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Oregon Impacted by Severe Weather

Highway and public transportation updates along with other information to help you stay safe...

(SALEM) - Police & Fire: Oregon State Police: Critical Injury Crash Highway 30 near milepost 66 west of Clatskanie. Crash involves a single vehicle. Emergency responders are on scene and the road is completely blocked. No further information for release. Traffic updates check www.tripcheck.com. UPDATE

Transportation: Cherriots - Salem Keizer Transit: Cherriots routes 1, 6 (major snow route), 8, 12, 14, 22 and 23 are on snow routes. For more information, go to Cherriots.org or call (503) 588-2877. UPDATE

Warming Shelters in the Salem Area

Includes a number of other facilities in the Salem area that people can utilize to stay safe and out of the cold.

(SALEM) - The City of Salem has announced two locations available as warming centers until 9 p.m. Thursday, December 5, 2013.

AFGHANISTAN: The Duvet Project (Winter 2013-14)

Scores of people, including children, have frozen to death over the past few winters in Kabul.

(KABUL) - In late 2012 and early 2013, many of you were part of a crucial project that helped many hundreds of people in Kabul, Afghanistan survive winter’s freezing temperatures.

We’re writing to again invite your participation in “The Duvet Project,” which aims to make and deliver heavy wool-stuffed coverlets, (duvets), free of charge, to families in need of warmth as they face harsh winter weather.

Volcanic Eruption Sends Rocks Raining Down on Italy

Some rocks and ash can also fall from the sky much like rain, as they are sent into the atmosphere and can collect on clouds to be rained down with later precipitation.

(AccuWeather Global Weather Center) - AccuWeather.com reports Italy's Mt. Etna, the most active volcano in europe, erupted twice in less than a week earlier this month. The first eruption took place on Nov. 16, the second on Nov. 23.

Lava flows were reportedly shot 700-800 meters in the air. Lightning was also present during the explosion, as well as plumes of gas, smoke and ash.

NW Oregon-SW Washington Storm System: High Winds & Rain Are Coming

The National Weather Service says we have a wet & wild time ahead.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A vigorous storm system will give ample rainfall and windy conditions to southwest Washington and Northwest Oregon today and Tuesday, with cool night time low temperatures later this week.

A storm off the Oregon coast this morning will produce gales over the coastal waters this afternoon and evening, as well as wind gusts to near 60 mph along the beaches and headlands, and 45 to 50 mph in coastal communities.

The Storm Brewers - Notes on Florida`s Hurricane Industry

The Republican platform promises to do better. I don’t think they have done so bad. Everybody’s broke but them. - Will Rogers

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Conventional wisdom has it that Florida is a Red State, an enclave of old geezers who are entrenched conservatives, as right-wing as Todd Bertuzzi of the Detroit Red Wings.

More significantly, it is contended, Florida is a dysfunctional constituency because of the demographics, and ergo the residual geriatric dementia. Ballots are spoiled in the unaccustomed pressure of poll-going, coupled with the ancient urge to vote for the remembered party of Bob Taft, Spiro Agnew and the two beloved birds in the family Bush.

The Unequal Fury of Floods

On Saturday, September 14, Chihuahua Governor Cesar Duarte toured the devastation in the border city.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Only days ago, Madre Tierra was begging for water.

Trickling south through Albuquerque, the Rio Grande resembled a patchwork of puddles on the verge of hydrological extinction. How fast the world can change.

Salem Under Flood Conditions

Signals are still out, everyone should use great caution...

(SALEM) - Local flooding is occurring around Salem due to the current storm. Power failures and signal outages have occurred throughout the Salem area.

Signal crews have been dispatched and additional personnel have been called in. The rain is expected to continue for several hours. Motorists are advised to use extra caution.

Texas Correctional Officers Join Inmate`s Lawsuit Over Excessive Heat

"These conditions are dangerous to both the employees and the inmates." - Lance Lowry, president of the local American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees

(AUSTIN) - The union that represents Texas' correctional officers will join the lawsuits filed over the heat related deaths of at least 14 inmates in the scorching state prisons.

The union has joined with the inmates demand that the Texas state prisons should be cooled to relieve unbearable conditions.

Brain-Eating Amoeba Case Linked to Warm Water, Drought

More than half of Arkansas, about 52 percent, is being gripped by moderate drought conditions, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor report.

(STATE COLLEGE, PA AccuWeather.com) - AccuWeather reports a 12-year-old girl contracted a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba in Arkansas, and it may be tied to summer heat and drought conditions, according to the CDC.

The amoeba, or single-celled organism, that caused the infection is called Naegleria fowleri, which lives in warm freshwater, such as lakes, rivers and hot springs.