Feral hogs in Texas attacked and killed a woman outside a home – CNN

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Feral hogs in Texas attacked and killed a woman outside a home – CNN

A Texas woman was found dead after pre-dawn attack by a group of feral hogs outside a home, the Chambers County sheriff said. Christine Rollins, a 59-year old caregiver to an elderly couple in Anahuac, failed to show up at her normal time on Sunday, the sheriff's office said. The 84-year-old homeowner found her lying in the front yard between her car and the house. Christine Rollins, 59, from Liberty Texas. Christine Rollins, 59, from Liberty Texas. Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said in a news conference Monday that "multiple hogs" assaulted Rollins when she arrived at work, likely between 6 and 6:30 a.m., when it was still dark outside.

November 27, 2019 Night

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Good evening! The Thanksgiving holiday weekend has arrived. Rain showers and 48 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a west-northwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 10 pm. ☃️

Continuing to work on the updated blog theme some more. ✒ Continuing to research how to repair my camp lantern, 🏮 I’m going to try to take it apart tomorrow and see if I can clean whatever is clogged with dirt and carbon. Rode the exercise bike for a while, watched some YouTube videos. Kind of a rainy night, no evening walk 🚶 for me.

Tonight will have showers likely, mainly before midnight. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 40 degrees at 5am. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 15th. Northwest wind 6 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 18 degrees. The record low of 6 occurred back in 1951.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon 🌒 with 7% illuminated. The moon will rise at 9:02 am. The First Quarter Moon is on Tuesday night. The Cold Moon 🌝 is in 2 weeks. The sun will rise at 7:01 am with the first light at 6:30 am, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 37 minutes of darkness, an increase of one minute and 38 seconds over last night.

Thanksgiving Day will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 42 degrees at 9am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 29th. North wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 45 degrees. The record high of 68 was set in 1990. 6.0 inches of snow fell back in 1985.❄

I’m really leaning against heading out camping this weekend after seeing the latest snow ⛄ models but I’ll reevaluate if I can get two nights out camping. ⛺ It just seems like once again a lot of money is going out 💵 and not much coming in so from a financial standpoint might be good to stay home 🏡. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day at the folks 🍗 but a few days home wouldn’t be too bad.

In four weeks on December 25 the sun will be setting at 4:27 pm,🌄 which is 2 minutes and 16 seconds later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had snow showers and temperatures between 33 and 17 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 33 and 18 degrees. The record high of 66 degrees was set back in 1889.

Looking ahead, Average High is 40 🌨 is in 1 weeks, Christmas 🎅 is in 4 weeks, New Years Day 2019 🎉 is in 5 weeks, National Bird Day 🐦 is in 7 weeks, 37th Birthday 🎉 is in 9 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 60 weeks.

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Winter Camping Advice

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Somebody asked me for some tips for making winter camping more enjoyable ☃ …

  • Bring a snow shovel and rock salt. 🥄 Both in case your vehicle gets stuck, if your campsite is icy, and to shovel out things.
  • Be careful not to burn the tips off your boot on the fire, 🔥as when your feet are cold you might be tempted to stick them too close to the fire.
  • Put a tarp under your tent to make it more waterproof, 💧and shovel out around the tent.
  • Dry boots are important. 👢 Waterproof your boots. Consider wearing plastic bags in your boots.
  • Wool socks 🧦 are very worthwhile
  • Long johns and dress in layers, 🩳 it’s easy to get hot in woods while working, especially chopping wood.
  • A plastic kids sled can be handy for dragging gear back, 🛷 but try to get any heavy loads in the center and low to ground to keep it from flopping around.
  • I really love my Big Buddy Heater hooked to the 20 gallon tank. ♨18,000 BTU of heat on a cold morning or evening is wonderful just sitting out next to it with a hot meal or coffee.
  • The heater is nice and toasty in the tent too. ⛺I do keep a hunting knife on me in case of emergencies, along with a carbon monoxide detector. I usually only need it for a few mintes on in the tent to make it very comfortable, and it’s always off before I go bed.
  • I really enjoy something baked with soup or macaroni cheese in cold weather, 🧀 along with lots of hot coca.
  • Colorful Christmas lights, candles, and decorations 🎄 adds color to a campsite on a long winters night.
  • Good heavy sleeping bags, stacked makes it quite comfortable sleeping 🛏 in the tent even in a very cold night.

Why Are There Palm Trees in Los Angeles?

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Why Are There Palm Trees in Los Angeles?

Let’s go back in time, to Los Angeles in 1875. Here’s what you see: basically nothing. The town—and “town” is even sort of grand for what it was—has about 8,000 people in it. But here’s something weirder: there are no palm trees. As a matter of fact, there aren’t really any trees at all. This area is just sort of a scrubland desert.

Over the next 50 years, palm trees would become a major transformative force in the development of Los Angeles. This is despite the fact that they don’t really do anything. The trees of urban Los Angeles do not provide shade or fruit or wood. They are lousy at preventing erosion. What they do, and what they did, is stranger: they became symbols.