Hurricane Ike-Liveblog 18
DO NOT REC THIS DIARY!Please save your recs for the Liveblog Mothership.IKE has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm. Details below.If you are in Houston, Baytown, or Dickinson, a boil water advisory...
View ArticleTornado warnings in Minnesota and Wisconsin
PLEASE NOTE-STAY OUT OF NORTH MINNEAPOLIS!!!DO NOT GO LOOK OR TRY TO HELP!!Lots of trees down, lots of powerlines down-just stay away. And here I was about to go grocery shopping!Update 4:07pm TV news...
View ArticleTornado outbreaks-part III
This diary is the third to follow the incredible tornado/severe storm outbreaks starting the afternoon of May 24, 2011.Massive damage and multiple casualties being reported in Oklahoma-multiple tornado...
View ArticleTornado Liveblog #7-the carnage continues -UPDATED
We are still tracking the intense storm systems responsible for tornadoes and so much damage since Tuesday. (It started Tuesday, right? It feel like forever.)Temperatures are starting to drop but there...
View ArticleTornado outbreak-last dregs of the storm-update 9
BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE-NASTY STORM HEADING YOUR WAY! This storm produced tornado warnings in Vermont. No official tornado warning yet-be aware.Weatherdude won't be posting a diary for this one-we need...
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Tornado Warnings-Nebraska, S and N Dakota, Minnesota
If you are to the east of these storms, please sleep with one ear open. I'm calling it a night-cross your fingers that the weather.com simulation is correct!Update 10:11pm Nothing new on the funnel...
View ArticleNetroots Nation: Is it too late to volunteer?
I was planning to volunteer, even took the days off, then got scheduled for some training. Half of that was cancelled and now I'm free!
View ArticleVolunteering for Netroots Nation: or, How I spent my summer vacation
I never did hear from Shanna, but several people told me to just show up, so show up I did.Shanna actually had gotten my email, and meant to respond, and got rather thoroughly distracted, and forgot to...
View ArticleTornado Tuesday-Now with Flash flooding! MN, WI, IL, MO, KY, TX, MI, NC, VA
The low pressure system continues to slowly move across the country, dumping rain on already saturated areas.None of these watches are flagged as particularly dangerous situations-in fact the tornado...
View ArticleA River Runs Through It: Levees Overrunning in Minot, ND
Minot, ND is in big trouble. The Souris River started overspilling the levees at 9:30am this morning. (At least it waited until morning.)Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for the entire town...
View ArticleA River Runs Through It: The Minot Flood Liveblog, Morning of Day 2
Update June 23, 4:45pm MORE EVACUATIONS AS MINOT FLOOD OUTLOOK WORSENSMandatory evacuation orders have been issued for one-third of Minot, ND and for Burlington, ND as well. Evacuation maps for Minot...
View ArticleA River Runs Through It: Minot Flood Liveblog, Evening of Day 2
Update June 23, 4:45pm MORE EVACUATIONS AS MINOT FLOOD OUTLOOK WORSENSMandatory evacuation orders have been issued for one-third of Minot, ND and for Burlington, ND as well. Evacuation maps for Minot...
View ArticleA River Runs Through It: Minot Flood Liveblog, Morning of Day 3
THE WORST IS YET TO COMEText 'REDCROSS' to 90999 to donate $10.American Red CrossMandatory evacuation orders have been issued for one-third of Minot, ND and for Burlington, ND as well. Evacuation maps...
View ArticleA River Runs Through It: Minot Flood Liveblog, Evening of Day 3
Text 'REDCROSS' to 90999 to donate $10.American Red CrossMinot Community FoundationIf you are a Ham radio operator the Red Cross in Minot needs your help! 3937mhzFollow on twitter using #Minot,...
View ArticleA River Runs Through It: Minot Flood Liveblog, Morning of Day 4
A Levee has breached in Sawyer, NDMandatory evacuation for Sawyer, ND as of 11:30am June 25.Text 'REDCROSS' to 90999 to donate $10.American Red CrossMinot Community FoundationIf you are a Ham radio...
View ArticleA River Runs Through It: Minot Flood Liveblog, Evening of Day 4
A Levee has breached in Sawyer, ND (I found another brief article that stated the levee was overrun, not breached.)Mandatory evacuation for Sawyer, ND as of 11:30am June 25.Velva, ND under voluntary...
View ArticleA River Runs Through It: Minot Flood Liveblog, Morning of Day 5
Text 'REDCROSS' to 90999 to donate $10.American Red CrossMinot Community FoundationIf you are a Ham radio operator the Red Cross in Minot needs your help! 3937mhzFollow on twitter using #Minot,...
View ArticleA River Runs Through It: Minot Flood Liveblog, Morning of Day 6
Text 'REDCROSS' to 90999 to donate $10.American Red CrossMinot Community FoundationIf you are a Ham radio operator the Red Cross in Minot needs your help! 3937mhzBoil water order in effect for Minot....
View ArticleA River Runs Through It: Minot Flood Liveblog, Morning of Day 7
Text 'REDCROSS' to 90999 to donate $10.American Red CrossMinot Community FoundationIf you are a Ham radio operator the Red Cross in Minot needs your help! 3937mhzBoil water order in effect for Minot....
View ArticleNow, THAT was a cold front!
It's been brutally hot here for the past 24 hours. That was all expected to change today with the advent of a cold front along with all sorts of nasties-no tornadoes, but hail, lots of rain (as if we...
View ArticleWalking through soup
That's how it feels outside, 87 degrees with an 80 degree dewpoint.And there's a big red blob headed our way, like a fastpitch hurled with startling accuracy from the mound. You know the drill-at work,...
View ArticleTS Lee Open Thread: for weatherdude
Good morning everybody-I see weatherdude is under the weather (hah!) so I'm putting up a diary for TS Lee. Check below the squiggle for some ugly pictures.
View ArticleTS Lee, or the remnants thereof
Lee is now a Tropical Depression and is poised to cause some severe storm damage-primarily flooding with some isolated tornadoes.If you are in the path of this storm be aware. It's still moving pretty...
View ArticleTornado Watch for Ohio Valley tonight
Still at work so no map clips, but there is a HUGE area currently under a tornado watch. There are three separate watches that include Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and bits of Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and...
View ArticleTexas in flood, Louisiana next, Houston Intl under flood warning until 8:30pm
Lots of rain was expected today in Texas and the forecast was alarmingly accurate. A tornado watch for East Texas has just expired, but the flash flood watch is up until 1:30 this afternoon-and it's...
View ArticleBlizzard/Ice Storm/Tornado Open Thread
At about 9:30 last night, my roommate came into my bedroom and said, "THERE ARE CHUNKS OF ICE FALLING FROM THE SKY!!!"
View ArticleSevere weather update-tornadoes forming NOW, TN
Weatherdude is probably working on his diary-I'm hoping I will magically conjure him up by posting a liveblog. (It worked last time!)
View ArticleSevere weather open thread-IA, MN, WI, AR under the gun today
LATE night last night for the Severe Weather Gang. (Somebody gave us a name last year-Weatherdude and his **. Anybody remember? Severe Weather Gang is a boring name.)The threat has shifted both East...
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Severe weather open thread: Happy May Day, MN and IN!
Portions of 9 states are under a tornado watch at this moment:Minneapolis is in the area under watch until 1am. Joy.
View ArticleSevere weather weekend
Hi everybody-weatherdude has posted on Facebook that he will have limited internet access and will likely not be available this weekend. (If you aren't following him there, I strongly recommend it.)I'm...
View ArticleTwin Cities Kossacks 1st meetup-poll included!
If you've sent me a Kosmail about TC Kossacks, you have been added to the group. Right now I'm the only admin-if you want to be an admin, let me know. I think we need at least 2.I'm trying to keep the...
View ArticleTwin Cities Kossacks-*when* should we meet? Poll included!
Good morning everybody!Last week we had a poll for our first meetup and Harriet Brewing Tap Room was the overwhelming winner. I'd like to do this again in January (maybe on Inauguration Day??) but...
View ArticleTwin Cities Meetup this Saturday!
Only 2 days before our meetup at the Harriet Brewing Tap Room!
View ArticleTwin Cities Meetup today
Our meetup is today.WEATHER: Yes, it's raining. The air temperatures are above freezing-right now I'm getting 36 degrees for Minneapolis-and it is projected to be above freezing for most of the day....
View ArticleAustralia fires liveblog
Australia has been struggling with brush fires for a while now. New South Wales is getting most of the attention, but South Australia and the southern part of Western Australia are also dealing with...
View ArticleAnybody aware of caravans to SC for an anti-Klan protest?
My roommate really wants to counterprotest the SC Klan demonstration.
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