El Niño.
It’s not what it used to be.
People who weren’t here then don’t remember the endless gray, rainy skies Angelenos endured through the winter of 1982/1983.
When the sun doesn’t shine for weeks on end. In LA. It feels like the end.
It happened in 2005; I remember.
Anyway, here’s what Venice looked like back in ’83.
Photo credit: County of Los Angeles Fire Department
Who cares what it looks like when it goes this fast?
With acceleration from 0-62mph in 3.4 seconds, the new business limousine is at the top of its class. The AMG SpeedShift MCT (multi clutch technology ) nine-speed sports transmission is combined with a wet start-off clutch for the first time.
Source: Advertiser.ie – Most powerful Mercedes-Benz E-Class of all time
Annnnnnnnnnd, there’s this too.
Russia’s Interfax news agency said on Monday that Bastion missile-launchers had been sent to Kaliningrad.
Source: Kaliningrad: New Russian missile deployment angers Nato – BBC News
Whoa, boy.
That’s pretty aggressive.
The Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet has deployed state-of-the-art anti-ship missile systems on two of the islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan, the fleet’s newspaper reported recently.
Source: Russia deploys anti-ship missiles on disputed isles off Hokkaido | The Japan Times
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