Residents told to call local police and fire departments

[Fordsflylow]

I have yet to read where it is he lied.

 

[Black_Label]

Mitt Romney Criticizes President Obama For Wanting To Hire More Police, Firemen and Teachers - YouTube

How come no one on this site knows how to use "Google" or search "Youtube"?

I'm no Romney fan, but in that video Romney says we should cut back on gov't. He didn't say we need to cut back on emergency services.

Americans know the difference.

He (Obama said) wants to hire more firemen, more police and more teachers. Didn't he get the message from Wisconsin? It's time to cut back on government workers.

Isn't that what he said? Well?

Thought so.

Less police. More crime.

Less firemen. Longer response time.

Less teachers. More right wing children.

Like I said. You can lead a right winger right to the information. Bury their nose it in. And if they don't want to see it, they won't. Period. It's as simple as that.

That's why the right wing hypocrisy is all about. They hate those "union thug" teachers/firefighters/police, but then when a disaster hits like Colorado, they are the first to cry-baby asking where Obama is, and many blaming him for starting it in the first place

 

[Mr.Nick]

Other parts of the country were also sweltering. Denver recorded the hottest June on record. The average temperature for the month was 75 degrees, which was 7.6 degrees above normal. There were 17 days in which the maximum temperature exceeded 90 degrees, including a stretch of five consecutive 100-degree days from June 22-26, the weather service said.

In the Midwest, severe thunderstorms packing 80-plus mph winds pummeled the Chicago area on Sunday. There were no immediate reports of homes damaged but ComEd utility officials said about 200,000 customers were left without power. More than 60 kayakers were rescued from the Chicago River after their kayaks flipped when the storm blew in, a fire department official told the Chicago Sun-Times.

In Washington's northern Virginia suburbs, emergency 911 call centers were out of service; residents were told to call local police and fire departments. Huge trees toppled across streets in the nation's capital, crumpling cars

Storm power outages could last days

When I think of Republicans like Eric Cantor questioning the merits of disaster relief or Mitt Romney saying we need LESS Police and Firefighters, I think if Americans keep electing these idiots into office, then who exactly are the idiots? Not me, I would never vote for them or their "ilk".

Oh it's hot...... 105 today here in the Chi.... Where I'm at we haven't had rain in a month.

Those storms were on Friday and they hit the south side and Indiana....

 

[waltky]

Been so hot an' dry here the crawdads comin' outta their holes, knockin' onna door for a glass o' water...

US has hottest year since 1895, say scientists
9 July 2012 - The last year in the continental US has been the country's hottest since modern record-keeping began in 1895, say government scientists.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also said the US had broken its record for the hottest six months in a calendar year. One of the agency's weather experts suggested climate change was playing a role in the hot temperatures. A recent 11-day heatwave in the US has claimed at least 46 lives. A cold front moved in to the US Midwest and East Coast late on Sunday, ushering in much-desired cooler weather across the region. But forecasters say hot weather could now affect the western US and Canada, where Ontario has been experiencing record-breaking temperatures.

Climate change?

According to the NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, more than 170 all-time hot weather records were broken or tied during the second half of June. However, it was still only the 14th hottest June on record - the hottest being June 1933, during the Dust Bowl period. The previous hottest year was the 12-month period that ended in May 2012. Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, told Reuters news agency: "It's hard to pinpoint climate change as the driving factor, but it appears that it is playing a role. "What's going on for 2012 is exactly what we would expect from climate change."

After 10 consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures, a cold front lowered the mercury by some 15F (9.5C) as it moved on Sunday night across the South and mid-Atlantic. Many of the recent weather-related deaths were reported to involve elderly people stuck in homes without air conditioning because of ongoing power cuts. Ten deaths in Chicago were blamed on the heat, and at least 10 each in the eastern states of Virginia and Maryland. Three each died in Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and two in Tennessee. A four-month-old girl died after being left in a car for "an extended period" outside her home in Greenfield, Indiana.

On Saturday temperatures reached 105F in Washington DC - just short of the hottest ever recorded in the city. On the same day it was 107F in St Louis, Missouri, which also extended its record for consecutive days over 100F to 10. Hundreds of thousands of people from Indiana in the Midwest to Maryland on the East Coast are still enduring power cuts caused by storms that swept through the area more than a week ago. Storms in New Jersey on Saturday night knocked out power to another 70,000 households.

BBC News - US has hottest year since 1895, say scientists

 

[whitehall]

I think New Orleans residents who wanted to be evacuated during Katrina might have called fire departments but the civilians in Ray Nagan's city were out of luck. Nagan was most likely in a condo sippin whiskey while his police department personnel were filmed looting shops. When Nagan was asked why his school buses were parked rather than evacuating civilians he answered "where would they go" and the liberal media dropped the subject. They would go where your evacuation plan said they would go if you had one you fool. Nagan should be in jail for negligent homicide but thanks to the liberal media Bush was blamed.

 

[uscitizen]

7 days of new records here in central KY.
100 deg or higher tops was 105.

Damned global cooling.

 

[MeBelle]

Gonna be 100+ here over the next week.

Last few weeks have been 20 degrees cooler than 'normal'...whatever 'normal' is.