The American Red Cross is making an urgent plea for people of all types to give blood as it faces what it is calling a “looming shortage”.
It’s going to be a powerless Christmas for many households in Grand Rapids and elsewhere across West Michigan because of a weekend ice storm and a continued wintry mix including snow, officials said Monday night.
Hurricane Irene is headed to the Eastern seaboard sometime tomorrow, most likely touching land around the Carolinas and heading northward from there.
Thousands of families and businesses are being evacuated today.
One thing we know for sure ... there will be devastation and hopefully only of debris and not people who were unable or unwilling to leave the area before the storm hits.