Don’t look now, but in places like Atlanta and North Carolina, gas stations are running out of product because of refinery shutdowns due to Ike.

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Veddy interesting. It had struck me at some point mid-week that we hadn’t really been talking much about the post-hurricane situation in coastal Texas, and for obvious reasons - a global economic meltdown does tend to dominate the headlines.
But apparently one reason we’re not reading more about what happened in and around Galveston is that […]

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Lived in Houston for a couple of years when I was a kid, still remember trips to the beach at Galveston. Looks like Hurricane Ike is going to pulverize Galveston:
PERSONS NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY HOMES MAY FACE CERTAIN DEATH. MANY RESIDENCES OF AVERAGE CONSTRUCTION DIRECTLY ON THE COAST […]

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I wonder if Obama and the rest of the Democratic Party on the whole - but especially the bigwigs - realize that if Gustav is half the storm it sounds like it might be, they ought to be not out campaigning early next week, but pitching in in the Gulf states - as true leaders, […]

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National Weather Service has Hurricane Gustav tracking west of New Orleans.
Via The Oil Drum, take a gander at what lies offshore to the west of New Orleans:

Those would be oil and gas rigs.
Going to be a scary few days, for many many reasons.

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Memories of Katrina likely to be plastered across your TV screen next week when the GOP takes the stage:

MSNBC just noted that with Gustav likely to hit the Gulf Coast next week this could be a “split-screen convention” for the Republicans.
A Gulf Coast hurricane disrupting the GOP’s messaging during convention week — three years after […]

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Uhhh, this could of course change, but right about now it looks as if Gustav is making a beeline for New Orleans.

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Well, whaddya know.
WASHINGTON — Evidence is strong that the increasing frequency of extreme rain, heat, drought and tropical storms is caused by global climate change, according to a report released Thursday by a panel of government scientists.
You don’t say.
And human activity probably is the reason, according to the report from the U.S. Climate Change Science […]

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As the father of a Cub Scout, the news of the four people killed by the tornado at the Boy Scout camp in Iowa is particularly frightening. It’s not like you sit in the cabins and watch the Weather Channel, right? And some of the kids were out hiking; just no escape. Terrifying.
This year may […]

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…mighty windy out there, trees and power lines down, we’re getting reports of Route 23 shut down because of trees across the roadway, etc.
In like a lion.

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Light snow and already they’re letting the kid’s elementary school out early. Cancellation on spec.
I suppose superintendents have to err on the side of caution these days, given our litigious nature - because you know and I know the moment the district keeps the kids for one nanosecond too long, the bus slips on the […]

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April or maybe May out there. Freaky for the second week of January. Stories this week blame it on La Nina, with Eric Horst of Millersville University insisting - as he always does - that none of this has anything to do with global warming.
But this graphic, from Millersville’s own Web site, is both telling […]

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