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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
Freak 8-Foot Waves Slam Lake Tahoe, Boaters Killed (Video)
Terror descended upon Lake Tahoe, over the weekend, as a freak storm hit the water, creating winds over 30 miles per hour and generating waves six-to-eight-foot high. There were many boats on the water, enjoying the early summer season, when the surprise change in weather occurred. As a result, six people died, multiple were injured, and two remain missing. The chaos commenced around 3:00pm on Saturday, and footage from the extreme weather event shows boats being knocked around, some sinking, and panicked people on the water and land. Check out the local news report from the rare storm, and subsequent tragedies, below. A man on the scene, a rapper who goes by the name Bugbee, recounted the bedlam: 'A pontoon boat had come up. You could tell there were no life vests on any people on the boat. I don't know what they were thinking. They didn't know how to operate it. It was their first time actually driving the boat. They kind of beached the boat sideways. Then we had to come up. I just ran up there, and started helping people get off. You could tell they were all terrified. Then, the storm just kept getting worse and worse. Like seven or eight boats got piled up on the beach. It was crazy. Never seen anything like it.' Like a lot of lakes with enough mass to whip up some wind swell, Lake Tahoe is, in fact, surfable. Dylan Graves, Mr. Weird Waves himself, surfed it back in 2021. As expect with this particular variety of unconventional surf spot, it doesn't necessarily get good; it's more about the novelty factor. More often, folks wake surf on Lake Tahoe – like Mark Zuckerberg, for the tragedy on Saturday, however, these weren't conditions anyone would want to surf in, let alone find themselves sinking on a boat. In response to the missing individuals and the casualties from the storm, Coast Guard Commander David Herndon issued this statement: 'Suspending a search is always a difficult decision to make and weighs heavily on each Coast Guard member involved. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of those involved in the boat capsize.'Freak 8-Foot Waves Slam Lake Tahoe, Boaters Killed (Video) first appeared on Surfer on Jun 23, 2025
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Top of the Morning, June 14, 2025
Jun. 14—More than 50 years after bellying up to the bar at what then was Vriner's, members of REO Speedwagon returned to downtown Champaign to recreate the iconic pose on Thursday. Only this time, they were joined by a crew representing The Venue CU, which has successfully resuscitated a building that in 1983 was added to the National Register of Historic Places. "We're connecting old history and new history," co-owner Greg Bugbee said. When REO's reunion concert was announced, Bugbee reached out to see if a visit by band members was possible. His plan came to fruition Thursday as Neal Doughty, Alan Gratzer and Bruce Hall popped in to reminisce. Photos taken included Bugbee, fellow owner Dan Church and friends saddled up with the famous rockers at a bar that has been kept mostly intact since back in the day. "It was special," Church said. "They're legends." Thursday's framed photo will soon hang on the east wall near the entrance on Main Street — next to the original that was part of REO's second studio album, "R.E.O./T.W.O." Building owner "Dr. (William) Youngerman and Al Nudo are all about keeping the history of downtown Champaign alive," Bugbee said. "That's why we wanted to get (REO) back in here and make it happen."
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Science
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Livestock may be threatening endangered species in Arizona and New Mexico: Report
Uncontrolled livestock grazing is destroying streamside habitats that are critical to endangered plants and animals in Arizona and New Mexico, a new report has found. Half of roughly 2,400 miles surveyed since 2017 showed significant harm to such spots, while 13 percent of the areas incurred moderate damage, according to the report released Wednesday by the Center for Biological Diversity. Only 14 percent of the places surveyed demonstrated no damage at all, per the report. 'These animals and plants don't have a chance at survival if the streams they rely on are allowed to be devoured by hungry cows and made into stinking manure pits year after year,' Chris Bugbee, a Southwest conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. The surveys included 178 U.S. Forest Service and 35 Bureau of Land Management grazing allotments in the two states, as well as critical habitats administered by both agencies outside of the allotments. They found documented damaged from authorized, unauthorized and feral livestock grazing within federally designated critical spaces. Related to these observations, the Center for Biological Diversity and its partners said they have supported lawsuits that have resulted in 3,657 livestock being removed from impacted habitats in both states. 'The good news is that creeks and riparian areas have begun to recover in the places where our litigation has kept cows out,' Bugbee said. 'Full recovery will take decades.' The livestock, according to the report, destroy the habitats by defecating and urinating in the streams, trampling on the banks and ravaging vegetation. This type of behavior also prevents new riverside forests from regrowing, the authors noted. Some of the species affected by these circumstances include rare fish, certain types of garter snakes, the Jemez Mountains salamander and the Chiricahua leopard frog, according to the report. Also impacted are the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse and jaguar, as well as several bird species: the Southwestern willow flycatcher, the Western yellow-billed cuckoo and the Mexican spotted owl. The authors urged the federal government to take swift action to protect the riverside and aquatic critical habitat by removing more cattle from these sensitive areas. Maintaining the status quo, they concluded, could risk 'driving to extinction those species that rely on riparian habitat there.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hill
02-04-2025
- Science
- The Hill
Livestock may be threatening endangered species in Arizona and New Mexico: Report
Uncontrolled livestock grazing is destroying streamside habitats that are critical to endangered plants and animals in Arizona and New Mexico, a new report has found. Half of roughly 2,400 miles surveyed since 2017 showed significant harm to such spots, while 13 percent of the areas incurred moderate damage, according to the report, released on Wednesday by the Center for Biological Diversity. Only 14 percent of the places surveyed demonstrated no damage at all, per the report. 'These animals and plants don't have a chance at survival if the streams they rely on are allowed to be devoured by hungry cows and made into stinking manure pits year after year,' Chris Bugbee, a Southwest conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. The surveys included 178 U.S. Forest Service and 35 Bureau of Land Management grazing allotments in the two states, as well as critical habitats administered by both agencies outside of the allotments. They found documented damaged from authorized, unauthorized and feral livestock grazing within federally designated critical spaces. Related to these observations, the Center for Biological Diversity and its partners said they have supported lawsuits that have resulted in 3,657 livestock being removed from impacted habitats in both states. 'The good news is that creeks and riparian areas have begun to recover in the places where our litigation has kept cows out,' Bugbee said. 'Full recovery will take decades.' The livestock, according to the report, destroy the habitats by defecating and urinating in the streams, trampling on the banks and ravaging vegetation. This type of behavior also prevents new riverside forests from regrowing, the authors noted. Some of the species affected by these circumstances include rare fish, certain types of garter snakes, the Jemez Mountains salamander and the Chiricahua leopard frog, according to the report. Also impacted are the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse and jaguar, as well as several bird species: the Southwestern willow flycatcher, the Western yellow-billed cuckoo and the Mexican spotted owl. The authors urged the federal government to take swift action to protect riverside and aquatic critical habitat, by removing more cattle from these sensitive areas. Maintaining the status quo, they concluded, could risk 'driving to extinction those species that rely on riparian habitat there.'
Yahoo
23-02-2025
- Yahoo
East Rochester man charged in deadly hit-and-run crash
Authorities have charged 51-year-old Bruce Bugbee of East Rochester in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash in Rochester on Friday. Rochester police said that Bugbee struck a man in his 60s on a bicycle with a 2019 Chevy Silverado before fleeing the scene. According to police, Bugbee was allegedly driving while intoxicated, with a child in the vehicle at the time. The incident happened around 9:30 p.m. on Friday at the intersection of Norton Street and North Street, police said. New York State Police later located Bugbee and the Silverado at a residence in Ontario County, police said. Bugbee was taken to the Monroe County Jail and is facing charges including second-degree vehicular manslaughter, leaving the scene of an accident causing death, aggravated driving while intoxicated under Leandra's Law, and driving while intoxicated. The victim's identity has not yet been released. This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Bruce Bugbee charged in deadly hit-and-run crash in Rochester NY
