2012: A Quiet Tornado Year

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Weather.com - 1/03/13, Becky Kellogg

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2012 was a year of weather extremes: the warmest year on record, a devastating late-season hurricane, and a drought that is still growing well into winter. However, there was one area in which the U.S. actually received a bit of a break: tornadoes.

"At this point (Dec. 26), the U.S. as a whole is on pace to have the quietest tornado year since at least 2002 and possibly 1989," says Tornado Expert Dr. Greg Forbes.

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Miss. River Nears Historic Lows, Shipping at Risk

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Weather.com - Karl Plume, 1/03/13

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The towboat Wendy Ann moves past several empty barges anchored on the East St. Louis riverfront in St. Louis, Thursday afternoon, Dec. 27, 2012.

The drought-drained Mississippi River will rise slightly later this week between St. Louis and Cairo, Illinois, but later continue its decline toward historic lows, according to a National Weather Service forecast.

Low water, due to the worst U.S. drought since 1956, has already impeded the flow of billions of dollars worth of grain, coal, fertilizer and other commodities between the central United States and shipping terminals at the Gulf of Mexico.

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Heavenletter #4424 - Graced by God

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Heavenletters Published on: January 4, 2013

God said:

Life is not a sacrifice you make. You do not sacrifice Heaven in order to be deployed in the extant world. You may think you made a great sacrifice to come to Earth. You think many things. You can think anything you like. It never has had to be true for you to think something is true. I am telling you the Truth. You are far more than you have thought.

There is no sacrificing your Divinity. You can disbelieve your Divinity, yet you cannot give it up. No matter how hidden from you, the Divinity within you will needle you, pester you, get under your skin until you recognize it. Divinity lives in you. It is not something you can get up from and leave, nor can you displace it. Sooner or later, you will look. You will have to look because Divinity will make itself known to you. It will unbury Itself. It will not let you rest. It will come to the fore in your life.

Louisiana Cemeteries Sinking, Washing Away

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Weather.com - 1/03/13, Stacey Plaisance

Leeville, La.

Water washes around the tombs of those buried in a Leeville, La., cemetery. What's left of the old Leeville cemetery is only accessible by boat. Some headstones are barely visible above the water, and waves lap at the bricks and concrete surrounding caskets buried at the site since the late 1800s. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

LEEVILLE, La.  -- As a young adult, Kathleen Cheramie visited her grandmother's grave in a tree-lined cemetery where white concrete crosses dotted a plot of lush green grass just off Louisiana Highway 1.

Now, the cemetery in Leeville is a skeleton of its former self. The few trees still standing have been killed by saltwater intruding from the Gulf. Their leafless branches are suspended above marsh grass left brown and soggy from saltwater creeping up from beneath the graves.

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SaLuSa 4-January-2013

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In your many lives through the cycle of duality, you have faced immense challenges and as a result grown all the more at a spiritual level. Now duality such as you have known it is losing its power over you, as it recedes into the background. Yet as you wrestle with its influence upon you, and clear yourself of your links to the lower energies, you are facing a strong challenge. We know it is difficult to throw off attitudes, ideas and beliefs, based on what you have been brought up to believe. However, within you have all knowledge and you should look there for the truth, and do not hesitate to move to a new understanding if you are in any doubt. It was easy in the past to be judgmental because that was how people acted, but now you want to move to a new position where instead you see all souls as part of the One.

Auring makes landfall over south Palawan, may exit PAR in 12 hours

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GMA Network - 1/04/13

Tropical Storm Auring (Sonamu) made landfall over the southern tip of Palawan early Friday, and may exit the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) as early as Friday noon, state weather forecasters said.
 
PAGASA forecaster Buddy Javier said Auring maintained its strength as it made landfall, and may bring heavy to intense rain.
 

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Holiday storms have limited impact on US drought

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KTAR.com - 1/03/13, Source: United States News

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Holiday storms that pounded much of the nation with snow and rain did little to ease the overall grip of the worst U.S. drought in decades.

The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report released Thursday shows that about 61 percent of the continental U.S. remained in some form of drought as of Tuesday, down less than a percentage point from the previous week. That number has been above 60 percent largely since July.

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The Morning Blessing 01.04.13

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From This Thing Called YOU  by Ernest Holmes
Chapter 1, pg 13
 

The barriers between you and your greater good are not barriers in themselves. They are things of thought. It is because of this that all things are possible to faith. Jesus summed up the whole proposition when he said, "It is done unto you as you believe." In interpreting this saying, however, you must pause after the word as. Think about its meaning and you will discover that he was saying that life not only responds to your belief, it responds after the manner of your believing, as you believe. It is like a mirror reflecting the image of your belief.

Source: Geithner to leave by month's end

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Politico - 1/03/13, Kate Davidson and Ben White

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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner plans to leave the administration by the end of the month — and he really means it this time.

Geithner intends to leave his post at the end of January, whether or not a deal is in place to raise the debt ceiling, according a source close to the Treasury secretary.

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