Hurricane Dorian kills at least five people in the Bahamas. The strongest hurricane to hit the Bahamas in modern history continues, according to the National Hurricane Center, to “pummel Grand Bahama Island.” The storm is expected to head north and reach the southeast of the United States by Thursday, where more than a million people are being ordered to evacuate.
When you think you’re safe on the SECOND floor… #Dorian storm surge lashes Northern Bahamas via @6inner pic.twitter.com/gYwo4FicZ0
— Mark Wilson FOX13 (@MarkWilsonTV) September 2, 2019
Trump golfs through disaster. Again. This paragraph from the New York Times is worth repeating in full:
Over the long weekend, President Trump monitored Hurricane Dorian from a golf cart at his club in Virginia, calling for regular updates from an aide trailing him around the course. By 8 p.m. Monday, as Dorian churned toward Florida and Mr. Trump’s boarded-up Mar-a-Lago resort, the president had golfed twice and since Saturday morning pelted the American public with 122 tweets.
While Trump did not threaten to nuke the hurricane this time, he did falsely claim that it’s headed to Alabama and was quickly corrected (and subtweeted) by the National Weather Service:
Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east. #alwx
— NWS Birmingham (@NWSBirmingham) September 1, 2019
Twenty-five dead, nine missing in California boat fire. A 75-foot commercial diving boat with 39 people aboard caught fire on Monday during a three-day diving trip to the Channel Islands. The company operating the boat, Truth Aquatics, has been in operation for 45 years and, according to the Associated Press, “Coast Guard records show all safety violations from the last five years were quickly addressed by the boat’s owners.” The cause of the fire is not yet known. Five crew members were rescued.
Fourteen-year-old confesses to killing his entire family. And the bad news just keeps on rolling. Limestone County Sheriff’s Department say a teenager shot and killed his father, stepmother, and three siblings. The boy, according to local media reports, called 911 to report a shooting and then later confessed to it himself.
Different teenage boy goes blind after subsisting on junk-food diet. CNN reports that a Bristol, UK, teenager lost his sight after living entirely off fish and chips, Pringles, white bread, processed ham, and sausage since he was a young child. The boy, now 17, had a normal BMI and no symptoms of malnutrition, but he did show signs of several vitamin deficiencies. His vision damage is thought to be permanent.
Skagit County shellfish harvesting closed due to biotoxin. Do not harvest shellfish in Skagit County. KING 5 reports that recent samples of molluscan shellfish had elevated levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxin, which you really do not want to ingest. The toxin impacts the nervous system and can lead to muscle paralysis or even death.
Northern lights spotted over Puget Sound. Greg Johnson from SkunkBayWeather.com managed to stay up late enough to capture this video from Hansville, Washington.
“Armed mob storms Houston Popeyes demanding new chicken sandwich.” Thus reads the headline from ABC News. No injuries were reported, but employees told the local ABC station that five adults with a baby tried to enter a locked Popeyes after being told at the drive-through that the coveted chicken sandwich had sold out. I’m not entirely sure that five adults and a baby constitute a “mob,” but as a general rule, when the Popeyes people tell you they don’t have any more chicken, just go to Chick-fil-A.
The Amazon fires are getting worse. More than 2,000 new fires have started since the Brazilian government instituted a burn ban. Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has said that he will accept $20 million in aid from the G7 economic alliance, but only if French president Emmanuel Macron apologizes for calling him rude. Have world leaders always had such fragile egos? (Yes.)
Everything isn’t awful! Here’s a nice story via Reddit, although the fact that someone going slightly out of their way to help a capsized kayaker is surprising is pretty sad in itself.
Visited Seattle for the first time this weekend, while at Lake Union I witnessed a kayaker flip over, and then a huge boat go completely out of its way to help him out. Cheers Seattle, just a heartwarming moment I thought I’d share. from r/SeattleWA
It’s going to be hot this week. Expects temperatures in the high 70s this week, before we cool down to the low 70s and high 60s over the weekend.
Your best Seattle entertainment options include: A show with Philly pop-punks Mannequin Pussy, another one with punk legends Black Flag, and a chance to see new and recent collage work by Jane Windsor.
