postponed due to a major hurricane,” points out Koenig. “And this is the third straight Republican convention that became secondary news due to a hurricane. Bush was pressuring Israel during the times of the 2004 and 2008 conventions.” Koenig links all three convention disruptions to platform committee decisions …

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Isaac Aims At New Orleans

The danger to the GOP convention has mostly ended as Isaac sets its sights on the Gulf coast. Wednesday, the day the storm is forecast to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane, is the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina slamming into New Orleans. Hurricane warnings have been issued for portions of the northern Gulf Coast as Tropical Storm Isaac …

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Christian Hurricane Forecast

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Convention Storm Watch

Isaac is predicted to grow to Category 1 strength today and tomorrow’s first day of the GOP convention is canceled. The storm may be Category 2 when it reaches the Gulf coast. Later today the storm will hit Key West where Duval Street’s storefronts have been boarded up. A steady line of cars moved north along the Overseas Highway, the …

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Headline Of The Day

Citing “severe transportation difficulties due to sustained winds and rain,” the RNC has canceled the first day of the convention.

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Convention Storm Watch

The predicted track for Isaac has shifted west, somewhat lessening the danger to the Tampa Bay area. As attention focuses on north Florida, it appears that the Florida Keys will not be evacuated. A tropical-storm watch was posted at 5 p.m. Friday for all the Florida Keys as Tropical Storm Isaac continued its northwest march through the Caribbean toward Florida. …

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Convention Storm Watch

Key West might be in for a direct hit on Sunday. Evacuation orders for the Keys may come tonight. Forecasters with The Weather Channel think the evacuation decisions could come quickly. It is anticipated that watches will be issued for South Florida and the Keys by Friday night. In the event of an evacuation, Mayor Cates told The Weather Channel …

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Convention Storm Watch

Sort of related: A buddy of mine is flying to Key West today for a few days at Island House. How will he ever pass the time?

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Tropical Storm Threatens Tampa

Tropical Storm Isaac is gaining strength over warm waters and may become a Category 2 hurricane as it approaches Tampa just in time for the start of the GOP convention. Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center said a newly-formed tropical storm could threaten the site of next week’s Republican National Convention by early next week. Storm warnings were issued Tuesday …

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Drought Shrinks Mississippi River Traffic

The level of the Mississippi River has gotten so low that cargo ships and barges have had to severely restrict the weight of what they can safely carry. If the country’s largest river system continues to rapidly shrink, all river traffic could get shut down and cost the US $300 million a day. The Mississippi, which has become thin and …

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TEXAS: 16 Dead In West Nile Outbreak

A state of emergency has been declared in Dallas County after 16 people died from West Nile virus. Some are blaming global warming. An unusually warm winter and rainy spring in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and elsewhere in Texas has provided ideal conditions for breeding mosquitoes, West Nile carriers, officials said. The emergency declaration in Dallas clears the way for …

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