Surprise!
Okay, so I don’t have a TV, and in general I find local news sensational and useless. In the morning I check the national news, read some blogs, and go about my business. If it’s raining outside when I leave the house, I bring an umbrella. If it starts raining later in the day, I suck it up and get wet.
Imagine my surprise, then, when half an hour ago I stopped at the library to check my email, only to find a brand-new message from the administration that due to the incoming Tropical Storm Humberto, the university will close at 5:00 and won’t reopen until noon tomorrow at the earliest. A couple minutes later my boss called to discuss the possibility of cancelling my LSAT class tonight. (The jury’s still out on that one, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.)
Humberto? Never heard of him. So I head to wunderground, pull up the radar, and boom:
[Here’s where the picture used to be, until I came back the next day and realized that what I thought was a permalink to a radar image of the Texas gulf coast was actually being updated live and no longer contained any hint of a storm. My bad. You can imagine, right?]
Well lookie there, a perfect spiral headed straight for us. Who knew?
Tags: weather
September 13th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Well, it seems you didn’t capture your own image, so now we don’t see the spiral headed straight at us… but it was a surprise wasn’t it? and it was just about as devastating as it was surprising, eh? We have no measured rain on north side of Houston. a bit of a breeze, that’s all. I think the Gov’t is toying with us– there really was no storm.
September 13th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Ahem, right. So I’ve noticed. =P Poor Louisiana.