Hurricane Fred was the easternmost Atlantic hurricane ever to form in the tropics, and the first to move through Cape Verde since 1892. The second hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season, Fred became a Category 1 hurricane on August 31 as it approached Cape Verde, which was placed under a hurricane warning for the first time ever. The Barlavento Islands endured gales and flooding rains as the eye of the hurricane paralleled their shorelines. Structural damage across Boa Vista and Sal presented as leveled roofs, damaged homes and toppled utility poles. Farmers on São Nicolau suffered crop and livestock losses when they saw their lands flood. Fred's rains, though destructive, alleviated a drought across the Sotavento Islands of Cape Verde. Elsewhere, violent seas along the West African shoreline destroyed fishing villages and submerged homes in Senegal. Between the coasts of West Africa and Cape Verde, nine people died in maritime incidents.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Fred_%282015%29
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1810:
The Primera Junta, the first independent government in Argentina, was established in an open cabildo in Buenos Aires, marking the end of the May Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Revolution
1878:
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opened at the Opera Comique in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore
1962:
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, the last overnight steamboat service in the U.S., went out of business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Steam_Packet_Company
2012:
SpaceX's Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_COTS_Demo_Flight_2
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
overt: Open and not concealed or secret. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overt
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion: to he worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to have an oratory in my own heart, and present spotless sacrifices of dignified kindness in the temple of humanity; to spread no opinions glaringly out like show-plants, and yet leave the garden gate ever open for the chosen friend and the chance acquaintance: to make no pretenses to greatness; to seek no notoriety; to attempt no wide influence; to have no ambitious projects; to let my writings be the daily bubbling spring flowing through constancy, swelled by experiences, into the full, deep river of wisdom; to listen to stars and buds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; … in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. --William Henry Channing https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Henry_Channing