Current projections for the course of Hurricane Hanna have it coming my way; the early-morning National Weather Center maps had the dot for Sun 2 AM right over Lowell. (It's changed a bit since then, but I'm still well within the projected course. Of course, so is Buffalo, New York.) But I just realized something; that's Sunday. I have Sunday off. ( Read more... )

There's just one thing to say. I like Ike.

On hurricanes, I'd like to point out that Tropical Storm Cristobal has part of Massachusetts in its Potential 1-3 Day Track Area, as given out by the National Hurricane Service. Well, Nantucket Island, but that counts. Bertha missed me; she took a stop at Bermuda and then decided to head towards Iceland ( Read more... )

Hurricane Bertha is now a class 3 hurricane, headed straight for me via Bermuda. (As for right at me, well, it's a couple thousand miles away, the five-day projection has it in the area of Bermuda on Saturday, and if it curves as much as they think it will, it will be heading straight north around Bermuda, far east of the US. But hurricane watching ( Read more... )