This is terrifying. The video starts calmly enough. Some water moving down the street. Then, within minutes, it is tearing up cars and houses. This guy was dangerously close, but safe. If you want to see what it looked like before the video, check out Google Maps. Then watch this:
More Japan Earthquake Facepalm
Reportedly, this weekend at a Watauga County Republican Party convention, our own Senator Virginia Foxx had this to say about the Japan earthquake and tsunami: It is a sign that God is still in charge. Yeah. Right. It has nothing to do with fault lines and shifting tectonic plates. It was God. He looked down at us and thought to Himself, … Read More
Really, HuffPo? Really?!?
Of the MANY things to write about relating to what's going on in Japan (e.g., the earthquake, the tsunami, the horrific loss of life, the possible nuclear meltdown, the effects on wordwide finance and industry, the meaning for the future of the nuclear industry, etc.), I can think of nothing more irrelevant and wasteful than to report on 50 Cent's … Read More
Japan Thoughts
For years, people have been asking why we build nuclear plants on earthquake fault lines. And everyone kind of shrugs.
Fake Earthquake
If your Facebook or Twitter feed starts going off with buzz about a massive California earthquake in the next few hours, don't worry. It's only a test. A drill is planned by natural disaster experts at San Diego State University to test how social media would be used to respond to a crisis. Unless, of course, there is an actual earthquake … Read More
Here We Go Again? — Breaking News: Another Oil Rig Explosion
Lovely: An oil rig has exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana, with 12 people overboard and one missing, the Coast Guard said Thursday morning. UPDATE: The rig is owned by Mariner Energy. And leased to….??? Well, we don't know yet. UPDATE #2: It bears mentioning that this is NOT a deep-sea oil well, unlike BP's Deepwater Horizon, and reports are … Read More
Earl Update
As of 11AM EDT Hurricane Earl is still tracking toward the outer banks/DC area as a category 3 and is still projected to turn in time to spare the region the full brunt. The NHC image shows why this is really a close call: presently, Earl is headed right at the middle of the east coast and some intensification is still possible. But it … Read More
Where Did The Spilled Gulf Oil Go?
Now that the well is capped, there seems to be relatively little effect on the environment — at least as not as much as anticipated. I'm not complaining, of course…. but one wonders why the environmental effects aren't devastating. The answer, possibly, is this: A newly discovered type of oil-eating microbe suddenly is flourishing in the Gulf of Mexico and gobbling up … Read More
About The Capped Well
I was going to say something positive and uplifting about the fact that the oil leak is now capped and sealed, but I guess that would be premature.
Awkward Game In Retrospect
This is an actual board game that came out in the 1970s: Full story here.
Oil Spill Gushes Faster and Claims Two More Lives
The BP oil spill has upped the ante. This is breaking news…. Oil gushing at spill site after vent damaged Cap removed after sub hits vent; 2 cleanup workers die in separate events BREAKING NEWS NBC News and news services updated 12:53 p.m. ET, Wed., June 23, 2010 WASHINGTON – Oil was again gushing from the BP spill site on … Read More
Obama Has Sharks With Lasers, Too
I miss Kaye Grogan. She was a columnist for Renew America, a right-wing Christian/political website started by many-times presidential candidate Alan Keyes. Kaye was crazy, and her columns had the added pleasure of being written in the worst English-torturing manner. I mean, worse than my writing even. Kaye's columns quietly disappeared from the Intertubes a year or so ago, and there's … Read More
Drilling Ban Lifted By Dead British Googly Eyed Comedian
Bloomberg: A New Orleans federal judge lifted the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed by President Barack Obama following the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Obama temporarily halted all drilling in waters deeper than 500 feet on May 27 to give a presidential commission time to study improvements in the safety of offshore operations. Government lawyers told U.S. District … Read More