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Line 'em up
Fay. Gustav. Hanna. Ike. Josephine. It's the tropical storm busy season - and this year has had a bumper crop. The folks in south Florida have had a difficult time focusing on anything but the storms that have been rolling in every few days. Fortunately...
Hurricane Gustav and TS Hanna
Poor New Orleans is right there in the center of the bulls eye for Gustav. Forecasted to make landfall sometime early morning to the west of New Orleans, it is expected to grow to a category 4 hurricane. Ouch. MSNBC has a nice interactive tracking program...
Bowling part 2 (TS Fay makes landfall)
Fay hit the state for a second time this morning a little bit south of Ft. Myers. The good news (for Tampa folks anyway) is that it seems to be drifting more to the east as it heads north. We haven't had a drop of rain from it yet. So far the prevailing...
Bowling?
Hmmm. Tampa is usually one of the gutters in the Gulf of Mexico Hurricane Bowling Alley. But this time, it appears as though we're right in the pocket for (currently) Tropical Storm Fay.
Old school tennis
Around noon our cable TV went out. It's still out now, 3.5 hours later. And today the Wimbledon men's singles final is being played. As a result, I pressure washed the lanai and pool area. I found Wimbledon Radio online and during rest breaks...
Posted: Jul 06 2008, 05:38 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Closing in on July 4 and the Rays...
Are back in first place again. The new stadium initiative has died (again), but the Rays continue their winning ways. Last night they took the second game in a series against Boston. That's the best record in MLB right now. The All Star break is just...
Afternoon thunderstorms
I love living in Tampa. One of the reasons? The almost daily afternoon thunderstorms that roll through for an hour or so then go away. Right now the sky is almost pitch black, the thunder is rolling, and the rain is about to come down in buckets.
Dancing
My wife and I like to watch "Dancing with the stars" and "So you think you can dance." This season's SYTYCD has been a bit under-whelming. (Not enough Mia Michaels choreography for one thing.) But on tonight's show, there was...
Posted: Jun 26 2008, 02:36 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Something's not right here...
It's May 15. Tampa is 6 games above .500 and leading the AL East. Are you telling me all they needed was a name change to start playing major league baseball?
Posted: May 15 2008, 11:11 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Microsoft WorldWide Telescope
Call me speechless. I finally got around to downloading this software. It is absolutely amazing . The images are stunning, and the UI is so intuitive. I could stay up all night, gazing into the heavens, er, my laptop screen. If you haven't seen it...
Posted: May 14 2008, 01:47 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Tornado caught on tape
Have you ever seen a tornado close up, flipping cars into the air like they were little toys? Check it out: http://www.weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html?clip=10720&from=hp_main_tab3
Posted: May 10 2008, 07:51 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Storms and strawberries
Right now we're somewhere over Virginia / North Carolina and we just skirted around a couple of spectacular thunderstorms tonight. Lightning streaked across the sky, filling my window. It was as if someone had electrified large sticks of fluffy cotton...
Posted: May 09 2008, 03:16 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Dexter
Watched the "free" season on CBS. Now I need to add Showtime to my cable package.
Posted: May 08 2008, 08:17 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Hot time in Philly
[begin whining] The Philly airport needs to invest in a better air conditioning system, in both the D and E concourses, but especially in the D concourse. It's a roaster. Oh, and the E concourse? More seats. It's SRO at all gates this evening...
Posted: May 08 2008, 08:05 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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It's May, and the Rays are where?
We're way into May and what's this about the Rays? 2nd place in the AL East? #5 in the AL itself? A game ahead of the Yankees? That's gotta be a misprint. Well, the Yankees have gotten off to a slow start the past few years but always come...
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