Hurricane Florence is currently just offshore the North Carolina coast, and North Carolina is absolutely getting hammered as she slowly trudges onshore. As you would expect, the coast has been the hardest hit thus far and has been ravaged by life-threatening storm surge, hurricane-force winds, and multiple flash flood warnings, but gusty winds are occurring […]
A Hurricane Florence Update
Hi all! First off, let me apologize profusely for not being more punctual with this blog. I’ve been very busy with work over the weekdays, and this past weekend, I was out tuna fishing some ~40 miles off the Columbia River. We didn’t exactly knock ’em dead… we only caught one tiny 6 pound tuna, […]
The “Frankenstorm” of 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012 2:51 P.M. Hi everybody. I just finished a hectic week. Two midterms. A ton of homework. I even finished an entire package of Omega-Three gummy bears from Costco. Maybe it’s a stress thing. But honestly, the thing that made this week the most hectic, was this. This, my friends, is a […]
The Perfecter Storm
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 6:29 P.M. That, my friends, is the strongest mid-latitude cyclone to impact the U.S. in 40 years. There have been plenty of strong storms to hit the United States, with the Hanukkah Eve Storm of 2006 and the Great Coastal Gale of 2007 recently impacting our region, with the eastern half […]