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First snows to come to the Great Lakes, Northeast and Canada this weekend.
By ALEX SOSNOWSKI, AccuWeather.com
Progressively colder air will lead to the first snowflakes and snowfall of the season, as well as the first freeze in parts of the Great Lakes, Northeast and neighboring Canada this weekend.
A cold blast, frost and snowflakes are not all that unusual for this time of the year. However, following warm weather during the past six weeks, some people spending time outdoors will be shivering this weekend. The frost can damage plants that are still thriving due to the recent warmth.
This is not the type of setup to bring feet or even inches of snow to the snow belts to the lee of the Great Lakes but rather a rain/snow mix.
The rain and snow showers could be accompanied by thunder and lightning. Waterspouts are possible from lower Lake Michigan to lakes Erie and Ontario.
A snowstorm is not coming to areas where most people live.
According to AccuWeather Meteorologist Steve Travis, "Accumulating snow will not occur in areas close to the lakes or at elevations below 1,000 feet."
Most of the slushy accumulation will be on non-paved surfaces.
Rain showers will accompany the next push of chilly air as it spreads from parts of the Great Lakes to the Northeast Thursday night into Friday. The coldest locations of the upper Great Lakes, New York state and northern New England could have a few snowflakes mixing in at this time.
As a reinforcing surge of colder air presses southeastward Friday night into Saturday night, cold rain, a mix of rain and snow and wet snow showers are likely to spread from the Great Lakes to the interior Northeast. This will be the most likely time for snowflakes to make it to hilly areas of northeastern Ohio, the mountains of western and northern Pennsylvania, lower elevations of upstate New York and central and northern New England.
"People in areas across the ski country of New York, central New York and northwestern Pennsylvania could wake up to a coating of snow Sunday morning," Travis said.
In portions of northern Maine, New Brunswick and the eastern townships of Quebec, the potential exists for a few inches of snow in some locations from Saturday night into Sunday.
"For example, in Buffalo, New York, the average date for the first snowflakes is Oct. 24 and the earliest some sort of frozen precipitation has fallen was on Sept. 20," Travis said.
Parts of northern New England have already received their first flakes of the season.
In addition to chilly rain showers and snow for some, the main impact will be for the chilliest air of the season so far and for the first frost and freeze of the season to dip southward into parts of the Ohio Valley to the suburbs of the major Interstate-95 cities from Virginia to Maine.
In areas from the Midwest to the Northeast, there can be a frost or freeze both Saturday night and Sunday night. In the Midwest, Saturday night may be the colder of the two nights. In the Northeast, Sunday night will be the colder night.
For places that have had a frost or freeze in the past by the middle of October, take precautions to protect vulnerable plants, harvest vegetables that are ripe, empty bird baths and drain water out of garden hoses.
During the showers of rain and snow, as well as cloudy intervals during the day, actual temperatures can plummet 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Homemade acid bomb found on Northern California golf course. Bomb maker Kevin Hornbuckle arrested.
ROHNERT PARK, Calif. (AP) — Police say a 49-year-old man has been arrested after a homemade bomb was found on the 18th fairway of a Northern California golf course.
Rohnert Park police Sgt. Jason Krauss says the "acid bomb" capable of spraying debris across a radius of about 50 feet was found at Foxtail Golf Club.
He said maintenance workers found the device — made with a large water bottle — along with a second one that had already detonated nearby.
Krauss tells the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1LGT2e1 ) that a bomb squad moved the explosive device to the course's driving range and detonated it.
The golf course and club house were evacuated, and no one was injured.
Krauss says Kevin Hornbuckle of Rohnert Park was arrested on suspicion of possession and manufacture of a destructive device.
Off duty Memphis, TN. cop Terence Olridge killed on the way to work while sitting in his car ! The war on cops continues.
A Memphis police officer was shot and killed earlier today, reportedly while sitting inside his car.
An off-duty Memphis police officer was shot multiple times and killed Sunday afternoon, FOX13 reported.
Police Director Toney Armstrong ( picture below - TGFP. ) identified the officer as Terence Olridge, 31, during a news conference. Olridge was taken to Regional Medical Center in critical condition but later died from his injuries. The shooting occurred in Cordova, a major retail center just east of Memphis.
A suspect is in custody and the investigation is ongoing.
Olridge was shot near his house after he left to go to work, his uncle told FOX13. His fiance, who is four months pregnant with the couple's first child, was inside the home at the time of the shooting.
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| Officer Olridge made it back home & literally crawled into his garage. - TGFP. |
Family members of Memphis Police Officer Terence Olridge wait for news of his condition outside the Regional Medical Center after he was rushed to surgery Sunday afternoon. Olridge later died from multiple gun shot wounds, officials said.
"We just got a call, told us he'd been shot on his way to work, that he made his way back to the door some kind of way," Jerry Kelly, Olridge's uncle, said. "I don't know exactly how he made it back, but made it back to the garage door."
Olridge had only been with the Memphis Police Dept. since September 2014, when he started as a basic recruit. A smiling Olridge was interviewed in February by FOX13 when he graduated to the police force.
"Got a task ahead of me and I am prepared," he said.
Oldridge is the fourth Memphis officer to be fatally shot in slightly more than four years. His death comes only two months after Officer Sean Bolton was fatally shot. Cops believe an ex-convict shot Bolton as the officer interrupted a drug deal. A suspect in that case, Tremaine Wilbourn, has been charged with first-degree murder.
"It's sad, sad it keeps on happening in Memphis," Kelly told FOX13. "Just another life gets taken, someone's life gets taken another day. It's sad."
MRSA infection may mean NY Giants player Daniel Fells may lose his foot and possibly his life as well.
Doctors are fighting to save an NFL player’s foot – and possibly his life – according to an NFL Network report.
Giants tight end Daniel Fells has reportedly had multiple surgeries and was placed in the Intensive Care Unit on Friday for a stubborn Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in his ankle. Doctors are worried the infection may have spread into Fells’ bone and could travel into his blood, which could have fatal implications, according to NFL Network.
“This is a serious situation that has been taken seriously from the beginning,” Giants spokesman Pat Hanlon said. “We’re all fighting for Daniel.”
The infection occurred after Fells, 32, injured his toe and then his ankle. He was given a cortisone shot and, following persistent ankle and foot pain, Fells was admitted to the hospital on Oct. 2 with a 104-degree fever. It was later determined his ankle was infected with MRSA. MRSA is a staph infection that has become resistant to most antibiotics that would typically be used to treat it.
Fells has been placed on Injured Reserve and his playing career is in jeopardy. A seven-year veteran, he has played with the St. Louis Rams, Denver Broncos, New England Patriots and Giants. In 89 games, Fells has caught 114 passes for 1,334 yards and 12 touchdowns.
The Giants have sanitized their facilities as a precaution and briefed their players and staff on how to prevent the spread of MRSA.
Obama bans pork from Federal prisons.
Too bad he can't ban pork projects from Congress.
More decisions on what people get to eat from a guy who says he's NOT a Muslim. - TGFP.
Obama bans pork.
CAIR applauds decision.
The federal Bureau of Prisons has banned pork products from being served in the 122 prisons it runs nationwide, The Washington Post reports.
The ban started with the new fiscal year, which began October 1, and is attributed by the bureau to prisoners not liking pork. Surveys over recent years have found prisoners like pork least of all meats, and it is too costly, prison bureau spokesman Edmond Ross told the Post.
The National Pork Producers Council was skeptical.
"I find it hard to believe that a survey would have found a majority of any population saying, 'No thanks, I don’t want any bacon,'" Dave Warner, a spokesman for the group, said.
More decisions on what people get to eat from a guy who says he's NOT a Muslim. - TGFP.
Obama bans pork.
CAIR applauds decision.
The federal Bureau of Prisons has banned pork products from being served in the 122 prisons it runs nationwide, The Washington Post reports.
The ban started with the new fiscal year, which began October 1, and is attributed by the bureau to prisoners not liking pork. Surveys over recent years have found prisoners like pork least of all meats, and it is too costly, prison bureau spokesman Edmond Ross told the Post.
The National Pork Producers Council was skeptical.
"I find it hard to believe that a survey would have found a majority of any population saying, 'No thanks, I don’t want any bacon,'" Dave Warner, a spokesman for the group, said.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations praised the move.
"In general we welcome the change because it’s facilitating the accommodation of Muslim inmates," CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said. "We hope it's not an indication of an increasing number of Muslims in the prison system."
Non-pork options have long been available to observant Jews and Muslims, who can't eat pork products for religious reasons. The nation's 206,000 federal prisoners still can buy packaged pork rinds and pre-cooked bacon in the prison commissary.
"In general we welcome the change because it’s facilitating the accommodation of Muslim inmates," CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said. "We hope it's not an indication of an increasing number of Muslims in the prison system."
Non-pork options have long been available to observant Jews and Muslims, who can't eat pork products for religious reasons. The nation's 206,000 federal prisoners still can buy packaged pork rinds and pre-cooked bacon in the prison commissary.
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