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Hunter Allen, California (CA), Los Angeles, CA (2026)

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The Great Typhoon of 1944, also known as Typhoon Cobra, struck Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet east of Luzon in the Philippine Sea on 17–18 December 1944. The fleet was attempting to refuel after weeks of operations, but the storm intensified far beyond forecasts. Winds of around 140 knots (160 mph) and towering seas capsized three destroyers — USS Hull, USS Monaghan, and USS Spence — and scattered the rest of the fleet. Crews battled violent rolls, flooding, and fires as aircraft were blown overboard and radar masts torn away. Over 790 sailors were lost, and more than 100 aircraft destroyed.

The event exposed the limits of wartime meteorology and command decisions under uncertain data. Halsey’s decision to remain near the refueling area placed the fleet directly in the typhoon’s path. A later inquiry found him at fault for judgment but not culpable given the limited information. The disaster became a catalyst for major improvements in Navy weather forecasting, storm tracking, and fleet training in heavy weather operations — ensuring that no fleet would again face the sea so blind to its power.

10/26/2025

The USS Minneapolis Had a Bow Made From Coconut Trees

The USS Minneapolis (CA-36) suffered catastrophic torpedo damage during the Battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942, when a Japanese Long Lance torpedo blew off her bow and another struck her port side. The blast destroyed everything forward of the bridge and left the ship dead in the water, with her forward magazines exposed to the sea. Yet the crew’s quick damage control kept her afloat, and within hours they devised an improvised repair that became legendary—rebuilding a temporary bow using coconut logs, steel beams, and canvas from nearby Tulagi.

This emergency fix gave the ship enough buoyancy to make short trips for further work at Espiritu Santo, where a sturdier wooden-and-steel false bow was fitted. She then steamed all the way back to Mare Island, California, for a full rebuild. The innovation and teamwork that saved Minneapolis turned a near loss into survival and allowed her to return to combat within months, proving the ingenuity of wartime U.S. Navy crews working under impossible conditions.

10/26/2025

Man killed after car gets lodged under semi-truck making U-turn in Saint Cloud, officials say
Deadly accident shuts down U.S. Highway 192
A 28-year-old man is dead after his car ended up underneath a semi-truck trying to make a U-turn in Saint Cloud on Tuesday morning, according to Florida Highway Patrol. The incident happened on E. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway and Bradley Drive just before 4:45 a.m., troopers said.

A 28-year-old man is dead after his car ended up lodged under a semi-truck trying to make a U-turn in Saint Cloud on Tuesday morning, according to Florida Highway Patrol.

The incident happened on E. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway near Bradley Drive just before 4:45 a.m., troopers said.

The semi-truck – which appears to be a Publix truck, according to footage SKYFOX captured of the crash Tuesday morning – was driving east on E. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway – also known as U.S. Highway 192 – west of Bradley Drive in the left turn lane, according to an incident report.

The driver tried to make a U-turn, but wound up blocking both westbound lanes of the street.

This put the semi-truck in the direct path of a Honda Accord, which struck the right side of the truck, troopers said. The car ultimately went underneath the semi-truck, where it came to its final rest.

The driver was pronounced dead on the scene. The truck driver was not injured and remained on the scene.

The westbound lanes of U.S. Highway 192 are blocked.

This crash remains under investigation.

10/26/2025

Thirteen truckers got a call at 1 a.m.: "Park your trucks under a bridge and don't move." They didn't ask why. They just came.
It was after midnight on April 24, 2018, when Michigan State Police received a call that stopped Lt. Mike Shaw's heart: a woman was standing on the edge of a bridge over Interstate 696 in Detroit, contemplating the unthinkable.
The freeway below was dark. The drop was fatal.
And Shaw had minutes to make a decision.
He grabbed his radio and did something that had never been done before.
He called the truckers.
Within minutes, headlights pierced the darkness.
One by one, thirteen semi-trucks rolled into position across every lane of the highway, parking side by side, forming a wall of steel and hope beneath the bridge.
They created a safety net-not of rope or fabric, but of 80,000 pounds of compassion, repeated thirteen times.
For nearly four hours, negotiators spoke gently from above while engines rumbled steadily below. The truckers didn't know her name. Didn't know her story. Didn't know if their sacrifice would matter.
They simply refused to leave.
As dawn began to break, something shifted. The woman stepped back from the edge. Officers guided her to safety, wrapping her not just in blankets, but in the knowledge that thirteen strangers had spent their night refusing to let her fall.
One by one, the trucks pulled away, disappearing into the morning light like quiet guardians whose work was done.
When an aerial photo of that moment appeared online-thirteen trucks parked in perfect formation, a geometric act of love—it spread across the world.
Lt. Shaw later said: "They didn't do it for recognition. They didn't do it for thanks. They did it because it was the right thing to do." That night, a highway became holy ground.
Thirteen truckers turned their rigs into a cathedral of second chances.
And somewhere in Detroit, a woman woke up to another sunrise—because strangers who drive for a living decided that some deliveries matter more than others.
The most important cargo isn't what you're hauling. It's who you're willing to stop for.

10/26/2025

'Just to be clear - my wife said when we run out of something to "put it on the fridge so we dont forget to buy it". She never said anything about a "list"

10/26/2025

Brand new and won't even take a charge. Napa batteries are garbage.

10/26/2025

“So, I got off work from working 6 a.m. - 9 p.m. and going back in at 4 a.m. tomorrow. I decide to run to the store and get some things for work tomorrow. While still in my work clothes mind you! While I’m at the store there is a family there with what looked like a 15-year-old and a 6-year-old little boy.
As I walk behind them the little boy starts making funny faces at me. So, me being the father, I am making some faces back! The little boy starts laughing and as his parents look back at me in my dirty work clothes they proceed to rush out of the aisle. I don’t think anything of it until I hear them the next aisle over.
I can hear them basically scolding their oldest child telling them that if they don’t go to college, they will look like me. Never have any money and so on and so forth. Long story short, coincidentally we are both checking out at the same time. The kids are asking for candy bars and their parents are pretty much yelling at them that they don’t have enough money to buy them.
So, what do I do? I proceed to buy each kid two of the candy bars they were asking for and their parents look at me in disbelief and tell me I didn’t have to do that.
I responded with, ‘I know I didn’t have to do that, but I had extra money and wanted to share it with someone today!’
What I’m trying to say is just because someone is in dirty clothes, looks like ass, and probably smells like it too. Doesn’t mean they don’t make good money and have a good heart!
Don’t judge a book by its cover!”

10/26/2025

$170 with EBT for next months meats. A few items not pictured but 20 pounds of ground beef is 16 meals for a family of 6. Pork chops were on sale 4 to $5 a pack and 2 roasts. Piggly wiggly. We went to 3 different stores one didnt carry a 10 lb roll and the other wanted $60 per roll when we got it for $39 each at another. Redeemed my pig points for $2 off.
Total was $170 for all of this some bananas a few drinks and a few boxes of pop sickles.
Heads up Walmart has a sale on butterball turkey right now .90 cents a pound.

10/26/2025

My wife fell down the stairs at this Airbnb and the host is about to hear about it. Two more nights left and my guest rating is about to get murdered because the wall turned into swiss cheese. This place looked clean on the listing, but now there is a giant hole where human contact happened. I am not hiding it. I am not fixing it with tape and hoping nobody notices. If the host charges me for repairs after this I will post every single receipt, every screenshot, and every message until everyone knows exactly how they handle guests.
Tell me what you would do. Patch it and pray the owner never checks the corner cams, or DM the host and deal with it like an adult and watch them try to price gouge you? If they try to scam me for a repair fee they do not deserve one. I paid for a place to stay, not to fund someone’s renovation. I expect fair treatment or I will make sure 600K people know how they operate.

10/26/2025

Some kid hit my car… and left THIS note taped to it with five bucks.
Read that again. FIVE dollars.
You know what’s insane? I’m not even mad — I’m shocked. Because this kid has more honesty and accountability than half the adults walking around in $80k SUVs who can’t even admit when they bump a shopping cart.
Look at the handwriting. The apology. The effort. He didn’t run. He didn’t hide. He didn’t try to “get away with it.” He took full responsibility and even tried to pay for the damage with everything he probably had in his pocket.
Meanwhile, grown adults will hit your car, stare you dead in the eye, and then drive off like nothing happened. Society is finished.
I swear, this little kid just restored a bit of faith in humanity I thought was long gone.

10/26/2025

Found this in my 9-year-old's drawer near her record player. Black sticky residue on the bottom. My gardening community on Tedooo app where I sell suggested asking here.
That sick feeling when you know your kid's lying. She says it's for candles. We don't have candles.
Last week she asked if her new friend could sleep over. The one whose mom "works nights." The one who taught her that TikTok dance about pills. Now this lighter, hidden under her diary.
I remember when her secrets were about imaginary friends. Now I'm googling what drugs leave black residue and trying not to vomit. My husband thinks I'm paranoid. "She's nine, not nineteen." But he didn't find the lighter.
Posted everywhere - my Tedooo shop page, mom groups, even asked my customers. One messaged privately: "That's not from candles. Check her friend group. Now."
Tomorrow I have to confront her. Become the mom who searches drawers. Who doesn't trust. The mom I swore I'd never be.
She used to tell me everything. When did that change? What else haven't I found?
Nine years old with a hidden lighter. This is how it starts, isn't it? The lies, the new friends, the closed doors. And me, holding this pink Bic like evidence, wondering when I lost her.

10/26/2025

Here is a photo of George Floyd’s mural in Toledo, Ohio after being struck by lightning…

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