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THE WEISS CHRONICLES

Chronological Account of the Weiss family with contextual remarks, some weather, sports and other news. You can write to me at: mhw20854@yahoo.com The people in the Weiss family are: Martin, Ann, Beth and George. I also sometimes write about other people or our pet.

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Buffalo in Baltimore Stampede
This is too good. Here is article from news dispatch

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Buffalo Herd Catches Md. Suburb by Surprise

The Associated Press
Tuesday, April 26, 2005; 5:27 PM

PIKESVILLE, Md. -- Police spent about two hours Tuesday morning corralling a herd of buffalo that somehow got loose and wandered around an upscale residential community in suburban Baltimore, disrupting traffic and alarming homeowners.

County police used 13 police cars, members of their tactical unit and a police helicopter to herd about 10 animals onto the tennis court of an apartment complex, police spokesman Shawn Vinson said.


Police and volunteers herded the escaped buffalo into a tennis court in Pikesville, Md.
Police and volunteers herded the escaped buffalo into a tennis court in Pikesville, Md. (Steve Ruark - AP)

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Buffalo Roam in Md.
A group of buffalo escaped from a farm near Pikesville, Md., Tuesday and ended up trampling around a tennis court for part of the afternoon.
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Vinson said officers had to master the art of buffalo herding on the job.

"Somehow they figured it out, I've got to give a lot of credit to the creativity of our officers," Vinson said.

That creativity included officers using courtside lounge chairs as shields as they formed a human chain to corral the wayward beasts. One buffalo was seen leaping over one of the tennis court's nets in an effort to evade capture.

The animals came from a farm in Stevenson north of Baltimore, Vinson said. They were returned to the farm at about 1 p.m.

The unusual drama began about 7 a.m. when residents near the intersection of Anton Farms Road and Stevenson Road reported the buffalo meandering along the road. The community is one of large, relatively newly built single family homes sitting on multiple-acre lots. Police shut down several major traffic arteries, including a section of the Baltimore Beltway, as a precaution as they tried to anticipate which way the buffalo would roam.

They eventually managed to maneuver the buffalo onto an enclosed tennis court at the River Oaks Apartment complex near Park Heights Avenue, about a mile from where they first were spotted.

from:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/26/AR2005042600472.html

I also heard that the Buffalo caused the police to close the Beltway for about an hour.
posted by Martin Weiss  # 1:22 AM

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Baltimore Buffalo Stampede

Buffalo Herd Catches Md. Suburb by Surprise

The Associated Press
Tuesday, April 26, 2005; 5:27 PM

PIKESVILLE, Md. -- Police spent about two hours Tuesday morning corralling a herd of buffalo that somehow got loose and wandered around an upscale residential community in suburban Baltimore, disrupting traffic and alarming homeowners.

County police used 13 police cars, members of their tactical unit and a police helicopter to herd about 10 animals onto the tennis court of an apartment complex, police spokesman Shawn Vinson said

Vinson said officers had to master the art of buffalo herding on the job.

"Somehow they figured it out, I've got to give a lot of credit to the creativity of our officers," Vinson said.

That creativity included officers using courtside lounge chairs as shields as they formed a human chain to corral the wayward beasts. One buffalo was seen leaping over one of the tennis court's nets in an effort to evade capture.

The animals came from a farm in Stevenson north of Baltimore, Vinson said. They were returned to the farm at about 1 p.m.

The unusual drama began about 7 a.m. when residents near the intersection of Anton Farms Road and Stevenson Road reported the buffalo meandering along the road. The community is one of large, relatively newly built single family homes sitting on multiple-acre lots. Police shut down several major traffic arteries, including a section of the Baltimore Beltway, as a precaution as they tried to anticipate which way the buffalo would roam.

They eventually managed to maneuver the buffalo onto an enclosed tennis court at the River Oaks Apartment complex near Park Heights Avenue, about a mile from where they first were spotted.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/26/AR2005042600472.html
posted by Martin Weiss  # 10:22 PM
Passover 5765

We went over to a neighbor's house the first night and had guests the second night. Because passover was the latest in about a century, the first night ended about 100am. The 2nd night, M was leading the sedar and it went faster - however we didn't end to about 1145pm. Of course it was nice to have Beth and George. George had an intestinal problem for much of the weekend. Actually I had a bit of it too but only mildly.
posted by Martin Weiss  # 10:17 PM
M at Nationals Game

Stanley Cohen gave me one of his tickets as a birthday gift. Unfortunately, the Nationals lost 2-1 by virtue of a 9th inning two out bases loaded error by the shortshop. They would have had back to back shut outs of Atlanta. It was a bit weird seeing the stadium again after over 30 years. It did look just like I remembered except for a bit. For one thing the electronics has been enhanced, and there is a hall of fame (e.g., Clark Griffith is there but not Bob Short). The transportation is good because there is a metrorail stop only a ten to 15 minute walk away. However, the jam getting on the rail is quite something -- although not as bad as trying to get out of the parking lot would be I suppose.
posted by Martin Weiss  # 10:12 PM

Thursday, April 21, 2005

M in NC

One day trip to Raleigh, NC. Up at 415am to catch a 630am flight. Back to DCA airport about 815pm. One good thing was I got a 'behind the scene' tour of the RBC center - that's where the NCState BB team (they wear red), the Carolina Cougars and where the Carolina Hurricanes would play if there were an ice season (yes Hurricanes is an odd name for an ice hockey team). The dogwood trees seemed to be in full bloom along the highway.

In my presentation I used the 'potato chip bag index' as a measure of under retailing. It seemed to be a big hit (if you can't buy more than an 8 once bag of potato chips in your area, the area is underetailed, i.e., people are leaving the area to shop).
posted by Martin Weiss  # 1:40 AM

Monday, April 18, 2005

Both MLB local teams in first place.

The Orioles have swept the Yankees in a three game series for the first time since 2000 and won two NY-Balt serieses back to back for the first time since 1997. The Nationals, have just swept Arizona. Both teams are in first in their respective divisions.
posted by Martin Weiss  # 9:45 AM
Weekend Guests and a Bird Nest

We had Beth and Beth's friend Sophie and two couples over for Saturday lunch and then Beth and Irwin and Cheryl and Winnie and Milton Zuckor for lunch Sunday. Our Jupiter Tulips were in almost full bloom (they are red). Several people were impressed. Later Sunday after doing some yard work I found a bird's nest with two eggs in one of the Yew bushes.

posted by Martin Weiss  # 12:01 AM

Monday, April 11, 2005

Cherry Blossoms

I took a walk around the tidal basin today. The trees were beautiful (there are 3 types of cherry blossoms there). Some of the pedals had fallen and part of the tidal basin was covered by a pink carpet. The water was high and part of the footpath, near the Jefferson Memorial, was under water. A lot of trees now have arching branches that you can easily walk under and yet they nearly touch the water. Interestingly, the trees near the Roosevelt Memorial, which are only ten years old, are nearly as tall as the tallest trees around the basin. I heard one woman refer to one of the tree trunks as gnarly.
posted by Martin Weiss  # 8:14 PM

Saturday, April 09, 2005

First baseball season in 34 Years

This past week, the Washington Nationals began their season. In the second game, their centerfielder hit for the cycle. In the third game the same guy had 4 hits. When I was getting gasoline after coming home on Apr 7, I was wearing my washington senator hat (the design used from 1963 to 1968 or so). Somebody saw me and said, "We won today". I said, "Thanks, I was on a plane and didn't hear about it."
posted by Martin Weiss  # 10:25 PM
Trip to California

From Apr 4 to Apr 7 in California. Fresno area for about a day and then in the El Centro area. Fresno has gotten quite a bit of new buildings since I was there last (in 2002). One area with new buildings is on the North side of town where new medical buildings and new education buildings have been built. One building is a medical office in the architectural form of a palace. The top of the building has large embossed gold lettering which says, "The Dentistry Practice". People call the building the palace of dentistry. This was my third trip to El Centro. I spent some time looking for burrowing owls (they burrow in the sand near the canals). I found some empty burrows and heard the owls but didn't see them.
posted by Martin Weiss  # 10:04 PM

Saturday, April 02, 2005

Thunder and COLD

We had thunderstorms early this evening. Temperatures were in the 40s. We had about 2" of rain and the sump pump worked almost all day.

Cleveland had several inches of snow and have broken their all time season record with over 104" for the season.
posted by Martin Weiss  # 11:42 PM

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