With Halloween decorations in the backdrop, Jochen De Smet, who lives on Maple Avenue, digs out from the storm.
Juliana and Gala Kaloway enjoy the warming center at the Shrewsbury Senior Center as both of their homes are without power due to the storm.
A branch on Prospect Street near North Street hangs on a electric wire.
The line at Dunkin' Donuts on Maple Avenue has been out the door since early this morning.
Crews worked through the night to clean up around town.
Superintendent of Schools Dr. Sawyer said school will be closed on Monday, Oct. 31 due to the storm and the road conditions.
SELCO and highway department crews are still working around the clock to restore power.
"Due to public safety concerns created by the weekend storm, including many hanging tree limbs on power lines, ongoing power outages in some parts of town, and difficult travel on some roads due to downed tree limbs, there will be no school tomorrow, October 31," Sawyer wrote in an email to all Shrewsbury families. "Families are reminded that Tuesday, Nov. 1 is already scheduled as an off day for all students as it is parent conference day for preschool through grade 8 and a professional development day for the high school. I expect that parent conferences and professional development will proceed as scheduled on Nov. 1, and that school for students will resume on Wednesday, Nov. 2."
The Shrewsbury Senior Center was opened and was considered a warming center since about 3 a.m. this morning. The town announced that the senior center will become a shelter at 3 p.m. for residents without power.
"We have cots and some clean bedding, but we recommend residents bring their own blankets and bedding if they would like," said Shrewsbury Emergency Management Director Allyn Taylor. "We had about 13 people stay overnight during the ice storm, so the doors will be open. We'll be serving pizza, so if you'd like something else, bring your own grub."
Taylor was at the senior center this morning helping out a few residents who wanted to stay warm until their power was turned back on.
"I lost power at about 11 p.m. last night, then it came back on at about 3 a.m.," said Juliana Karoway, a resident of South Quinsigamond Avenue. "Then we lost it again about a half hour later, and I was concerned about my mom."
Gala Karoway, Juliana's mother, lives on Oak Street and lost power just before midnight. "I've never seen anything like this," Gala Karoway said. "I have an ADT security system, which the light kept flashing after the power went out, so I wasn't able to go back to sleep."
The Karoways were hopeful they would be getting power soon, but just in case, Juliana Karoway was calling friends to see where they could stay for the night.
"We're not giving an estimate of when the power will be restored at this time," said Jackie Pratt, communications manager at SELCO who has been tweeting updates since last night. "We're working as hard as we can and we will keep updating residents as soon as power is restored."
Four crews, two from Connecticut and two from Taunton were dispatched to help SELCO restore power as quickly as possible.
SELCO just reported the South Street area near Route 20 area is back up. A crew will be going to Cherry Street to work on the outage there. Crews also restored power to Walnut Street between Route 9 and Route 20 including Shrewsbury Village.
The town has also delayed trash pickup by one day and the yard waste pickup will be delayed one week, though the town will allow for up to 3-inch branches to be bundled at the curb.
2011年10月30日 星期日
2011年10月12日 星期三
A job that’s for the birds
Like that revelatory moment when martinis start to taste good or summer turns with one chill breeze to fall, that’s how chicken farming entered my synapses — synap, crackle, pop.
Our friends Mitch and Teresa were taking the kids on vacation for a few weeks, leaving their pre-pubescent hens in the hands of several neighbors, who tag-teamed the task. One neighbor one week, another the next. I found our stint with the chickens just long enough to fall in love with the whole concept.
“I want chickens too,” said the little guy. So there you go.
Reminds me of disco, the senseless way raising your own chickens has swept the country, except that I think there is something deeper to it, more symptomatic of our current neuroses over the economy. Being self-sustaining seems suddenly very appealing.
All I know for sure is that organic is good, but nonorganic is far cheaper. And a chicken is really a beautiful and impressive bird, particularly when properly seasoned and roasted.
In Mitch and Teresa’s case,Save on Bedding and fittings, they were simply seeking some fresh eggs in the morning, along with a little hobby for their two boys.
When I first visited, I’d expected something like that yard in “The Wizard of Oz,” with chickens running everywhere and gingham-wearing movie stars falling into hog pens, but Teresa and Mitch’s backyard was remarkably normal.Initially the banks didn't want our RUBBER SHEET . Nice pool. Cabana. Chicken hut.
There were tomatoes reddening in the garden, and loads of lettuce, which we were told we could feed to the chickens because they love greens. There was also a tub of chicken feed.ceramic Floor tiles for the medical,
Basically, like me, a chicken will eat anything.
Mitch had built the 10-foot-by-10-foot coop. Before the California real estate crash,This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their chicken coop . it alone would’ve fetched $450,000. Now far less. Because the schools are decent, probably in the $200,000-$300,000 range. Like I said, they have a pool.
Anyway, the first thing a backyard chicken farmer does is acquire some chicks, which apparently — like Canadian Viagra — can be bought through the mail.
“As long as the birds are properly packaged and can reach their destination within 72 hours of hatching, the U.S. Postal Service will accept live birds for delivery,” a National Geographic article explains.
Foolishly obsessive over all new activities, I picked up a copy of “Recipe for Raising Chickens” by Minnie Rose Lovgreen, who is to chickens what Shakespeare was to broken hearts.
“You can test a hen to see if she’s laying,” Lovgreen writes. “There are two bones (on) either side of a hen’s rectum. You see, a hen only has one vent for everything. If you can fit two of your folded knuckles ... .”
OK, let’s move on.
Lovgreen advises that it’s good to clean the henhouse once a year with lime, and the thought of all these suburban moms and dads spending a Saturday brushing lime paste onto nesting boxes makes me think this chicken-raising phenomenon might last about one more week.
“Another kind of mite gets on the chickens’ legs, and their legs get scaly,” Lovgreen writes. “Rubbing carbolated Vaseline on their legs at night should help this problem.”
There’s another activity that will be hugely popular with our suburb’s Chardonnay Moms.
Meanwhile, Lovgreen says roosters are necessary if you want fertile eggs, and “it’s perfectly all right to eat fertile eggs, or non-fertile eggs. They taste the same. Sometimes people wonder about that.”
Other things people might have wondered about:
“If two roosters get to fighting hard, the only (thing) I can do is take a board and slap one of them in the face,” Lovgreen writes. “I did that one time and the rooster never did know what hit him, so he gave up fighting.”
“And the flies,” confesses our friend Teresa. “That’s another thing.
“The first three weeks of school, I was overwhelmed,” she says of caring for the new chickens. “I do hear them more than I thought. I smell them more than I thought.
“But would I do it again? Absolutely.”
“I would definitely do it over,” says Patti Ann Miles of suburban Chicago, another friend. She has kept chickens since 2004. “We keep a very small garden, but we don’t eat from it; we give it to the hens. So it’s a nice cycle. And the eggs are truly delicious.”
So I’m all ready to order some chickens, though given today’s economy, I’m thinking it might be better just to lease a flock: three years with no money down,As many processors back away from Cable Ties , because you never want to put money upfront on a lease.
Our friends Mitch and Teresa were taking the kids on vacation for a few weeks, leaving their pre-pubescent hens in the hands of several neighbors, who tag-teamed the task. One neighbor one week, another the next. I found our stint with the chickens just long enough to fall in love with the whole concept.
“I want chickens too,” said the little guy. So there you go.
Reminds me of disco, the senseless way raising your own chickens has swept the country, except that I think there is something deeper to it, more symptomatic of our current neuroses over the economy. Being self-sustaining seems suddenly very appealing.
All I know for sure is that organic is good, but nonorganic is far cheaper. And a chicken is really a beautiful and impressive bird, particularly when properly seasoned and roasted.
In Mitch and Teresa’s case,Save on Bedding and fittings, they were simply seeking some fresh eggs in the morning, along with a little hobby for their two boys.
When I first visited, I’d expected something like that yard in “The Wizard of Oz,” with chickens running everywhere and gingham-wearing movie stars falling into hog pens, but Teresa and Mitch’s backyard was remarkably normal.Initially the banks didn't want our RUBBER SHEET . Nice pool. Cabana. Chicken hut.
There were tomatoes reddening in the garden, and loads of lettuce, which we were told we could feed to the chickens because they love greens. There was also a tub of chicken feed.ceramic Floor tiles for the medical,
Basically, like me, a chicken will eat anything.
Mitch had built the 10-foot-by-10-foot coop. Before the California real estate crash,This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their chicken coop . it alone would’ve fetched $450,000. Now far less. Because the schools are decent, probably in the $200,000-$300,000 range. Like I said, they have a pool.
Anyway, the first thing a backyard chicken farmer does is acquire some chicks, which apparently — like Canadian Viagra — can be bought through the mail.
“As long as the birds are properly packaged and can reach their destination within 72 hours of hatching, the U.S. Postal Service will accept live birds for delivery,” a National Geographic article explains.
Foolishly obsessive over all new activities, I picked up a copy of “Recipe for Raising Chickens” by Minnie Rose Lovgreen, who is to chickens what Shakespeare was to broken hearts.
“You can test a hen to see if she’s laying,” Lovgreen writes. “There are two bones (on) either side of a hen’s rectum. You see, a hen only has one vent for everything. If you can fit two of your folded knuckles ... .”
OK, let’s move on.
Lovgreen advises that it’s good to clean the henhouse once a year with lime, and the thought of all these suburban moms and dads spending a Saturday brushing lime paste onto nesting boxes makes me think this chicken-raising phenomenon might last about one more week.
“Another kind of mite gets on the chickens’ legs, and their legs get scaly,” Lovgreen writes. “Rubbing carbolated Vaseline on their legs at night should help this problem.”
There’s another activity that will be hugely popular with our suburb’s Chardonnay Moms.
Meanwhile, Lovgreen says roosters are necessary if you want fertile eggs, and “it’s perfectly all right to eat fertile eggs, or non-fertile eggs. They taste the same. Sometimes people wonder about that.”
Other things people might have wondered about:
“If two roosters get to fighting hard, the only (thing) I can do is take a board and slap one of them in the face,” Lovgreen writes. “I did that one time and the rooster never did know what hit him, so he gave up fighting.”
“And the flies,” confesses our friend Teresa. “That’s another thing.
“The first three weeks of school, I was overwhelmed,” she says of caring for the new chickens. “I do hear them more than I thought. I smell them more than I thought.
“But would I do it again? Absolutely.”
“I would definitely do it over,” says Patti Ann Miles of suburban Chicago, another friend. She has kept chickens since 2004. “We keep a very small garden, but we don’t eat from it; we give it to the hens. So it’s a nice cycle. And the eggs are truly delicious.”
So I’m all ready to order some chickens, though given today’s economy, I’m thinking it might be better just to lease a flock: three years with no money down,As many processors back away from Cable Ties , because you never want to put money upfront on a lease.
2011年9月21日 星期三
Death toll rises to 11 in crash at Reno air races
When 50-year-old Craig Salerno went missing after attending the Reno air races with friends, his wife didn't need DNA testing to confirm her worst fears.
Her husband, the father of their two young children, was sitting in the VIP section where a fighter plane landed in an explosive crash Friday afternoon. Salerno's friend was taken to the hospital with critical injuries. There was no way Salerno, an avid racing pilot there to watch the show, had survived.
"The family knew," said Tony Buzbee, a spokesman for the Friendswood, Texas family. "There is no delicate way to say this; the problem was there was no way to confirm he was dead other than DNA testing."
Medical officials confirmed Salerno's death to his wife Monday night, bringing the death toll in what has become the nation's deadliest racing disaster up to at least 11.
A spokesman for the medical examiner's office said investigators have been trying to identify body parts since the gruesome accident at the annual National Championship Air Races. All the victims' names had been confirmed by police or family by late Tuesday.
More than 1,300 people had called a Reno crisis line in the days after the crash, many to report missing race spectators. Officials are trying to track down each missing person but have not released an official count.
"They have an awful lot of legal hurdles that they have to go through before they can announce especially the names (of the dead) but also the number of deceased," said Washoe County spokesman Chris Matthews. "They have to verify that they are in fact looking at a deceased person, as opposed to looking at an arm of a person who is not deceased and is in the hospital."
The newly-identified victims were a Kanas woman previously reported missing, a father who took his 12-year-old son to see the racing pilots, a man who loved airplanes and Salerno.There is good integration with PayPal and most Aion Kinah providers,
Relatives of the Kansas woman, 71-year-old Cheryl Elvin of Lenexa, had said she was likely dead because the relatives who had attended the show with her were all taken to area hospitals for critical leg injuries.
John Craik,When the stone sits in the Cold Sore, 45, of Gardnerville,Save on kidney stone and fittings, Nev., died after taking his son to watch the race. Virginia Craik told The Associated Press that her grandson was not seriously injured and is back in school.
"It's been tough," she said.
James McMichael, 47, of Graham, Wash., was at the show because he "loved planes," his mother, Darlene McMichael, said.Initially the banks didn't want our chicken coop . "That's why most people go to those things."
She said her son was survived by his wife and an extensive family.
"Our family has a great faith," she said. "And we feel like things happen for a reason. It doesn't make it easier.then used cut pieces of impact socket garden hose to get through the electric fence."
Salerno was a dispatcher for Continental Airlines and a lieutenant for a volunteer fire department, said Buzbee, a Houston lawyer representing the family. Salerno also volunteered with the annual Wings Over Houston air show, where he served as a liaison between the main act and the show.
"He was just one of those kind of people that many people know," Buzbee said. "He made the community work."
Salerno was given his VIP ticket by a friend, Buzbee said.
"It's a very difficult time for his wife and children," Buzbee said.
More than 70 people were treated for injuries, some of them life-threatening, in the unexplained crash that also took the life of 74-year-old stunt pilot James Leeward. His WWII-era fighter plane dived into a crowd during the nation's premier aviation competition. Shrapnel sprayed at the fans, cutting off limbs and severely injuring many people.
Boeing engineer and longtime pilot Dave Desmon organized a group of people with ties to Washington to attend the show. They were standing near the finish line when the plane crashed three feet from them.
"We were trying to figure out which way to run basically," Desmon, 51, said.
Among the dead were Desmon's friends, George Hewitt, 60, and Wendy Hewitt, 57, of Fort Mohave, Ariz. Another friend lost an arm and had a cracked skull. Desmon's girlfriend broke her leg.
George Hewitt was a recently retired pilot had served in the Canadian air service. Wendy Hewitt was a passionate volunteer who served the United Way, American Red Cross and charities devoted to low-income children and women. They were learning Mandarin for an upcoming trip to China, Desmon said.
The others killed who had previously been identified were Sharon Stewart, 47, of Reno; Greg Morcom, 47, of Marysville, Wash.; Michael Wogan, 22, of Scottsdale, Ariz.; and Regina Bynum, 53, of San Angelo, Texas.
During the annual Reno completion, planes flew wingtip-to-wingtip as low as 50 feet from the ground. Pilots reached speeds of up to 500 mph.
Leeward was the 20th pilot to die at the races since it began 47 years ago, but Friday's crash was the first where spectators were killed. Some of the injured described being coated in aviation fuel that burned.
Leeward was a veteran air racer from Ocala, Fla., who flew in Hollywood films. He loved speeding, on the ground or in the air, and had recently taken up racing cars.
Her husband, the father of their two young children, was sitting in the VIP section where a fighter plane landed in an explosive crash Friday afternoon. Salerno's friend was taken to the hospital with critical injuries. There was no way Salerno, an avid racing pilot there to watch the show, had survived.
"The family knew," said Tony Buzbee, a spokesman for the Friendswood, Texas family. "There is no delicate way to say this; the problem was there was no way to confirm he was dead other than DNA testing."
Medical officials confirmed Salerno's death to his wife Monday night, bringing the death toll in what has become the nation's deadliest racing disaster up to at least 11.
A spokesman for the medical examiner's office said investigators have been trying to identify body parts since the gruesome accident at the annual National Championship Air Races. All the victims' names had been confirmed by police or family by late Tuesday.
More than 1,300 people had called a Reno crisis line in the days after the crash, many to report missing race spectators. Officials are trying to track down each missing person but have not released an official count.
"They have an awful lot of legal hurdles that they have to go through before they can announce especially the names (of the dead) but also the number of deceased," said Washoe County spokesman Chris Matthews. "They have to verify that they are in fact looking at a deceased person, as opposed to looking at an arm of a person who is not deceased and is in the hospital."
The newly-identified victims were a Kanas woman previously reported missing, a father who took his 12-year-old son to see the racing pilots, a man who loved airplanes and Salerno.There is good integration with PayPal and most Aion Kinah providers,
Relatives of the Kansas woman, 71-year-old Cheryl Elvin of Lenexa, had said she was likely dead because the relatives who had attended the show with her were all taken to area hospitals for critical leg injuries.
John Craik,When the stone sits in the Cold Sore, 45, of Gardnerville,Save on kidney stone and fittings, Nev., died after taking his son to watch the race. Virginia Craik told The Associated Press that her grandson was not seriously injured and is back in school.
"It's been tough," she said.
James McMichael, 47, of Graham, Wash., was at the show because he "loved planes," his mother, Darlene McMichael, said.Initially the banks didn't want our chicken coop . "That's why most people go to those things."
She said her son was survived by his wife and an extensive family.
"Our family has a great faith," she said. "And we feel like things happen for a reason. It doesn't make it easier.then used cut pieces of impact socket garden hose to get through the electric fence."
Salerno was a dispatcher for Continental Airlines and a lieutenant for a volunteer fire department, said Buzbee, a Houston lawyer representing the family. Salerno also volunteered with the annual Wings Over Houston air show, where he served as a liaison between the main act and the show.
"He was just one of those kind of people that many people know," Buzbee said. "He made the community work."
Salerno was given his VIP ticket by a friend, Buzbee said.
"It's a very difficult time for his wife and children," Buzbee said.
More than 70 people were treated for injuries, some of them life-threatening, in the unexplained crash that also took the life of 74-year-old stunt pilot James Leeward. His WWII-era fighter plane dived into a crowd during the nation's premier aviation competition. Shrapnel sprayed at the fans, cutting off limbs and severely injuring many people.
Boeing engineer and longtime pilot Dave Desmon organized a group of people with ties to Washington to attend the show. They were standing near the finish line when the plane crashed three feet from them.
"We were trying to figure out which way to run basically," Desmon, 51, said.
Among the dead were Desmon's friends, George Hewitt, 60, and Wendy Hewitt, 57, of Fort Mohave, Ariz. Another friend lost an arm and had a cracked skull. Desmon's girlfriend broke her leg.
George Hewitt was a recently retired pilot had served in the Canadian air service. Wendy Hewitt was a passionate volunteer who served the United Way, American Red Cross and charities devoted to low-income children and women. They were learning Mandarin for an upcoming trip to China, Desmon said.
The others killed who had previously been identified were Sharon Stewart, 47, of Reno; Greg Morcom, 47, of Marysville, Wash.; Michael Wogan, 22, of Scottsdale, Ariz.; and Regina Bynum, 53, of San Angelo, Texas.
During the annual Reno completion, planes flew wingtip-to-wingtip as low as 50 feet from the ground. Pilots reached speeds of up to 500 mph.
Leeward was the 20th pilot to die at the races since it began 47 years ago, but Friday's crash was the first where spectators were killed. Some of the injured described being coated in aviation fuel that burned.
Leeward was a veteran air racer from Ocala, Fla., who flew in Hollywood films. He loved speeding, on the ground or in the air, and had recently taken up racing cars.
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