The bulk of the storm passed me in the night (I’m the pink dot to the lower left).  The eye is now is now sitting on top of New York (the pink dot to the upper right).  Right now in DC we’re only getting a light rain.  It feels very calm and ordinary after yesterday’s stormy energy.  The […]

The storm is still going strong.  As you can see from the map below, we’re back in the yellow/orange zone.  Torrential rain and strong wind.  I’m getting really sleepy, and I need to go to bed.  But how can I go to bed when there’s a hurricane?  It’s like going to bed in the middle […]

What does 12-16 inches of rain look like?  It’s been raining hard for the past 10 hours where I live, and according to the weather guys we’ve only gotten somewhere between 2-4 inches.  So if southern Virginia has gotten 12-16 inches, then I’m impressed and, frankly, have a hard time imagining what that must have […]

I found a way to plot my position in the map.  I’m the pink dot.  It makes me sad to see that all the best stuff is passing by to the east!  Anyone want to go to Baltimore with me? 

We’re in the middle of our hurricane weekend.  Irene has been working her way up the coast all morning.  The rain started here a little before noon; the wind didn’t really start until the early afternoon.  When I went running at 1:30pm, it was through a medium downpour with gusting winds.  Things have gradually gotten worse […]

I love, love, love the natural disasters we get in Washington, DC.  They don’t wreak anywhere near the havoc and devastation that their more ferocious cousins do in places like Haiti and Japan — but they provide endless entertainment for me, and they get me out of stuff I don’t want to do.  For example: A couple […]