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Here and there around Danbury after Hurricane Irene
No one died near us, thank God. However, the Danbury Mall turned into a lake in which people actually swam... Maybe they were trying to grab a few amoebas and end it all.
Mayor Mark Boughton, who's known around here as "Big Poppa" and, rapper-like, refers to Danbury as "D-Block," raised a firestorm by taking on CL&P and other assorted people with clout. I'm glad Boughton possesses not only clout but Klout. And a lot of patience, as he showed when he invited an angry and vulgar tweeter over his house for a grilled burger - Boughton also being in the dark like his fellow Danburians.
Accused by some of having ridiculous expectations when 700,000 were in the dark, Boughton pushed whomever needed pushing and I had power when I woke up - even though when I went to bed it was pitch black and there was a tree resting on wires just 1/4 mile up my street.
One could see here and there branches and trees, even a whopper, that had hit a tree. Clean-up appears to be swift and thorough. School is pushed back a few days to make sure all the roads are open and can handle intense traffic. People are hanging out all day at the retro McDonald's grabbing free Wi-Fi as if to say, "Whatever."
Danbury is the most liveable city in Connecticut. Not only do we have low crime and pre-recession style unemployment, but people are nice to each other even under stress and there were a couple of Dunkin' Donuts open no matter what nature could throw at us.
Can Peter Schiff and other Ron Paul-like candidates get elected?
Connecticut newspaper wonders if religious rituals have anything to do with it.
Red candles illuminated the path to a frightening scene in a Madison Avenue basement near Bridgeport's Columbus School. There, a freshly butchered chicken's blood dripped into a bowl. The skull of an alligator sat atop a human skull on a goat's head. There were animal horns, colorful beads and strange writings.Nah. What do you think?
But that June 9 discovery by Bridgeport police's Tactical Narcotics Team was only the beginning.On July 3, the children of a recently deceased Milford man arrived at his Mountain Grove cemetery grave to plant flowers. What they found stunned them. Underneath a circular blanket of loose dirt were two human skulls. Stuffed inside were eight strips of blood-stained paper each containing a name.
Four days later Stamford police arrived at Woodland Cemetery, where the remains of a two-and-a-half year old girl dubbed "the Miracle Baby" (for surviving so long despite a brain deformity) were stolen. The remains were pulled from New Jersey's Passaic River, not far from a site where butchered chickens were found.
