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The world we live in today is a very different world to the times of the past.  We are so hooked up to all of this technology we talk about and use in our daily lives, ie the internet.  If you are reading this, then at this point we still have internet.  I get increasingly concerned about the space weather knocking the entire planet off the electricity grid so to speak.   Well wouldn't that change things around the world dramatically.  Think about this for a good while.  Think what a modern world with no electricity would be like.  Something from a horror movie is what I expect.

Strangled on South Arm

I feel prepared in a way.  I guess it is because I have lived a lifetime without this stuff and therefore I understand.  I grew up in a house that never had an electric stove, we had a wood fire.  The fire heated the hot water.  We had no washing machine either.  I watched Edith do the washing each day faithfully and do the big stuff in the Copper once a week over the fire.  Oh yes I remember this well.  I remember my green hula hoop and playing with it while Edith did the washing. 

So does this mean we may re visit this again in this lifetime of mine?  Who knows but some very educated amongst us say we will.  I have my seeds,  and amazingly enough I still have my many boxes of real books.  So many times I was tempted to lose these.  A voice inside tells me to hang on to these for now.  I often wonder will the kids love my books the way I have loved my books!  I do hope that Montana is set up in her own home when my passing time comes.  She will love my books but if she isnt set up it will become a burden to her.  So for her I hope she is settled.

West Coast Acid: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/06/a-rising-tide-of-acid-off-calif...
Temperature Extremes: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120614131059.htm
China Spy: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/15/us-china-usa-espionage-idUSBRE85E06...

REPEAT LINKS
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com/ [Look on the left at the X-ray Flux and Solar Wind Speed/Density]

HAARP: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html [Click online data, and have a little fun]

SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/ [Place to find Solar Images and Videos - as seen from earth]

SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater [SOHO; Lasco and EIT - as seen from earth]

Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images [Stereo; Cor, EUVI, HI - as seen from the side]

SunAEON:http://www.sunaeon.com/#/solarsystem/ [Just click it... trust me]

SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/ [All purpose data viewing site]

iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html [Free Application; for advanced sun watchers]

NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/cme-based/ [CME Evolution]

RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]

LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php

Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ [Really? You can't figure out what this one is for?]

BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html [Top left box, look for BIG blue circles]

TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]

GOES Weather: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ [Clouds over America]

INTELLICAST: http://www.intellicast.com/ [Weather site used by many youtubers]

NASA News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/

PHYSORG: http://phys.org/ [GREAT News Site!]

Always Check the Foreign News Sources as well!!!
Iran: Mehr News, TehranTimes
China: Xinhua, China.org, Chinadaily
Russia: Ria Novosti
Israel: Jerusalem Post, Israel National News, Haaretz
M/E: ArabNews, AlJazeera

Image by Mezza - A strangled tree on South Arm Road Raleigh South /  http://www.flickr.com/photos/melonpopzdropz/7188961449/in/photostream/