August 29, 2006
Climate and Weather
It's been all over the place for the last two days.
"Ernesto is coming, Ernesto is coming! Remember Katrina!"
Excuse me while I snort with disgust.
First of all, we don't have those incompetent twits Nagin and Blanco running around being idiots. Granted, we have our own set of incompetent idiots, but they are at least an order of magnitude better than those two.
Secondly, Ernesto was never terribly well organized as a hurricane. And apparantly the Cuban mountains disorganized him badly (goodly?) enough that, at this point, he's just another storm - lots of rain, some wind, and not much else.
On the gripping hand, folks ARE paying attention - including Yours Truly. We're ready to stand in place, or run for high ground (or what passes for high ground out here in the East).
Posted by ward at 09:39 PM | Comments (0)
October 16, 2005
Blood-sucking BUGS!
Cut the grass today.
Durned bugs like to et me 'live. Two weeks of rain'll persuade the little bugs to be big bugs, with a likin' for Old Wierd Ward's blood.
Got the Mosquito Deleto runnin' jus' as hard as it kin go, an' th' blue light zapper soakin' up the kilowatts, and the little bastids STILL tryin' to eat me 'live.
Musta lost two quarts.
Got lumps all over ma body.
Just damn... ain't it grand, livin' in da souf?
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October 05, 2005
Tropical Storm "Tammy"
It's been raining here, off and on, since Saturday. Four days of rain and then sorta dry.
Today was just a little different.
We got a little over two inches in one hour - 3 1/2 inches over a two-hour period.
I had occasion to trot down to the local convenience store. There was water running rapidly over the top of a road that didn't flood during the side-effects of last year's hurricanes.
Tropical Storm Tammy is/was a sleazy no-good.
Better than earthquakes, mind you, but still not fun.
Posted by ward at 10:59 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 11, 2005
Ophelia - Sun 5AM
Looks like Georgia has dodged a bullet. Of course, that means that other folks are probably gonna get clobbered.
Here at The Swamp, we're recuperating from an evening of drunken debauchery refined and genteel conversation with some of our neighbors.
Posted by ward at 08:10 AM | Comments (1)
September 09, 2005
Ophelia - Friday 5 PM
Here's the 5PM estimate/guess/tea-leaf-ready of what Ophelia is likely to do. It looks like it's going to miss The Swamp, which suits me just fine, IF that's what she does.
At the NOAA site, there's also projections of Tropical Storms Maria and Nate - which are well out into the Atlantic, and very unlikely to cause any grief to us.
NOAA's Hurricane site is HERE.
Posted by ward at 04:28 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Ophelia - Friday Afternoon
Well, it's now official - Ophelia doesn't know what she wants to do.
The current tea-leaf reading from NOAA shows her projected track looking like a mirror-image numeral 4 - twisting like a demented snake and making landfall just north of Savannah, GA.
I don't believe a word of it. Where Ophelia is going to go, and when, isn't even an informed guess. If she comes ashore, it's going to be a mess.
Posted by ward at 03:22 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Tropical Storm Ophelia, again
As you know from my earlier posts on this, we're keeping a very close eye on Ophelia. The five-day projection below shows what NOAA thinks she might do. Actually, what NOAA is saying here is "we don't have a clue as to what this thing's going to do."
That does not give me a warm, fuzzy, secure feeling.
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September 08, 2005
Tropical Storm Ophelia, part 2.5
As you can see below, Ophelia is supposed to turn into a hurricane (Boo! Hiss!) and make a sharp right out into the Atlantic, well away from The Swamp (Hurrah! Hurrah!)
Please note the white circle. That indicates where NOAA thinks Ophelia might go - i.e., anywhere at all.
Here at The Swamp, we are watching this evil potential monster very, very carefully.
Posted by ward at 08:08 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 07, 2005
Tropical Storm Ophelia
According to NOAA, at the moment it looks like Ophelia is going to go away, out into the Atlantic. For a while, it looked like Ophelia was going to be a hurricane AND waltz right over the top of The Swamp.
For the last two days we've been having torrential downpours with moments of light drizzle. If this is as bad as it gets, I'm grateful.
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