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Archive for January, 2010
Darn that Global Warming!
Jan 26th
Wintery mix could be headed to Ga.
ATLANTA (AP) – Enjoy the sunshine now – rain and even snow could be headed for parts of Georgia this weekend.
The National Weather Service calls for rain with a chance of snow in Atlanta and Athens Friday and Saturday. It follows a weekend of record rainfall in parts of Georgia.
Sunday’s heavy rain caused minor flooding and flight delays, but tornado watches and warnings expired without any reports of tornadoes.
The flooding forced the closing of U.S. 78 near Hewatt Road in Gwinnett County and in Peachtree City, firefighters had to use boats to evacuate a handful of residents from a condo complex.
The rain delayed flights at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and wind gusts as high as 44 miles per hour were recorded near Atlanta.
Information from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, http://www.ajc.com
stars line up for haiti / technology steps up
Jan 22nd
MTV will broadcast what it says will be the biggest telethon in history to raise money for the Haiti relief effort. Organised by Goerge Clooney (pictured), the show will feature some of the biggest names in film and pop music.
Stars are lining up to perform and donate huge chunks of cash for tonight’s MTV “Hope for Haiti” telethon event.
Organiser George Clooney, along with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, will each donate $1 million to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, which was started by former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Firms mobilise funds for Haiti quake victims via telecoms, the Web
Telecoms giants and high-tech firms have mobilised new technologies to help the survivors of Haiti’s massive earthquake through online resources, mobile phone donations, new wikis and donation websites.
By News Wires (text)
AFP – Online maps, mobile phone donations, wikis and a slew of websites are being deployed as telecoms firms, technology giants and startups set aside their rivalries and put the latest tools to work to help earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
“Technology is playing a key role in mobilizing support for the victims of the Haiti earthquake and also in coordinating relief efforts,” said Akhtar Badshah, Microsoft’s senior director of global community affairs.
Badshah, in a blog post, said Microsoft had donated 1.25 million dollars and was working with NetHope, which brings together Care, MercyCorps, WorldVision and other humanitarian organizations with technology companies.
Flurry Madness
Jan 8th
I received a hilarious email from a friend last night about the onslaught of our “snow storm 2010″. Names will remain anonymous, but suffice it to say it’s a police officer in one of our local districts.
FLURRY MADNESS
It’s snowing and we’re all going to die.
That’s right. It’s all over now because we could have over an inch of snow. You and I both know that means certain death and the end of civilization as we strangely know it. Many years from now our fore and aft fathers will speak of the 2010 Flurries of Death that swept northern Georgia.
“I can remember my great-grandfather. He had so much more to give. He was killed by a flurry. Never had a chance.”
And to think we were worried about the H1N1.
As I sit and write, flurries are falling to the ground, plotting, waiting, waiting for just the right moment.
God help you people in your cars!! Go as far as you can! Don’t look back! Save yourselves! Flurries everywhere—must……keep……driving……. Everyone will be gone soon. Most have abandon their buildings, cars, and the toll booths for the already paid-for GA 400. Soon the city will look as barren as the desert, or worse—Detroit.
But not the weather people. They’re with us to the end— or until the ratings tank.
Nope, they’re here and they’re sleeves are rolled up and those ties are loose and in some cases, their TV hair is slightly mussed. Yes! SLIGHTLY MUSSED!! It’s crunch time and you’re gonna see every wicked flurry on a variety of mapping images, from satellite imagery to the one with the big arrows and spikes that look like grand-opening flags at the J.W.
Whitlock’s Used Cars lot in downtown Cuba, GA.
Damn you flurries!! I’m still in the office as hundreds of semi-informed corporate people flee Sandy Springs in what is best described as a near panic or great reason to cut out early.
It’s dark now. The flurries are starting to climb up the building, looking for any survivors of the initial onslaught of one-to-two-thirds of an inch of snow dropped during the initial flurry attack. I’m locked in the building, alone except for my lava lamp and my Obama coin bank that says “Change.”
I’m watching the weather people on TV. They’ve been at it for hours, including commercials, and the stress and strain is starting to show. Ken Cook is running around with his shirt off, throwing tomatoes, like hand grenades, at the camera. He’s wearing a fez and calling himself Yul Brenner. “I am the King!!”
Paul Ossmann is bench pressing camera two and doing impersonations of Arnold Schwarzenegger while Dagmar Midcap is wearing a Viking helmet and tap dancing to the tune of “A Night In Tunisia” by Dizzy
Gillespie. “Stomp Time Steps, Shuffle Time Steps, Traveling Time
Steps, and Cramp Roll Time Steps” she yells while trying to light a can of tofu for heat.
We’ve already lost Glen Burns and David Chandley. The flurries got them while they helped Jeff Dore find his banjo in the almost one-half inch of flurry.
Damn you Jeff Dore! When the spring comes and the almost half-inch of snow flurry slowly melts, partially due to global warming, and you find the last of us, the ones who couldn’t get to the milk and bread in time, tell them of our fight against the flurry—and then turn my lava lamp off.
