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The name rings a bell from watching the big storms. I was2 in 1954 and living in Western Pennsylvania. The ones I remember living in SW Virginia (around Roanoke) were Camille in 1969 and Agnes in 1972. Both caused extensive flooding of the James River. Camille was responsible for pretty much wiping out Scottsville south of Charlottesville and flooding in what's know of the Shokoe Bottom in Richmond. Agnes's was another big one with lots of rain when it came thru, once again major flooding in Richmond. Those were the two largest in my memory that was close (kinda) to where we lived. My only close encounter was with Gloria in 1985 that skirted the Virginia Beach coast and Pat Robertson took credit for praying it off shore. It was a category 3. I was doing mornings at a radio station in Suffolk Va, about 25-30 miles inland. A little past 5 that morning the tower behind the station fell. Fortunately it only caught a small corner of the building and doubled back before hitting the highway in front embedding about 4 feet of the tower into the driveway. The major casualty was one of my employee's car (a rebuilt Maverick) that was destroyed by the debris The damn station owner wouldn't reimburse the guy, and insurance didn't cover it. I still feel bad for him.

We just watched War Game. This was a simulation of what could happen if the 2024 is contested like the last one on Jan 6. Only this time the opposition is much more prepared, both the National Guard and the military are compromised (it's estimated that about 7% of National Guard members and a similar percentage of regular military would side with those opposed to the peaceful certification of the election and would resort to provoking violence by the police, Guard and acitve military. Basically they game it out in real time (given a 6 hour time limit) with Fmr Gov Steve Bullock as President, Fmr Gen Wesley Clark as Chairman of the Joint Chief's of Staff, Heidi Heitkamp, Alexander Vidman, Doug Jones and several others who have had governmental experience. Bottom line, next January could be very scary https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/war_game_2024

This showed up in today's FB feed from 11 years ago

Until Vlad turned him

I remember its predecessor in the same location. They were the AAA affiliate of the Atlanta Braves back then. Its demise was long overdue, much like the current park. As usual local politics got in the way of a replacement. It took MLB's threat of removing the franchise to get something done. I'd really like to see some other team than a west coast franchise I don't really care about moving in there. Maybe the Nationals want to move their AAA team?

Maybe if owners ponied up and paid for their own facilities they might get built quicker. As it stands sports teams prefer to have municipalities pay or at least float bonds for the facilities. I'm seeing it here where that was recently a several year discussion over a new ballpark for a minor league franchise that was finally approved after several years of discussions (Richmond, Va) Then there is the proposed "travel sport" facility planned for Williamsburg,Va supported by the neighboring counties that some feel was approved too quickly.

From today's Axios https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-macro-e0242ff0-87d0-11ef-bba5-0b4446cf21fa.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmacro&stream=business

Not sure if it needs state approval but local approval has been approved earlier this summer. As with most projects of this sort approval takes time.

Bill Kristol says it much more succinctly in today's Bullwerk

More from last night's Obama appearance. Dems need to hammer this home. My feeling has long been that a certain percentage of men are afraid of women leaders. I'm married to a strong intelligent woman and over the past 45 plus years have watched how she's been passed over for several promotions because of the "Boys Club" in her industry. And with a woman of color it's probably more prominent

More of this please

As long as it's not a Buc-ees

Jonathan Last writing about that today https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-polls-are-not-underestimating?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=87281&post_id=150049794&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=45wcm&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email I guess the translation is who the hell knows

And now he's dissing his supporters

Now he's dissing the folks who worked so hard to bring the city back. Just what this country needs a clueless, racist idiot

Somebody please ask grandpa Trump about being abused by Foxconn, a company from China, that he touted early in his administration. Just wait until Elon turns on him like he has other "partners" and don't forget Elon is an alien just like several of Trump's other "friends" in the high tech industry.

Mitt will be gone when his term expires in January, his party doesn't want him.... What does he have to lose?

I'm holding out for free steaks for every grill... I'll wager he'll never advocate interest free loans on tuitions...making the retroactive to 20 years

And he's paying for it how?

Meanwhile Trump's hiding from the mainstream press

True, since the plan was only approved earlier this year a facility like they seem to be planning can't be constructed overnight. They're going to have to patch up the old facility or temporarily relocate somewhere. It took over a year to repair the facility in New Orleans after Katrina

She's bringing out the "Big Dogs". Is Obama next...