KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
WELL WITH ALL THE FREEZING COLD WEATHER GOING ON.THE PEACE PROCESS IS IN FULL CHAOS.WITH AMERICA TRYING TO FORCE A PEACE DEAL ON ISRAEL.AND ARIEL SHARON ON HIS DEATHBED.AND A 108 YEAR OLD DEAD RABBI PREDICTED JESUS WOULD COME SOON AFTER ARIEL SHARONS DEATH.
WELL IF JESUS DOES COME SOON.IT WILL BE TO RAPTURE THE CHRISTIANS TO HEAVEN FIRST.THEN THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.THEN AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION JESUS REVEALS HIMSELF TO THE EARTH.TO REBUILD THE 4TH TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.AND JESUS FOREVER RULES FROM JERUSALEM AFTER THAT.
WITH ALL THESE PROPHECIES BEING FULFILLED THE WAY THEY ARE.JESUS CAN COME FOR US ANY SECOND.LETS BE PREPARED AND BE SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.EVERY ONE OF US ON EARTH.
WAKE UP WORLD.THE PROPHECIES ARE BEING FULFILLED BEFORE OUR VERY EYES. LETS WAKEY----WAKEY.AND GET OUR HEADS OUTTA THE SAND.JESUS CAN COME AT ANY SECOND...COME QUICKLY LORD JESUS.
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STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
LAND FOR PEACE (THE FUTURE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH)
JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).
THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS
Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
DANIEL 11:21-23
21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
WELL WITH ALL THE FREEZING COLD WEATHER GOING ON.THE PEACE PROCESS IS IN FULL CHAOS.WITH AMERICA TRYING TO FORCE A PEACE DEAL ON ISRAEL.AND ARIEL SHARON ON HIS DEATHBED.AND A 108 YEAR OLD DEAD RABBI PREDICTED JESUS WOULD COME SOON AFTER ARIEL SHARONS DEATH.
WELL IF JESUS DOES COME SOON.IT WILL BE TO RAPTURE THE CHRISTIANS TO HEAVEN FIRST.THEN THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.THEN AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION JESUS REVEALS HIMSELF TO THE EARTH.TO REBUILD THE 4TH TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.AND JESUS FOREVER RULES FROM JERUSALEM AFTER THAT.
WITH ALL THESE PROPHECIES BEING FULFILLED THE WAY THEY ARE.JESUS CAN COME FOR US ANY SECOND.LETS BE PREPARED AND BE SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.EVERY ONE OF US ON EARTH.
WAKE UP WORLD.THE PROPHECIES ARE BEING FULFILLED BEFORE OUR VERY EYES. LETS WAKEY----WAKEY.AND GET OUR HEADS OUTTA THE SAND.JESUS CAN COME AT ANY SECOND...COME QUICKLY LORD JESUS.
Palestinian red lines make chances of US-mediated settlement slim
With Abbas saying he can’t accept Israel as a Jewish state ‘as a Palestinian, as a people, as the PLO,’ Erekat eyes ICC lawsuit as path to statehood
January 4, 2014, 11:25 am
26-The Times of Israel
US Secretary of State John Kerry
met on Friday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in
Ramallah for a talk that lasted several hours. On Saturday, Kerry was
heading back for another round of talks with Abbas and his negotiating
team, including chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat.On
Friday, the London-based A-Sharq Al-Awsat paper published an interview
with Erekat that made waves due to Erekat’s claim that Israel murdered
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and could do the same to Abbas. ”This
is the conduct of the Israelis,” said Erekat. “Before they killed
[Yasser] Arafat by poisoning there were also voices from the [Ariel]
Sharon government saying that Arafat is an obstacle and that he must be
gotten rid of.” Independent French, and later Russian forensic experts have ruled out the possibility that the late Palestinian leader was poisoned.The other comments made by Erekat in his
interview — the ones about the ongoing negotiations between Israel and
the Palestinians — were downplayed. But they are actually very
important: Erekat’s statements demonstrate just how wide the gulf
between the two sides is, and suggest that Washington’s chances of
reaching a framework agreement are slim, perhaps even very slim.First of all, Erekat stressed in the interview
that the Palestinians will not agree to have talks extended beyond the
allotted nine months, set to end in April. ”Even a one-minute extension
is impossible,” he was quoted as saying.
“Unlike what others say, the negotiations will
be nine months long. The objective is to reach an agreement on all
issues pertaining to a final-status deal. And according to the wording
of the agreement with Kerry, there will be no transitional or interim
agreements,” Erekat said.
Saeb
Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator, during a news conference in
Ramallah in the West Bank on January 2, 2012 (photo credit: Issam
Rimawi/Flash90)
Kerry made his way back to the region Thursday
for another series of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. This
time, he was expected to present both sides with a framework deal
touching on all core issues. But with April approaching fast and time
running out, Erekat’s words reflect a growing impatience within the
Palestinian Authority with what they see as Israeli attempts to prolong
negotiations.“The US administration understands that the
talks can’t go on for nine months, and so it is trying to cut them short
in order to safeguard the peace process and preempt the extension of
negotiations,” Erekat said.He added, however, that Israel was trying to
thwart the peace process — and US efforts — in “every way,” with the
latest example being an Israeli bill to annex the Jordan Valley, which
passed a key ministerial committee last week.
Claiming that the last face-to-face talks with
Israel’s negotiating team took place way back on November 5, Erekat
presented a list of Israeli moves and “crimes” that he said undermined
the peace process and led him to resign from the position of chief
negotiator — a resignation that seems not to have taken effect.Erekat said that since then, there have been
no direct talks, only separate meetings between US officials and their
Israeli and Palestinian counterparts. Even these efforts did not bear
fruit, he said, as Washington has yet to present the two sides with an
official offer.The top negotiator then revealed the contents
of a letter Abbas had sent US President Barack Obama following a
particularly fraught Abbas-Kerry meeting on December 8.
“In that letter, the president made clear what
he would not be able to accept as a Palestinian, as a people, as the
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization). Firstly, we will not be able to
accept Israel as a Jewish state,” Abbas wrote, according to Erekat.“Secondly, we will not be able to accept a
Palestinian state with 1967 borders without Jerusalem. Thirdly, we will
not be able to accept any Israeli on Palestinian land, sea, air and
border crossings following the completion of the gradual withdrawal.”A fourth precondition reportedly set by Abbas
was the instatement of the so-called “right of return” for potentially
millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants to Israel.“I will not be able to accept any solution
that does not grant the refugees their right to the possibility to
return and be compensated as per UN Resolution 194, as well as one that
does not allow for the release of prisoners,” Abbas reportedly wrote.Erekat said Abbas presented these
preconditions to the Arab League, which transferred them to UN Security
Council member states. This is in keeping with Erekat’s preferred
strategy for achieving Palestinian statehood – appealing to the European
Union to recognize the Palestinian state while appealing to various
international bodies to sign treaties and protocols that would enable
the Palestinian Authority to file a suit against Israel at the
International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
Bennett said to give Netanyahu ‘red lines’ for framework deal
Jewish Home leader reportedly talks to Likud MKs, ministers about breaking from coalition over perceived flawed agreement with Palestinians
January 4, 2014, 4:43 am
Economics Minister Naftali
Bennett reportedly met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu one-on-one
multiple times this week and laid out “red lines” for a framework
agreement with the Palestinians which, if breached, may prompt him to
pull his party from the government, Channel 2 reported on Friday.According
to the report, the Jewish Home party leader also held “intensive”
meetings with ministers and MKs from Netanyahu’s Likud to test the
possibility of their joining his secession in objection to the terms of a
deal with the Palestinians.News of a possible rift in the center-right
coalition surfaced amid US Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest visit
to the region to bring about a framework agreement between Jerusalem and
Ramallah. Kerry met with Netanyahu on Thursday and Friday, and met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday as well.Kerry is asking both leaders to start making
tough, highly political decisions in hopes of narrowing differences and
thus to agree on a framework that will outline a final peace pact.
The goal is for the framework deal, or series
of guidelines, to address all core issues, including borders between
Israel and a future Palestinian state, Palestinian refugees and
conflicting claims to the holy city of Jerusalem. No agreement on a
framework is likely during Kerry’s visit.According to senior government officials cited
by Channel 10 Friday, Netanyahu intends to put the framework agreement
to a cabinet vote, a move which may find stiff opposition in the
government.“The decision to put it before the cabinet is
expected to cause a grave rift in the coalition government, and even
within the Likud party,” Channel 10 reported.
Channel 2 correspondent Dana Weiss said that
the reported meetings between Bennett and Netanyahu appeared to be
indicative that members of the right wing government “understood that
[the negotiations] are on the verge of something serious.”While
the Channel 2 report didn’t mention any names of Likud members who
spoke to Bennett, it showed clips of hardline right-wing MK Moshe
Feiglin, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz and Defense Minister Moshe
Ya’alon. It was not clear whether those individuals were connected to
the story.The report also did not indicate what aspects
of a framework deal with the Palestinians Bennett would find so
intolerable as to prompt him to pull his 12-member Jewish Home party
from Netanyahu’s coalition. Such a move has the potential to jeopardize
the stability of Netanyahu’s government.Channel 2 added that Bennett felt slighted
because ministers who support a negotiated agreement — Finance Minister
Yair Lapid and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, for example — have
received more “VIP treatment” from American officials than he has.Similarly stiff opposition to a prospective
framework agreement was voiced Friday by a close aide to Abbas, Yasser
Abed Rabbo. Rabbo, the secretary general of the PLO, called the plan
“biased towards Israel” and said it restricted Palestinian sovereignty
in the West Bank.“The Palestinian side will not even look at a
worthless piece of paper, a framework agreement, which contains general
principles for later negotiations, when the two sides have already been
negotiating for months and years,” Rabbo told the Palestinian al-Ayyam
newspaper on Friday.
As of yet, no confirmed concrete details of the framework agreement proposed by the US have come to light.AP contributed to this report.
Kerry, Abbas discuss framework deal in Ramallah
‘Declarations’ may be released to the media on Saturday, after an additional scheduled meeting between the two
January 3, 2014, 7:18 pm
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US Secretary of State John Kerry
met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah
Friday evening to discuss a framework agreement that will address the
outlines of a final peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.Abbas
and Kerry, who arrived in the region Thursday, are expected to meet
again Saturday morning. At the end of that scheduled meeting, some
“declarations” may be released to the media, reported Israel Radio.Kerry has said Israel and the Palestinians
will have to face tough choices in the coming week. Speaking Thursday at
a joint press conference — before the first of several planned meetings
with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — Kerry said leaders on both
sides already knew what would be contained in a US-drafted framework
agreement, and added that an agreement was not “mission impossible.”
Kerry met with Netanyahu on Thursday and again on Friday.Netanyahu is reportedly ready to continue
talks on the basis of the framework deal, which has not been made
public, even if it references a Palestinian state based on the pre-1967
lines — provided he is not required to sign it.But a framework accord may not be enough to
secure a subsequent face-to-face meeting between Netanyahu and Abbas, an
indication of the wide gaps that remain.Kerry’s security proposals, which reportedly
provide for the presence of IDF troops to secure the West Bank-Jordanian
border after a permanent deal is reached, have reportedly been rejected
by Abbas. The sides also differ widely on possible land-swap
arrangements, and are reportedly deadlocked on some core issues,
including Jerusalem and the repatriation of refugees and their
descendants.Kerry arrived in Israel Thursday amid reported
plans by Netanyahu to authorize the construction of 1,400 homes over
the pre-1967 Green Line — 600 in East Jerusalem and 800 in nearby West
Bank settlements. Abbas has urged the US to block the plans and on
Tuesday threatened to rally the UN against Israel’s settlements, which
he termed a “cancer.”Israeli officials decided to delay announcing plans for new settlement construction until after Kerry leaves the region.Earlier Friday, during a meeting with the US
secretary, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman stressed that, although
dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians was “important,” any
preliminary accord would leave many issues unresolved.Liberman cited the Palestinian refugees as an
example of such an issue, and said nearly three million refugees would
need to be integrated into the Palestinian state, a scenario that could
lead to unrest.“It is likely that, after an agreement is
reached, some other countries in the region will want to transfer the
Palestinian refugees who currently reside in their territory,” he said,
according to Channel 2 News.“That would mean that, to the 800,000
Palestinians who live in the Palestinian Authority today, about three
million refugees will be added, and this may make the humanitarian
situation there very difficult. This will bring frustration, violence
and a security deterioration.”
The foreign minister suggested that issues
such as refugees be addressed sooner rather than later, before the
signing of an interim agreement.Yifa Yaakov and Raphael Ahren contributed to this report
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
Weather woes in Canada: Blizzards, blackouts, deep freezes
Atlantic Canada gets brunt of winter blasts, with deep freezes in Prairies, Ontario and Quebec
Updated
- Parts of Newfoundlande still facing blizzard conditions, outages.
- Maritimers dig out of Friday's blizzard, bus service returning.
- Ontario, Quebec, Prairies face wind chill warnings, deep freezes.
- Extreme cold alert cancelled in Toronto.
People in Eastern Canada are bearing the brunt of an angry winter
that unleashed its wrath yesterday and is still causing grief today, as
many in blizzard-hit Newfoundland face power outages, the Maritimes cleans up, and the Prairies, Ontario and Quebec are warned about below-freezing temperatures.CBC meteorologist Janine Baijnath says Newfoundland and Labrador, in
particular, has been seriously hit, with a blizzard Friday that left
about 38 centimetres of snow. Many Newfoundlanders awoke to no power due
to the blizzard, after Friday's rolling blackouts.
Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro said severe weather caused a fire in Sunnyside that led to a shutdown at the Holyrood Generating Station, causing a massive outage across the island. The provincial Crown corporation said it is working to restore power at Holyrood but it may take several hours.The power outages are linked to generator failures, Newfoundland Power said.The storm continued on the Avalon Peninsula and parts of the east coast of the province.
Michelle Coughlan, with Newfoundland Power, said the rotating outages could start again as early as Saturday morning.Meanwhile in the Maritimes, cleanup has begun after a horrendous storm that slammed much of the region.People in Moncton, N.B., are being warned by the fire department to
ensure snow is cleaned off their roofs, and from around basement
windows, and dryer and natural gas vents, because at least 80 centimetres of snow has accumulated on the ground in the last two weeks alone.
The hardest-hit areas of the Maritimes appear to be the southwestern edges of Nova Scotia and along the Atlantic coastline.But a warming trend is expected to begin Sunday, according to Environment Canada, followed by rain, windy and mild conditions on Monday. Temperatures are expected to fall back below freezing on Tuesday, which could mark trouble for road crews and drivers.The Nova Scotia communities of Shelburne and Yarmouth received more than 19 centimetres of snow, with much of the rest of the province receiving about 20 centimetres. The North Shore and northern Cape Breton received the least amount of snow — between five and 10 centimetres.Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick also received between five and 10 centimetres of snow.
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - People across the northeastern United States on Friday dug out after a heavy snowfall that grounded thousands of flights, closed schools and government offices, caused several deaths and left the region in the grip of bitter cold.Boston was hard hit by the first major winter storm of 2014, getting nearly 18 inches of snow, while some towns north of New England's largest city saw close to 2 feet of accumulation.Major cities from Washington, D.C., to Portland, Maine, were slammed, with New York's Manhattan Island getting 6 inches of snow and parts of Queens seeing more than 10 inches of fresh powder.While plows made easy work of the powdery snow to clear roads and runways, authorities warned residents to expect unusually cold weather across the Midwest and Northeast.Embarrass, Minnesota, notched a reading of minus 36 Fahrenheit (minus 38 Celsius) that stood as the lowest temperature recorded in the United States outside Alaska on Friday, according to the National Weather Service."Temperatures tonight and tomorrow are expected to be extremely low, and dangerously so," Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said. "These are dangerous conditions."The forecast overnight low for Boston was minus 4F (minus 20C) while New York looked for a low of 3F (minus 16C).New York City's Department of Homeless Services went to "code blue," doubling the number of vans patrolling streets to seek people who needed shelter and streamlining the check-in process for homeless shelters.
SEVERAL DEATHS REPORTED
Washington received more than 2 inches of snow, Philadelphia roughly 5 inches and Hartford 7 inches. (U.S. snowfall: http://link.reuters.com/zym75v) In Cambridge, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, Tom Klein took a break from shoveling and said that a life in New England had accustomed him to harsh winter weather.
"I love a good snowstorm," the 60-year-old co-owner of a small manufacturing company said. "I don't mind shoveling. I've never minded shoveling."Some 3,467 flights were canceled on Friday across the United States and 12,394 were delayed with Philadelphia and Newark airports hardest hit, according to FlightAware.com.Airports across the region warned travelers to expect residual delays as they cleared a backlog of flights."We now have all our airfields - runways and taxiways - clear," said Ed Freni, aviation director for Boston's Logan International Airport. "We will be back to normal operations by tomorrow."The weather was a factor in several deaths.Police recovered the body of a 71-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease who had wandered out in the rural western New York State town of Byron on Thursday night, improperly dressed for the single-digit temperatures, according to the Genesee County Sheriff's Office.
A Philadelphia city worker was killed after a machine he was using was crushed by a mound of rock salt, media said.
DE BLASIO DIGS OUT
New York's new mayor, Bill de Blasio, started his day shoveling the walk in front of his Brooklyn brownstone - a task his wife had said their 16-year-old son Dante would handle. Dante turned up later, not being an early riser, his father said at a briefing.Asked what grade he would give his teenaged son, de Blasio said: "I give Dante an A for effort and a D for punctuality."In Washington, the Office of Personnel Management told hundreds of thousands of federal workers they could work from home or take a leave because of the storm. The United Nations in New York and federal courts in New York, New Jersey, and Boston shut down. Schools closed across much of the region.A Wayne, New Jersey, man was rescued Friday afternoon after falling through the ice at Ramapo Lake, where he was snowshoeing in an area frequented by hikers and mountain bikers, state officials said.The Oakland Police Department dive rescue team pulled the man to safety and resuscitated 34-year-old Guncel Karadogan, who was talking and lucid as he was taken to a local hospital, where there was no immediate word on his condition.And in Monmouth, New Jersey, fire officials said the driver of a mail truck and two people in another vehicle were rescued from flood waters in separate incidents after the Shrewsbury River flooded during high tide late Friday morning.
One victim was transported to Monmouth Medical Center. However, a spokesperson could not release any information on that victim.In Green Bay, Wisconsin, the temperature plummeted to -18 degrees Fahrenheit (-28 C) on Friday, breaking a record for the date set in 1979, according to the National Weather Service.
Despite the frigid forecast predicted for the end of the weekend, Green Bay Packers fans bought the remaining 40,000 tickets this week for their team's National Football League playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.The NFL threatened to prohibit local TV from airing the game if the team was unable to sell out the game in Lambeau Field, where diehard fans will brave the temperatures expected reach 0F (minus 18C) during the game.(Additional reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst and Barbara Goldberg in New York; Daniel Lovering in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Jeffrey B. Roth in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Missouri; Dave Warner in Philadelphia; Mary Wisniewski in Chicago; David Bailey in Minneapolis; Ian Simpson in Washington; David Jones in Newark, New Jersey; Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; Editing by Jonathan Oatis and Lisa Shumaker)
Editor's Note: This story has been rewritten to acknowledge a previously published story by Global Toronto titled "Mysterious Christmas Eve 'boom' heard and felt around GTA." Parts of our story resembled too closely the original Global article.
- Read about the massive blizzard and outages in N.L.
- Read about how Maritimers are digging out of the blizzard
Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro said severe weather caused a fire in Sunnyside that led to a shutdown at the Holyrood Generating Station, causing a massive outage across the island. The provincial Crown corporation said it is working to restore power at Holyrood but it may take several hours.The power outages are linked to generator failures, Newfoundland Power said.The storm continued on the Avalon Peninsula and parts of the east coast of the province.
Travel plans may be affected
Travel is also affected, with people heading to St. John's International Airport urged to reschedule arrangements as most flights are either cancelled or delayed, bus service essentially cancelled, and police urging drivers to stay off roads and highways if possible.Newfoundland Power ended its rotating power outages Friday night, saying people responded to the company's plea to conserve power.
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The hardest-hit areas of the Maritimes appear to be the southwestern edges of Nova Scotia and along the Atlantic coastline.But a warming trend is expected to begin Sunday, according to Environment Canada, followed by rain, windy and mild conditions on Monday. Temperatures are expected to fall back below freezing on Tuesday, which could mark trouble for road crews and drivers.The Nova Scotia communities of Shelburne and Yarmouth received more than 19 centimetres of snow, with much of the rest of the province receiving about 20 centimetres. The North Shore and northern Cape Breton received the least amount of snow — between five and 10 centimetres.Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick also received between five and 10 centimetres of snow.
Extreme cold, but alert over in Toronto
In Toronto, where there were reports of loud booms that have been blamed on so-called frost quakes, an extreme cold alert that began on Jan. 1 was cancelled Saturday. The freezing weather has led to overflowing homeless shelters, and caused pipes to freeze and burst. The Toronto Transit System was also affected, with dozens of streetcars out of service due to freezing air brakes, and delays on Go Transit, the regional public transit service for the greater Toronto and Hamilton areas.Baijnath said wind-chill warnings remain in effect in various parts of the country, including in Quebec, where it feels more like –30 C."As you head more toward the north, it feels more like –50, with the risk of frostbite to exposed skin," she said.Cold is also funnelling in from parts of the Prairies, Baijnath said, with the wind chill making it feel like –38 in Saskatoon.Dangerous cold sets in as heavy snow blankets U.S. Northeast
By Scott Malone and Victoria Cavaliere
28 minutes ago-JAN 4,13-YAHOONEWS
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - People across the northeastern United States on Friday dug out after a heavy snowfall that grounded thousands of flights, closed schools and government offices, caused several deaths and left the region in the grip of bitter cold.Boston was hard hit by the first major winter storm of 2014, getting nearly 18 inches of snow, while some towns north of New England's largest city saw close to 2 feet of accumulation.Major cities from Washington, D.C., to Portland, Maine, were slammed, with New York's Manhattan Island getting 6 inches of snow and parts of Queens seeing more than 10 inches of fresh powder.While plows made easy work of the powdery snow to clear roads and runways, authorities warned residents to expect unusually cold weather across the Midwest and Northeast.Embarrass, Minnesota, notched a reading of minus 36 Fahrenheit (minus 38 Celsius) that stood as the lowest temperature recorded in the United States outside Alaska on Friday, according to the National Weather Service."Temperatures tonight and tomorrow are expected to be extremely low, and dangerously so," Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said. "These are dangerous conditions."The forecast overnight low for Boston was minus 4F (minus 20C) while New York looked for a low of 3F (minus 16C).New York City's Department of Homeless Services went to "code blue," doubling the number of vans patrolling streets to seek people who needed shelter and streamlining the check-in process for homeless shelters.
SEVERAL DEATHS REPORTED
Washington received more than 2 inches of snow, Philadelphia roughly 5 inches and Hartford 7 inches. (U.S. snowfall: http://link.reuters.com/zym75v) In Cambridge, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, Tom Klein took a break from shoveling and said that a life in New England had accustomed him to harsh winter weather.
"I love a good snowstorm," the 60-year-old co-owner of a small manufacturing company said. "I don't mind shoveling. I've never minded shoveling."Some 3,467 flights were canceled on Friday across the United States and 12,394 were delayed with Philadelphia and Newark airports hardest hit, according to FlightAware.com.Airports across the region warned travelers to expect residual delays as they cleared a backlog of flights."We now have all our airfields - runways and taxiways - clear," said Ed Freni, aviation director for Boston's Logan International Airport. "We will be back to normal operations by tomorrow."The weather was a factor in several deaths.Police recovered the body of a 71-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease who had wandered out in the rural western New York State town of Byron on Thursday night, improperly dressed for the single-digit temperatures, according to the Genesee County Sheriff's Office.
A Philadelphia city worker was killed after a machine he was using was crushed by a mound of rock salt, media said.
DE BLASIO DIGS OUT
New York's new mayor, Bill de Blasio, started his day shoveling the walk in front of his Brooklyn brownstone - a task his wife had said their 16-year-old son Dante would handle. Dante turned up later, not being an early riser, his father said at a briefing.Asked what grade he would give his teenaged son, de Blasio said: "I give Dante an A for effort and a D for punctuality."In Washington, the Office of Personnel Management told hundreds of thousands of federal workers they could work from home or take a leave because of the storm. The United Nations in New York and federal courts in New York, New Jersey, and Boston shut down. Schools closed across much of the region.A Wayne, New Jersey, man was rescued Friday afternoon after falling through the ice at Ramapo Lake, where he was snowshoeing in an area frequented by hikers and mountain bikers, state officials said.The Oakland Police Department dive rescue team pulled the man to safety and resuscitated 34-year-old Guncel Karadogan, who was talking and lucid as he was taken to a local hospital, where there was no immediate word on his condition.And in Monmouth, New Jersey, fire officials said the driver of a mail truck and two people in another vehicle were rescued from flood waters in separate incidents after the Shrewsbury River flooded during high tide late Friday morning.
One victim was transported to Monmouth Medical Center. However, a spokesperson could not release any information on that victim.In Green Bay, Wisconsin, the temperature plummeted to -18 degrees Fahrenheit (-28 C) on Friday, breaking a record for the date set in 1979, according to the National Weather Service.
Despite the frigid forecast predicted for the end of the weekend, Green Bay Packers fans bought the remaining 40,000 tickets this week for their team's National Football League playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.The NFL threatened to prohibit local TV from airing the game if the team was unable to sell out the game in Lambeau Field, where diehard fans will brave the temperatures expected reach 0F (minus 18C) during the game.(Additional reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst and Barbara Goldberg in New York; Daniel Lovering in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Jeffrey B. Roth in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Missouri; Dave Warner in Philadelphia; Mary Wisniewski in Chicago; David Bailey in Minneapolis; Ian Simpson in Washington; David Jones in Newark, New Jersey; Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; Editing by Jonathan Oatis and Lisa Shumaker)
Rare 'frost quake' phenomenon bewilders Greater Toronto Area residents
A major ice storm devastated parts of the Toronto. (Ivy Cuervo/CBC)
A
baffling boom on Christmas Eve that rattled Greater Toronto Area
residents reeling in the wake of an ice storm was likely a
rare phenomenon known as a frost quake.Residents
in the GTA and surrounding areas took to Twitter with reports of
mysterious booms late Christmas Eve and early Christmas Day that even
jarred many awake from slumber.With the area
encased in ice following a nasty mix of rain and snow Sunday, many
believed ice or a tree limb had fallen on their rooftop.As first reported by Global Toronto,
the U.S. Geological Survey did not register a seismic event in Ontario
on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day and there were no reports to the
American Meteor Society, ruling out comets or meteors, and leaving a
cryoseism, or frost quake, as a likely explanation.A
rare phenomenon, cryoseisms usually "occur when temperatures go from
above to below freezing," says CBC News meteorologist Michelle Leslie."Water
in the surrounding soil and rocks freezes. As water freezes, it
expands, putting pressure on the dirt and rocks," she says."When the pressure build-up is too much, the dirt or rocks will crack, and you hear a loud boom."They
tend to occur between midnight and dawn, the coldest time of night and
are very localized, so residents a few blocks away may not have heard
the Christmas Eve or Christmas day booms.In
Toronto, an extreme cold weather alert was in effect Tuesday, and
temperatures were well below freezing in the GTA and surrounding areas.Some 250,000 residents in Toronto were without power following the major ice storm and tens of thousands are in their sixth day without electricity.
