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The madness has subsided. We’re safe and comfortable, which I realize is more than I can say for a lot of people in New Jersey, Queens, and elsewhere. We were far from the worst of it, I know. But I figured I might as well set everything down now before it washes away like so many trees and debris.
I would hope that those of my friends who thought it was ‘all a bunch of hype, just like Irene’ are now sufficiently chastened. But I don’t think even those of us who took it seriously expected something on this scale. As of Monday evening I was envisioning something like the following: staying in while drinking wine and eating all the snacks we’d stocked up on and playing Settlers of Catan by candlelight until the power went back on in a day or so, at which point we’d switch to watching movies until the subways came back in another day or so and I no longer had an excuse to stay home from work. Continue reading
Well, here we go again. Here is our list of hurricane resources for you kids on the East Coast. This year I actually included Vermont since Launie was the only one who actually got hit last year. Stay safe, kids.
Good morning gang and especially you Crasstalkers on the East Coast. By the time you are reading this there is probably only about 24 hours left before you start to feel the effects of the hurricane. Not ready yet? Go, now. Here’s a couple of things to get you started and a list of emergency contacts and numbers you may need. I have included mostly state government links, but please feel free to add info from your own area in the comments. I tried to include Twitter links for each area so you can get emergency information on your phone if you lose power and internet access. Stay safe and be sensible out there. Continue reading
There is nothing quite so refreshing as a change of season. The changing temperature marks the passage of time, but not in a dismal birthday candle way. Adults don’t experience newness on a regular basis. We don’t have a new teacher every year, or learn a new subject every quarter. Unless we work in a very volatile field there is some sense of familiarity in what we do, day in and day out.
We don’t exactly become gerbils on wheels (unless we choose to of course.) Our lives are rich and we pursue new ideas, adventures and activities. But our very existence is not dictated by growth and change. We are not given new responsibilities and allowed to do new and exiting things with each passing year (ex. crossing the street alone, going to the mall with friends, etc.) We (hopefully) don’t grow out of our wardrobe every year and get the chance to reinvent our look. Never again will we (organically) change from being a boy/girl to a man/woman. We are what we are. Continue reading
Turn around. Every now and then it gets a little bit lonely if you’re not an astronomy nerd aficionado and don’t realize there was a solar eclipse visible yesterday. The eclipse could be spotted in much of the Northern Hemisphere from Japan all the way to the state of Kansas.
A homeowner in San Rafael, Calif. shot this video of what happens when light from the eclipse shines down through some leafy trees. Sunlight ghost bats!
Things car companies do not want their products associated with: death and backfiring.
Unfortunately for BMW-owned MINI, what was meant to be a cheap publicity stunt has associated both with the marque’s iconic MINI Cooper across a large swathe of Europe. Continue reading
Once again, we’re in one of those periods wherein Americans get fed up with their own government (or looming government) and declare their intention to move to Canada. It happened the last time Bush Jr. was elected, and the time before that when he wasn’t really elected, but everyone wanted to move to Canada anyhow. Continue reading
It turns out they’re mostly in California. But for the full list we go to Environment America’s clean air report (PDF). Continue reading
Don’t panic, folks. That shaking you felt that rattled your desk while you were trying to comment on your friend’s Facebook status? That was just a 5.9 earthquake in Virgina that rippled across the east coast. I’m sure we’ll all be fine, so just go back to “work” now.
So. What did you do to survive the Earthquake of 2011?
We live in crazy times, we do. Sure, every generation thinks that their era represents some unprecedented moment in history, but our current state of affairs seems to be especially whacky. And when the oceans start going haywire, we land-dwelling creatures should probably sit up and take notice. Recently, marine biologists from 17 marine institutes in 10 European countries have synthesized the results of almost 300 EU-funded climate change-related research projects from the past 13 years. Their findings? Weird things are happening in our oceans. Continue reading