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It's January 2, 2006 and what are top weather stories today?

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Grassfires raged across the dry southern prairie Sunday, burning homes in Oklahoma City, destroying two small towns in Texas, and creating patchworks of flames as burning embers were blown by the gusting winds.

Dozens of fires burned across the dry Oklahoma landscape as the wind gusts reached 50 mph. In Texas, more than 20 fires sprang up, including a 22,400-acre blaze that threatened 200 homes near Carbon, about 125 miles west of Dallas.

Crews flying over northern and western Texas to assess the damage Sunday reported the tiny communities of Ringgold and Kokomo, together home to about 125 people, had essentially been wiped out by flames.

In New Mexico, just across the Texas line, two dozen elderly residents were moved out of a nursing home in Hobbs, and a casino and community college in the town of 29,000 were evacuated as firefighters battled grass fires that only began settling down as night fell and the winds eased.

2nd Storm Prompts California Evacuations

GUERNEVILLE, Calif. (AP) - The second major storm in two days washed across Northern California on Sunday, prolonging the threat of flooding as residents tried to clean up thick layers of mud and debris left behind as the first wave of floodwater receded.

Hundreds of homes and businesses across the region had been inundated Saturday as heavy rain sent the Napa and Russian rivers spilling over their banks.

In many areas, the rivers and creeks were back in their banks Sunday, though some towns remained flooded or they flooded again as the rain, heavy at times, came and went throughout the day Sunday. The Sonoma County town of Guerneville was among those still fighting floodwater amid pouring rain.

At least 2 more inches of rain was forecast across Northern California on Sunday, on top of the 4 to 9 inches that had already swamped the region, the National Weather Service said.

Tropical Storm Zeta Drifts Across Atlantic

MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Zeta, the 27th named storm of a record-breaking hurricane season, maintained its strength as it drifted across the Atlantic on Sunday, but forecasters expected it to eventually weaken.

Aren't we supposed to be talking about some massive snow storm burying the Eastern seaboard in several feet of snow?

It's winter right?

It sure doesn't feel like it...

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Wizbang Blue: McCain and Palin's John Birch Society Connections. Palin Quotes From Extremist Who Encouraged The RFK Assassination.

Both John McCain and Sarah Palin have clear ties to the far right John Birch Society organization. McCain used to attend John Birch Society meetings in the Phoenix, Arizona area and is well known to local John Birch Society members in that area's chapter. And Sarah Palin has been featured in the John Birch Society publication, THE NEW AMERICAN Magazine before. Both McCain and Palin may even be full fledged dues paying members of the John Birch Society as well.

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Wizbang Blue: Obama's Economic Speech, Toledo, Ohio Monday, October 13, 2008

We are the United States of America.

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Wizbang Blue: Sarah Palin Lies to Reporters About TrooperGate Findings

Is it self-delusion? Is Sarah Palin in shock? How can she continue to lie about obvious facts... everyone knows she's lying -- except Sarah it would seem.

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Wizbang Blue: Running Out of Targets, McCain Attacks Bush

For this week at least, John McCain is all about Changing Direction from what Bush has done.. yesirree. Next week? It's anyone's guess. This drama of watching John McCain flail about like a fish out of water is amusing. John McCain is in a full-blown panic, erratically shifting from one approach to another, seemingly just one half-baked, "campaign suspension" away from a total meltdown.

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Wizbang Blue: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis

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Wizbang Blue: More McCain Campaign Lies About TrooperGate Report

In a recent post I documented Sarah Palin's direct and deliberate lying to the press over the results of the TrooperGate investigation which found her guilty of violating Alaskan ethics laws. Here' s more of the same deliberate lying --...

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Wizbang Pop!: Real Estate: Robbie Williams / Billy Blanks

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Wizbang Pop!: Guillaume Depardieu Dead at 38

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Comments (10)

I KNOW! Now I know that I ... (Below threshold)

1. Posted by Randy | January 2, 2006 1:07 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Randy:

I KNOW! Now I know that I live in Florida and our winter is like...not really winter. Even so, the high in the area I live in was 81 degrees. That's unusual even for us at this time of year.

I just checked weather.com and we are supposed to swing the pendulum back by Friday, with a vengence.

Posted on January 2, 2006 01:07

I know what's missing...</p... (Below threshold)

2. Posted by J | January 2, 2006 5:05 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

I know what's missing...

Paul using this event as a take the heat off of Katrina "satire" moment.

I could probably write it for him if you want. Like MadLibs, you just fill in the blanks....

Posted on January 2, 2006 05:05

Most of the world seems to ... (Below threshold)

3. Posted by CGHill | January 2, 2006 8:43 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

CGHill:

Most of the world seems to subscribe to the following threefold theory:

If it's unusually cold, it's due to climate change.
If it's unusually warm, it's due to climate change.
If it's close to normal, it's due to climate change.

Down here in Oklahoma, we know that anyone who thinks he can predict the weather more than a couple of hours in advance is trying to pull our chain.

Posted on January 2, 2006 08:43

I guess the tornado warning... (Below threshold)

4. Posted by Brian J. | January 2, 2006 8:51 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Brian J.:

I guess the tornado warning sirens going off this morning in St. Louis won't make national news. At five fifteen, we were at sixty-one degrees and facing severe thunderstorms with lots of rotation.

Posted on January 2, 2006 08:51

I'm going to modify CGHill'... (Below threshold)

5. Posted by OregonMuse | January 2, 2006 9:53 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

OregonMuse:

I'm going to modify CGHill's three-fold theory to explain the weather stories you will find in the MSM:

If it's unusually warm, it's due to global warming.

If it's unusually cold, it's due to global warming.

If it's close to normal, it's due to global warming.

Posted on January 2, 2006 09:53

Just moved to Oklahoma from... (Below threshold)

6. Posted by Jim Price | January 2, 2006 10:17 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Jim Price:

Just moved to Oklahoma from Arizona, in November. Yesterday it was dry, 75 degrees, with a 40 mph south wind blowing smoke from fires everywhere.

I'm afraid folks are ging to think this AZ boy brought the dry heat with him and run me out of town. :-)

Posted on January 2, 2006 10:17

What's missing? The MSM isn... (Below threshold)

7. Posted by Tom | January 2, 2006 11:08 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Tom:

What's missing? The MSM isn't playing the following themes: the fires are Bush's fault; the federal government is responding too slowly; blacks are disproptionately victimized. But it's not too late.

Posted on January 2, 2006 11:08

It is just one of the weird... (Below threshold)

8. Posted by Kamatu | January 2, 2006 12:40 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Kamatu:

It is just one of the weird years here in Florida. We have them every so often as I've more than once in my life caught a tan on the beach in December. It is a bit odder than normal in that we haven't really had a freeze at all yet. Of course, IIRC, everytime that it is very mild through December, Jan/Feb come out really cold.

Posted on January 2, 2006 12:40

How about that I live in Pa... (Below threshold)

9. Posted by Rich | January 2, 2006 8:07 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Rich:

How about that I live in Palmer,Alaska and have no snow. My yard still looks good though. Grass could use a mow.

Posted on January 2, 2006 20:07

I can take it one step furt... (Below threshold)

10. Posted by Macker | January 2, 2006 10:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Macker:

I can take it one step further: Blame it all on George W. Bush!

/sarc

Posted on January 2, 2006 22:23

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