Fort Collins Coloradoan
As you might have realized after waking up to the window-rattling wind Wednesday night, Fort Collins and much of the Eastern Plains are under a high wind warning until noon Friday.
Gusts Wednesday reached 99 mph at Glen Haven, near Estes Park, at 8:28 p.m.
The peak gust at the Colorado State University campus was 36 mph, with a 58 mph gust at Christman field on the northwest side of Fort Collins, according to the Colorado Climate Center.
That wind caused multiple semitrailers to topple over along Interstate 25 between Windsor and the Wyoming border as well as power outages and building damage.
Good Wednesday morning.
The daily rundown Between Monday and Tuesday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 9,411 (0.8 percent), to 1,143,794; active hospitalizations went up by 170 (3.4 percent), to 5,102; deaths rose by 79 (nearly 0.4 percent), to 20,082.
Slow shuffle Florida Republicans, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, appear to be grudgingly moving closer to accepting that Joe Biden will be America’s next president.
Recognition of reality Attorney General Ashley Moody who joined 16 other attorneys general in an unsuccessful effort to get the election results overturned in four battleground states also sounds as if she is headed in that direction even as she tries to defend her actions to withering criticism. “I believe we will have a peaceful transition of power as we have had historically and the court process adds to that and I’m proud about that for our country,” Moody told a small group of reporters following Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting with