“The storm is going to dump about 18 trillion gallons of water, which is about the volume of the Chesapeake Bay, or enough to cover the state of Texas in 4 inches of water. “We’re only about one-third of the way through this.” https://t.co/a928UpLSTI
WILMINGTON, N.C. — North Carolina confronted a spiraling statewide crisis on Sunday as Tropical Depression Florence slowly ravaged the region, flooding cities, endangering communities from the coastline to the rugged mountains, and requiring well more than 1,000 rescues.
Sunday, it seemed, was when the storm system that had stalked the South for days — first as a hurricane, then as a tropical storm and eventually as a tropical depression — showed its full power with staggering scope. The death toll from the storm rose to at least 16 in North and South Carolina, where roads were treacherous and even the most stately trees were falling.
“It’s horrible,” said Mitch Colvin, the mayor of Fayetteville, N.C., in the eastern part of the state, where the rising Cape Fear River was expected to swamp bridges and cut his city in two in the next few days. “Things are deteriorating,” he said.
The perils stretched across North Carolina’s more than 500-mile width [....]
begs the question of whether the visit during Maria to Puerto Rico was really "they'll never be brand Trump customers, so why should I care that much?" as opposed to traditional racism or even xenophobia. Don't know why it took me so long, but I got this light bulb go on right now: MAGA = there is only one image of America and Trumpworld pegs it perfectly. It's like Walt Disney gone wild and bad.
World leaders, ministers, diplomats, military officers and policy experts are attending the annual Munich Security Conference, the premier global powwow on foreign, defense and security policy. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg are among those taking part in the conference in the southern German city. Follow POLITICO's live blog for the latest news and analysis from the conference, which runs from Friday to Sunday.
A man armed with a handgun entered the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora, Ill., on Friday afternoon and killed five civilians, officials announced at a news conference. Five police officers were also wounded.
Police Chief Kristen Ziman said the gunman, identified as Gary Martin, 45, was killed in a crossfire with officers. She said, in a second late-night news conference, that the gunman was a 15-year veteran of the company who was being terminated Friday [....]
We all knew McCabe would take aim at Trump in his book, but his contempt for Sessions is staggering. Depicts him as addled, fixated on immigrants, racist. My review of the McCabe book in WaPo https://t.co/nEMmQXvJ07
House Democratic leaders have a rebellion in their ranks. And there’s no easy way to quash it.
House Democrats have repeatedly faced surprise Republican floor attacks since taking control of the chamber, part of a bid by the GOP to target their most vulnerable members and fracture the party. Just six weeks in, the GOP effort has been an astonishing success — dividing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top deputies and pitting members of the freshmen class against each other.
The House voted Thursday night to approve a border security deal that prevents a new government shutdown in a 300-128 vote.
The vote sets up President Trump to sign the legislation — and to declare a national emergency as a way of getting more federal funds for his wall on the Mexican border.
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Hurricane Florence: Storm ‘Has Never Been More Dangerous’
By David Zucchino, Alan Blinder and Jack Healy @ NYTimes.com, Sept. 16, with video
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 12:27am
me, me, me:
begs the question of whether the visit during Maria to Puerto Rico was really "they'll never be brand Trump customers, so why should I care that much?" as opposed to traditional racism or even xenophobia. Don't know why it took me so long, but I got this light bulb go on right now: MAGA = there is only one image of America and Trumpworld pegs it perfectly. It's like Walt Disney gone wild and bad.
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/19/2018 - 1:39pm
more stuff about what the toddler is up to in NC:
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/19/2018 - 2:29pm
more, Maggie basically going 'toldja we weren't making this shit up"
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/19/2018 - 7:31pm