Zululand was placed under martial law and orders given to supply the Zulus north of the Thukela with arms and ammunition in defense against the Boers.
Birmingham was hit by a devastating tornado.
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Showing posts with label Weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weather. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
The Agrarian's Lament: Nebraska is burning and its time to stop pretending this is normal.
The Agrarian's Lament: Nebraska is burning and its time to stop pretendin...: Actually, that time was some time ago, but for those "clean coal" and "drill baby drill" people, you are converting th...
Nebraska is burning and its time to stop pretending this is normal.
Actually, that time was some time ago, but for those "clean coal" and "drill baby drill" people, you are converting the planet into an image of Hell.
It's not too late to address this, but it'll take major action. The good news is that a nation that can waste billions of dollars on a war with Iran for no reason whatsoever, can afford to address it, and reverse it.
And not only, that, the rest of the world is leaping ahead of us in alternative energy systems, including China in spite of what the dolt in the White House says.
Simply believing that because we've always done things one way means its okay, or that our pocketbooks depend on coal and oil mean sit okay, is absolute lunacy. The day of fossil fuels either needs to end, or they'll end us.
And as a final note, all too often I've heard farmers and ranchers take the global warming is a fib line. This year, there's no water in the west, none coming, and there will be none . We won't be growing anything.
Wake up.
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Wednesday, March 15, 1911. .45 ACP Trials.
Final trials began to determine whether the John Browning designed Colt Special Army Model 1910 or the Elbert Searle designed Savage Model 1907 would become the first automatic pistol to be adopted by the U.S. Army. Both were chambered in .45 ACP, a Colt designed cartridge.
The Colt Special Army Model 1910 is familiar to history as the M1911. The Savage, less so.
The Colt would go on, of course, to be adopted and is the greatest military handgun of all time. Still superior, in the minds of many (including the author), to any handgun that came after it.
As a minor note on that, I recently went through security in at a Wyoming court and the Sheriffs Deputy manning it was armed with a high end 1911. I asked him about it. He'd been in the Army, and rejected all the 9mms that came after the M1911.
He's not the only one.
The Silver Spray was caught in a snowstorm on Lake Erie, foundered, and its fishing crew froze to death in the lake.
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Tuesday, March 14, 1911. Worries in El Paso.
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Today In Wyoming's History: March 12, 2026.
Today In Wyoming's History: March 12: 2026. Windstorms at a historic level closed highways in southeast Wyoming and closed the campus of CSU.
Sunday, March 12, 1876. London meat shower.
And, just a few days after it happened in Kentucky, a meat shower happened over London.
Weird.
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Friday, March 10, 1876, "Mr. Watson, come here—I want to see you".
Monday, March 9, 2026
Friday, March 10, 1911. Zapata joins the revolution.
Emiliano Zapata gathered seventy men in Morelos as the start of his revolutionary army.
Kansas became the first state in the union to subject securities and investment brokers to state regulation.
T/he greatest snow fall in U.S. history concluded in Tamarack, Californian. 451 inches.
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Tuesday, March 7, 1911. Taft deploys troops to the border.
Sunday, March 10, 1901. Blood rain.
An instance of "blood rain" occurred in southern and central Italy, and Sicily.
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Saturday, March 9, 1901. Tolstoy excommunicated.
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Monday, February 4, 1946. Weather and War Brides.
National weather forecasts returned to American newspapers for the first time since December 15, 1941.
The SS Argentina arrived in New York City with 452 British war brides, one war groom and 173 children, the first large-scale such arrival.
The partially completed deck of the USS Kentucky (BB 66). February 4, 1946. She'd never be completed and would be scrapped.
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026
CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 113th Edition. Some things you aren't hearing much about right now and some things that require explanation that we're not getting. The Venezuelan Distraction Edition.
Hmmmm. . . .
The U.S. attacked Venezuela over the weekend as its a major drug exporter to the U.S., or maybe because we wanted to liberate the country from Maduro, or maybe because it has oil.
One of those things.
Anyhow,
Somethings we aren't hearing much about now.
- Where are those Epstein files?
Where, where?
Still delayed.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose leaves office today, claimed Trump would attack Venezuela as nothing distracts like war. She said that, not me.
I'm not saying that he attacked Venezuela for that reason, although I don't put it past him. But we sure aren't hearing much about them now, are we?
They could have dropped the entire file in a giant Playboy Ephebophilia, Collectors Edition, complete with underaged centefolds, and nobody would have noticed.
- What's up with the economy?
Do you know? I don't, and I follow the economy.
- What's going on in the Russo Ukrainian War?
Trump was going to instantly end the war, but it turned out to be hard.
Over the last month he was praising Putin, and then sort of praising Ukraine, and now we don't hear anything about the war at all. Utterly nothing.
I'm sure Trump didn't end the war.
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Somethings we need explanations on.
- Greenland?
What is the real source of Trump's fascination with Greenland? The strategic need line is complete and utter crap. If somebody is actually telling him that, they need to be dope slapped into the 21st Century.
I don't really think it's Trump, as I don't think Trump is smart enough to know anything about Greenland. Having watched him now for years, I'm pretty much convinced that he was a fairly good salesman at one time, but he was never very intelligent. Now he's demented so he's not even a good salesman.
It's something or somebody else, or . . .
- Putin and Trump?
We have to seriously consider once again why Donald Trump is a Russian asset.
We know that he is a Russian asset, but we don't know why. He may be simply because he likes them for some reason. Or he may have really bought into some weird vision of the world that's centered in the 18th Century, in which he's King Donald the Demented and Putin is Tsar Vlad the Magnificent. Btu with the threats on Greenland we need to at least consider the possibility that Trump is a full-blown Russian asset as they have something on him, or are giving something to him.
That sounds extreme, but a US that pulls back to the Western Hemisphere and wrecks NATO is a gift to Russia. And it appears to be happening. Putin had been a backer of Maduro but he didn't lift a finger to help him once our illegitimate head of state caused that illegitimate head of state to be seized.
And Putin has been oddly quiet.
It's clear that at least for the time being the relationship between the United States and Europe is wrecked. If you were writing a script for a Russian mole to occupy the White House, even Tom Clancy couldn't do better than this.
Harry Dexter White. . . it's sort of happened before.
- Lindsey Graham.
What's going on with Lindsey Graham. Unlike Trump, he's not dumb. His complete and utter sycophancy needs some explanation.
- Stephen and Katie Miller
Okay, this is going to be delicate, but there's something really weird about Stephen Miller playing Joseph Goebbels and his wife playing, well, Joseph Goebbels.
They're both Jewish.
Miller is the chief proponent of White Anglo Saxon Protestantism in the administration, and he ain't one. I don't know the ethnicity of his wife, but she could pass for a Mizrahi Jew.
This might not quite be as weird as it sounds, although its downright dangerous for them. Goebbels had been a Communist and you can find plenty of Nazis who were drawn from German populations that were repressed in the most violent ways during the Third Reich, but there's the lesson. The policies that Miller advocates for would, in the end, put him and Katie in the hold of a boat and deport them to a place that people who think like him would think he would find more to their liking, or at least theirs.
Before this sounds too one sided, there's a real lesson for Catholics supporting Trump. His people don't think you are very American either.
Careful Steve and Katie. . . this is how a lot of your fellow travelers see you.
- The weather.
It's been super warm this winter. No winter at all.
How long do we intend to ignore this?
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CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 112th Edition. Clinton calls Trump's bluff.
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Thursday, December 31, 1925. Reining in New Years.
The first attempt at a worldwide New Year's celebration was made via international radio when the United States sent out musical entertainment and New Year's greetings from the consuls general of various foreign countries in New York.
There was an effort in many locations in the US to rein in New Years celebrations, which if they were in compliance with the law, should be dry:
European flooding which had broken out on the 29th hit Belgium.
Today In Wyoming's History: December 31: 1925 The legendary Swan Land & Cattle Company issued its corporate holdings report for the year.
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Wednesday, December 30, 1925. Ben-Hur.
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Wednesday, October 17, 1910. The 1910 Cuba Hurricane,
Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: October 17, 1910: Of Kiddo the wonder cat: Kiddo the cat jumped out of the dirigible America but was fished out of the sea.
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Wednesday, September 29, 1915. The Great New Orleans Hurricane.
A hurricane made landfall in Louisiana, killing 279 people. The destruction of the storm would not be surpassed for fifty years.
The Germans recaptured lost ground in the Second Battle of Champagne resulting in a French suspension of their campaign.
6,000 or more Ottoman troops were dispatched to break Armenian resistance at Urfa, Turkey.
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Tuesday, September 28, 1915. La Matanza of Ebenezer
Friday, September 26, 2025
Going Feral: The Feral Week.
Going Feral: Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, September 26, 1915. Wab.:
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Southern Rockies Nature Blog: These Hunters' Deaths Hit Me Hard
Southern Rockies Nature Blog: These Hunters' Deaths Hit Me Hard: Search and rescue volunteers are briefed before heading out. (Conejos County Sheriff's Office) The search for two missing bowhunters, An...
This is terrible news, to say the least.
When I first heard of these two men dying, it was by way of a headline. As I was extremely busy at the time, I didn't read deeper into the story. I frankly assumed they had succumbed due to hypothermia, and that they were likely inexperienced outdoorsmen.
I learned more about it sage chicken hunting with a companion, who had looked into the story more. He revealed that in fact they were experienced outdoorsmen, but we both assumed that they had died due to hypothermia. We assumed, frankly, that they'd stepped out for what they thought would be a shorter trip and were caught in a bad situation at which point they couldn't address the onset of the condition.
It turns out we were wrong. It was a lightning strike.
I've been afraid of lightning my entire life, and a lot of that is due to living an outdoor life. From my earliest years I can recall being fascinated with lightning, but also fearing it. My earliest recollection of an electrical strike close by was when I was a child, looking out our picture window. and saw a bolt of lightning hit the ground right in front of the house and arc over the street, as a car passed under it.
My mother related that her grandfather had actually been hit by lightning observing an electrical storm out the back window of a house in St. Lambert, Quebec. He was fine, but that might have made an early impression with me. My father, an avid outdoorsman, didn't mess with lightening at all, although he would continue to fish well past the point he should as electrical storms approached. The childhood step father of a friend of mine was killed on the golf course by lightning. The father of a gaggle of girls who where my contemporaries was killed on horseback when struck by lightning.
I had plenty of reasons as a kid to fear lightning.
As an adult, I've seen lightning strike a human occupied thing when I saw a blot strike a boat in Alcova Reservoir. I was far enough away that I don't know what happened to the people in it. While living in Laramie, and going to law school, I had a bolt of lightning strike a power line right above the point I was at as I was hurriedly walking home, hoping to beat the storm. It blew me to the ground, and I was deaf in one ear for about a week. Also in Laramie, I remember being up in the high country elk hunting and briefly conversing with a mounted hunter as a storm started to roll in. The air grew electrick and came in contact, somehow, with the horses steel ringlets on his bridle, causing his ears to shoot up, and a visible electrical current pass between the tips of his ears, just before he reared around and charged down the mountain.
Storms will appear and surprise you.
In the sticks, I watch the weather like a hawk. It's not snow I'm afraid of being caught in, it's an electrical storm. I'll abandon a place early if I think it looks like such a storm is rolling in.
Electrical storms in the high country are particularly dangerous. Due to the terrain, they roll up at you before you can appreciate them, and they are very frequent. High altitude afternoon thunderstorms are a norm in mountainous terrain.
Added to that, in spite of Donald Trump and His Confederacy of Clowns, climate change has extended the summer and fall and that's making traditional activities in late fall more dangerous in various ways. I'm not terribly familiar with Southern Colorado, but I can claim some familiarity with Northern Colorado and lots of familiarity with all of Wyoming. This time of year, say thirty or more years ago, storm above 6,000 feet here were snowstorms, not rain storms. We worried about being snowed out, or snowed in, not rain. Now thanks to a desperate belief on the part of some that things aren't changing, or it isn't our fault, things are changing.
Wide Open Spaces reported their cause of death as being surprising. I'm not terribly surprised, as I've had too many close calls with lightning even while being careful. I'll merely note, it pays to be careful out there. . . really careful.
But sometimes, that won't save you.
Regarding the tragic deaths of Andrew Porter and Ian Stasko:
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Wyomingites with deep conservation roots oppose axing Forest Service Roadless Rule
Wyomingites with deep conservation roots oppose axing Forest Service Roadless Rule: Although the state government loathes the Forest Service regulation, many residents value the wild lands and wildlife it protects.
‘Judas elk’ to help target Jackson Hole ‘suburban elk,’ easing pressure on Yellowstone migrants
‘Judas elk’ to help target Jackson Hole ‘suburban elk,’ easing pressure on Yellowstone migrants: Research reveals that animals that summer on ranchland and in residential subdivisions near town pile up on the National Elk Refuge's southern end — a trait that will help wildlife managers steer hunters toward the problematic cohort.
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