chances are, you haven t been to this place. chances are, this is a place you ve never seen. other than maybe blurry cellphone videos, old black-and-white newsreels from world war ii. chances are, bad things were happening in the footage you saw. myanmar. after 50 years of nightmare, something unexpected is happening here, and it s pretty incredible. in yangon, capital city of myanmar, it s dark. blackouts are frequent with the ancient power grid. what sources of light there are in the street cast an eerie, yellow-orange hue. for almost 100 years under british rule, this was rangoon. in 1948, after helping the british fight off the japanese, and with a new taste for self-determination, the country gained independence. after a decade of instability, however, the military consolidated power and never let go. elections, they came and went. the results ignored, opposition punished or silenced entirely. burma, now myanmar, where orwell had once served as a colonial policeman
chances are, you haven t been to this place. chances are, this is a place you ve never seen. other than maybe blurry cellphone videos, old black-and-white newsreels from world war ii. chances are, bad things were happening in the footage you saw. myanmar. after 50 years of nightmare, something unexpected is happening here, and it s pretty incredible.
Quite a slap in the face even here in atlanta. today it was freezing. yeah. and interesting tidbit about that footage you saw. when you have a water spout that moves on land it s classified as a tornado at that stage. this is one of two tornados that formed across the florida peninsula leaving damage to apartment buildings and snapping trees, almost toppling them like they were twigs. you could almost follow the advancement of the cold front as it moved across the state of florida. starting to weaken as it did so. part of the broader system here that is located across the canadian maritimes. and that word right there really tells it all cold. arctic air that has settled in across the northeast and across the south. all the way to the deep south, in fact, into the gulf of mexico. we have a potential for 40 overnight lows being broken in terms of records. this is terrible news because the growing season has already begun across this area. think about the impacts of temperatures. a pr
Have never seen. other than maybe blurry cell phone videos, old black and white newsreels from world war ii. chances are bad things were happening in the footage you saw. myanmar, after 50 years of might mary, something unexpected is happening here and it s pretty incredible.