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RESIDENTS IN THE US, some of whom lack heat or basic amenities in their own homes due to the unusually chilly weather, have been rescuing cold-stunned sea turtles and taking them to a convention centre in a south Texas resort town.
“Every 15 minutes or less, there’s another truck or SUV that pulls up,” Ed Caum, executive director of the South Padre Island Convention and Visitors Bureau, told the Associated Press.
He said sometimes people bring one or two sea turtles, sometimes more.
“We had trailers full yesterday coming in that had 80, 100, 50,” he said.
The South Padre Island Convention Centre started pitching in on Monday when its neighbour, Sea Turtle Inc, could no longer handle the number of sea turtles being dropped off, and their mostly outdoor operation had lost power.
Caum said the convention centre itself did not have power or water until early yesterday morning.
He said they have “collected” more than 3,500 sea turtles so far.
Caum said he hesitates to use the word rescued because “we know we’re going to lose some”.
He said that with another cold front approaching, they do not know when they will be able to return the sea turtles to the water.
Temperatures in the area on Wednesday afternoon were in low single figures.
Caum said it may be Saturday – when temperatures are expected to reach above 15 degrees – before the turtles can be released back into the Gulf.
He said with power returned they have been able to bring the convention centre’s temperature to 15 degrees.
“We’re trying to do the best we can to save as many turtles as possible,” Mr Caum said.
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“The devolved power sharing institutions at Stormont collapsed last year after the DUP withdrew co-operation as part of its protest against the protocol.” Definitely nothing to do with finishing second to SF in the election.
@A Well Known Comical Stereotype: Its their ball and nobody else can play with it.
@A Well Known Comical Stereotype: No deal has been done, this is nothing more than kite flying by the UK government.
@Justin Gillespie: yet the article states VDL of the EU is the source and described very constructive talks’. Even with that, you mamage to put a negative spin on it and the UK, very odd.
Mmmmmmm, Ulster says…….?
@Brendan Rogers:
… no to trolls in Northern Ireland
@Brendan Rogers: NO, NO, NO… well maybe if you chuck a couple of million our way.
DUP will say NO, 99% guaranteed.
@Stephen Woods: always a glimmer of hope at 99%
See what JeFairy thinks of this. The people of NI say yes, but the thing with the last word Will always say No
What excuse will Sir Donaldson come up with now to not enter government
@Dave Harris: ‘a GREEN lane’ ……. the DUP will never concede to this clear nationalist attempt at clawing away at the Unionist’s heritage and culture.
The ‘Verdant lane’ maybe ???!!!!
All the talk of NI and uk Europe etc .
But what about us in the south paying though the nose to get goods into the south since brexit and before ,rip off Republic as normal continues, its a joke what we have to pay to get goods south of the border.
Unfortunately, whatever agreement is reached or whatever measures are put in place, the DUP will still object to them on the basis that by their very nature such measures are in their minds, treating the interface between NI and the rest of the UK differently, than for example than the interfaces between Scotland and England or Wales and England.
The reality that NI is in fact part of the island of Ireland and separated from the UK by the Irish sea, is something they will never accept, because for them the very act of doing so is an admission that they are in fact Irish and not British.
@David Van-Standen: But they are not Irish! They may have been born on the island of Ireland but they live in a part of that island which is ruled from London. They look to Westminster for their laws, to the BBC for their news, to the NHS for their health services, to London newspapers for their information, to the British forces for their military service and to the Crown as the personification of their loyalty. They pay their taxes to London and in turn receive massive subsidies for public services from GB every year which they regard as much their right as anybody else in the UK. The Good Friday Agreement was a massive step forward in recognition of their British identity by Irish people and politicians but there is still a long way to go before Loyalists will accept an Irish identity.
@Patrick Brompton: But for everyone in England, including the government of the UK, the Crown and Westminster, they are Irish, just as the people of Wales are Welsh and the people of Scotland are Scottish.
Ironically, the only difference is that the Welsh and the Scottish both embrace their own national and geographical identity, primarily because it sets them apart.
Sounds like EU has given in again.
@Mark Haugaard: When you have a troublesome neighbour it tends to get to anything for a quiet life sooner or later. At least until it gets to “NOT THAT! ” and the fecal matter intersects the ventilation system.
I can hear the Banshees in the DUB crying on the city walls of Derry already.
@Mick McGuinness: Huge typo there Mick DUB sounds like DUBLIN.
@for God sake.: ouch should have been DUP lol
@for God sake.: Is that the solution, we call our capital DUPLIN and theirs BE(lf)AST?????
Do British goods include New Zealand lamb?
The UK and The EU are one thing, but what will the DUP say?
Is ‘The Times ‘ playing at being ‘The Sun’ and boosting sales by being economic with the truth.
While welcoming progress, I am disappointed that the EU regime on import of live animals will be retained in Northern Ireland. I have commented previously on the expense and inconvenience of exporting a dog from GB to NI because of anti-rabies legislation. There have been no cases of rabies in GB or Ireland since about 1904. There is no practicable risk of rabies being exported to Ireland from GB. It is a silly pretence by the EU that GB presents a similar risk to Eastern European countries, apparently motivated by an ideological desire to have the Republic’s border with Northern Ireland treated as if it were, say, Hungary’s eastern border. The EU has played into the hands of the DUP by creating an unnecessary barrier which they can both object to and instruct Customs officers to ignore.
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