Dragging boat over ice field - "Row" to the "Pole" - YouTube

Articles: Michelle Blames it on the Kids

A "private mother-daughter" trip with 40 "close" friends and a taxpayer-funded security detail of 68 is hardly an intimate family outing. The entourage was so large that the group required 30 rooms in "Spain's most exclusive hotel the Villa Padierna, a golf and spa resort located along the coast from Marbella."
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Lest we forget, Michelle and her daughters spent time tasting and touring their way through New York City, sightseeing in Los Angeles, barbequing and memorializing on Memorial Day in Chicago, hiking in Maine, bobbing for tar balls on the Florida Gulf Coast, and recovering from a whirlwind of activity on an annual vacation in Chilmark.

Ever family-minded, Michelle also accompanied her husband to Indonesia, South America, Ireland, the UK, and Paris...

This year, just prior to heading to Martha's Vineyard, Mrs. Obama managed to squeeze in a pre-vacation/official business/vacation to South Africa, accompanied as usual by an entourage of tagalong family and friends. If cost estimates for travel and security are correct, the jaunt cost American taxpayers anywhere from $500,000 to a reported $800,000.

“once-in-a-century hurricane” | Real Science

Every weather event now is a 100 year event or a 500 year event.
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New York has had five major hurricanes in the last century. Enough mindless alarmism, please.

Fresh projections of possible NYC surge from MIT... - Revkin.net

Up to 3 meters possible