Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Firefighters respond to some 155,000 cooking fires each year.
Frying a turkey may result in a jucier turkey than traditional preparation methods, but firefighters say don't put your taste for turkey over safety and sensibility. More than 2,000 Thanksgiving Day fires are reported each year, causing an average of $21 million in property damage and five deaths, according to the U.S. Fire Administration. Some of those fires start when a turkey fryer is misused or left unattended, firefighters said. Leaving cooking food unattended and falling asleep while cooking is a main cause of kitchen fires. See Dale City Patch's complete holiday guide to cooking, traveling and shopping here. Over the years, turkey fryer manufactures have improved the devices, but superheated oil and high temperatures still make them…
Monday, November 19, 2012
If you're traveling by car this Thanksgiving in Northern Virginia, try to drive very early in the morning.
About 43.6 million people are planning to travel 50 miles or more for their Thanksgiving meal this year, according to AAA—and 90 percent of those people are traveling by car. While Northern Virginia is traffic-heavy throughout the holiday period, the day before Thanksgiving is the heaviest travel day. To help you plan your travel, the Virginia Department of Transportation created this set of maps showing Thanksgiving traffic congestion from Wednesday, Nov. 23 through Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Unlike last year, the Beltway Express Lanes will be open for Thanksgiving, which may alleviate some of the Thanksgiving travel congestion on Wednesday. The 2011 maps show the heaviest travel in Northern Virginia last year, particularly around the Beltway…
Saturday, November 19, 2011
What are you grateful for?
I love social media! I stop in at Facebook at least twice a day just to see what everyone is doing. Friends and family post pictures and jokes, links to news items, updates, their joys and successes and their woes and ills. I could never keep up with everyone if not for Facebook. So, I am grateful for social media, the web and the technology that makes it possible. I’m grateful for the electricity that hums through the wires to bring me everything from my computer to my toothbrush. I’m grateful for clean, fresh water to drink or wash my hair any time I want. I’m grateful for the heating and air conditioning that makes our lives so much easier and the appliances like washing machines and microwave ovens that do the same. At age 58, I am …
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