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Sunday, 10 July 2005
Another Day, Another Hurricane
Hurricane Dennis

According to The Weather Channel, about eleven thousand people in Tallahassee have lost power, and the streetlights are out downtown (even though Dennis hasn't yet made landfall, and it's coming in about 160 miles to the west). Fortunately, my building is on its own generators, so I still get to go in to work bright and early tomorrow.

I wonder, what do people in other parts of the country see on The Weather Channel when there's a hurricane? Do you get to see your own local weather forecasts, or are you forced to watch the same wall-to-wall hurricane coverage we get in Florida?

Yesterday, Karen and I prepared for the storm by watching Monster, a film about the Florida serial killer Aileen Wuornos. I'm shocked the picture didn't win any awards for makeup. Very intense film, though not on the same level as Hotel Rwanda.


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Well, wossername did win Best Actress...

Hope you're OK. The wife managed to pick this weekend to go to Tampa for a conference, but from what I understand she didn't get hit too badly.
Posted by Squelch on 10 Jul 2005 18:48
Well, the lights went out for a couple of minutes — just long enough for me to shut down our computers.

However, Comcast seems to have had problems; I can get to their machines, but not out from there. And no name resolution at all, but that's par for the course with Comcast; if a gnat farts within fifty yards of their servers, they lose DNS.

Posted by Godfrey on 11 Jul 2005 04:59
Over here in Missouri, we saw some hurricane coverage, mostly of the "oh holy Mother of God, look at the scary *storm* with all the *water*!!!" That was interspersed with our usual "nope, no rain yet" and "hurray-- nobody's died in a tornado yet this year!" coverage.
Posted by Anonymous Coward on 11 Jul 2005 09:27
And yes, the Anonymous Coward of the day was forgetful me. Teach me to ignore blanks...
Posted by Kris on 11 Jul 2005 09:28
Cool. Down here, they only broke away from the Weather Channel Drinking Game every couple of hours; I'm glad people elsewhere didn't have to wait that long to see their own forecasts.

(The Drinking Game: take a shot every time they say "hunker down"; take a shot every time they say "bearing down"; take a shot every time they cut from a field reporter to the anchorwoman and she says she feels like a "mother hen"; take a shot every time a field reporter gets knocked over by the wind; take two shots when a reporter flees in panic from a lightning strike... then go to a hospital for alcohol poisoning.)
Posted by Godfrey on 11 Jul 2005 09:37