Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Tainted Halloween Candy is an Urban Legend: Annual Reminder Edition

Don't inspect your kids' Halloween candy - it scares them for no reason. This year's reminder comes from AboveAverage.com:

How To Spot Suspicious Halloween Treats

Be on the lookout this Halloween! Here's how to spot suspicious treats.Watch more here: http://bit.ly/1Fyoseh

Posted by Above Average on Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Friday, October 9, 2015

NBD, Just a Tropical Storm Heading for Alaska

Just after South Carolina was hit with biblical flooding, breaking monthly rainfall records in a matter of days, post-Tropical Storm Oho is now heading for Alaska. You know things are bad when the media is openly talking about how climate change is influencing Oho.

"Although tropical systems do, on occasion, move to the northeast in the central Pacific, since 1949, no late season (October or later) system has formed south of Hawaii and moved to the northeast," reports Weather.com's Chris Dolce.

Not only has Alaska been baking in record-shattering heat, but as the AP's Becky Bohrer reports, it's flooding and burning as well:
Eight of the 10 wettest summers in Juneau have occurred since 2000, he said. Records for the site date to the early 1940s. The frequency of wildfire seasons where at least a million acres have been burned has roughly doubled since the early 1990s, he said.
Better drill the last of the oil out of there before it becomes completely uninhabitable.