.c The Associated Press
YEREVAN, Armenia (Oct. 27) - Gunmen killed Armenia's prime minister and
four
other senior officials today when they burst into the parliament
shooting
automatic weapons during a debate, officials said.
Also killed were parliament speaker Karen Demirchian, deputy speaker
Yuri
Bakhshian, Energy Minister Leonard Petrosian and senior economic
official
Mikhail Kotanian, according to Ararat Zurabian, a city spokesman.
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TUNGURAHUA 99-038 ECUADOR 1.47S 78.44W
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BACKGROUND: TUNGURAHUA ECUADOR (1502-08)
SUMMIT HEIGHT 16480 FT (5023 M)
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SOURCES OF INFORMATION: GOES-8 VISIBLE INFRARED AND MULTISPECTRAL
IMAGERY..GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
NUMERICAL MODELS.
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ERUPTION DETAILS: OCCASIONAL VENTING OF ASH AND STEAM.
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DETAILS OF ASH: GOES-8 SATELLITE IMAGERY THROUGH 27/1915 UTC SHOWS
EXTENSIVE CLOUDINESS OVER THE AREA THUS MAKING DETECTION OF ANY ASH
IMPOSSIBLE.
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SOUFRIERE HILLS 99-236 WEST INDIES 16.2N 62.7W
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BACKGROUND: SOUFRIERE HILLS MONTSERRAT (1600-05)
SUMMIT HEIGHT 3000 FT (915 M)
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SOURCES OF INFORMATION: MONTSERRAT VOLCANO OBSERVATORY..GOES-8
VISIBLE..INFRARED..MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY AND GUADELOUPE 27/1200 UTC
UPPER AIR SOUNDING.
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ERUPTION DETAILS: ERUPTION OCCURRED AT 27/2100 UTC.
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DETAILS OF ASH CLOUD: GOES-8 SATELLITE IMAGERY THROUGH 27/2145 UTC
SHOWS A WELL DEFINED ASH PLUME DETACHED FROM THE ISLAND OF
MONTSERRAT. THE CENTER OF THE AREA OF ASH IS 5KM FROM THE ISLAND
AND IS BOUNDED BY THE FOLLOWING POINTS: 16.7N/62.3W..16.6W/62.4W AND
16.7N/62.4W. AT ITS WIDEST POINT THE ASH IS 17KM WIDE. IT IS
MOVING AWAY FROM THE ISLAND TOWARD THE WEST-SOUTHWEST AT 15KT.
BASED ON THIS MOVEMENT AND INFORMATION FROM THE MWO THE ASH APPEARS
TO BE AT FL100.
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TRAJECTORY: ANY ASH AT FL100 WOULD MOVE TOWARD THE WEST-SOUTHWEST
AT 15-20KT.
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COLIMA 99-051 MEXICO 19.51N 103.62W
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BACKGROUND: COLIMA MEXICO (1401-04)
SUMMIT HEIGHT 13451 FT (4100 M)
.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION: MEXICO CITY MWO...GOES 8 VISIBLE INFRARED
AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY...12 UTC UPPER-AIR DATA FROM MANZANILLO
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ERUPTION DETAILS: ERUPTION OCCURRED AT 27/1455 UTC.
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DETAILS OF ASH CLOUD: CURRENT SATELLITE IMAGERY THROUGH 27/2232 UTC
SHOWS ONLY SCATTERED CLOUDS AROUND THE VOLCANO WITH NO SIGN OF ANY
ASH. THE MEXICO CITY MWO HAS BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE COLIMA TOWER
AND THEY ALSO REPORT CLOUDS OVER THE VOLCANO. MEXICO CITY MWO HAS
AGREED TO END THE EVENT.
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It takes an hour, without accidents, to drive home from my dad's on
Sunday nights and, lately, I have been coming home in darkness. I have
to keep reminding myself that this is October and near over at that. It
has had the feel of summer.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
310 AM PDT WED OCT 27 1999
...SNOW LEVELS LOWERING TO PASS LEVELS IN THE SOUTH WASHINGTON
CASCADES TONIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY...
THE STRONGEST PACIFIC FRONTAL SYSTEM OF THE FALL SEASON IS MOVING
INTO NORTHWEST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON TODAY...IT WILL
SPREAD COLD AIR INTO THE WASHINGTON CASCADES TONIGHT AND THURSDAY.
RAIN AT PASS LEVELS THIS AFTERNOON WILL CHANGE TO SNOW BY LATE
TONIGHT AS THE SNOW LEVEL LOWERS TO BETWEEN 3500 TO 4000 FEET. SEVERAL
INCHES OF SNOW WILL LIKELY ACCUMULATE BEFORE THE SNOW DECREASES
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
It has become my custom to thank the Lord for my Sunday and another day
with my dad and to ash what He has planned to the week. I never hear
His voice, but I often get a feeling and somehow I know. Play the radio
and wait for the next bad event. You won't wait long.
So, it has been. Week after week since my mother was snatched from us
without even so much as a meek warning. Part of this feeling must be
the same for those who wake up in the morning and by the end of day a
loved one is taken by accident...
It's only Wednesday and this is only today's news. But you sure
wouldn't know it here. These days have been just great for being
outside and working and feeling alive. In between, that is, the magma,
volcanic and, surely, earthquake symptoms and signs. TL is
loading...many left ear clicks last two days. Volcanoes are ready and
today's activity just the beginning...
So, I turn a great LA radio station on and crank up the Bose. Way up
there. So I don't hear the singing in the left ear and rinning in the
right. I key into the beat and drums and pretend to forget these are,
if not, the end days, the craziest of days, making less and less sense
on the varying levels.
For example, on CNN, they said our national debt is 5 Billion Bucks.
Last I knew, and not that long ago, it was 4.7 Billion. Not to worry,
they, also, said that White House was claiming credit for the largest
and only surplus since 1959. That took me back. I was yet a kid. To
top that, Social Security now has it greatest surplus and both parties
have agreed not to take the surplus for other things, which they have
done many times before.
What? That's the people's sup to retirement. What do you mean they
have taken money from it for other things? What other things? Isn't
that stealing from the people? What do the people have to say about
this? Or, were they allowed to know? But where was I? Tracking SS
through my life and comparing it to my insurance policy which promised
to do better.
Believe this a better bet, but let me comment as we go:
27For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the
west; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Okay, I know where to keep looking.
28For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together.
Now why is this here? What has that to do with Your return? Oh yeah,
the "eagles" association with none other than the good old U. S. of A.
Who would know the word for eagles really means vultures in Hebrew?
Well, not matter. That seems to fit today. 1999
29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be
darkened, and the
moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven,
and the powers
of the heavens shall be shaken:
So, after all the other bad stuff, let me get this straight, let's see,
the sun is to be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and
stars are to fall from the sky? You mean, if I, the unbeliever, makes
it this far, this is what I can expect? Well, I better have lots of
coats on hand and build up on fuel reserves. Could get cold. How long
is the sun to be darkened? How is such a thing possible? What can
darken the sun? I've got it! An eclipse! Okay. But didn't we just
have one? Over Europe? Yup. We did. I remember. But that's past,
so...
The moon? Oh, that's easy. When the whatever blocks the sun, the
light will not be able to light the moon, so she won't be able to give
off her light, which really isn't her's at all, but of the sun.
Gottcha! I'm not worry about the moon. But those stars falling from
the sky? Are they to hit the earth? You don't make that clear. Do
they just pass by? Or do they hit the ground? Could be a big mess if
they do. Could be by then, I'll be calling out your name. I must stand
on this ground and a star could hit anywhere! Yipes!
30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then
shall all the
tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in
the clouds
of heaven with power and great glory.
Well, if this is so, then I am in big trouble. You turned out to be
exactly who you said you were. Opps...
--
Diane
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