It turned out that the nation's most famous giant green lady went dark due to repair work from damage caused by, perhaps fittingly, a female tempest -- Hurricane Sandy. According to a statement from the National Park Service, it was a "temporary, unplanned outage."
Dancers perform at a Carnival parade in Les Cayes, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Haiti's three-day Carnival festivities have brought rum-fueled parties, imaginative costumes and high-energy dance music to a southern city that's still recovering from last year's punishing Hurricane Matthew.
Dancers perform at a Carnival parade in Les Cayes, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Haiti's three-day Carnival festivities have brought rum-fueled parties, imaginative costumes and high-energy dance music to a southern city that's still recovering from last year's punishing Hurricane Matthew.
If Santa really lived at the North Pole his sleigh would run the risk of falling through the ice this week, empty or fully laden. Temperatures in the high Arctic will approach melting point on Thursday, including near the North Pole, a massive 30 degrees or more above average for this time of the year.
As Florida finishes baking near 90 degrees and your grandmother in Green Bay has finally warmed back above zero, winter is about to officially begin Wednesday morning at 5:44 a.m. EST. And it'll end a very unique fall in central Florida.