Today is Primary Day in NYC. Mayor de Blasio will win the Democratic Primary though I don't know anyone who approves of him. After the 2016 Presidential election, many thought Hillary would move to the city and run for Mayor. As of last week, when her book came out, making more millions for her and Bill, she said she will never run for office again.
Nicole Malliotakis, a state assemblywoman from Staten Island, is the lone Republican candidate running for mayor so there won't be a Republican primary. Malliotakis wants to cap city spending, enforce quality of life laws and support veterans and seniors - the usual things politicians say they can fix before political agendas get in the way. I wonder if Trump will support Malliotakis. Maybe that's a negative for her. Like funding for victims of natural disasters, politics, at any level, has a strong degree of corruption, as history has taught us.
Tonight major networks will air the Hand in Hand Telethon for Hurricane Harvey Relief featuring many famous entertainers raising money for those affected by hurricanes Harvey and Irma. It airs from New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville. Sadly people take advantage of disasters victims by looting and using relief funds for personal gain. If you want to donate money, time, or items, be sure you know where it's going and how it will be used. It makes you wonder what a crazy world we live in, but as history has shown us, in the duality of reality there will be positives and negatives always.
Some old classics are built to survive any storm.
Reports continue to come in about Irma, meandering Jose, and the aftermath of Harvey.
My family, friends and clients are all safe with minor cleanup and short term power loss.
They were lucky. CNN Updates
Irma's extraordinary strength caused an unusual meteorological phenomena - the pushing of water away from shorelines in the Bahamas and the Gulf Coast of Florida -> to come surging back with brute force. As I watched this happening it reminded me of the behavior of a tsunami. This sent me to the earthquake map and current activity in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (see image above) which I know rises with major quakes and tsunamis at the end. Sunday there was a 5.9 earthquake in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Mexico is still shaking - that plate separating - as well as ongoing earthquake activity in eastern Idaho, a state dealing with terrible wildfires and their aftermath.
