HOT CAR WARNING

In 95-degree heat (May 26, 2017), some stupid young mother here in Texas LOCKED her two young children (ages 2 years, and 16 months) in the car “to punish them,” while she smoked and then took a nap!  What the hell was she thinking?  They said it reached 130 degrees inside that car within 45 minutes; those kids were dead long before she even woke up.  Can you imagine what they were thinking??  Those poor children, as they struggled to keep breathing, soaked in sweat, beads rolling down their poor little faces along with the theirs, wondering how their mother could do to them; I can see it in my mind – and I can’t get the image out.  How could any mother do that?  To punish them!?  What could two tiny little children like that possibly have done, that was so bad, they deserved a punishment like that?  She says they were “playing in the car and wouldn’t get out” so she locked them in to teach them a lesson.  I wonder how she feels now about her choice of punishment now.  Even if she didn’t think they would die, could she not have imagined the heat they would be enduring?  Even if she left a window cracked, did she really not know how HOT A CAR CAN GET??  They were in there for two hours… those dear little angels.  God bless them.

*PLEASE EVERYONE… be sure you don’t leave children OR PETS in the car, ever!

~Dennel

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/24/us/texas-mom-arrested-hot-car-deaths/index.html

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjfjpuby93UAhUs04MKHar9DdoQtwIIQjAF&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DwA056vNr_yk&usg=AFQjCNFUeHmk3fpSbp6d5rQzCZh5_d7pwQ *

*Interesting story interview with a mother who’s son was accidentally left in the car by her husband, a professional …; this interview is from 2013 and Lindsey Rogers-Seitz was lobbying for safety features to be installed in cars to warn if a child is left in the back seat after the doors are closed when the driver leaves the vehicle.   Ashleigh Banfield points out that this all came about because of airbags – because airbags caused injuries to children, it was recommended that children ride in the back seat – 600+ children have died in hot cars since the introduction of airbags.  Unbelievable.  Lindsey discusses “unconscious, habit-based memory,” which is the case for most of these deaths.  Tearful interview, but well worth watching.

February, March & May 2017 (What Happened to April?)

2-19-2017:  Sinkholes in California, swallowing cars; wind gusts up to 60 mph… rain coming all the way from Hawaii hit Southern California last night and is headed up the coast to Northern California tomorrow; up to 80 inches of snow possible in the Sierras.  A tornado in San Antonio, TX destroys or damages more than 100 homes.  Somehow only five injuries!

*Kim Jung Nam, the half brother of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jung Il, was assassinated  2-18-2017… by a woman, who put a cloth over his face for only seconds, poisoning him!  Wow.

02-20-2017: INTERESTING FACT… today is the anniversary of John Glen’s first orbital flight around the world.

2-28-2017: One person killed in Illinois and one in Missouri, when a tornado picked up cars from a junkyard and slammed them into other cars on Interstate 55;  two dozen tornados so far.  CRAZY!

2-10-2017:  The massive storm, now over the far North-East, now drops as much as six inches of snow from Ohio to Connecticut.  Born in the mid-west, this storm now threatens nine states with up to and winds over 110 mph.  Golf ball sized hail fell across the mid-west and half a million people are without power right now.

3-14-2017:  tens of 1000s wout power from VA to NE …”thundersnow” 4” an hour, cars buried, chain reaction crashes 80mph gusts MASS – Penn 1’ of snow and freezing rain

3-27:  In Texas, Tennesee, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Mississippi, tornados raged…70 mph winds and hail; moving forward to east; 115 mph cyclone near austrailia too!

APRIL?  I'm not sure where this month went... I know it was WET though!

5-1-2017: 9 tornadoes touched down from Alabama to Virginia this past week. 

5-7-2017:  The French now have their elections in progress; today is election day.  They have a “far-right leader” (all be it a woman) running against a more conservative candidate, and even have a hacking incident of personal and professional emails, which they are suspecting the Russians may have had a hand in!  Sounds reminiscent of our own 2016 election; how ironic.  Obama has made an unprecedented endorsement of the conservative candidate to the French people.

January 2017 - CRAZY WEATHER, CRAZY PEOPLE

1-1-2017 Nightclub massacre in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, killed at least 39 people; they suspect only one person was shooting… police immediately started searching for the shooter. 

1-6-2017 Ft. Lauderdale Airport… five killed, many injured – suspect 26 years old, an army veteran, who was also a passenger on the plane – Estevan Santiago; picked up his baggage from baggage claim, and went into a bathroom to assemble his rifle (which had been checked on the flight) and came out firing indiscriminately, after which he threw the gun down and laid down on the ground, spread-eagle.  Crazy.

1-11-2017: Western U.S.; biggest rain and snow event in more than a decade.  15 states under alert of heavy rains and snow… Portland Oregon; more than one foot of snow – schools and business shut down, trees fallen all over downtown; 650 homes affected by floodwaters.

1-15-2017:  Historical ice storm; crossing sixteen states from Colorado to Maine, this storm has caused numerous wrecks, at least nine have been killed on the roads since Friday.  Tornados spawning from a huge cell which came from Mexico and up through Texas (I personally experienced that one – three tornados within five miles of my home), at least 30 homes damaged as well as a glass skyscraper in Dallas… fans at the Cowboys stadium were forced to shelter in place after the game with the Packers.  ON A LIGHTER NOTE, on this day, it was announced that the shooter from the New Year’s Eve nightclub attack in Instanbul was captured.  Sadly, Isis has taken responsibility for his actions.

1-16-2017… the U.S. is all in an uproar over the feud now between Trump and Congressman John Lewis, who has stated that he doesn’t see Trump as a “legitimate” president and is going to boycott the inauguration.  Thirty members of Congress, all Democrat, are joining Lewis in the boycott.  Interestingly, Trump is also in a feud with the Intelligence Community here, equating them with “Nazi” Germany; a first for an incoming president, I’m sure!

Also this evening:  Another nightclub attack… this time in a town in Mexico many tourists frequent.  Five people were killed and four Americans were wounded.  The belief is that this shooting was related to the drug trade, rather than terrorism.

01-17-17:  Announced today that Scientists revealed 2016 was the HOTTEST year on record!  Prior to that was 2015; prior to that, was 2014.  Anyone see a trend here?