Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Guessing there are regular flights over the area so they spot the beachings reasonably quickly:

[...]Department liaison officer Brendon Clark said the stranding was the first by false killer whales in Tasmania in since 1974. That was a pod of more than 160 whales that landed on a beach near Stanley on the northwest coast. Strandings in Tasmania are usually pilot whales.

Clark declined to speculate on why the latest pod might have stranded. Carcasses of dead whales would be examined for clues, he said.

A helicopter reconnaissance on Tuesday afternoon determined that there were no other whales within 10 kilometers (6 miles) of the stranded pod, he said.

Some could have been stranded for as long as 48 hours by early Wednesday.

Arthur River resident Jocelyn Flint said her son had discovered the stranded whales around midnight while fishing for shark.

She said she had gone to the scene in the dark hours of the morning and returned after dawn but the whales were too big to be refloated.

"The water was surging right up and they were thrashing. They're just dying, they've sunk down in the sand," Flint said Wednesday morning. "I think it's too late.

"There are little babies. Up one end, there's a lot of big ones. It's sad," she added.

In 2022, 230 pilot whales stranded further south on the west coast at Macquarie Harbor.

The largest mass stranding in Australian history occurred in the same harbor in 2020 when 470 long-finned pilot whales became stuck on sandbars. Most of the beached whales died on both occasions.

The reasons for the beachings are unclear. Reasons could include disorientation caused by loud noises, illness, old age, injury, fleeing predators and severe weather.

https://abc7.com/post/experts-give-hope-157-false-killer-whales-stranded-beach-australias-tasmania-state/15931084/

That top right number has been stuck on 99+ since i can remember.
Maybe it does have something to do with an overstuffed mailbox.

Computer was sleeping while your two and janice's message came in, so would have not seen notifications. I've felt for a long time those swarms of to 7 could be ones which were lined up for replies that had come in while i was offline. So far not a peep of a notification since coming back on.

Trump in piling on Zelensky now is showing even more of his filthy
underwear. He's the dirtiest prick i can recall ever knowing so well.

Please reply to this one with even one word, if only to test to see if i get one notification, or more.