An African killer bee attack in the news precisely
11 months after the bee tornado story:
http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/story/Africanized-Killer-bees-attack-in-La-Mesa/QFbqcjCiGky29bPSRet9Jg.cspxQuote:
LA MESA - Four people in La Mesa are hospitalized after being stung by an angry swarm of Africanized bees.
James Mann, a local television news photographer said, "They're not gentle. They're mean, they're insane, they're hostile."
Insane and hostile; that is how people described a swarm of Africanized bees attacking people near Helix High School.
Shea Riley said, "A couple of my friends started running because they saw bees everywhere."
As police cordoned off the area around the 7500 block of Normal Avenue, beekeeper Mike Zito -- along with firefighters -- killed most of the hive living in the roof of a house on the 7500 block of Normal Avenue.
Zito said, "They have a bad attitude. They're a lot more aggressive, and they're a lot more territorial."
A broom and many dead bees sat in the driveway of an elderly couple who were attacked and hospitalized.
The 79-year-old female was stung 30 to 50 times. The 82-year-old male was stung 20 times. A mother and her son were also stung a handful of times and taken to the hospital.
James Mann, a local news photographer, said, "One flew under my hat, right here, and started buzzing in my space, and I swatted it. As soon as I swat it, it stung me right in the eye."
Mann got stung in the upper eyelid as he tried to get shots of the scene. He said, after the sting "I went nuts. Then, they went nuts. Then, I ran away and they followed me across the street."
Zito says the hive was so full that the queen hatched a new queen. Zito explained, "That new queen takes off with half the bees inside of a swarm, which is what happened. This hive swarmed and a bunch of people were stung."
A third bee incident happened in El Cajon Wednesday night when a tree fell on a man's car.
A man was trapped in the car when a 40 to 50-foot tree fell on top of the car he was in.
It happened just before 10:00 Wednesday night in the 800 block of Pepper Drive near Orange Grove Rd.
Crews arriving to rescue the man discovered bees in the tree. There was added concern because of the two bee incidents in La Mesa.
The man was rescued after about a half hour and the bees remained calm during the rescue. It's not believed these were Africanized bees.
At the same time, a tornado - and both of these stories are featured headlines on Fox News today:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510737,00.htmlQuote:
Severe weather across the South unleashed tornadoes in rural Mississippi, including one that shattered dozens of homes, flattened a church and injured at least 17 people, authorities said Thursday.
There were no immediate reports of fatalities, Magee Mayor Jimmy Clyde said. The most seriously injured were hospitalized, but most others had minor injuries.
The twister was reported around 1:30 a.m., and swept through Mississippi's pine-covered hill country as severe thunderstorms rumbled across several Southeast states. Power blackouts affected tens of thousands of Louisiana residents, and authorities reported damage to some Alabama homes. Georgia residents also braced for potentially heavy rains. ...
At least 60 homes suffered damage, said Katherine Gunby, spokeswoman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. The nearby Corinth Baptist Church was so shattered that "only the doors to its sanctuary were left standing," she said.
Another bee attack here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510761,00.htmlQuote:
On Saturday, a 53-year-old man was hospitalized after being stung "a couple thousand times" in what authorities are calling the worst bee attack around Las Vegas in 20 years.
Clark County Fire Department spokesman Scott Allison said the man accidentally disturbed a nest of "killer" bees when he overturned a boulder while operating a backhoe.
The man was listed in stable condition Monday in the intensive care unit at St. Rose Dominican Hospital-Siena campus.
Now, what does it all mean?First, La Mesa means the plateau. A plateau looks like a
butte, only it's bigger.
Here's a
butte:

Here's a plateau:

Next, the street where the bee attack took place was
Normal Ave. Normal was one of the places where we saw a crane accident last year. Another was Port
Mann, and a reporter named Mann was stung in the
eye.
http://www.synchromysticismforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=63&p=1795&hilit=normal#p1795This attack occurred near
Helix High School. The Helix Nebula looks like a giant
eye.

Also,
a tornado is a helix.
Another crane accident we noted last year involved a crane falling on a man's car and killing him. So it's interesting that one of the bee attacks involved a tree full of bees falling on a man's car. That occurred in El Cajon, which means "the box." I wonder if this refers to
Pandora's box? Interestingly, El Cajon is represented in Congress by
Duncan Hunter.
In the tornado story, they misspelled McGee, the name of the location where the devastation occurred.
McGee is an unincorporated community in eastern Wayne County, Missouri, United States. It is located
23 miles northeast of Poplar
Bluff in the
Mark Twain National Forest. I point out Mark Twain because he was the one who wrote the story about the Calaveras jumping frog, and that came up today in my research on the "Knowing" thread today. Additionally, a bluff is very similar to a butte and a plateau. See the "bluffs" below:


The final bee story from Las Vegas has the victim recovering in the
Saint Rose Dominican Hospital. Notice the logo:

If the cross represents the year, then this has the sun rising in the last quarter of the year - unless I don't get it. Please straighten me out if I'm wrong. The Saint Rose this hospital is named for is Saint Rose of Lima, the first Catholic saint of the Americas. Her feast day is August 23. When her beauty was admired, she first cut off her hair and then disfigured her own face with
pepper and lye. Note that one of the bee attacks occurred on Pepper Drive. She is the patroness of Lima, Peru; the Philippines; Santa Rosa, California; and Sittard, the Netherlands.
That last one catches my eye just because of the similarity in sound between
Sittard and sitar - the instrument that dominated
Adam Lambert's "
Ring of Fire" last week on American Idol. (Incidentally, carrying on the fire theme this week was
Lil Rounds, who sang "
Heat Wave" with a background of
flames.)
There is also a College of Saint Rose. Here's their mascot:

As for her
August 23 feast day, some historical events:
79 - Mount
Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of
Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the
Moon.
1996 -
Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
It is also
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. That is very interesting in light of Lil Rounds' song last night. Not only is she black, but she was very moved by the history of the Motown movement (black Americans creating their own genre of music). And with Simon continually calling her "
Little" instead of "Lil" and all this talk about buttes/bluffs/plateaus, I couldn't help but think of
Little Round Top (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Round_Top):
Quote:
Little Round Top is the smaller of two rocky hills south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was the site of an unsuccessful assault by Confederate troops against the Union left flank on July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Considered by many historians to be the key point in the Union Army's defensive line that day, Little Round Top was defended successfully by the brigade of Col. Strong Vincent. The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, commanded by Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, fought the most famous engagement there, culminating in a dramatic downhill bayonet charge that is one of the most well-known actions at Gettysburg and in the American Civil War.
And then there is this - the importance of Little Round Top in securing
Cemetary Ridge (the Butte plane crash was in a cemetary and bluff and ridge can be interchangeable):
Quote:
... its real significance was in its being the potential anchor of the Union left. So long as Little Round Top was in Union hands, the left of Cemetery Ridge was likely to be secure. But should the Confederates take it, they would have access to the Union rear and be able to pry the Federal army from its position. Once the Confederates held the hill, artillery or not, the Cemetery Ridge line would have to be abandoned. It was as simple as that.
– Harry W. Pfanz , Gettysburg: The Second Day (1987)