Tag: hurricane

  • Props to Dominion Power and Cox Cable

    29 Aug 2011 » 1 min read

    Although the media coverage of Hurricane Irene was awful, I have to give credit where credit is due. We did end up having a power outage. We were lucky. It occurred right around 4am and lasted until 9:30am so its impact on our daily routines and power use was minimal. Between 9:30 and noon, everything…

  • The uniformly awful media coverage of Hurricane Irene

    29 Aug 2011 » 3 min read

    The media coverage of Hurricane Irene was about the worst I’ve seen for any weather event thus far. Media coverage of weather events have, for reasons that completely elude me, grown increasingly alarmist and outrageous with each passing event. Every major weather event needs some kind of name (“snowmageddon”) and the continuous coverage of sensationalized…

  • Internet outage

    28 Aug 2011 » 1 min read about Personal & Family

    Our power went out at 4am and Dominion had it restored by 9:30. However, shortly after the power was restored, the cable/Internet went out. Those services still haven’t been restored although our cable company is working on it. So I can only do brief updates on the blog right now. I do have a couple…

  • Earth, wind, and… fire?

    26 Aug 2011 » 1 min read about Personal & Family

    Early this week we had an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale. Tomorrow we are facing Hurricane Irene. In our part of the mid-Atlantic, it will likely be tropical storm-force, as opposed hurricane force. The rain is supposed to start tomorrow morning and get stronger throughout the day until tomorrow evening, when the strong…