“No one can predict the exact time or place of any earthquake, including aftershocks,” says the United States Geological Survey.

A person’s life can change in an instant when an accident or a surgery gone awry causes paralysis.

We cover the news when it happens and now are following up with four of the people we’ve written about over the years to see how their lives have unfolded, how they are adapting to their new reality.

“I want to expand what I do as a planner and really dig into what I teach people how to do,” said Sean Maguire.

A new website launched by the New York State Mesonet at the University at Albany will offer real-time access to weather data statewide around the total solar eclipse on April 8.

ALBANY COUNTY — Western Albany County, including the Helderbergs, is under a winter storm watch from Wednesday morning until late Thursday night, according to the National Weather Service.

Patricia Fahy, Assemblywoman, District 109

With the start of spring on Tuesday, the state has launched a New York Blooms Report, with a weekly map to help New Yorkers identify the best places to see roses, lilacs, tulips, cherry blossoms, and magnolias at attractions across the state.

In the midst of the early spring snow and ice storm on Sunday, Governor Kathy Hochul announced “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced a G4 electromagnetic storm is currently occurring over much of the northern United States, including the State of New York.” NOAA explained on its website that a coronal mass ejection caused by a flare on the Sun on March 23 “arrived at Earth as expected on 24 Mar. Effects are likely to linger but decrease coming into 26 Mar.”

April 19 is the third application deadline for the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service New York

Local libraries and Thacher State Park are offering programs about the eclipse as schools are taking “a potpourri of approaches,” Guilderland Superintendent Marie Wiles told her school board on March 12.