Tornado Alley (PROG)

[StephanieVanbryce]

... in the meantime ..

I found out that California has had 173-mph winds --today

Torrential storms bring snow, mudslides, flooding, 173-mph winds in California

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/torrential-storms-bring-snow-mudslides-flooding-173-mph-winds-in-california/2017/01/09/8c75b076-d69a-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html

and this -

U.S. troops carry out ground raid against ISIS in Syria

I like this part

The troops, who landed on helicopters, spent about 90 minutes in the area, then left carrying Islamic State captives and bodies, according to witnesses quoted by the website Deir al-Zour 24, which monitors Islamic State activity in that province.

According to U.S. defense officials in Washington, the U.S. forces intercepted a vehicle carrying an Islamic State militant whom the U.S. military hoped to capture and interrogate. One official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an operation whose details have not been publicly announced, said that a firefight broke out and the suspect, along with another person in the car, was killed. No Americans


yes, more! More Going too
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-led-coalition-carries-out-ground-raid-in-syria/2017/01/09/b452e1df-f035-493c-bb2e-3932d788be01_story.html