Should Baltimore city travel really be banned at all at this point in time?”
abc2news.com has details: Baltimore City Bans Travel on Roads Baltimore, MD – Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake banned travel on city streets. It’s considered Phase 3 of the snow emergency plan. Only emergency vehicles, authorized snow plows and power crews are allowed on city streets. Right now white out conditions are making it extremely dangerous for any travel. A Blizzard Warning remains in effect until 7pm tonight. Expect areas of blowing snow with winds out of the northwest at up to 35 miles per hour. Wind gusts could reach 55 miles per hour, and another 3-5 inches of snow is expected. UPDATE: Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Fire Chief James Clack are now ordering emergency personnel en route to hospitals to stay home while Phase III is in effect. Hospitals should be prepared to keep all staff in place until further notice. In the case of emergency, please call 9-1-1. Citizens who lose power are asked to call BGE to report power ou
Sandy Lundahl lies on a couch, her eyes covered with a dark cloth mask. She’s listening to classical music through enormous headphones: Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, the “Kyrie” from Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Barber’s Adagio for Strings. An hour earlier, she had swallowed two blue capsules containing close to 30 milligrams of psilocybin, the primary active chemical in Psilocybe cubensis and other “magic” mushrooms, and she’s already well on her way on a trip into the hidden spaces of her psyche. Lundahl, a 55-year-old self-described skeptic and health educator from Bowie, is looking for God. Two experienced guides are with her in the room, monitoring her: Mary Cosimano, a clinical social worker, and William “Bill” Richards, a white-haired, 68-year-old psychiatrist and scholar of comparative religion. He’s sitting cross-legged on the carpet in front of the couch, ready to help Lundahl–to talk her out of any negative trips, to help her remain focused on the scenes unfolding behind the mask, to
