"The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is a United States federal-state partnership that works with the people of Appalachia to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life. Congress established ARC to bring the region into socioeconomic parity with the rest of the nation."
"The Appalachian Region, as defined by Congress, includes all of West Virginia and portions of 12 other states: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. ARC serves 420 counties that encompass roughly 205,000 square miles, with a population of more than 25 million people."
"In Alaska's Chukchi Sea, August surface temperatures are warming at pace more than 4.5 times as fast as the global ocean trends since the early 1980s."
"A recent study in the journal Geology says glacial ice has an impact on the behavior of magma below the Earth's surface. It finds a correlation between a warmer climate and more volcanic activity."
French Creek in Chautauqua County has the latest sunset in New York on the first day of winter.
The sun sets there at 4:51 PM.
Tomorrow, CDTA gets to see how their 10 or so new articulated pusher buses will preform in the snow and ice.
Pusher buses are notoriously bad in the snow, they use the TRAILER rather then the TRACTOR to "push" them along the road. It's the opposite of semi-trucks that use the tractor to pull the trailer. Air pistons keep them from jackknifing when the steering wheel is going straight in normal weather, but they don't do very good in snow and ice.
Of course, they could just leave the articulated buses parked and just use the normal buses. But what fun would that be?