New snow sends more roofs to the ground

SPOKANE -- The snowfall Friday morning took a toll on business around Spokane including the roof of the North Spokane Costco.

At 8:30 this morning the owner of Futon Visions, at 7011 N. Division St., confirmed his roof had collapsed, along with the roof of Donuts To Go and Added Touch Framing and Gallery. The three businesses are all connected under one roof.

The collapse broke a natural gas line, which was quickly capped.
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A third call that came in as a possible roof collapse in a residential section of Spokane turned out to be a natural gas line break. An ice dam that formed on the side of a house at 12th and Ivory fell and ruptured the line, filling the home with natural gas.

American Thinker Blog: NASA's James Hansen to the Rescue!

NASA's James Hansen has written a personal letter to President-elect Obama outlining his plans for saving the planet from global warming. Hansen has been wrong so many times about the "inevitability" of global warming that most of us have lost count. But it is hard to be wrong -- when it feels so right.
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Maybe Hansen should just stick to his job. I think it has something to do with rockets.