Rubber Ducky to stay long after tall ships depart from Port of L.A.
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Rubber Ducky to stay long after tall ships depart from Port of L.A.
A giant inflatable rubber duck floats past the USS Iowa Battleship at the Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. The world-famous sculpture sailed into the port for the first time Wednesday to kick off the Tall Ships Festival LA.. The duck was designed by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman and at 61 feet high, 110 feet long 85 feet wide is the largest rubber duck in the world. Hofman debuted the sculpture in 2007 and has since created several of them to sail around the world to places including China, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
(AP Photo/Nick Ut)
, The Pasadena Star-News
Credit courtesy of Branimir Kvartuc
Traffic heading to the Tall Ship Festival in San Pedro.
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will be doing an encore tour around the Port of Los Angeles now that the festival is over.The Port of Los Angeles is launching the “Duck Days of Summer” on Monday, with events planned for the next two weeks to satisfy the rubber duck fever that took the region by storm.The highly publicized attraction was thought to be among the major pulls for the Tall Ships Festival that hit its capacity crowds over the weekend.
By 4 p.m. Sunday, the festival’s closing day, signs went up letting people know that while online ticket holders would get in, no more tickets would sold at the gate as the festival, set to close at 6 p.m., was officially sold out.Four lanes of bumper-to-bumper traffic backed up along several miles on the 110 Freeway as festivalgoers poured into town. Gaffey Street also was completely clogged as the final closing time approached.Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino intervened by midafternoon Sunday to keep the gates open when discussions among Port Police and Caltrans suggested the festival might have to close a couple of hours early due to the overwhelming traffic and crowds.
While there are no firm numbers, some estimates had the weekend attendance alone at 225,000 to 250,000. Original predictions for attendance at the five-day event that opened last Wednesday were around 330,000.But for those who missed the festival, the next two weeks will offer at least a chance to see the giant duck close up.“Our intent is to let everybody see this,” said port spokesman Phillip Sanfield of the giant duck. “Each day we’ll be doing something a little bit different.”And it’s all free.
On Monday afternoon, through Wednesday (which is International Duck Day), the 61-foot-tall celebrity will be back in its original berth at the Downtown Harbor plaza near Harbor Boulevard between Fifth and Sixth streets. Many cried foul when
— just 24 hours after arriving in town Wednesday — to the main part of the Tall Ships Festival being staged farther north along the waterfront near the World Cruise Center.The duck will be brought into the Downtown Harbor sometime Monday afternoon.
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The duck will then be towed to Banning’s Landing on the Wilmington waterfront for Thursday (Youth Duck Day) and Friday, when environmental programs about local water quality and wildlife will be presented by port staff.There will be no appearances during the three-day Labor Day weekend (Aug. 30 through Sept. 1) as the duck will be “on holiday,” Sanfield said, explaining that the cheerful floatable will retreat into seclusion for some much-needed rest and privacy.Come Sept. 2, the duck will be brought back to the Downtown Harbor plaza for five more days of events, including presentations by the International Bird Rescue center (Sept. 2), a canned food drive (Sept. 3), Dress Like a Duck Day (Sept. 4) and another youth day (Sept. 5).
It all builds up to what will be the grand finale on Sept. 6 — Duck Dance Day (3-5 p.m.), followed by the ceremonial farewell as the duck is towed away for good at 5 p.m.“We expect thousands more to come see it after the festival and to shop and be in the downtown area,” Sanfield said.
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Northern Europe to Stay Unsettled Into Christmas
By Eric Leister, Meteorologist
December 23,
The above video discusses the weather across Europe.
The final two in a series of fast-moving storm systems will continue the theme of unsettled weather from Ireland and the United Kingdom into northern Europe through Christmas Day.
While neither particular storm will cause widespread damage or travel disruptions, each will produce showers and gusty winds.
The showers will occasionally occur as or be mixed with snow in the higher terrain of the British Isles, as well as parts of Scandinavia and northern Europe.
Gusty winds will howl even when dry weather prevails, especially near the coastlines.
A storm brought heavy rain that resulted in some flooding in western Scotland Sunday into Monday. The flooding caused 42 people to become stranded in a supermarket in Kilmarnock, according to . Rescue crews used an inflatable boat to rescue those trapped inside the store.
This same storm made its presence felt on Sunday into Monday across the rest of the British Isles as wind gusted near 65 kph (40 mph) in many areas. In some coastal areas and higher terrain, gusts topped 80 kph (50 mph).
These gusty winds spread east Monday from the Netherlands, Belgium and southern Scandinavia into Belarus and western Ukraine.
Along the frontal boundary, rain spread from Netherlands into northern Germany, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine on Monday. Meanwhile, snow fell farther north across the Baltic States and western Russia. This fresh snowfall along with a second storm Wednesday into Thursday will set the stage for a white Christmas for many across the region.
Much of the United Kingdom and Ireland will have a break from the stormy weather from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday as high pressure builds in from the Atlantic Ocean.
Meanwhile, a second storm system will bring another round of unsettled weather and gusty winds to areas from France to the Baltic States Wednesday into Thursday. Although precipitation will fall as rain at the onset of this storm on Wednesday, colder air rushing southward will result in a mixture of rain and snow from northern Germany into northern Poland Wednesday night into Thursday.
Cities such as Hamburg and Berlin may get snowflakes in the area on Christmas D however, little or no accumulation is expected.
Farther south, rain will fall from Paris through Prague and Warsaw. While there is a small chance for some wet snowflakes in Warsaw, the other locations will get only rain through Christmas Day.
On the colder side of this storm, snow will again fall from the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into western Russia Wednesday and Thursday.
A pair of powerful storm systems will impact much of Europe from Friday through the weekend bringing strong winds, downpours and snow.
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