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It Might Kinda Rain: Run for Your Lives!

It Might Kinda Rain: Run for Your Lives! August 18th, 2008 by jeff This is EXACTLY the reason why I hate the general media when it comes to reporting the weather. From Reuters (the title on the site I found it was “Killer Storm Fay Sets Sights on Florida” while the inside headline was “Tropical Storm Fay Menaces Florida): KEY WEST, Florida — Store owners boarded up their windows but few Florida Keys residents appeared inclined to flee as Tropical Storm Fay strengthened on its way to the is read

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Tropical storm lashes Cuba with winds, rain

Tropical Storm Fay pounded Cuba with torrential rain and wind Monday, prompting authorities to evacuate dozens of low-lying communities, cancel carnival celebrations in a central of province and warn of flooding. Forecasters said Fay, which earlier left at least five people dead in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, was on a path to cross Cuba early Monday and then pass near the Florida Keys that night. A hurricane warning was issued for the capital, Havana, and eastward to Cuba’s central read

Tropical Update

TS Fay drenches Cuba and starts to swing toward the Keys. Tourists in the Florida Keys were ordered to evacuate Sunday morning as meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center warned that Tropical Storm Fay, which is hugging Cuba's south coastline, is packing 50 mph winds and could still intensify before passing just west of the Lower Keys Monday night. At 5 a.m., a hurricane watch was posted for the entire Florida Keys, leading to the evacuation order issued due to the possibility that Fay read

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bad weather heading my way

Going off line for a bit. Tornado warning in effect for my area. If everything turns out ok I'll be talking to you in a half hour. It appears to be a wide swath of bad weather cutting through the whole bloody area-- north of and south of Chicago. read

ONA Announces 2008 Journalism Awards (guess who made it?)

Here is the full list and each category. I have emphasized (in red) the particular category of interest to me;) ## 2008 Online Journalism Awards - Finalists CHICAGO, August 4, 2008 - Finalists for the 9th annual Online Journalism Awards, which honor excellence in digital journalism, were announced today by the Online News Association (ONA). A team of journalists, representing a diverse cross-section of the industry, judged the contest during a two-day event in Chicago, August 1-2. The winn read

Gusts to 100 mph in Michigan City Indiana!

<—Severe weather outlooks for Day 1 (Tonight) and Day 2 (Tuesday) and two Severe T-Storm Watches for Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. The watch for the Chicago area and NW Indiana is a PDS Watch (Particularly Dangerous Situation!). An area of severe t-storms is moving through Northeast Ilinois. Gusts to 100 mph in Michigan City, Indiana with “extensive damage”. Gust to 94 mph at the Harrison water intake crib east of Chicago. Planes headed to Chicago are coming here to GRR to wa read

AUSTRIA, FUGA RADIOATTIVA LABORATORIO AIEA / Incidenti nucleari (alcuni poco noti)

VIENNA - Una leggera fuga di plutonio è avvenuta la notte scorsa in un laboratorio dell’Agenzia internazionale per l’energia atomica (Aiea) a Seibersdorf, vicino a Vienna, senza causare vittime. Lo ha reso noto oggi il ministero dell’ambiente austriaco. Né le persone né l’ambiente sono stati irradiati, ha assicurato il portavoce del ministero, Daniel Kapp, secondo il quale l’incidente “non ha messo in pericolo la popolazione” perché “le radiazioni sono rimaste nella zona di sicurezza” dell’imp read

August? Huh?

Y’all? What happened? Where did July get its ass to? It finally got to be summer in freakin’ Michigan - hot, muggy, grass turning brown summer - and then I looked at the calendar. Shortman is going to start his Senior year of High School in 31 days. We went and had his senior portraits (I refuse to say Senior pictures when the basic package is more than my car payment) taken yesterday. The photographer was great - he put a reluctant, embarrassed 16-year-old at ease. So much so that Shortman as read