So just how big is Hurricane Irma? I found a story on the Washington Post with an interactive map that lets you superimpose Irma (as she was on Wednesday) on a map of your city or state. Fascinated as I… Read More ›
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Rescued Texas nursing home residents safe, dry, warm today
The residents of the flooded La Vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson, TX, rescued yesterday after their plight became known nationwide via social media, are safe, dry, and warm today. They were relocated to a nursing facility in nearby Alvin,… Read More ›
Attention riveted on Houston area
Hurricane Harvey has rightfully dominated the news for several days, and while I’ve seen plenty of hurricane coverage in my life, this is the first time I’ve had friends in the danger area. They’ve been uppermost in my mind as… Read More ›
NYT posts interactive map of Sandy’s flooding
The New York Times has posted a fascinating interactive map of Hurricane Sandy’s flooding in the New York City area. It shows the depth of the water in each area and you can zoom in for block-by-block and even house-by-house… Read More ›
Best photograph of the NY power outage
Of all the pictures we’ve seen of lower Manhattan’s power outage, this has to be the best. Not a dark skyline silhouetted against a still-glowing uptown or a dark patch in a sea of light, but a stark half-and-half… Read More ›
Google crisis map keys on Sandy
Just when I’d decided Google does everything worth doing, I’ve found they also do crisis maps. Being both a map nut and a weather watcher, I found this particularly intriguing. I guess it took an event like Hurricane Sandy to… Read More ›
Hurricane Sandy claims tall ship Bounty
(Updated Oct. 30, 2012) The beautiful tall ship Bounty is gone, sunk off Cape Hatteras by Hurricane Sandy. Her crew of 16 was forced to abandon ship in the middle of the night last night, and two of them were… Read More ›
Sandy approaching NYC
Want to see Hurricane Sandy approaching New York harbor? Or more accurately at the moment, hear her? Check out the live streaming video of NY harbor from the Statue of Liberty. You can see the white caps at the bottom… Read More ›
‘Hunkering down’ for hurricanes
I have restrained myself for approximately four years, so I’m giving myself permission to rant again about a particular pet peeve of mine. Back in 2008 I wrote: When reporters cover hurricanes, they talk a lot about the populace “hunkering down.”… Read More ›
Reporter gives update covered in ‘sea foam’
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time, and certainly the funniest to come out of the Hurricane Irene coverage. The reporter is getting covered in blowing sea foam, which most of us know by now was… Read More ›
Thoughts on Irene
I’ve had the TV on all day, tuned to CNN, watching the news and worrying about everyone on the East Coast. Specifically, I worry about those few individuals I know there. I keep reminding myself that these folks will undoubtedly… Read More ›
Nothing funny about Irene
Not to minimize the danger and disruption that Hurricane Irene is about to spread up the East Coast, but I’ve gotten a bit fixated on one recurring detail in the reporting. Every time a meteorologist stands in front of a… Read More ›
