January 21, 2013

• It’s the ‘Little’ Things…

  New island size of 25 football pitches appears off Germany from North Sea
  Retreating Shorline along Texas gulf Coast

  WHO:  Dengue showing global ‘epidemic potential’
  Central America battles to save coffee from fungus

  Wildfires Scorch Australia As Temperatures Reach Record Highs
  Record cold kills 80 in Bangladesh

  Snowpocalypse Russia: ‘Snow tsunami’ swallows streets, cars, buildings
  Another snowless record on tap for Chicago (since 1899)

  From one extreme to the next… Russia’s never had so much snow, Chicago’s never had so little.  Australia’s never been so hot, Bangledesh has never been so cold.  Disease is spreading like never before, both in plants and animals.  Land appearing in Germany while receding in Texas.  And then I read this:

  Earth is undergoing true Polar Wander, Scientists say

  And it all makes a little more sense.

  As for us?  We had a terrible windstorm on Saturday night/Sunday morning. 
  When we woke up, this was the damage in Critter Corner.

  
  That would be the girl goat pen.  No goats were hurt/escaped, but
  What. A. Mess.  Brian got out and took off some of the smaller branches,
  but we have a BIG job to do next weekend….

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