News reports have just been issued that at 7:00pm Central time a tornado has hit a Boy Scout camp in Iowa at Little Sioux. First reports are in the the tornado that hit the Boy Scout camp has killed at least four people and injured more than twenty.
Officials are reporting that the Little Sioux Scout Ranch located on 1800 acres 1 hour north of Omaha was completely destroyed.
The Scouts that are at the Boy Scout Camp are the ages of 13-18 years old and were there for training living in tents. Officials said that all the tents, buildings and trees are leveled.
The Harrison County Emergency Management Services and Molly Montag with the Sioux City Journal report that many ambulances and fire rescue are responding.
No other information was available at the writing of this and we hope that no other deaths or injuries are reported. Reports are out that over 30 tornadoes are reported. My heart goes out to the families.
What has happened to Amazon! They website is down and showing an error of “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable”. The seemed to have gone down about 1:30 PM Eastern time.
You might have expected something like this from a small site, but not from Amazon, one of the busiest sites on the internet. With it going down the Amazon site is due to loose some large revenue.
I’m sure the Amazon engineers are working to resolve the issue quickly.
Abortion, Religion and Politics, the three subjects that are sure to stir up emotion and great debate. They say if you want to remain friends with someone or not ruin a relationship, stay away from these subjects. Oh man, how can I resist, in today’s post I think I’ll start with Politics.
Politics
Wowwee! What a year this is turning out to be for our United States Presidential Election 2008. First, the big news is the Democratic race for the White House.
“In one corner we have Hillary Clinton wearing the slick pant suit.”
“In the other corner we have Barack Obama wearing the grin of “I’ve got more money than you Hillary”
We are in the final round and it is a close fight, Barack seems to have the favor with the judges, but Hillary just won’t give up.
My perspective on the Democratic Race for the White House.
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