Just a quick update for right now: We survived the storm with nothing worse than a very short power flicker. I did keep an eye on the trees being tossed around out back, but it appears that nothing in the area around our house came down. I think the one casualty was my sanity after being cooped up in the house for the entirety of Monday.

A derecho blew through here tonight, with 71 MPH gusts at Dulles and 79 in Reston. Luckily (since it's supposed to hit 100+ again tomorrow) the power stayed on here, but we do have at least a few trees down. One looks like it might've hit our neighbor's garage on the way down. No obvious damage to our house though, at least not that I can see ( Read more... )

Dr. Jeff Masters on Gustav:

NHC is forecasting that Gustav's current diameter of tropical storm force (about 320 miles across) will grow to about 350 miles across at landfall in Louisiana. This is about 80% as wide as the 440 mile-wide region of tropical storm force winds Hurricane Katrina had at landfall (5 am August 29, 2005 ( Read more... )

I know we need to make up for last year's drought, but could we maybe not do it all at once, please? Apparently the 7.83" since May 1 (most of it in the last two days) at National already puts us at the 5th wettest May on record, and the #1 spot is less than three inches away.

SOME SUN WOULD BE REALLY NICE PLS.

The French Toast Alert System status for tomorrow: Elevated

Elevated: Moderate, plowable snow predicted. Harvey Leonard openly smiles during report. Empty your trunk to make room for milk, eggs and bread. Clear space in refrigerator and head to store for an extra gallon of milk, a spare dozen eggs and a new loaf of bread.

Thursday
Snow likely ( Read more... )

Looking out the front door of the office. Had no idea it was supposed to snow at all today. It's coming down pretty hard, but alas, I'm sure there's no snow day coming out of it.


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It's pouring buckets, kind of green, and the parking lot is covered in hail. Guess I won't leave the office right this minute after all.

Yesterday at 1:45 PM: 81 degrees
Yesterday at 5:45 PM: 48 degrees
Right now: Snowing. Hard. Parking lot getting slushy.

WTF?

By "1/4 inch of freezing rain by Sunday evening", they apparently meant "3 inches of heavy, wet snow by 11 AM". I think I prefer the latter at the moment, especially since I had to go out to Petsmart this morning to get some Maroxy to treat Max (of course the medication I discover last night that I specifically need is the only one I didn't ( Read more... )

Where's my snow day, damnit ( Read more... )