Snow Occupies Wall Street!
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/2011/oct/29/snow-storm-northeastern-united-states
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Huge swathes of the north-eastern United States have been hit by a rare October snow storm that struck across the region from Virginia all the way to Maine.
Dubbed "Snowtober" by news organisations covering the unusually early winter storm, the massive weather formation dumped up to 30cm (one foot) of snow in parts of the country that rarely see it this early in the year. Some estimates put the number of people affected by the unseasonal weather at around 60 million.
The freezing weather also represented a challenge to the anti-Wall Street protesters camped in Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan: last week New York police and fire department officials arrived at the camp to remove all their electrical power generators and fuel supplies, citing them as a fire hazard. The protesters are already legally banned from erected tents.
However, organisers have long been prepared for the onset of cold weather, though few expected it to arrive this early.
"Occupy snow!" read a jokey message from the Occupy Wall Street official Twitter account as the weather hit. A planned rally on Saturday with local union groups and civil rights organisations outside New York's City Hall, as well as a protest over foreclosed homes in the outer borough of Queens, were still set to go ahead.
Dubbed "Snowtober" by news organisations covering the unusually early winter storm, the massive weather formation dumped up to 30cm (one foot) of snow in parts of the country that rarely see it this early in the year. Some estimates put the number of people affected by the unseasonal weather at around 60 million.
The freezing weather also represented a challenge to the anti-Wall Street protesters camped in Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan: last week New York police and fire department officials arrived at the camp to remove all their electrical power generators and fuel supplies, citing them as a fire hazard. The protesters are already legally banned from erected tents.
However, organisers have long been prepared for the onset of cold weather, though few expected it to arrive this early.
"Occupy snow!" read a jokey message from the Occupy Wall Street official Twitter account as the weather hit. A planned rally on Saturday with local union groups and civil rights organisations outside New York's City Hall, as well as a protest over foreclosed homes in the outer borough of Queens, were still set to go ahead.
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Nope, the 99 percent are NOT leaving!
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