At the intersection of Coggin Avenue 16
th Street sits a display of Christmas Lights that would make Clark Griswold from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation fame envious.
The residence of Richard and Cassie Delgado has featured an expansion of their Christmas decorations during each of the seven years they’ve lived in their home, with this year’s display eclipsing 12,000 lights.
“It’s hard to give an exact number, but we’ve come up with roughly between 12,000 and 13,000,” Richard Delgado said. “It started out as icicles on the house and it just went from there. We covered the roof the next year, then we covered the brick. The next year we turned the 20-foot flag pole into a tree, and this year we added the lights in the yard.”
‘When I try to sleep at night, I hear him gasping for air’
Not long ago, registered nurse Stephanie Rich heard a sound she’d never heard before.
A few months ago, her cardiac unit at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn was transformed to treat COVID-19 patients.
Then just last week, Rich was helping out a relatively young, healthy COVID-19 patient who was struggling despite being given maximum oxygen. Before she heard the sound, she saw his eyes, fearful and full of tears.
“He was looking directly at me,” Rich said.
Then, she heard it.
“It’s not the sound of a cough, but rather him gasping for air,” she said. “And that is a sound, that I’m telling you, that no nurse will ever forget. That’s a sound I’ve never heard in my life. When I try to sleep at night, I hear him gasping for air.”
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The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.
In this edition, see how a sequence from the fourth season of
Rick and Morty compares to the original storyboards created to plan it. Plus, in a new edition of
Stuntmen React from
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and a Santa Claus brawl in
Jingle All the Way. Finally, find out how to make a breakfast just like the one from the natural disaster blockbuster
Oskaloosa News Recap For December 14th, 2020
A new survey reports that Christmas tree-related injuries are on the rise.
According to Lending Tree’s insurance comparison resource ValuePenguin, 1 in 5 Americans have been injured while setting up their Christmas tree this year. That number is 122% higher than last year’s.
The survey also found that 75% of respondents leave their Christmas tree’s lights on overnight leaving them susceptible to a potential fire.
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Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine are en route to their destinations.
After official approval last week, the goal is to have three million doses sent out this week, with health care workers and long-term care facility residents being top priority.