Well the republicans take over, you will have to pay for all weather data. These apps are just ahead of their time.

57 million tons is equal to 114 billion pounds. According to this Wikipedia page the average adult in North American weighs 180lbs.

114,000,000,000 lbs / 180 lbs/person = 633,333,333 people

So it’s an amount of plastic that weighs as much as 633 million people; of course it is still impossible to really imagine how much plastic that is. But maybe a better reference then the volume a park.

Schools will be closed through the end of the week, the superintendent said.

Only in America can 2 of your teachers and 2 of your classmates be shot dead. And they are like we are only giving you 2 days off while we clean this up, but hey we will be ready to go Monday.

I guess along with those active shooter drills they also got an active shooter cleanup plan.

“Canada is currently the thirteenth-largest auto-producing nation in the world”