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November 11 - November 20, 2022
In 1984, a Gloucester swordfishing boat named the Valhalla was busted for running guns to the Irish Republican Army; the guns had been bought with drug money from the Irish Mafia in Boston.
The air above one square-foot of equatorial water contains enough latent energy to drive a car two miles. A single thunderstorm could supply four days’ worth of the electrical power needed by the United States.
A typical hurricane encompasses a million cubic miles of atmosphere and could provide all the electric power needed by the United States for three or four years.
In 1938, a hurricane put downtown Providence, Rhode Island, under ten feet of ocean.
Nature, as everyone knows, abhors a vacuum, and will try to fill it as fast as possible.
