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i immediately told my roommates, i said, hey, you know, this looks pretty serious, maybe we should start packing bags, thinking about leaving and within 15 minutes of talking about that and seeing the smoke, we were running down into our cars, anything we can grab, go bags, mostly nothing. i got my passport and my dog and my truck, and we were peeling out of the driveway, the whole street was starting to catch on fire. there wasn't really an evacuation notice for us. it was more we realized the town and our street looked like it was going to burn. my phone got one ping as i was getting into my truck, and that was the only evacuation notice we had. i got in my truck, got my dog in the truck, we start driving down the road, and there's, i mean, the whole time there's 90 miles per hour winds and crazy stuff like that. there's telephone poles in the road, there's trees in the road. there's people screaming in the
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key concern to ukrainian officials and they see it damaging to the country and the economy. there's a small group of people here in kyiv and other cities in ukraine who are going through military training on the weekends, as you pointed out, katy, but that's really a minority. most people are going about their daily business, they are quietly preparing, packing their go bags, but it's worth noting that this is a country that lived under the threat of russian invasion for the past eight years. >> let's talk about the sanctions, mother of all sanctions being considered in the senate right now. the uk is considering their own set of sanctions. is that going to be the deterrent for russia or the nato
my mother's colleague stayed and was killed in her own apartment and they tortured her for a long time trying to find out where she hid retirement payments, and somebody was killed on the highway, and somebody killed for his car, and many faced demands for ransom for family members, and the mayor was tortured and died, and hundreds of people vanished, their go-bags and laminated documents and survival kits did not protect them. she's talking about what people are doing to prepare ahead of a russian invasion, saying there's nothing you can do other than to just leave. >> there are two points i will take from that, and my conversation from this extraordinary woman that wrote that post. one is what people have seen develop over the last eight years in these separatists
steps to ensure the safety and well being of their friends and family still in ukraine. i want you to hear from a member of the community here in new york city. also a member of the ukrainian congress committee of america. he describes what's being done right now as they reach out to people in ukraine. >> we're talking to family members to check if they have american passports or european passports and can leave if they want to. go bags. the contact information. we assume that cell phone communication will go down. that happened before during the initial war. so if people have satellite phones even better. we want to make sure that our friends are safe in ukraine. and we're going to do what we can here for the most part. if you are a local. come to church. we have multiple prayer sessions for ukraine. >> throughout the country we have seen the shows of support including nation capitol. on sunday we saw several pro-ukrainian groups marching peacefully in washington d.c.
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VIRUOSI CONCERT: Aymeric Dupre la Tour, seen here in 2015 at First Church Congregational in Fairfield, will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 “Jenamy” as the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra presents “Virtuosi Christmas Concert — A Traditional Holiday Celebration of Joy and Beauty’’ on Sunday, Dec.r 27, at Trinity-on-Main in New Britain and Facebook Live at 5 p.m. For the livestream, go to the Virtuosi Christmas Concert-Facebook Live page.Meg Barone / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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AT ELY CENTER: Melanie Carr’s “Shrouded Truth” is part of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art’s exhibition Solos 2020, in which six artists’ works from the 2020 Open Call are spotlighted. The 51 Trumbull St., New Haven, gallery’s winter hours are Sundays and Mondays 1-4 p.m. and Thursdays 1-5 p.m.Ely Center / Contributed photo /Show MoreShow Less
some kind of rogue group knocking on our system. >> antiquated power grid. the other people would be a bad actor, may be china or russia. what we need to understand as we have smart everything. smart refrigerators, tv sets. cell phones. everything is drawing power today. so while we are getting more and more electronic in our world, we are not prepared with the infrastructure. we need to protect ourselves by having backups. backup batteries, go bags, water, nonperishables in case the power goes out. >> charles: i remember a tree branch fell in california and a third of the northeast went out. it does underscore the vulnerability. you are police officer. by the same token, we have political candidates saying let's do different things. let's go all solar or all winter. and not try to be facetious but
energy be processed moved and effect tiffly used during blackout or extreme conditions. the bottom line here, just so everybody understands, everything we have, even coffee makers have chips in them and frankly if the power doesn't work, the internet doesn't work and every aspect of life ceases to function reasonably if at all, as most of us have experienced with blackout here in washington just ten days ago. >> you say that we should all be prepared to live without electricity for a week. i loved in alaska off the grid, so i'm pretty sure i can rough it. but for our city slickers, what would you have them have in their go-bags or in their basement. >> do you say? place? do you shelter in place, or do you go somewhere. if you can shelter in place, do so. i have at least 15 gallons of water and a month of food,
because do you believe that the overhyping which we have been accused of may have implications into future where people feel, well, the boy cried wolf once before and we won't listen before. >> and the boy cried wolf syndrome, and no, to some degree, that is true, however, because people did, you know, it is difficult to get people to do something, and to actually take action and to protect themselves, so because it was hyped so much that a lot of people did things they would not normally do, and prepared and went go-bags and got flashlights and the things they needed to hunker down, so consequencely they are safer for the next disaster down the road. so for the people who are criticizing the response and the media and all, and they need to look at vermont and upstate new york, and some of the people along that beltway, some of the people along that line of destruction are really, really having a difficult time. maybe, the overhyping has allowed for them to deal with