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==WJJC NEWS July 22, 2233 11:00 pm

 Large tornado, heavy thunderstorm strikes south JJS. 

 A large 1/2 mile wide. tornado struck in JJS south of Bentonville tonight.

The tornado, rated F2, caused damage to several farms and knocked out power to around 20,000 customers. The area is also experencing a torrential downpour and a flash flood warning is in effect until 2am for SJJ.

The storm is expected to move through north JJS later tonight, and a tornado watch is in effect for most of JJS until 4am. A severe thunderstorm warning is also in effect, and residents are advised to expect possible flash flooding, especially in the mountain regions.

== High rise building in mid-Manhattan, JJC evacuated after huge cracks discovered in it's walls.

  A 40 story high rise was hurridly evacuated when mantanence workers noticed wide cracks that had formed in a basement level office space. 

"There are cracks over an inch wide that have formed in the walls and floors inside a large office on the basement level. We don't know exactly when they formed, but it happened last night." a spokesman for JJC Buildings Health and Saftey (JJC-BHS) told WJJC news.

Workers noticed something wasn't right this morning when they came to work, and found that some of the doors on the upper floors did not fit properly into their frames. Ceramic tiles in a bathroom on the 9th floor at the building's south side had fallen off of the wall, and on the 10th level, a long crack had formed in the floor in a hallway near the elevator banks.

 For years the people had raised concerns that it was not up to current earthquake code, and that it has a very glaring design flaw.

"The whole east side of the building is an overhang, with a street level gap that is 5 floors tall, 70 feet deep, and the outer wall of the upper storys is supported by tall cylynder shaped 'free standing' pillars that appear to be too narrow and spaced too far apart to safely support that wall." ,  the spokesman said ," Frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't already come down in the recent earthquakes we had in JJC".

 The building was constructed starting in 2184 and completed in 2187, and it is believed that a corrupt contractor was involved in the construction of the building. Prior to 2192, and the passage of tough and strictly enforced Federal anti-corruption laws during that year, shoddy construction had plagued JJC and other Arun cities for years, starting shortly after the fall of Rudolph Weidmann. Dosens of people died in those buildings during that time purely due to the faulty construction, not counting deaths in earthquakes, accidents not initially triggered by faulty construction and other natural disasters or criminal activities. It is estimated that nearly 400 billion dollars were spent in JJC alone to correct design flaws in high rises and other structures between 2192 and 2233. And many buildings are still not yet up to code, and in a seismicly active region like JJC, this can spell catastrophe.

"One of these days, thousands of people could die in JJC because of this. And it might not even take an earthquake for this to happen, " A spokesman for JJC Buildings Health and Safety
grimly remarked.

- Related: How the former nuclear power plant in Springfield, SJJ nearly became another Chernobyl in 2179, the design flaws that led up to this, and how the incident directly inspired the movie "The China Syndrome".

- "The Waking Monster: A catastrophe in the making"- Commentary on New Russia State's still operating RMBK nuclear reactors, and how very few percentage of New Russia's buildings come anywhere close to meeting current Arun seismic saftey standards, and that time is running out.

 "The northern Arun state of New Russia is living on borrowed time, and if the major overhaul of it's buildings, infrastructure, and earthquake awareness isn't done fast enough, we could see a seismic catastrophie in that state in the near future that would by far rival the one that took place in New Boston and old Macadonia back in 2081. Millions could die."

"A monster sleeps in the mountains just north of Moscow, NRS: A massive fault that has produced quakes measuring over 9.0 in the ricter scale in the state throughout the history of Arus. And now that monster is starting to wake up from thousands of years of dormancy."

"Seismic activity has increased in New Russia State during the past 30 years, and it keeps getting worse."

- July 23, 2233


Bizarre and grizzly death reported in infamous house where Beziezian Girl was held, tortured for years.

 This morning, police made a horrifying discovery inside the notorious Brownsville house on East New York street where they found the remains of a 22 year old man, who police said, and I quote "appeared to have been burned from the inside out, and his bones were shattered in a million pieces, literally". He was part of a group of urban explorers who were in the house late last night, and the remaining members of that team reported seeing a girl who appeared to be 15 years old, dressed in rags, and having an overall appearance consitent with the early/mid 22nd century.

"We feared for our lives. This girl's eyes were entirely jet black, and she breathed with a very demonic type sound. I can't really describe it. I swear to God it was her, the Beziezian girl who was murdered in that house! She has come back for blood, man!".

 Currently, none of the members of that team are being considered suspects, and police have no idea what caused the man to die in such a way. 

 "So far, we could not find traces of chemicals or anything else that might have caused this. The Arun-Nazi government did perform experiments on imprisoned Beziezians to make a weapon that would cause effects like the death this man went through, but the effects on those victims' bodies were very different than what our autopsy has shown." The Brownsville coronor told WJJC news.

  While there was a heavy thunderstorm last night, lightning was ruled out as being the cause.

At the moment, police are clearing the house of all the drug paraphenalia left behind by the countless drug addicts that used the house as a 'shooting gallery', and will send it to a lab to determine if any of it might have been what caused the man's death. Also, the FBI has been called in to take the man's remains to do a much more thorough analysis at JJC's FBI field office's lab to try to find the cause, and if it is linked to the drug paraphenalia. While gangs had booby trapped the house in the past, no such devices were found during this investigation.

 Brownsville's mayor "Michael O'Reiley has had enough, and has ordered that the house be demolished after the police wrap up their investigation.

-WJJC viewer comments:

 "Wow! Mayor McCheese is going to take action on this house? Well la-dee-dah! Brownsville has really gone to shit ever scince he was elected 2 years ago, and now Cheesy wants to save his political career by pulling this publicity stunt, in the face of the ever increasing crowd of protestors who want him impeached.

 Flakka use in Brownsville has exploded scince Cheesy first sat his stinky ass down inside city hall, and he has been stinking up the place ever scince. Good, descent people are fleeing Brownsville thanks to him, and his incompentency. In their place, all of the loony toons from Bentonville are rolling right on in.

I wish the ghost would do us all a favor and take Cheesy out. But scince she is out for vengance, I bet she will ensure that we will be stuck with Cheesy as mayor for the rest of eternity.

Come right on down to Brownsville if you enjoy the overpowering stench of limburger!"
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      "Remember when SJJ had a whole bruhaha in regards to wanting to split JJS 
into seperate north and south states because 'We are tired of the limeys in Westminster telling us how to run things'? Looks like you are doing quite the bang up job yourselves, always defiant to the state capitol, running things your own way so I guess the split should've taken place after all, right? Not that it would've mattered as NJJ and SJJ were for all intents and purposes both parts of the same state only on paper throughout JJS's entire history, operating as two very different entities instead of a unified state.

PS. I wish the split did happen as I am tired of my state tax dollars being used to deal with all of the meth and Flakka zombies you have down there. And the huge SWAT reponses whenever one of your numerous religious cults decides to hasten Jesus's return.

 - You want to stop racism in SJJ? Stop flying Confederate flags, stop listening to country music, and stop killing the black man. - to paraphrase a recent comedy movie. 


 Enjoy New Bentonville, formerly Brownsville. HAHAHA!"
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'stop listening to country music' - this is a rather outdated stereotype of SJJ, dontchathink? Death metal is by far the most listened to music in SJJ, and Bentonville is the death metal capitol of the world. Berzerker, Atilla, and countless other DM bands originated in Bentonville. Yeah, you hear country music in some of the bars and roadside slop houses, but this is slowly fading away as time goes on. I can't recall any new, famous country music star hailing from Bentonville scince the end of the 2190s. KKK? Bentonville -was- notorious for this, even having several KKK affiliated mayors throughout it's history, but this hasn't been the case for a few decades now. We still have a major problem with neo-Nazis but they have been fading out of the scene for years, save for that brief spike during the past couple years but have quickly went into the downlow due to all of the recent Weidmann backlash. 

 The problems Bentonville and SJJ in general as a whole face these days is rampant hard drug use and increasing urban style gang activity. Bentonville is hardly the conservative stronghold it once was, most of the die-hards have already moved down to Alabama City, NBS which was always the buckle of the Arun Bible Belt. You are far more likely to encounter a Goth than an old style rootin' tootin' conservative in Bentonville these days.

 SJJ is improving with time, but we still have a long ways to go. We still have numerous religious death cults, and the I1 still has scars from when the Sunrise Cult's compound blew up not that long ago.


 "Alright, thanks to this news story I had a really fucked up dream last night:

 I just finished a late night shift in JJC and I was in one of the 'Big 3' towers near the top floor where I work, taking the elevator down. The elevator then shakes and stalls and I become stuck. That was scary enough on its own, but then a monster passes into the elevator car through the wall, like a ghost and attacks me. 

 I dart awake, with my heart beating a million times a minute.

 Did I really need to watch this report on WJJC news right before bedtime?  :-( "

"Ok, not entirely related to this story, but did anyone near Bentonville see the weird diamond pattern lightning strike last night? Imagine looking into the sky and seeing it filled with something like

XXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXX

With lightning bolts making up the lines of the "X"s.

Somebody here reported seeing the same thing in roughly the same area a few years ago. Weird."
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  "So I wasn't just seeing things! I've heard reports of lightning taking the form of a solid glowing box and triangles also in that same area over the years. Something very weird is going on in this part of Arus. HAARP maybe? O_o. And I checked, there were no aircraft, balloons, search lights, or anything else man made (or extra-terrestrial :) that caused these visual effects when they happened."
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  "Look up 'shaped lightning' a rare natural phenomenon. Though SJJ seems to get much more than it's share of it."
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 "I kick people in the nuts when this happens. Punch buggy time!"
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  " Please don't flame me but I had this idea for a while and I wanted to share it:

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 Did you do any one or more of the following within the past week? Put an "X" beside all items that apply

[_] Get into a flamewar over issues related to Weidmann
[_] Whine about Bentonville
[_] Scream doom and gloom about earthquakes/tsunamis/tornados
[_] Moan about how long it's taking for JJC to fix it's subway system
[_] complain about anything that was featured on WJJC news

 If one or more boxes were "X"'d, then turn off your TV and computer and go read a good long book.

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   |reply|
240 years ago, the kind of box lightning you describe was reported near Homestead, Florida during Hurricane Andrew."



Mayor McCheese

- The dangers of Arus's extreme south

 Arus is very unique as it is possible to reach the vaccum of space if you simply walk or drive far enough south. This unusual experience draws hundereds of thousands of tourists every year. However it has contributed to many tragic deaths as people are often unaware that they are putting themselves in mortal danger, until it's too late.

 "Think of it as mountain climbing, except that you are moving horizontally, always near or below sea level, and the air takes much longer to thin out the further you go vs mountain climbing. However this is part of the danger, as nearly all of the deaths occoured not because of hitting hard vacuum or solar radiation, but because they went without proper gear, ignored the numerous posted warning signs, and were unaware that their brains were slowly and increasingly being deprived of oxygen the further they went. Confusion then sets in, preventing them from being able to make it back to saftey, before they lose conciousness, and they ultimately suffer brain death due to lack of oxygen."