David F Nye

Dad, SPST, Fireman, Emt, Comm’s Guy. To many three letter abbreviations. #gettingbetterwithtweets, #tryingforfivemorefollowers.

[NY NJ PA Weather @nynjpaweather]

My preliminary analysis is that the sea breeze front along the NJ coast, the surface trough along the Delaware River, and the mid-level shortwave have interacted enough to enhance low-level vertical wind shear and lifting, pushing more thunderstorms to severe levels with downburst wind gusts up to 65 mph and hail.

[David F Nye @njn860]

@NWS_MountHolly Thank you

[David F Nye @njn860]

@epawawx @ChrisY42948999 I used to follow on Facebook but off social media for now, so the 78 corridor, Clinton to Elizabeth, core over night Sunday, but what did the Nam just spit out? Over a foot Bobby?

[David F Nye @njn860]

@nynjpaweather What happened?

[David F Nye @njn860]

@nynjpaweather Why is that?

[David F Nye @njn860]

@nynjpaweather As far as cold snap?

[David F Nye @njn860]

@nynjpaweather No last minute changes to a little more snow Somerset area?

[NWS Mount Holly @NWS_MountHolly]

⚠️ Northeast winds and swells arriving from Humberto are forecast to result in some areas of minor coastal flooding during the Wednesday afternoon/evening high tide. A Coastal Flood Advisory has been issued to highlight this threat for the areas in orange. #NJwx #DEwx

[Freemason @STARFORCEHH]

Listen to the ageless wisdom of Ronald Reagan.. wow...

[David F Nye @njn860]

@TaraBull808 Garbage!

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

EXCLUSIVE: Cracker Barrel Insider Breaks Silence on the Woke Destruction of an American Institution

Erik Russell spent nearly 10 years working at Cracker Barrel. He’s done every job in the restaurant. Erik even met his wife there. To Erik, Cracker Barrel was a place where tradition lived and values mattered.

But over the past decade, Erik personally witnessed from the inside how corporate sabotage destroyed the Cracker Barrel American institution.

Cracker Barrel was founded on Southern hospitality and tradition by a Christian family 1969. Since the original owners passed, company leadership has gone through major changes. Current CEO Julie Felss Masino took over in 2023, beginning an immediate push to modernize and rebrand the company.

It began with small changes. The classic brown menus replaced. Uniforms relaxed. Dress codes done away with to pander to “blue haired employees.” Then alcohol was introduced, breaking with decades of staying dry to preserve a family-first atmosphere set up by the original Christian owners.

Service and management standards slowly degraded as corporate pushed for expansion into new markets. The food quality changed along with the drive for new “modern” customers. “The logo and store redesign is simply the last step in total brand destruction by corporate vandals who seemed to despise the Cracker Barrel core culture,” says Erik.

The logo symbolized a bygone era of front porch values and simpler times — the very spirit that inspired the company’s founding. That logo, like everything else meaningful, has now been sanitized and stripped of its soul.

The antiques on the walls once told stories too. Cracker Barrel sent teams across the country to auctions and estate sales to bring back authentic Americana, curating each store like a living museum. Today that process is gone, replaced with mass-produced décor that lacks meaning.

What could not be destroyed from the outside was dismantled from within. Longtime employees left, regulars stopped coming, and standards fell.
“I felt like I was part of something truly American, full of nostalgia and tradition. Now all of that’s being torn down and replaced with just another bland, soulless corporate chain,” Erik said. 
His next words stuck with me: “Cracker Barrel built up decades of goodwill across the country. We often referred to ourselves as “America’s front porch” after the iconic long storefront filled with rocking chairs and checkerboards where guests would wait to be seated. Each store I worked in felt slightly different, a reflection of their communities.”

According to Erik, the Cracker Barrel he loved, the one so many families cherished, is gone.

Erik lived the golden years. He met his wife there. Many coworkers were couples too, bound together by shared values. Regulars came daily, often to the same table, until the day they passed. “Cracker Barrel was more than a restaurant to them, it was home. A place where they felt  still belonged, even as the world changed around them.”

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[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

UPDATE: The #earthquake has been upgraded to a MAGNITUDE 8.7, the strongest quake since the March 11, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan!

The most recent quake of similar magnitudfe was on April 11, 2012, when a 8.6 hit Indonesia. off northern Sumatra.

[New Jersey Forest Fire Service @njdepforestfire]

Today, March 12, @NJDEPForestFire plans to conduct prescribed fire operations in Burlington, Morris & Somerset counties.

🔥 Active / upcoming prescribed burn map: https://t.co/rOnoLpw39A
🔗 More info about prescribed fire: https://t.co/KkuhK2hswN

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: CNN did not even cover the fact that $59,000,000 from FEMA went to housing illegal immigrants in luxury hotels in NYC yesterday.

Not one single article or news segment.

Read that again.

[David F Nye @njn860]

@dcfireems @Jeff_Piotrowski 60 souls on board

[NWS Mount Holly @NWS_MountHolly]

29 years ago right now, we were in the middle of the Blizzard of 96. Official totals include 32.0" in Reading, 30.7" in Philadelphia, 25.6" in Allentown, 24.6" in Trenton, 22.1" in Wilmington and 14.6" at AC Airport. In Reading, Philly and Trenton, its the biggest storm on record

[David F Nye @njn860]

@MTGrepp Hell yes, it is time to let Dan overhaul this agency!

[David F Nye @njn860]

@MTGrepp 👍🏻

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

HOLY SH*T 🚨 Kennedy Campaign dropped the BEST ad for the Unity Team that Trump built 🔥

You are not just voting for Trump, you are voting for the BEST Unity Team ever created 🇺🇸

THIS IS MASSIVE 👏