Ditto here in Vermont. All morning wind gusts of 60 miles per hour.
The trees look like they are swaying to hurricane winds.......
Very ominous feeling.

Our neighbors' shutters fell off their home and landed on our front lawn.

Several neighbors who use a recycling company to pick up their garbage "at the roadside" (rather than ours who come up to the garbage receptacle near our garage doors).......have seen all of their garbage cans, recycling bins, and literally all of their garbage thrown all over the neighborhood......
it's a mess.

Hubby had to go down into town for new safe batteries said it's a mess all over with Christmas decorations flying around, stuff strewn all over the place............NO SNOW and no RAIN.........just strong gusts of wind.

By now, normally we would have seen several snowstorms.
The one coming from the west is going to just turn to rain as our weatherman says it's TOO WARM.

We lost our power briefly, as well as our internet service.
We are so glad we are NOT flying today.

Now the sun is coming out but the winds are very strong.
A neighbor's piece of vinyl siding flew off the house.........
Tree branches down all over the place............

But we are all still here........it's balmy, humid and NO SNOW in December , very very very unusual. It may very well be another snowless winter for our Vermont grandchildren.............

It's only the end of their calendar.........
Another new calendar begins............

Mexican towns and resorts were making out like bandits with tourists......

Read below:
The buildup to 2012 echoes excitement and fear expressed on the eve of the new millennium, popularly known as Y2K, though on a smaller scale, says Lynn Garrett, senior religion editor at Publishers Weekly. She says publishers seem to be courting readers who believe humanity is creating its own ecological disasters and desperately needs ancient indigenous wisdom.

"The convergence I see here is the apocalyptic expectations, if you will, along with the fact that the environment is in the front of many people's minds these days," Garrett says. "Part of the appeal of these earth religions is that notion that we need to reconnect with the Earth in order to save ourselves."

But scholars are bristling at attempts to link the ancient Maya with trends in contemporary spirituality. Maya civilization, known for advanced writing, mathematics and astronomy, flourished for centuries in Mesoamerica, especially between A.D. 300 and 900. Its Long Count calendar, which was discontinued under Spanish colonization, tracks more than 5,000 years, then resets at year zero.

"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Fla. To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."

Part of the 2012 mystique stems from the stars. On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years. This means that "whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time," Joseph writes.

But scholars doubt the ancient Maya extrapolated great meaning from anticipating the alignment — if they were even aware of what the configuration would be.

Astronomers generally agree that "it would be impossible the Maya themselves would have known that," says Susan Milbrath, a Maya archaeoastronomer and a curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History. What's more, she says, "we have no record or knowledge that they would think the world would come to an end at that point."

Vermont
 

Could be the end of the world is happening in Vermont and not in South America .................. nothing happening in Florida, the "family" would not allow it!

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Didn't you know - it already ended.

THIS IS THE NEW BEGINNING !!!!


:bigbow: :coolsmiley:

and all I got was this T-Shirt

More than I got. I just lost a few hours of sleep to check-out what was on the Internet at 6:11 a.m.

I was told at 9:42pm, just passing it along. :-)

I sure hope your right as I am dying, (no pun intended), to find out how things went at the TOTV luncheon at Crispers this afternoon. :smiley:

Bill-n-Brillo was there and Shesamax and Swrinfla and John Heydt and CQuick and Village Dude and Village Bruiser and Jimwith numbers after his name and Virtual Geezer and our daughter Helene and Frank07 and two fellows that I only have their real name and don't want to post that... and The Administrator bought our lunch.

Thank you for such a lovely time. It was a GREAT group! But it would have been so much nicer if you had been there.

Hurry home.

Thanks Gracie, Your the best. :smiley:

I met swrinfl at Crispers back in Sept, 2009 and he is a nice fellow.

I'm working on being in TV for 2013. Can't happen fast enough to suit me.

Joe :wave:

Not Everybody's Happy!
 

And we all got popcorn from guess who.

Bill and Sandy Clause? :popcorn:

We survived.
 

Dear ones.

It is not THE NEXT DAY. So here we are survivors with an opportunity to live another wonderful day and to try to make the world a little better place.

Peace.

And love.