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Thursday, June 1, 2023 by Elizabeth Pagano
City Council will once again convene for a meeting today.We've done our best to predict what might be of interest, based on the posted agenda.However, our best can vary, so anyone looking for the whole of possibility offered by today's meeting might want to check out the agenda in full online .

Tuesday, March 28, 2023 by Kali Bramble
As brush collectors make their final sweeps for toppled tree debris, Austin Energy is working to uncover the hard lessons wrought by February's catastrophic ice storm.Gearing up to deliver an after-action report to City Council this spring, interim Deputy General Manager Stuart Riley and a cohort of Austin Energy executives stopped by the Electric Utility Commission last week to share their preliminary findings.

Thursday, March 23, 2023 by Elizabeth Pagano
City Council's abbreviated work session didn't offer many clues to this week's agenda, as most of it was spent behind closed doors in an executive session.However, reading through the posted agenda , there are a few things that stood out.It's been about two months since Winter Storm Mara swept through Austin, and today's Council meeting features a number of resolutions clearly inspired by its impact.

Wednesday, February 15, 2023 by Seth Smalley
The recent ice storm caused over $29 million in damages, felling trees, snapping power lines and sparking a declaration of disaster from county officials.On Tuesday, the county announced another debris drop-off point at Mansfield Dam, in addition to the site at Hornsby Bend Biosolids Management Plant.

AUSTIN, Texas In a statement on Saturday morning, Austin Energy said restoring some remaining power outages may be a multi-day effort.The utility provider said crews restored power to nearly 51,000 more customers from 5 p.m. Friday to 9 a.m.Saturday.It said a total of 256,307 customers had their power restored since the beginning of the winter storm earlier this week.

(Ethan Swope / Associated Press)

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will pay $50 million in a legal settlement with Shasta County for its role in causing the 2020 Zogg fire, which tore through several rural Northern California communities, killing four people and burning more than 56,000 acres.As part of the settlement agreement, which awaits final approval by a judge, criminal charges against PG&E that were filed by the Shasta County district attorney in 2021 will be dropped.

If you're celebrating Valentine's Day with your sweetheart Tuesday, plan to spend the evening cuddling against the cold.The National Weather Service issued a high surf advisory Tuesday morning as a winter storm passes through Los Angeles.The advisory will last until 10 p.m. Wednesday and warns of "large breaking waves of 5 to 9 feet with dangerous rip currents."

When Jay Sayre heard there was a chance for snow just minutes from UC Berkeley's campus, he readied an old pair of skis.The doctoral candidate and his girlfriend decided to venture up to Tilden Park in the Berkeley Hills early Friday, where he said they were pleasantly surprised to find even more than a dusting.

This isn't some old-timer's tall tale: Lori Ford has been walking two miles down a dirt road, with snow past her knees, just to get to work this month.The pharmacy technician lives in the Mendocino County mountains north of Willits.Keeping her eyes peeled for bears and mountain lions, she has been hoofing it - from her house, down a narrow mountain road, to a four-wheel-drive vehicle she keeps parked at bottom of the mountain for the rest of her trek to work.

When people think about Portland and "Keeping Portland Weird," it's easy to focus on the obvious, like drum circles, throngs of e-boarders zooming around the Esplanade to "99 Luftballons," and the Unipiper-who pedals around on a unicycle playing bagpipes.But that's the "weekend weird."

Eliza Scanlen, left, and Lewis Pullman in "The Starling Girl." (Brian Lannin/Bleecker Street)Comment Gift Article StarOutline (3 stars) In "The Starling Girl," Eliza Scanlen plays Jem Starling, a 17-year-old living in a fundamentalist Christian community in Kentucky.The film opens with a close-up of Jem as she delivers a whispered prayer, and the rest of the film unfolds the same way: as something delicate, private and achingly intimate.

Lily McInerny, left, and Jonathan Tucker in "Palm Trees and Power Lines." (Momentum)(3.5 stars) If 2022 was a banner year for first-time features - and it was - "Palm Trees and Power Lines" was an early high point, with Jamie Dack taking a deserved directing prize at Sundance for an impressively assured debut.

At least one person was killed and nearly a dozen hospitalized after a tornado struck an unincorporated Gulf Coast community in Texas on Saturday, damaging numerous structures and taking down power lines, officials said.A severe thunderstorm that spawned a tornado hit Laguna Heights, near South Padre Island and surrounding communities, such as Port Isabel, around 4 a.m.

A severe storm system that spawned tornadoes tore through an area near Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., on Saturday, damaging homes and flipping cars, according to officials and witness accounts.James Ippolito, the deputy fire chief in Palm Beach Gardens, which is about a dozen miles north of West Palm Beach, said the area had been hit by a storm that left a man trapped between a boat and a concrete piling.

Editor's Note: A version of this article originally appeared in the weekly weather newsletter, the CNN Weather Brief, which is released every Monday.You can sign up here to receive them every week and during significant storms.Much of the Northeast and New England so far has experienced an unusually quiet winter season (aside from areas around the Great Lakes).

HOUR BY HOUR Ukrainian firefighters put out a fire after a strike in Zaporizhzhia on October 6, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Marina Moiseyenko, AFP Authorities in Russian-annexed Crimea said they repelled a series of Ukrainian drone attacks on the city of Sevastopol overnight.Follow FRANCE 24 for live updates.

Russian shelling has killed at least 10 Ukrainian civilians and wounded 20 others in a day, the office of Ukraine's president reported as the country worked to recover from an earlier wave of Russian missile strikes and drone attacks.
he new casualties included the deaths of at least two civilians in the southern city of Kherson, which Ukrainian troops recaptured in November, and two more in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk province.

AUSTIN, Texas On Saturday afternoon, Austin Energy said power had been restored to all remaining customers who are able to safely receive power following last week's ice storm.The winter storm caused widespread damage to trees and power lines from significant icing due to freezing rain.Hundreds of thousands of Central Texans lost power during the storm, and many went without power for several days amid freezing temperatures.

The Wachs family's power went out at 10:20 p.m. on Friday, just before the ferocity of this weekend's epic storm peaked, lashing Southern California with record winds, rain and snow.By 7 p.m. on Sunday - 45 hours after they lost electricity and hot water - the family of five's home in Tarzana was still cold and dark.

AUSTIN, Texas Austin Energy stated that the company is prepared for Thursday's storm.The electricity provider said that crews have been out working with arborists on vegetation and are ready to respond if there are outages following the high winds predicted.According to Austin Energy, there is still a potential for tree limbs to fall on lines after they were weakened from the winter storm at the beginning of February.

AUSTIN, Texas Almost all of the Austin Energy power outages have been restored following the ice storm in Central Texas, but there may be more that pop-up due to already compromised trees.A representative with Austin Energy explained that recent weather events that the area has seen may cause potential future outages.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A second severe weather warning for persistent, heavy snow has been issued as the UK recorded the coldest March night for 13 years.The Met Office warned of significant disruption to transport, power lines and phone network coverage, with the amber alert in place until 9am Friday covering large parts of Wales and the West Midlands.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A second severe weather warning for persistent, heavy snow has been issued as the UK recorded the coldest March night for 13 years.The Met Office warned of significant disruption to transport, power lines and phone network coverage, with the amber alert in place until 9am Friday covering large parts of Wales and the West Midlands.

The National Weather Service issued a Flood Watch for the Bay Area for this Wednesday and Thursday.Last weekend's atmospheric river brought 1.74 inches of rain to San José."A potent Pineapple Express will move into the region Wednesday and continue into Thursday," the Weather Service reported.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A second severe weather warning for persistent, heavy snow has been issued as the UK recorded the coldest March night for 13 years.The Met Office warned of significant disruption to transport, power lines and phone network coverage, with the amber alert in place until 9am Friday covering large parts of Wales and the West Midlands.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A second severe weather warning for persistent, heavy snow has been issued as the UK recorded the coldest March night for 13 years.The Met Office warned of significant disruption to transport, power lines and phone network coverage, with the amber alert in place until 9am Friday covering large parts of Wales and the West Midlands.

Tom (Jonathan Tucker) cultivates a sense of dependency in 17-year-old Lea (Lily McInerny) in Palm Trees and Power Lines.Momentum Pictures Palm Trees and Power Lines begins in the middle of a lazy summer for 17-year-old Lea, played by a remarkable newcomer named Lily McInerny.She lives in a dull stretch of Southern California suburbia with a somewhat scattered single mom a likable Gretchen Mol whom she treats with indifference at best and contempt at worst.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The German government said Monday that it wants to set up a new power line network to connect its own offshore wind parks with those of its North Sea neighbors in order to eliminate bottlenecks in the European energy market.

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Transfers to become the new normal for K Ingleside passengers heading downtown



K Ingleside trains will one day bypass West Portal Station and join with the L. Photo: SFMTA
This story originally appeared in the Ingleside Light and is published here with permission.The K Ingleside was disconnected from the T Third line on Jan. 7.

When the power goes out, the clock starts ticking on the food in your fridge and freezer.If you keep the doors closed, refrigerated food can stay at safe temperatures for four hours.The things in your freezer will stay good for 24 to 48 hours.But once food reaches an internal temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit for more than two hours, it might be time to toss it.

The latest in a series of intense winter storms will continue to lash Northern California on Tuesday, bringing periods of thunderstorms, heavy rain, wind and hail to the already waterlogged region as the death toll from the extreme weather climbs.As of early Tuesday, the back-to-back storms across the state had killed at least 16 people.

Utilities are using unmanned drones to inspect power lines and other infrastructure through companies like Cartersville, GA-based charter operator Phoenix Air.The company's Phoenix Air Unmanned division began using battery-powered drones to inspect utility transmission lines three years ago, and now it aims to deploy bigger drones with helicopter-like flight capability.

California will be hit by what National Weather Service officials call a life-threatening rain event beginning Wednesday."To put it simply, this will likely be one of the most impactful systems on a widespread scale that this meteorologist has seen in a long while," the NWS said in a forecast for Northern California.

A winter storm battering much of southern Ontario could seriously complicate your holiday travel plans.Environment Canada is urging everyone to avoid non-essential trips until Sunday, with a mix of ice, snow and high winds making for treacherous conditions on roads, including in the GTA.If you are planning to travel, here's some important information: Roads and highways The Ontario Provincial Police has snow crews working throughout the duration of the storm this weekend, says OPP Sgt.

Thousands of households have been left without water after thawing snow and ice across the UK caused a drastic surge in burst pipes.Customers in Kent and Sussex have been left without running water after a rise in burst pipes and leaks, South East Water said.The company added that melting snow and ice overnight caused higher-than-normal rates of burst pipes and water mains.

All of the homes which have been without power on Shetland this week have been reconnected, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution has said.More than 5,000 homes lost electricity this week as a major incident was declared on the islands after heavy snow downed power lines.On Sunday morning, SSEN said just 118 homes were still be to be reconnected, 24 from the original fault and 94 because of a secondary fault on Saturday night.

Just 118 homes on Shetland remain without power after this week's cold weather, engineers have said, with full reconnection expected on Sunday.Temperatures as low as minus 17.3C were recorded in Scotland this week and a major incident declared on the islands, after thousands of homes were left without electricity when heavy snow downed power lines.

By JAMEY KEATEN (Associated Press) KYIV, Ukraine (AP)  Emergency crews pulled the body of a toddler from the rubble in a pre-dawn search Saturday for survivors of a Russian missile strike that tore through an apartment building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih.The missile was one of what Ukrainian authorities said were 16 that eluded air defenses among the 76 missiles fired Friday in the latest Russian attack targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure, part of Moscow's strategy to leave Ukrainian civilians and soldiers in the dark and cold this winter.

Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the building which was destroyed by a Russian attack in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022.Russian forces launched at least 60 missiles across Ukraine on Friday, officials said, reporting explosions in at least four cities, including Kyiv.

Roughly 1 in 6 households are currently behind on energy bills.The sun sets behind power lines near homes in Los Angeles, California on September 6, 2022.Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images As millions of Americans have fallen behind on utility payments amid skyrocketing energy prices and inflation rates, top U.S. utility companies have made billions of dollars in profits, a new analysis shows.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a lecture on Russia, Ukraine and NATO's security policy challenges, during the Civita breakfast in the University of Oslo, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022.(Terje Bendiksby/NTB Scanpix via AP)KYIV, Ukraine - The head of NATO expressed worry that the fighting in Ukraine could spin out of control and become a war between Russia and NATO, according to an interview released Friday..
"If things go wrong, they can go horribly wrong," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in remarks to Norwegian broadcaster NRK.

Drinking what appeared to be sparkling wine, Vladimir Putin has vowed to keep battering Ukraine's energy grid despite an outcry against the systematic attacks that have plunged millions into the cold and dark as winter sets in.Speaking after an awards ceremony for Heroes of Russia at the Kremlin on Thursday, the president addressed a group of soldiers.

By E. Eduardo Castillo | Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine  Russian forces have installed multiple rocket launchers at Ukraine's shut-down Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials claimed Thursday, raising fears Europe's largest atomic power station could be used as a base to fire on Ukrainian territory and heightening radiation dangers.

Students plant saplings in the Miyawaki forest at Cragmont Elementary on Nov. 15, 2021.Credit: Kelly Sullivan Update, Dec. 8 One year after planting the first three Miyawaki schoolyard forests in the country, the Berkeley school district is adding a fourth micro-forest at Berkeley Technology Academy in South Berkeley.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to press on with the invasion of Ukraine despite western criticism.t comes as the Kremlin said it is up to Ukraine's president to end the war - suggesting terms Kyiv has repeatedly rejected.Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "(Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelensky knows when it may end.

This is an unusual year for Thai cuisine in New York: A deluge of new restaurants have opened across the city - as I have been reporting - with many cooking up dishes new to Thai menus.While MayRee and Mitr present southern Thai fare and a collection of geographically far-flung regional dishes, Pranakhon sets its sights on the street food of Bangkok.

A small plane crashed into a transmission tower in Maryland on Sunday, knocking out electricity to roughly 85,000 customers as rescuers raced to extricate the two people on board who were trapped about 100 feet above the ground, the authorities said.The pilot and the passenger, whose names were not released by the authorities, did not appear to be seriously injured, Pete Piringer, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, said on Sunday.

Santa Ana winds gusting through Los Angeles and Ventura counties abated Friday without sparking any major fires.But dry conditions still  raised the risk for blazes to ignite, and thousands of Southern Californians were left in the dark on Thanksgiving because of precautionary power shutoffs.Parts of both counties were still under a red flag warning Friday morning due to hot, dry gusts and low humidity, with those conditions expected to taper down before noon.

Less than three months after an arson fire closed Palermo in San Jose, the restaurant's owners and staff welcomed back their devoted customers Tuesday with hugs, handshakes and plenty of Sicilian favorites.The Cusimanos - Diane and husband Renato - bought this iconic space, the former Paradiso's Deli, in 2016 from longtime owner Tony Paradiso, who had served this cannery district for 50 years.

President Joe Biden says the Inflation Reduction Act, which contains some $370 billion in climate spending, represents the most sweeping government investment in clean energy "ever, ever, ever."To ensure that investment is worthwhile, he'll need an equally unprecedented overhaul of federal rules and regulations.

As Russia targets Ukraine's energy infrastructure, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has emphasized the need to safeguard the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest, to prevent a nuclear disaster.Until we have this plant protected, the possibility of the nuclear catastrophe is there, Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview with CBS News on that aired on Sunday.