Shortly afer Googleing her naem and discovering that I had put the story out there to the public of St. Louis. Why did Roxanne Bentrup suddenly excuse herself rom this  case, and place someone else to clean up her dirty owork. Indeed she did try to cover this fact up by simply stating that the case had been transferred because fo new cases that had came in, but why pursue a case for almost 2 years and all of a sudden once you fidn that someone might find out about this, then excuse yourself from the case. MMMMMM

This was not the beginnig of what she had done. She also allegitly sent out a letter to two visually impaired people, stating that she had moved desk, and that hernumber had changed. Previous month or two we had been calling 314-877-2558, thinking it was her number. She had canceled serval vistis with Xzavier, due to thing such as: she was sick, she had court, she couldnt make ti, or the worse was the tiem she canceled after the bus was late and Jen (Xzavier's mother) shoowed up 10 mins. late, and when she finaly got ther she foud out that Roxanne had left with Xzavier. She made Jen travel from Chippewa and Morganford all the way to Lucas and Hunt and W. Florrisant to coem and see him, because she refuse to meet anywhere else. Roxanne is a iar also. She lied abot how she found us. She lied about why my son was being takne. She lied the day she came to take him. She lied the day before she took him, because she stated that she was coming back the next day to just check up  on how things were. If we were such a danger to our kids why not take him on the first day. SLL OF WHAT IM SAYING IS TRUE AND IF ANYONE WANTS TO GIVE ME POLYGRAPH TEST I WIL TAKE ONE. THIS WOMAN ALONG WITH AMI WATSON AND OTHERS CAN ROT IN HELL FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DOEN TO US, AND THE WAY I HEAR THEY HAVE DONE TO ALOT OTHER TOO. THE IIS WORKER HERSELF TOLD US, "THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE WHO ARE LESS FORTUNATE ALL THE TIEM."  And infact the IIS worker quit working for tthe state due to what she had been witnessing.

WHO IS REALLY WRONG? WHO HAS ABUSE xZAVIER REALLY? wHO HAS TRAUMATIZED MY SON? WHO DOESN'T CARE ABOUT KIDS RELALY? IF YOU CAN ANSWER THESE ?'S YOU ARE SMART?

ONCE I GET MY BUSINESS GOING I WIL HELP OTHERS WHO HAVE GONE THROUGH THIS LIKE I HAVE. MY ORGANIZATION WIL BE CALLED "FIGHT bACK". hELPING FAMILIES WHO ARE BEING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BECAUSE THEY DONT HAVE MONEY OR RESOURCES TO FIGHT THE GOVERNMEN.  THE SYSTEM IS FAILING AND NEEDS TO BE OVERHAULED SON.

Dear Glenn,

Watching you on the news on the evening of Tuesday, August 26th I heard some things that were quite concerning. When speaking of hurricane Gustav you were saying things like "it's a very large hurricane", and "it's taking a very concerning track", and worst of all "it could be as big as Katrina".  Now I am not a meteorologist, but I am a weather nut, and right now Gustav is NOT a big hurricane, it barely is a hurricane actually after crossing Haiti.

Could Gustav strenghthen to a major hurricane, shoot yes, and I'm sure it will maybe a category 4 or even a 5.  Yes a cat 5 is what Katrina was well before landfall, but it only made landfall as a cat 3. Saying the name "Katrina"  is very inappropriate when comparing that storm with Gustav. There is no comparison. Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters this country has ever seen, we are yet to see what Gustav does.  I believe you saying that was just used to shock people and get there attention, but there's better ways to do that.

As for the track which the HPC takes into the central Gulf right now, that track forecast will change many many times over the next 5 days before Gustav is even a threat to the US.  I know it'll change, you know it'll change, but some of the average people out there who aren't "weather weenies" don't necessarily know that.  And saying  a big destructive storm is heading in the direction of New Orleans at this point is just not proper. If we get to withing 24-48 hours and it's making a beeline towards New Orleans then fine, but 6 or 7 days out it is IMPOSSIBLE to say where this thing is going. It has just as good of chance of hittinfg Brownsville, Houston, Mobile or the Florida panhandle or anywhere in between at this point. People here in the St. Louis area with family or friends in New Orleans may have heard you say that and are now very worried about what may or may not happen.

If it becomes more likely in the next several days it will hit New Orleans then hype it, but please don't do it unnecessarily. The people of New Orleans don't deserve it, they have been through enough. I'm very glad no one along the gulf coast heard you say that.

I mean no disrespect as you are the met and I am not, it just seemed not quite right to me.  Thank you for your time and feel free to respond.

Hurricane Gustav rapidly developed last night south of the Dominician Republic and Haiti with near catagory 2 force winds and a pressure just measured by hurricance hunter aircraft at 957.9MB. It was moving northwest at around 10 mph, but is expected to make a turn to the left and move west, northwest by Wednesday afternoon. This will bring it south of Cuba and just north of the Yucatan Peninsula... The perfect feeding grounds for a monster hurricane to take shape as it enters the Gulf of Mexico by the Labor Day weekend.

Where it goes from there is still up in the air, but I know one thing is for certain it will hit the United States and given the light shearing environment and bath warm waters it will more then likely be a major hurricane at that point possibly a catagory 4 or even a five with winds ranging from 135mph to 175mph. The biggest thing that will dictate where Gustav will make landfall in the US is a ridge that is expected to build in the eastern third of the US. The GFS and GEM models predict a 1024MB to 1030MB high pressure ridge to form in the Mid-Atlantic area into the mid south. As we all know winds in a high pressure center blow clockwise.

If this ridge builds as forecasted then the central gulf coast will be the prime target of this storm. New Orleans to Houston to Pensacola comes to mind, with Louisana and Mississippi being the highest risk for a landfall. This will occur sometime by middle or latter next week. Wednesday through friday timeframe. After then it could shot north and bring clouds and possibly rains up along the Mississippi Valley which also includes Memphis and St. Louis. A far shot, alot of things could change, but this is a storm worth keeping an eye on!

I was shocked and pleased when I turned the news on at 5:10 to discover Glenn was doing the evening edition of the weather.  Love Angela in the AM with Glenn, however what happened to Mark G. filling in for Dave?  Do we have Glenn all week in the evening editions?

Take Care

PS  You can never have too much Glenn and Angela!!!

An area of high pressure is dropping south into the upper Mississippi River Valley and will dominate the weather in the bi-state area over the next few days. That means northerly winds, cooler temps, and lower humidity.  This High along with the weak, almost stalled out, cold front ahead of it will keep the remains of Tropical Storm Fay away from St. Louis. There will be some more clouds in the southeast corner of the FOX 2 viewing area…maybe a shower or two. On Sunday, there will be a bit of a battle over LA, MS, and TN as Fay tries to move north but the ridge tries to keep it south. The remnants of Fay will eventually kick off to the northeast.

  We remain trapped between High sliding into the Great Lakes to the North and Fay’s remnants through midweek. Another front moves in Thursday night. Right now, things are not looking very impressive in the models. But we’ll need to keep an eye on it.

 Speaking of keeping an eye on it, we’ll have to watch the Caribbean just south of Puerto Rico. Could be area where we see some tropical development in the coming week.

  I’m in on FOX 2 News In The Morning all this week, so we’ll see you soon!

-Angela

Dear weather crew,

Or fellow bloggers dose anybody belive in  A.L.F. . (No not the wierdo from malmac) But REAL A.L.F.  Please blog me your thought we have a huge galaxy & sometimes i wonder

hi dave!

my nephew wanted  me to tell you that he is praying for snow this winter.and if there is anything you can do about that. hahaah! i told him i will let you know and see what happens. he says he is still praying. keep up the fabulous job!!!

                                           kelly

i just got done reading about the fall forcast. and i really enjoyed the whole forcast. me and my husband-tony, both read it and we are looking forward to the winter forcast. so, dave, do you think we will get our fair share of snow this winter or more and will we possibly have a white christmas??? i bet you get this question alot. hah! but we were just curious. me and tony are looking forward to fall and cooler temperautres. and plus he is a deer hunter so he is definately looking forward to october 1st.

well thank you dave for the fall forcast and we are so looking forward to the winter forcast too. you got me all excited and wondering what winter will be like. take care and have a fabulous weekend!

                                kelly

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*** TEMPERATURES WILL BE A LITTLE WARMER THIS WEEK...NEAR TO ABOVE NORMAL...SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO END A VERY NON-AUGUST MONTH

*** LIMITED RAIN AND STORMS...BUT THAT IS RATHER TYPICAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR...AS WE GET READY TO ROLL INTO THE FALL SEASON

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