The primary TV attraction today is Hurricane Isaias . Was a Category 2 yesterday at 110 MPH. Strengthened today into a Category 3 at 120. Reports indicate that landfall will occur at around 10PM ET (9PM CT) tonight just east of Pensacola, Florida. Looking ahead to tomorrow, note that the eye will probably just have passed Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where Georgia is scheduled to play Alabama at 7:30PM ET (6:30 CT). But who knows for sure what will happen. As tailgating can begin at noon on the Alabama campus, there will almost certainly be chaos that afternoon. My recommendation is that they postpone the game until Sunday. More seriously, landfall will be near Navarre, Florida. Located 25 miles east of Pensacola and 15 miles west of Fort Walton Beach. Once a town of 1500 in 1970, the population must be around 45,000 today, and is the third-largest community in the Florida Panhandle. Suffered terrible damage from Hurricanes Ivan (2004) and Dennis (2005). Storm surge is the most ser...
Today, oil prices are up and stock markets down, so that can only mean that the Iran War is not easing into peace. Saudi Arabia and the Houthis are attacking each other, opening up a second front and making oil passage through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait another choke point. In the meantime, President Donald Trump indicated that there will be military strikes against Iran, but not before the mid-terms. About that Russian plague incident: Very little is official, but almost a week ago the Russian media reported a possible plague case with the death of a lab worker. This employee worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia. 28-year old Darya Shipilova was hospitalized for pneumonia and died on October 2. 200 others in contact with her were placed in quarantine. Actually also the whole hospital. But 90% of those held back have since been released. Yet, one other bit of contradictory alert is that 2000 people were in quarantine, for that graphic abo...