HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Survivors are telling of harrowing encounters with the tornado that struck Hattiesburg, Miss. The twister injured injuring more than 60 people but caused no fatalities. One man says he ran from his car and lay face-down in the grass next to the wall of a church as the tornado raced toward him. Jeff Revette says 20 seconds later, bricks were strewn across a flattened pickup truck 10 feet away, amid toppled trees and power lines. About 200 homes and mobile homes were damaged or destroyed.
During the Super Bowl broadcast last Sunday, a commercial aired that is continuing to reverberate through the farm community, and is going viral on the Internet in the process.
The National FFA Foundation and National FFA Organization cooperated with RAM Trucks on a two-minute Super Bowl commercial honoring the American Farmer that aired during the fourth quarter of the telecast.
The ad, which features a popular poem by the late broadcaster Paul Harvey, is being supported with a cover wrap of USA Today and a significant Web presence across other electronic media.
Phil Mickelson just barely missed a birdie put on the final hole of his first round at the Phoenix Open. Had he made it, he would have scored a 59 for the round. That’s only happened five times in the PGA.
His 11-under par 60 was good enough for a four stroke lead.
There have been four 60’s shot at TPC Scottsdale in the Open. Mickelson has 2 of them.
There were reports of people trapped in homes and businesses, after a massive storm system pounded the Georgia town of Adairsville, about 60 miles northwest of Atlanta.
Video showed a funnel cloud roaring through the downtown area, flipping cars and demolishing a home.
Large sections of a manufacturing plant appeared to be destroyed.
An interstate highway was closed in both directions, after the storm flipped cars onto their roofs and tossed them onto the shoulder.
The St Joseph Police Department released this video of how the new red-light safety cameras work. They’re now operating at two St Joseph intersections, Frederick Avenue and the Belt Highway, and the northbound approach at the Belt and Cook Road.
The cameras are operational, but from January 18 through February 17th, fines will not be issued. Authorities will issue warning notices for that 30-day warning phase.
After that you could face a fine of $100 for running red lights. As with the warnings, violators will be sent citations via first-class mail.
Cameras will operate 24 hours a day and capture images of every vehicle running a red light at the selected intersection. Warning signs alerting drivers to the red-light safety cameras have been installed. Cameras will capture two still images of the vehicle as the violation occurs. A separate video camera captures a 10 to 12 second recording of the vehicle committing the violation.
The images and video are securely transferred electronically to ATS operations where the photographs are reviewed by ATS technicians and then by the local police department for final review and authorization. All of these captured violations are reviewed and approved by a law enforcement officer prior to the issuance of a citation. After completion of the warning period, citations will be issued to the owners of the offending vehicles. The registered owner may review the images online, and has the option to pay the fine or appeal the citation in court. These citations do not result in any points on the driver’s record.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2010 a total of 651 people were killed and thousands were injured in intersection crashes. 12 Missourians lost their lives in red-light running crashes in Missouri in 2010. In 2011, that number was reduced to five fatalities due to red-light running collisions. Red light cameras saved 159 lives in 2004-08 in 14 of the biggest US cities, according to an analysis by IIHS. Had cameras been operating during that period in all large cities, a total of 815 deaths would have been prevented.
Nearly 600 communities in the United States are now using cameras to deter red-light running and the fatalities, injuries and property damage that result from red-light runners. The cameras are able to monitor intersections and accident-prone areas 24 hours a day, seven days a week allowing police officers to deal with other crimes, which makes the entire community safer.
From NBC news comes this video of the memorial in Newtown, Connecticut. People across the county paused Friday for a moment of silence to remember the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre one week ago.
NASA is out with a video detailing how the world did not end on the 21st of December. The YouTube video is basically the space agency’s way of saying “We told you so” and was originally going to be released on the 22nd. For whatever reason, it’s out now — over a week before many believe the world will be hit by some sort of catastrophe.
The video is the brainchild of NASA scientists who gathered recently for a Google Hangout. The event and the video that resulted were aimed at debunking various end of the world theories, most of them based on what NASA says are misinterpretations of the Mayan calendar.
