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SUNDAY WITH ANIMALS, HUMANS AND HURRICANES

I have stopped using the treadmill because falling would be catastrophic.  If I did anything on this device, this is what I would do.  Supposed to be a video, but, I guess not.   All these videos were sent to me by friends. This one below you absolutely must see.  And, by the way, there is interesting story about that Glass Gem Corn in the above compilation. There are four ocean storms, one in the Atlantic, one in the Gulf of Mexico and two in the West Pacific.   Hurricane Franklin  will veer away the USA, but attain Category 3 strength. Now Tropical Storm  Idalia  will become a hurricane and make landfall over a relatively unpopulated portion of Florida. In the West Pacific,  Damrey  today attained hurricane strength, but will make a right turn and miss Japan. Also in the West Pacific is the very dangerous  Typhoon Saola , now at 145 MPH.  Looks to maintain Category 4 status, with the eye passing just south of Taiwan, and weakening into a Category 2 before making landfall over China,

HOW ARE WE DOING 20 YEARS AFTER 9/11/2001?

Tomorrow is 20 years after 9/11/01, when terrorists traumatized the USA.  My wife Pearl sometimes woke up in the middle of the night to watch TV.  On that morning, she nudged me soon after American Airlines 11 flew into the North Tower of the 110-story World Trade Center.  I awoke at around 2AM Hawaii time to then see United Airlines 175 hit the South Tower. What a trauma for us, as immediately coming to mind was an incredible dinner we had in a restaurant called  Cellar in the Sky,  located inside Windows of the World at the top of the North Tower.  A very private space with 35 seats, it had a prix fixe menu hand-written on a ceramic page, and featured a guitarist.  We recalled another couple trying to sneak out the menu and being caught.  Our waiter gave us ours, and we kept it until....don't know what happened to it. There was once a time in our history when life-changing events brought our country together.  Witness the Civil War, where we finally became a country.  Sure, there