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"I scoured the news for reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would show up in the big cities & the bluest places, but what really exhilarated me was to see the turnout in reddest America--#Utah, #Nebraska, #Missouri, #Indiana, #Iowa, #Idaho--and small communities not known for their #protests...

some early estimates say well over three million people showed up."
- Rebecca Solnit

meditationsinanemergency.com/m

Some in #Nebraska’s federal delegation push back on #NWS DOGE cuts

Last month, the Trump administration cut 1,000 jobs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, which includes the National #Weather Service. Those cuts reached home when NWS Omaha and other Great Plains offices recently announced pausing the deployment of #weatherballoons after the department cuts.

nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/04/0

“A Migration Story”
Last week near Kearney, Nebraska on the Platte River with the migrating sandhill cranes (about 700,00 in this area when I was there). I was overnighting in a blind when this storm approached from the west.
#nebraska #nebraskaphotography #kearnynebraska #sandhillcrane #migration #lightning #weather #Sky #Clouds #thunderstorm #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #WildlifePhotographer #Nature #NaturePhotography #NaturePhotographer #OurPlanetDaily #EarthFocus #photographer

Meteorologists raise alarm over grounding of Omaha weather balloons amid federal cuts

“National Weather Service offices in Omaha and Rapid City, South Dakota, stopped deploying weather balloons, a key tool in forecasting. On the same day, six other weather stations in the central U.S, including at North Platte, halved their use of balloons.”

#weather #Nebraska #NWS #balloons

flatwaterfreepress.org/meteoro

Flatwater Free Press · Meteorologists raise alarm over grounding of Omaha weather balloons amid federal cuts - Flatwater Free PressLast week’s blizzard, the deadly Pilger tornadoes and Hurricane Sandy share something in common: People got a better heads-up due to a forecasting tool

Nebraska Bigfoot Conference

The 2025 Nebraska Bigfoot Conference will take place at Fonner Park in Grand Island, Nebraska on April 25-26, 2025. There will be two days of networking, movies, vendors, and informative speakers.

*Wish that I could go for the fun of it, but I have plans that weekend. Darn.

#Bigfoot #Nebraska #fun

nebraskabigfootmuseum.com/bigf

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