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Preparing for the Storm

Update: Thank­fully, Ernesto turned out to be a non-issue, and pro­vided noth­ing more than some wind and rain (the wind is still blow­ing today, but noth­ing too severe down here).

As Hur­ri­cane Ernesto con­tin­ues to bear down on the coasts of Florida, I’m work­ing on get­ting as much work and writ­ing done before the power goes out as I can. The storm isn’t major on the scale at the moment, and isn’t likely to strengthen before mak­ing land­fall tonight, but the winds will still be strong enough to do some dam­age (and pro­jec­tiles abound in South Florida).

Rather than post updates about the storm, I’ll just point you to Dan Benjamin’s Weath­er­Dan, where he’s keep­ing watch on Ernesto, and any other storms that come our way this sea­son. Oh yeah, and I threw together the logo for him as well.

Thanks to all of you who have sent well-wishes so far, I’m sure we’ll all be safe, but it never hurts to keep us in your thoughts (that includes Scrivs: he’s in Florida too…)

See you on the other side… of the storm, that is.

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006.

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9 comments on “Preparing for the Storm”

  1. Posted by Garrett on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006.

    We wait around for months and months to hear bril­liance uttered from your lips, and all you give us is a post about a silly lit­tle storm?

    Seri­ously though, good luck w/ the whole hur­ri­cane thing. :)

  2. Posted by Matthew Oliphant on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006.

    Good luck, man. Don’t get dead. ;)

  3. Posted by Chris Griffin on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006.

    I expect full updates dur­ing the storm from Weath­er­Dan, I’m depend­ing on him com­pletely. And a power out­age and/or flash flood­ing is no excuse!

    On a seri­ous note, good luck! If it makes land­fall as a Trop­i­cal Storm it will be noth­ing more than a lot of rain, but I know you already knew that.

  4. Posted by Alexander Obenauer on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006.

    Hey good luck man.. I can’t imag­ine liv­ing there with all the hurricanes.

  5. Posted by jharr on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006.

    Like I said ear­lier this week, it’s not why I’m leav­ing Florida, but it’s cer­tainly a pos­i­tive. Tough to trade the beaches and sun, but whirling death isn’t as cool as it looks on teevee.

  6. Posted by Mike Stickel on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006.

    Good luck Dan. Hope­fully it doesn’t even carry enough strength to take out the power. Let us all know how you faired when it’s all said and done.

  7. Posted by Wade Winningham on Wednesday, August 30th, 2006.

    I assume by this point you’re get­ting some rain and wind but noth­ing nearly as bad as it could be. Then again, falling trees could be a problem!

  8. Posted by Dan Rubin on Wednesday, August 30th, 2006.

    Things are qui­et­ing down now, there were some decent gusts last night and even early this morn­ing, but it looks like Fort Laud­erdale made it through with nary a scratch.

    The local news sta­tions are call­ing Ernesto a “dud”, which might be ask­ing for more trou­ble later in the sea­son, but it’s an accu­rate description.

  9. Posted by Chris Griffin on Wednesday, August 30th, 2006.

    Bring it on Mother Nature! I’m not scared of your silly hurricanes!