A CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH GROUP CALLED ‘CLIMATE CENTRAL’ SAYS OUR WINTERS GOING FORWARD ARE LIKELY TO BE MORE LIKE THIS PART OF THE WEEK THAN THE FRIGID FIRST PART. THEIR REPORT SAYS WINTERS ARE ABOUT 4-DEGREES WARMER ON HILTON HEAD ISLAND THAN AS RECENTLY AS 1970. THE REPORT SAYS SAVNNAH’S 3.9 DEGREES WARMER IN WINTERTIME, CHARLESTON 4.2 DEGREES WARMER. THAT’S ABOUT THE NATIONAL AVERAGE, AND SINCE 1970, THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF WARMER-THAN-NORMAL WINTER TEMPERATURES ROSE IN 98% OF U-S CITIES. THE WARMING WAS MOST INTENSE IN BURLINGTON, VERMONT- OVER 8-DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL SINCE 1970. MILWAUKEE AND GREEN BAY WISCONSIN WERE UP MORE THN 7-DEGREES.
AND SPEAKING OF BEING OUTDOORS, DON’T GO MAKING RESERVATIONS ANYTIME SOON, BUT THERE COULD BE RENTAL CABINS COMING BACK TO HUNTING ISLAND STATE PARK IN THE COMING YEARS. STATE PARK OFFICIALS HAVE TOLD THE CHARLESTON POST AND COURIER THAT THEY NOW HAVE THE FUNDS TO START PLANNING TO BUILD NEW CABINS TO REPLACE THE ONES LOST TO STORMS AND BEACH EROSION NEARLY A DECADE AGO. THE OLD CABINS WERE EXTREMELY POPULAR AT THE STATE’S BUSIEST PARK BACK IN THE DAY. RENTERS REMEMBER HAVING THE BEACH AREA TO THEMSELVES WHEN THE PARK CLOSED DAILY. THE NUMBER OF NEW CABINS, THEIR DESIGNS AND THE CONSTRUCTION TIMELINES HAVE STILL NOT BEEN DECIDED, BUT THEY’LL LIKELY BE LOCATED BETWEEN THE WELCOME BOOTHS AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE PARK AND THE VISITOR CENTER.
40-YEAR-OLD JAMIE MICHELE BRADLEY-BRUN OF ST. HELENA WILL LIKELY SPEND THE REST OF HER LIFE IN PRISON AFTER ADMITTING TO DROWNING HER YOUNGEST DAUGHTER IN THEIR BATHTUB 2-1/2 YEARS AGO AND ATTEMPTING TO DO THE SAME TO HER OLDER SISTER. PROSECUTORS SAID BRADLEY-BRUN COHERENTLY WOKE UP HER 6-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER MACKAY IN MAY OF 2023, GETTING HER ON HER KNEES IN THE BATHTUB AND THEN DROWNING HER. SHE THEN TRIED TO DO THE SAME TO HER 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, BUT HER 16-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER HEARD SCREAMS, PULLED HER SISTER OUT OF MOM’S GRASP, AND CALLED 9-1-1 AS THEY ESCAPED TO A RELATIVE’S HOME ACROSS THE STREET. IN INTERVIEWS WITH POLICE, SHE CONFESSED TO THE CRIME AND HAS BEEN IN JAIL SINCE HER ARREST, CUTTING HER 50-YEAR SENTENCE FOR THE MURDER TO 47. SHE’LL ALSO SERVE 40-YEARS CONCURRENTLY FOR TRYING TO KILL THE 8-YEAR-OLD.
YOU’VE LIKELY HEARD OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND MOVIE-MAKER WALTER CZURA AND HIS RECENT MOVIE ABOUT LOWCOUNTRY DRUG SMUGGLING BACK IN THE 1970’S CALLED ‘THE FINAL RUN’ THAT’S BEEN AVAILABLE ON STREAMING SERVICES SINCE AUGUST. BUT IT REALLY ISN’T THE LAST RUN. CZURA IS PLANNING ANOTHER MOVIE LATER IN THE SPRING CALLED ‘ONE MORE RUN’ THAT’LL ALSO BE SHOT IN THE MARSHES OF THE LOWCOUNTRY WITH EVEN MORE ACTION AND THE INTRODUCTION OF TERRORISM TO THE PLOT. ACTOR JEFF FAHEY WILL RETURN IN THE LEAD ROLE, BUT WITH HIGHER STAKES, INCLUDING THE INTRODUCTION OF A FOREIGN TERRORIST COMPONENT.