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Fidel and Raul Castro at the opening session of the National Assembly in Cuba on Sunday, Feb. 24.
HAVANA — Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro made a rare public appearance Sunday by joining the opening session of the National Assembly, state media reported amid speculation the gathering could give clues on planning for a future leadership succession.
Since falling ill in 2006 and ceding the presidency to his brother, Fidel Castro has given up all official positions except as a deputy in the National Assembly. At Sunday's session, he took his seat beside brother President Raul Castro, only the second time he has graced the assembly chambers since his illness and the first since 2010.
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Fidel Castro at the opening session of the National Assembly on Sunday, Feb. 24.
Fidel Castro's surprise appearance added to expectations, fueled by his brother, that the usually routine session might shed light on future leadership of the communist-run nation.
In a back and forth with reporters on Friday, Raul Castro joked about his eventual retirement and urged them to pay attention to Sunday's conclave, which is closed to foreign journalists.
"I'm going to turn 82; I have a right to retire already," he said. "You don't believe me? Why are you so incredulous?" he said.
The 612 deputies, who were elected in an uncontested vote February 3, named a new 31-member Council of State with Raul Castro as president, despite his quip.
The National Assembly meets for just a few weeks each year and delegates its legislative powers between sessions to the Council of State, which also functions as the nation's executive through the Council of Ministers it appoints.
Governments, Cuba watchers and Cubans were watching to see if any new, and younger, faces among the Council of State members, in particular its first vice president and five vice presidents, with an average age over 70.
Miguel Diaz-Canel, a 52-years old electrical engineer and university professor who is a rising star on Cuba's political scene, was named first vice president of Cuban Council of State and first vice president of Cuban Council of Ministers, hinting at some, relatively young, new blood for the future.
Esteban Lazo, member of the political bureau of the Community Party and vice president of the Council of State, 68, was named parliament president Sunday to replace a retiring Ricardo Alarcon, who served for 20 years.
The new government is almost certain to be the last headed up by the Castro brothers and the generation that has ruled Cuba since they swept down from the mountains in the 1959 revolution that led to a long-running feud with Washington.
Raul Castro, 81, would begin his second term on Sunday, theoretically leaving him free to retire in 2018, aged 86.
Eighty percent of the parliament's 612 members, with an average age under 50, were born after the Revolution.
Raul Castro, who officially replaced his ailing brother as president in 2008, has repeatedly called for senior leaders to hold office for no more than two, five-year terms.
"Although we kept on trying to promote young people to senior positions, life proved that we did not always make the best choice," Castro said at a Party Congress in 2011.
"Today, we are faced with the consequences of not having a reserve of well-trained replacements....It's really embarrassing that we have not solved this problem in more than half a century," he said.
The 2011 party summit adopted a more than 300-point plan to "update" Cuba's Soviet-style economic system, designed to transform it from one based on collective production and consumption to one where individual effort and reward play a far more important role.
Across-the-board subsidies are being replaced by the country's first comprehensive tax code and targeted welfare.
Fidel Castro, these days referred to as the "historic leader of the revolution," is no longer seen as wielding real power, but he has maintained a public presence through his writings, meetings with important visitors and rare appearances.
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You've got to hand it to Cuban doctors for keeping these war-beaten horses alive for so long.
Since the Bay of Pigs (oink) of 1961, some US officials wanted to assassinate Fidel, I can't believe he is still around when those US presidents are not..I am talking about those US presidents who really wanted Fidel's life.
Fidel began his leadership in Cuba during Eisenhower, then outlasted JFK, LBJ, Tricky Dickk, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Bubba, Dubya. Fidel is still jumping around during the Obama Administration.
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Can you believe that?? He is a cat, having 9 lives.
Proof, that sometimes, the good don't die young.
Mac:
hilarious... but politically incorrect?
Pigotry, your politics are incorrect! Im pretty certain you have a Castro poster in your home right next to Chavez and Obama. Your avatar is a great reflection of you as a human!
Yea my guess is the Dr. that has Castro die on his watch dies too!
It's Bush's fault that Castro came to power!
Hey..Realist17
Don't be childish ; don't be a copycat!
Castro and his power organization don't concern me at all. They have not been any threat to the US since the Soviet UNion Fell and Probably not since the Missile Crisis.
They are really just a whipping boy for the right wing, they use it to hold onto Cuban votes in Florida, and I have felt for a long time the=at the CUbans living in S Florida are NOT Americans, or Cuban-Americans but simply Cubans who want the US to fight a war for them.
Who really gives a damn. Stop the nonsense embargo and get on with it. The government there will change when the people there choose so, and they are already on that path. Heck I would love to buy up all the 1950s cars we here about and restore them and sell them in the US!
So individual efforts will be officially rewarded above the collective? In that case, communist ideology won't strictly dominate the little nation of Cuba any more, especially after Fidel Castro officially retires.
When that comes to pass, end the embargo, for its original intent will no longer have much legitimacy or practicality to continue existing -- considering how much the world has changed over half-a-century.
Bush's fault? Not quite, but almost. What about Operation Zapata, the Bay Of Pigs? What was Bush's oil company? Zapata. Where was a lot of the preliminary BoP training done? On land owned by Zapata. He was also mentioned in some official reports within a day or 2 of JFK getting assassinated. His Father was good buddies with A. Dulles of CIA fame. Could be a tie there...
I am not saying there is a conspiracy happening. I am just saying that there are many connections and coincidences between Bush and Castro. Could be chance, or could not be. Only YOU can make that decision.. :)
Bush's fault? Dubya was in the same place I was during the Bay of Pigs and the JFK assasination...............a Texas grade school! I doubt that a small child in Midland was in offical reports pertaining to the death of Kennedy. The Bush you refer to with CIA connections would be George H.W Bush, who was the Director of the CIA under the Ford administration. Go read a history book, before you start making your insane liberal crackhead comments, which are just as stupid as those of the Tea Party nuts. Conspiracy my A--! If ANYONE had JFK killed it was LBJ and his cronies!
I normally label people who stay in power within any country for more than 10 years as dictators, and I feverishly wish them ill.
In the case of Castro, however, I cannot help but admire the man's ability to survive. His tenacity. His ability to survive assassination attempts.
I especially despise the hypocritical US policy toward the "brown" people of Cuba. This has racism written all over it. China and Russia are more communist than Cuba. Yet, I do not see the US putting an embargo on China or Russia, or trying to assassinate the head or either of these two countries.
Castro and Cubans have survived for many years despite the efforts by a far superior enemy (the US) to destroy them.
Way to go Castro. God bless you. And may you outlive all your enemies.
Mars,
It is not hard to survive when you kill all of your enemies.
Why do you think so many Cubans risk their life to come to the US? Fidel is a monster.
Who said anything about the supposed policy against the brown people of Cuba?
Why do you hate whites?
There are no true communist countries. Those that say they are , are simple fascist-style dictatorships.
You do not have enough knowledge or experience to make any kind of judgment on Castro or the US.
Get an education. Get a job. Do not have children.
@NC-492358#1.12: Apparently, "MarsRover" has much more knowledge, education, and factual history of Cuba under Castro than you've yet imagined. You're a typical dimwit.
You Castro lovers are sick. I bet you and Bill Aires can't wait till the day when you can round up those Americans that require ReEducation. And of course we know what you'll do with the 25 million Americans that can not be ReEducated.
Of course Castro only put something like 30,000 Cuban Reactionaries up against the wall. Red China killed over 60 MILLION of their own people and we GAVE them or entire Industrial and Military production base. That's gonna work out well. LOL!
PS: Ernest Hemingway used to hang out with Raul as he supervised the executions. Sometimes up to 200 up against the wall at one time. Che used to provide the Coup de Grace bullet to da head. Nice of the good/puke doctor. LOL!
@Mac-101#1.14: Gwaddamn! Bet if I encouraged you just a tad you'd tell a pack of whoppers. It's "Bill Ayers". Do agree with you about "Red China" though.
Look up the Hemingway letter. I was shocked when I read it about 5 years ago. The movies the Commies took used to be played in schools showin long lines of prisoners gunned down by machine gun fire.
I'm 60 years old and I thought relatively well read and schooled. Since 2006 I have figured out it is ALL lies.
Leftinst will turn into Jacoobins whenever they gain power.
You don't think Bill Ayers said 25 million Americans can not be ReEducated? I forget his quote about 911, it weren't purty. Then he said about 10 years ago he was still disappointed that more weren't killed in the Pentagon killin.
But don't forget, SDS, KKK, Black Panthers, Weathermen ALL had a large percentage4 of FBI agents and informants in them. ResearchDr Timmity Leary( Dr Acid) life. He was and his escape orchestrated by many of those agents from many of these different organizations. LOL!
Peace Out.
PS: The Agency put Castro in Power. Castro just turned on them. LOL! Look up Jack Ruby, he used to run guns for Castro prior to the Revelation. He also negotiated the deal for the remainin Piglets who survived the Bay of Pigs.
@Mac-101: Are you yet a fan of the "Brothers Grimm" and "Charles Perrault"? They told some fine tales too. Many Children love 'em yet.
Mac, it's simple do a couple searches and see what you come up with. Do you believe the MSM? LOL!
If you really want to see how da BANKSTERS are rippin us off, have your ears perk up when you hear/read Goldman Sachs, JP Moorgan, CitiBank, Deutshe Bank, Citi Bank, GE, QE, and so on.
Also look up the followin:
1. Larry McDonald/KAL 007
2. Senate Select Committee for POW/MIA
3. General Walker/Lee Harvey Oswald.
4. Dr Timmthy Leary/Black Panthers/SDS/Weatherman
5. Jack Ruby/CIA
6. Tower #7, Operation Able Danger, Selling short American, United Airlines
And I can go on and on.
But evidently you are smart enough to know the only truth is the official administration presentation. Even Pravda is doin better than the MSM.
But we ALL knoiw that JFK was killed by a lone gunman and a single bullet. LOL!
Peace Out. LOL!
@Mac-101#1.18: There is much evidence to support many of the propositions you put forth. Much of it though has been debunked. I specifically refer to any friendship of any standing between Hemingway and the Castro's. Hemingway was quite agreeable to Castro's overthrow of Batista, as anyone should have been at the time. Too, during the time Castro was coming to power Hemingway spent very little time in Cuba, and He was generally too drunk to know much of what was actually happening around Him no matter where He was. Regards
MAC F, did you do a search for the Hemingway letter? I read it about 6 years ago in a book. Like everything thing else I can't say ANYTHING is true at this point. Gotta go to work, gonna research it latter.
Peace Out.
Obama and Matthews having tingles up their legs seeing their comrade doing so well.
Everyone of your posts on newsvine has a grade-school snark invoking the President's last name. You do protest a little too much. Maybe you could move on to high school....or say goodbye to FOX.
WAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaahhhhaaaaaaaahhhhaaaaaaaa.....
"What's wrong, little bitty boy?"
"I'm maahaahaad 'cause Obama won. Again!"
"Why are you so mad about that, little boy?"
"I don't have the faintest idea. I just ahaahaam. And I'm going to call him names and draw up ridiculous parallels between him and other hated political figures."
"And what good will that do, little boy?"
It's going to hurt his feelings, and maybe he will even leave office."
"But, little boy, he doesn't care what you say or think about him."
"He doesn't?"
"Not one tiny bit."
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaa......
LOL.....sooooooo much de information my dear padawans have! msy the force be with you but first walmart has brains on especial for those who believe US ever wanted to assasinate Castro..they wanted it so bad you can see it in his face....by the way you all do know what the word politics means right?
dmallet does nasty things to himself at night while looking at pix of Obama and chanting Obamas name.
These idiot Obama haters need to move on. Everything is not about Obama. Stop your verbal maturation, it gets nobody excited but you and your small contingent of birthed/teabag conspiracy freaks
Poor widdle Franky, Tao and Irish, years of your ilk calling those who disagree with you terrorists, racists, nazi’s, extremists, hostage takers,homophobes, rednecks, trailer trash, bitter clingers to their religion and
guns, murders, warmongers, haters, Taliban, xenophobic, religious fanatics, white supremacists, KKK, enslave women, hate women, war on women and children, misogynists, greedy, hate science and they want to pollute the air and water,destroy education, starve children and throw old people over the cliff.
That is the short list all encouraged by Obama and you think I should kiss up to Obama and his sycophants in the white house, congress, house and the news media spreading the same things? Don’t like me picking on your dear anointed One, tough! 13 years (and still counting) of Bush bashing and you are already crying like little girls that had your lollypop taken from you. Get use to it whiners.
You're one of the biggest trolls I've ever seen, dmallet. You're just another delusional wingnut.
I have to agree Sichuan. It is people like dmallet who would rather say hateful things about our President than to actually take part in the American design of compromise.
So the political landscape is not in your favor right now Dmallet, so what? Didn't you have things swinging your way with Regan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. ? Now, when a President is not what YOU want, then you get to be a big cry baby and be unpatriotic? Congratulations, you've convinced even MORE people the those on the "right" are more and more in the "wrong". Well done.
d,
Your last post almost appears to be a confession. You really shouldn't be too hard on yourself, misguided would work. Neither radical right or left has a future in the United States of America.
Irish, you're right about neither radical right nor left have a future. NO ONE has a future! We've been sold out by the New World Order and the globalist are collapsin America as we comment. If you think the DEMOs or RePugs have done anything but destroy America since 2006 you smokin crack. LOL!
CNG vehicles NOW!
Babies still crying about the truth? It was Matthews that said he got a thrill up his leg when he hears Obama speak. Liberals have always admired Fidel, including Obama. Obama pushed through socialized healthcare, just like Fidel. Obama is a Marxis Socialist/Communist as are most if not all liberal democrats. Funny how the truth of you gets your eyes spinning in the sockets.
@dmallett: Truth? Get that goats head outta your lap and your eyes will quit spinning. Damn such sorriness!
The sequel to "Weekend at Bernie's", "Weekend at Fidel's". And the sequel to that will be "Weekend at Hugo's".
Yes its nice to see Obamas mentor doing well, in no time at all we will be like Cuba!
No time at all, eh? Well, it's been over an hour and a half since your post and nothing's different yet. Still the good ol' USA! LOL
What a fool! Keep following the line. What part do you like the most of Obama. Overseas drone killings or the preauthorized drone killings in the U.S. without due process, wreckless spending or the trampling of the constitutuion? Which one do you prefer?
You can't be serious!...
The real fool is someone who keeps posting the same meaningless tripe over and over without ever actually contributing anything relevant but playground level taunts.
Fiedel Castro and Hugo Chavez, the grusesomest twosomest, never seem to expire. They are at death's door and revive to come back to annoy us some more. Are they protected by the devil himself?
Neither does it seem that Kissinger or Brzezinski and John D Rockefeller will ever go either. Too busy doin the Devils work for the New World Order. LOL!
Retire? Someone in Cuba should of put a bullet between his eyes and his wacko brother too..decades ago!
Cuba is a hidden gold mine, but still running like its 1950's!
All that suffering for decades because of idiots!
What does Castro, Chavez and Obama have in common? Everything!
Wow. For real?
You are the type of person who would intentionally sink the entire US of A just so you could point a finger at the Prez. Instead of being anti-everything, try being positive-something. Working together will yield better results and benefit everyone on all sides of the political spectrum.
Your stance is very much the stuff of an uneducated, pouting, hissy-fit. whining biotch that does not accomplish much in lfe. Grow up. Time to leave Mommy's bosom and take your first solo walk to the corner store.
My rant is done. I would comment on your comment regarding the story but there is not much to comment on. Fidel is still alive.
Castro Has done so much damage to the Cuban people is nothing compared to the damgage that Obama has done to the American people
Bush is the one who has done all the damage. Obama is just trying to undo the catastrophe Bush and the GOP created. If you were capable of seeing clearly, you would recognize that fact.
I wish that were true! Bush indeed did a ton of damage. Obama is trying to out do him!!!! Give up on bush already We are on Obamas watch now!
Think of Bush as the drunk driver that totaled your car and caused lifelong injuries that will never go away. How much time should pass before one mans up and admits the accident is now their fault?
Ok I will think of it that way, Then after seeing the accident and results Obama takes the wheel and gets drunk and ciked up and totals the car and there was a fatality this time. how long do we blame Bush for Obamas accident? Stupid anology but i thought i woulld play along!
You Cant be serious!
You are now up to 5 similar posts and you still have said NOHING new or relevant.
I guess people are harmfull to each other. Just a cancer on the face of the earth.
I love the arrogance of the left, because I disagree with what is going on in this country i'm a cancer? WOW!! I work a job (getting rarer these days) I pay a lot in taxes, in fact my taxes are the largest bill I have! I don't break the law and I responsibly raise my children. I think you libs really need to look at what you consider "a cancer" but if you think im it ,there in itself exsposes the problem! YOU!
Fair enough though, in a socialist society opposite opinions are strongly not encouraged.
Hey Frankly, Then it looks like your keeping pace with me on meaningless posts. Mine at least stand for something, a free prosporous country!
You are all very ignorant to compare Obama to Castro and Chavez. Ignorant doesn't even begin to describe what kind of person you are but I thought I would show a little class.
nyjets,
Agreed. Both of them are far more capable than Obama; much more capable.
Cuba is a hidden gold mine and because of the silly embargo the USA is paying the price. All of the WalMart stores are crammed with goods manufactured in China with slave labor, while what few US manufacturers of consumer goods left are denied what was once an eager market, the people of Cuba. How many automobiles, trucks, Caterpillar tractors, etc. made in the USA could Cuba purchase if US consumers could purchase Cuban cigars, rum, sugar, etc. in return? It is long past the time to bring the trade & travel embargo to an end.
Doug... wow .... we trade tractors, trucks and cars for some cigars and sugar... what a great trade !!! No wonder why the USA is in the financial shape it's in !!
ps Einstein - Cuba trades with many other countries, yet they still remain a basket case. It's NOT because of our embargo - they can obtain anything they need/want from plenty of other countries.
Slaves were brought to the New World for the sugar plantations. The sugar was used to make rum. The rum (alcohol ) was consumed because you couldn't drink the water, and you needed to keep the sailing ship labor on warships half drunk. Those days are long gone. Cuban cigars and Cuban sugar are not the commodities they once were. Gambling. There's plenty of casino gambling available without going to Cuba. 1950's cars? Again a limited market. With the end of the Cold War, Eastern European and Russian trade partners for Cuba shifted to other economic opportunity. Cuba's problems are far in excess of Cuba's solutions.
Sugar is not a joke, two words for you baliman. Sugarcane ethanol. Brazil is now working with Cuba to turn their sugar production into ethanol. Considering Cuba is a short boat ride from the US, ending the embargo would millions of gallons of sugarcane ethanol into the US driving down the price of ethanol. Cuba before the embargo was the worlds top sugar supplier. Sugarcane unlike corn produces far more energy from ethanol than it consumes and the waste product of sugarcane is used to produce the energy needed to harvest it.
As a child, I watched Castro and Omar Khadafi gain power. They were strong leaders in the '60's. The US is still growing strong, because the United States is a young republic.
Real optimism or fantasized paranoia, Fidel and the reactionaries to him are the polemic pair of the last half century.
People living in freedom or under the boot of the rich and powerful gangsters, Caesars, Kings, and Presidents who represented the rich and powerful gangsters is the challenge. We U.S. citizens know the history of Hamilton's materialism based feudalism vs Jefferson's humanism based democracy were fused in the U.S. Constitution. Today's attempts to keep the goals of human dignity, human rights, and freedom based on equality are foiled by the same controlling rich and powerful and their minions.
Heroes of the humanity side all over the world and repetitively throughout history replay the struggle against the casino gangster feudal kings and corporations that only see profit as justification for persecution, oppression, and military action against them. That motivated Jefferson and I think Fidel too.
How can Americans still side with the gangsters that turned Cuba into an island whore house and casino playground for the rich and powerful or their minion?
Life is too short to pretend your life is more valuable than any other person's life. That we-U.S. will decide who the bad people are, even when they rebel against gangster-corporate corrupted government, the U.S. can justify condemning an entire country and people for wanting their freedom from this injustice is absurd.
I would think all you libs that insist on staying with your party line would learn a little from Cuba. If you like the way Cuba government runs the country then stick with Obama we are on the same path!
Take a trip to Cuba some day and then eat your words when you come back, that is if you ever allowed to get back.
Give it up, 'serious'. Just give it up. Nobody's falling for it. Any rational, intelligent person quickly realizes you have no idea what you're talking about, and those who agree with you simply share your ignorance and misplaced bitterness.
You can run your mouth, but how much REAL WORK did you do to try to inform others that Obama was the wrong choice for President?
You Cant be serious!
Now you are up to six...please the adults are talking and not just repeating the same silly things you seem to post over and over
Great, bill Clinton is out of cigars
Try one his way. You might like it.
castro de castrator de cuba
It will take a new leader in Cuba who doesn't have the last name Castro to reinstate diplomatic relations with that country...
The change in Cuba is inevitable once the Castro brothers are out of power.
This is possible if the US drops the restrictions. All the Filth and Scum from cuba that settled in florida will come back to cuba and F* it up also.
Why you stupid media keep calling any of them PRESIDENT thy was never be elected of nothing.Why don't you guys call them what they are ,DICTATORS
WOW@
You can't be serious you have now posted on just this one article 8, yes count them below 8 very similar posts about Obama (Who is not the subject of this article in any way) and you did it is just a couple hours....That is obsession and there is psychiatric help available for you.
I hear you crying about me Frankly but you never did answer the question about what you like most about Obama?? Is it the economy is worse now then when he took office ( he is in 2nd term now) Is it the deficit is growing not shrinking? Is it the New military base in Niger? Is it the Drones overseas or domestic?? I already know you like his smile, Im just curious out side of that what has he accomplished to better the country? his only agendas fall in line with a socialist government and after all isnt this article about Castro??
Frankly True, save the psychiatric help for those who have been hyptonized by our community organizer-in-chief, who played upon the stupidity of the sheep to garner the pro-obama herd mentality. Those who are able to take an independent look at things in the face of catchy slogans like "yes we can" and "forward" that are designed to herd the sheep, are able to see very clearly that Obama is ruining everything that our country stands for.
It's a Zombie
In other words, Fidel really didn't retire. He's just the brains in the background. Had he really retired, showing up in parliament would be like Jimmy Carter showing up in Congress and trying to vote on a gun ban.
The problem is that younger generations have different ideas about how the world should work, and us old guys (I'm one of them) find that tough to deal with.
Its going to happen, you can't find someone 30 or 40 years younger than you who sees things the way you do. Thats actually good, just hard to let go.
Life in Cuba can't be too harsh for Castro to be 82 at retirement. I can only see negative results from normalization of relations between Cuba and the US.
DODGE CITY, Kan. — A second major winter storm was bearing down Sunday on the central Plains, forcing cancellations and sending public-works crews scrambling for salt and sand supplies less than a week after another system dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the region.
The National Weather Service issued a blizzard watch from Sunday evening through late Monday for much of western Kansas before the strong storm system packing high winds and sleet that has been tracking across western Texas toward Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. The area was hit by a massive storm last week that dumped a foot of snow in some sections, closed airports and caused numerous accidents.
"It would have been nice if we'd had a few days to recover, to do some equipment rehab," , deputy director of public works in Wichita, which saw its second-highest snowfall ever Thursday with 14.2 inches.
Other totals from the Thursday snowstorm included 18 inches in the southern Kansas town of Zenda; 17 inches in Hays, Kan.; about 13 inches in northeast Missouri; and 12 inches of snow in parts of Kansas City.
Steve , meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said the storm also will affect Southern states and could spawn tornadoes Tuesday in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and Georgia.
"It definitely will be one of the more significant events of the season, the winter season, absolutely, . "Both in winter weather and severe weather potential, and rain, down in the southeast United States."
More than a foot of snow is possible from the Texas Panhandle, across the Oklahoma Panhandle and into Kansas and possibly Missouri as the storm moves eastward from the southwestern United States.
Although snowfall is expected to taper off by Monday afternoon, wind gusts of up to 35 mph will remain a hazard, said Sarah Johnson, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service's Amarillo, Texas, office.
the new storm "looks worse than the last one" and that sand and salt supplies are low because of last week's record storm, as are the number of locations where snow can be taken off city streets. He said the plowing strategy for the new blizzard may have to involve plowing snow into the center of arterial streets and cutting traffic to one lane each direction.
streets won't be treated with the city's limited sand and salt supplies until the snow ends and plowing is under way.
The threat of the pending storm forced cancellations Sunday and Monday in Kansas and Missouri, including the championship basketball tournament for the Collegiate Athletic Association, which rescheduled the tournament for Tuesday in City, Kan.
, emergency management director for Woodward County, Okla., said he expects rain or snow to begin there Sunday evening and forecast up to a foot of snow and wind gusts up to 50 mph. "We're expecting whiteout conditions," he said.
there is plenty of salt and sand on hand to help clear roads, but the conditions may cause delays.
"We may not get the roads cleared until midday Tuesday if we get the expected amount of snow and wind. As its falling, in the blizzardlike conditions, we just won't be able to keep up,".
I, can't believe all the Mental Midget's that are on here! You get a story that has nothing to do with the U.S. per say and you end up with every Right Wing Mental Midget talking only about here and the ignorant uneducated and brain washed beliefs of the Right Wing!
This just shows how STUPID those that believe in the Right Wing are! Fried brains!
This country should end the embargo against Cuba, yesterday! Cuba is 0 threat to the U.S.!
Ones that we should have an embargo against is China and Russia! They HAVE missles pointed at us and are a severe threat to us. And have done more to hurt our economy than anywhere!
Yet you can go visit those countries that have those missle pointed at the U.S.! Makes 0 sense!
I've always wanted to go to Cuba to enjoy the culture, food and music.
The U.S. is so influenced by the X Cubans that have their noses in the air since coming here. And have all the politicans bought off.
So what if the Castro bro,'s are running it! All my friends from other countries go there to vacation all the time.
So all you right wing idiots, keep your stupidty to yourself! Address the article or shut up!
My apologies for interupting the Castro love fest, I just am not a fan of some that has harmed so many people. My bad!
So life has proved that that they did not make good choices with there leaders. That statement will prove in the very near future to be very true here in the USA. Just set back and watch as more and more low information voters ( libtards such as oink oink) continue to vote with out knowing the facts and truth about there canidates as well.