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Free Film Screening at Mardi Gras in downtown Warren, PA

The Boonies Film Festival presents "Goliath" an unusual comedy about an important cat at 7 p.m. Friday at Mardi Gras restaurant. The comedy has been showcased at multiple film festivals around the country and on the IFC Channel too.

Local recording star Matt Maloof provides free music after the show and there is even talk of free food, too. The entire thing is free, did I say "free?",  to promote the Boonies Flim Festival to be held in Warren, PA this summer from August 17 through August 20. Maybe this will make February more tolerable. I could use a few laughs. Thanks, Boonies!

Things get started at 7 p.m., but the restaurant at 344 Pennsylvania Avenue, near the point in downtown Warren, PA, opens at 5 p.m.

For more information on the Boonies Film Festival and local cinematography visit Boonies International Film Festival.

 

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Wind Advisory until tomorrow morning

from the U.S. Weather Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:
Wind Advisory
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1117 AM EST WED DEC 9 2009

...STRONG WINDS TO BUFFET THE AREA TONIGHT...

.INTENSE LOW PRESSURE MOVING THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES WILL DRAG A COLD FRONT THROUGH PENNSYLVANIA LATE TODAY...ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WEST WINDS. STRONG...GUSTY WINDS WILL USHER MUCH COLDER WEATHER INTO THE AREA TONIGHT.

WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-CLEARFIELD-CAMBRIA-SOMERSET-
1117 AM EST WED DEC 9 2009
...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST THURSDAY...

THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST THURSDAY. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PUSH EAST FROM THE OHIO VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON...CROSSING THE WESTERN MOUNTAINS OF PENNSYLVANIA LATE IN THE DAY. STRONG WESTERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP IN THE WAKE OF THIS FRONT AS MUCH COLDER AIR SURGES INTO THE REGION. WIND CHILLS BY LATE TONIGHT WILL BE DOWN IN THE SINGLE DIGITS.

SUSTAINED...WEST WINDS WILL AVERAGE 25 TO 30 MPH...WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS BETWEEN 45 AND 50 MPH. A THIN COATING OF ICE MAY REMAIN ON TREES AND POWER LINES OVER THE LAUREL HIGHLANDS... LEADING TO AN INCREASED THREAT OF POWER OUTAGES IN THAT AREA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS OF 46 AND 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG MAY CAUSE MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE WITHOUT EXTRA PRECAUTIONS. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION UNTIL THE WIND SUBSIDES.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES.

Hail

from the U.S. Weather Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MCKEAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
SOUTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
ELK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 230 PM EST

* AT 125 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE SEVERE STORMS
EXTENDED FROM CHAPMAN STATE PARK TO SUMMERVILLE...AND WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
SHEFFIELD AROUND 140 PM...
LUDLOW AROUND 145 PM...
PORTLAND MILLS AROUND 150 PM...
JAMES CITY AND BROCKPORT AROUND 155 PM...
MARSHBURG AND RIDGWAY AROUND 200 PM...
WILCOX AND JOHNSONBURG AROUND 205 PM...

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 6...ROUTE 219...
STATE ROAD 46...STATE ROAD 59...STATE ROAD 66...STATE ROAD 120...
STATE ROAD 255...STATE ROAD 446.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND
DAMAGE IN VENANGO COUNTY. TAKE SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!