I’ve Got No Good Place To Put This Hurricane
Posted: September 1, 2010 Filed under: Whats left | Tags: current events, evacuations, Florida Keys, hurricane earl, hurricanes, news, North Carolina, Ocracoke Island, Ocracoke North Carolina, outer banks, Tropical cyclone, United States, weather, weather channel 21 Comments »I dread hurricane season.
It isn’t that I live somewhere that usually gets hit by hurricanes. The one time it happened was certainly enough for me. Storms making it as far inland as I live are a true rarity.
Hurricanes Only Go To Special Places.
My problem isn’t being worried about hurricanes blowing over my house. The issue is them blowing over the places I love
Right now there are hurricanes lined up across the Atlantic aimed at the places I go to relax and spend time away from the real world. As these storms pass on, others move off Africa to take their turn at threatening someplace special. Read the rest of this entry »
Cantore, go home.
Posted: January 31, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: celebrities, Charlotte, comedy, current events, humor, jim cantore, life, snow, weather, weather channel 28 Comments »
The angel of misery
Ice in its natural environment
I don’t like snow. I don’t like ice outside of a drink, a cooler, or a polar ice cap. I don’t like Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel.
I live north of Charlotte, NC. It snowed here Friday. When I woke up Saturday morning there were six inches of snow outside el rancho Omawarisan. Then the ice came.
Keep in mind this is a region that does not do winter weather well. Once, schools were cancelled because someone unexpectedly made a snow cone.
Why did this plague befall my adopted hometown? There is no scientific explanation. It is the end of January. Spring begins here at the beginning of March, so it ought to be getting warmer about now.
Soon the calls and text messages began coming in from out-of-town friends – “We saw Cantore is in Charlotte so we called to see if you are ok.” Cantore. That explains everything. The angel of misery arrived. Nothing good happens while that guy is in town. Read the rest of this entry »
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