No Eddie Munster today. We are still pre-empted by Isaac.
Uh, that’s TROPICAL STORM LEE we’re now talking about!
Yes, it is no longer that oddly-shaped tropical wave out there in the Gulf. Nor is it TD 13, meaning Tropical Depression 13. The National Hurricane Center upped the storm’s status to Tropical Storm Lee this afternoon and it appears to threaten New Orleans with a lot of wind, a lot of network reporters and …
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Disasters sock it to the East Coast
Some post-Irene thoughts. I know Hurricane Irene certainly wasn’t as bad as it could have been. Does that mean the media and government should be battered for sounding a loud alarm? Well, opinions are, you know, like … (See Paragraph 3.) Luckily my niece and her family in Virginia and my long-time friend Sally in …
Why I write here about politics and other trivial B.S.
Hurricane seasons remind me why I mostly write here on a blog about politics and various other topics less given to blood and death. Now during my first couple of years freelancing I happened to make a fair amount of money writing about the evacuations and aftermath of hurricanes for a large U.S. metro newspaper. …
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