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New York City Weather

December 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on New York City Weather 

New York City Weather, (AP) – A band of icy cold winds to the east coast, on Sunday threatened to bring blizzards and a foot of snow in New York and New England, while several southern states have made declarations of emergency as the storm caused crashes on slippery roads.

Airlines grounded hundreds of flights Sunday along the northeast corridor in anticipation of the storm, affecting major airports, including JFK and Newark in New York. Airlines said more cancellations were likely as the storm progressed. Travel misery began a day earlier in some southern regions, where a rare white Christmas has come with reports of dozens of car accidents.

Transportation officials in Washington roads pretreated and prepared than 200 salt trucks, plows and other equipment to fight against the 6 inches or more expected to decline in the Mid-Atlantic region.

The North is expected to get the brunt of the storm. Forecasters issued a blizzard warning for New York Sunday and Monday with a forecast of 11 to 16 centimeters of snow and strong winds that will reduce visibility to near zero at times. A blizzard warning was also in effect for Rhode Island and most of eastern Massachusetts including Boston, with forecasters predicting 15 to 20 inches of snow. A blizzard warning is issued when snow is accompanied by sustained winds or gusts over 35 mph.

As much as 18 inches could fall on the shore of New Jersey, with gusts over 40 mph.

Baltimore and Washington were to get 6 or more inches of snow, with surrounding areas that will experience the largest number of 9, the weather service.

By Sunday morning, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina declared states of emergency. Amtrak has canceled several of its trains in Virginia.

“Winds gusting to 45 mph will cause blowing snow and that will cause the worst,” said Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell the Weather Channel on Saturday night. “We urge extreme caution in travel. Try to go early and if you do not have to travel do not go.”

Major airlines have been canceling flights in the path of the storm Sunday. Continental Airlines canceled 250 departures from Newark Liberty International Airport outside New York City. United Airlines canceled dozens of departures on Sundays from Newark, Philadelphia, New York LaGuardia and JFK, Boston and other airports. AirTran and Southwest Airlines also canceled flights, mostly in or out of Washington Dulles, Baltimore and Newark.

Most carriers have been the abolition of fees for time change in the affected areas and urging passengers to make changes on their websites.

The monster storm is the result of a low pressure system, which will develop off the coast of North Carolina on Sunday morning and strengthen into a storm as it moves northeast, according to the National Weather Service .

Delaware and Philadelphia is preparing for up to a foot of snow expected to fall from Sunday until Monday, and authorities urged people to avoid traveling if possible.

Sunday morning, winter storm warnings extending from Georgia to New England.

White Christmas in the South was one for the record books. Columbia, SC, held its first Christmas snow significantly since meteorological records were first kept in 1887. Atlanta was a little over an inch of snow – the first measurable accumulation on Christmas Day since 1880.

North Carolina Highway Patrol said Saturday night that most roads in and around Asheville have been covered or partially covered with snow and ice. Emergency management spokeswoman Julia Jarema said soldiers in the two counties west dozen 350 calls answered in 18 hours on Saturday. Most were wrecks.

Lance Cpl. Bill Rhyne, spokeswoman for the patrol of the South Carolina Highway, said Saturday night that the snow began to cover the roads, but there were fewer accidents than there would be a normal night.

“Everyone at home,” he said. “It’s Christmas. They are heeding the warnings and stay off the roads.”

However, transportation officials in the state had deployed more than 200 plows, salt trucks and other equipment.

In Nashville, some travelers who are planning a trip to a sweet Christmas surprises.

“We hoped that this would be a good day to travel,” said Heather Bansmer, 36, of Bellingham, Washington

She and her husband, Shawn Breeding, 40, had planned to go home on separate flights after a visit to the family of reproduction in Bowling Green, Ky. But flight reproduction thanks to Atlanta was canceled.

The couple was expecting to spend much of Christmas Day in different airports.

“A white Christmas is not so welcoming,” said Breeding, the couple stood in the lobby of the Nashville airport with their luggage in a cart.

In Pensacola, Florida, Jena Passuti faces a dilemma. The magazine editor, 36, was driving with her husband and two children in Fairfax, Virginia to visit relatives. Saturday afternoon, she worried about how to return home amid the snow.

“Should we leave on Christmas Eve? My children are travelers normally, but if it will take us twice as long, it will be hell,” she said. “Like a white Christmas just like everyone else but I do not want to drive.”

Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Kristin M. Hall in Nashville, Page Ivey in Columbia, Karen Hawkins in Chicago and Verena Dobnik Warren Levinson in New York, David Goodman in Detroit, Eileen Sullivan in Washington and Samantha Bomkamp; Michelle Price in Phoenix; Dylan Lovan in Louisville; Pallat Leonard and Greg Bluestein in Atlanta and Mark Pratt in Boston.

Copyright © 2010 the Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Necn Weather

December 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on Necn Weather 

Necn Weather, Nordet with a ferocious blizzard conditions will arrive in Connecticut, around noon today, dumping a foot of wind-whipped snow and hit some stress in relaxed holiday travelers as they scramble to get home.

A blizzard warning is in effect from 6 pm today at 18 am Monday.

“Looks like there will be a big one,” News 8 meteorologist Steve Villanueva said Saturday.

The snowfall during the first storm of the season is expected to be size 12 to 20 inches statewide, powdery snow over northwest Connecticut, and heavier, wetter snow Southern Connecticut, said the ministry of the state of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, which is monitoring the storm warnings and deliverance.

State Department of Transportation snowplows are pre-treating roads with chemicals to melt snow. People should expect parking restrictions in urban areas Monday. Schools are closed for holidays during this risk would have been a snow day Monday.

At the height of the storm tonight, northerly winds will increase to 20 to 35 mph, with gusts of 40 to 55 miles per hour. Whiteout conditions are expected to make driving particularly hazardous. Office of Governor M. Jodi Rell has asked residents to avoid driving if possible during the storm.

The storm is expected to have a major impact on most travel on roads and airports along the East Coast. Snow will blow and drift during the day Monday, causing a moderate impact on the rush in the afternoon, officials said.

For those traveling by plane in New York and Boston, delays are almost a certainty. And for those going by car – drive slowly, cautiously and with spare blankets if a vehicle breakdown.

News 8 Villanueva said Satur Villanueva said Saturday the storm is expected to result in strong winds, which combined with the weight of snow, could cause trees and power lines down. He said to keep bottled water, flashlights work and canned food on hand.

“There will be lots of snow from shortly after lunch on Sunday until Monday morning, he said.

The storm front is going to happen today presented a rare white Christmas in parts of South and complicated life for many travelers that hundreds of canceled flights airlines.

Brian Korty at the National Weather Service in Camp Springs, Md., said travelers in the region north of the east coast and New England may want to rethink travel plans today.

WBZ Weather

December 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on WBZ Weather 

Wbz Weather, (AP) – French police arrested a farmer who fatally shot an intruder whom he suspected of trying to steal coveted truffles of his land on the edge of the southern region of France in Provence.

The farmer of 32 years told authorities he kept his nose patch in the city of Grignan, when he was startled by the intruder and shot him in the legs and head with a shotgun, a police said Wednesday.

Police said the farmer believes that the victim was armed. The victim of 43 years died shortly after the shooting Monday. Authorities did not release the names of two men.

Truffles are fungi mainly found in forests in France and Italy that grow underground in the root systems of host trees. They are prized for their rich, earthy flavors and can reach astronomical prices – making it a prime target for thieves.

Didier Chabert, a truffle-local producer who has known the accused farmer for many years, “said the man had been hit by thieves two or three times this season for truffles, which runs from December to March.

“At this time of year, thieves are waiting for the moon to rise so there is light at night, the thief comes to steal time for the truffle,” said Chabert.

French forests produce 50 tonnes of black truffles in a good year, but bad weather caused the harvest last year falling to 25 tons, “said Chabert, former head of the local association of truffle.

The peak demand for truffles at Christmas time, when the French traditionally splurge on treats such as truffles, champagne, foie gras, shrimp and oysters. Last year prices reached black truffle and 600 pound due to the shortage, “said Chabert. The current price is a little less and 500 pound.

The head of the truffle sellers another association said the problem of theft of truffles has been increasing.

“During the past month, everyone here has been stolen,” said Michel Meille. “We went to local officials and police, but nothing has been done.”

Meille said thieves have no problem with fencing stolen tubers. “All this is done under the table,” he said.

Chabert said his truffle patch is a mile and a half away from the accused farmer. He inspects every morning the footprints of thief’s truffles “witness, but so far it has not taken one. He says he wants his neighbor came to his aid.

“If we were two or three to see the truffles there would be no problem,” said Chabert.

Copyright © 2010 the Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Craigslist Raleigh

September 3, 2010 by · Comments Off on Craigslist Raleigh 

Craigslist Raleigh, Ray, an elderly figure, has won her passion for the art beyond the limits of the room and apartment. After being one of the artists interne Raleigh and working for the Museum of Art, North Carolina, says coach Ray Ellen Explorer which is similar to the increase of education beyond the campus and how it was charged at the arts center and events as well as weekday staff. Freshman Friday is a self-guided tour of art galleries in the center of the premiere Friday of each month.

What motivated their participation in the Bailiwick? How do I keep it by their immaturity and the period of adolescence before coming to college?

“I started art classes when I was attractive actress. My favorite things we did in school art projects uncomplicated. My real involvement in the arts broke in the fifth grade when my teacher taught us how to acquire the images to a aphotic to live. civilizing act, I took an art education in twelve months and during the season I would interpret offers art classes at places like Art or Set ArtsTogether Settlers. I also took an aggregation of art at each meeting had any internships soft and what you did for them?

“In acute schooltime, I was a houseman for artists Wife Linda Dickinson, wife of Thornton, and Eric McRay. For the most thing better would be the preparation of its artists manipulate, paintings, political, paints and brushes, so in how work in places where his art was displayed, the pact with galleries showing his pass and create Elementary on Friday. I had finished another Gallery ArtSource practices in the hills of Directors during which I learned much that happens in almost sprang an art gallery. My duties will include re-hanging the gallery, cabling and wiring parts, making the list, art storage and organization. expositions of pets. ”

How did you develop the energy for the Museum of Art? The term benign

What are you doing there?

“I found my job at Carolina Museum of Art further north through an ad on Craigslist. I can make in the pursuit of wealth. It is the largest of jobs, but less in a body at the entrance to some fermentable healthy opportunities and jobs in the museum. ”

What need to make old graduate?

“I’m not quite sure what I am doing training on the quantification. I was Bonk tion civilizing effort to adjust, if so, I have no care where. I’ve also been training on the work effort in either a room or continue my work in the museum. ”

What did you do during the premiere on Friday?

“During Friday’s prototype, I would stop in the studios of artists and greeting customers, they gossip about the art, the artist and the business of his or her line and etc. It was a better chance for me acclimated to transmute The blitz of state of a creator, taking a studio or gallery. In general, the prototype of Friday is a fun and new to the artistic side feat due to the difference of elements of the arts that is subject to much as, artwork and live music food intimidate the whole school. “

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