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...torn from their moorings are tumbling through dam spillways and local television reporters are standing in lakeside parks knee deep in water pointing out the picnic tables floating by. The 20 inch rain deficit in the hills to the west of Austin was wiped out in one night as weather radar showed a large purple blob stuck over Marble Falls, Texas...
This type of weather always brings tragedy - cars swept away, traffic accidents, flooded homes - but out in the hills it also brings abundance. Ranchers won't be burning the spines off cactus this year to provide food for grazing cattle. The deer population, savaged last year as starving does aborted their fawns, likely will see a baby boom marked by twin births, common in green years. "It's amazing," Robert Perez, a state wildlife biologist told the Houston Chronicle. "I've been around the state over the past several weeks, and it's like a new world. Everything's green...
...photographers have been balancing on stepladders and defending their turf in uncertain weather for two days now, but still those encamped outside 10 Downing Street are cheerful. Not only are their editors hungry for images depicting the new government Gordon Brown promises to unveil in full in the next 24 hours, but the first and most prominent Cabinet appointment has provided them with a gag that, for the lensmen at least, has yet to wear thin. "Hello Darling!" they chorus raucously, as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer makes his way past the press...
Back in the late 60s and early 1970s, fashion designers created warm-weather clothes for affluent women who were heading south to the tropics, where they would wait out winter's chill in more temperate climes. They called it resort or cruise wear, and the tags stuck even when many of those women started staying home and going to work...
...Weather forecasters predict this summer will be a horrific hurricane season. Chertoff is planning to visit every state that could be in a storm's path. After Katrina, he says, the department implemented a way to track the location of food and water heading into a disaster area, and developed clear procedures for activating the military's aid with helicopters, logistics and soldiers the moment it is needed. Chertoff says he's ready. If not, his seat could get very uncomfortable...