• Life In General

    Gulp!

    An update ~ for those of you who don’t check the Weather Channel every hour on the hour after hearing the words “hurricane in the Atlantic moving west” 🙂 …Hurricane Earl is still a powerful Category 4 hurricane headed towards the United States.  Everyone keeps saying it is going to turn….the sooner the better please.  I’m hopeful…but then ~ Image Credit ~ The Weather Channel This is the worst case scenario….passing right over the Outer Banks.  They have issued a hurricane watch for most of the North Carolina coast.  Interests in Virginia and north to New England have been advised to monitor Earl.  The best case scenario has it at a more…

  • Outside My Window

    Outside My Window ~ 8.29.10

    Outside My Window…is a sunshine, blue skies with a few white puffy clouds.  The temperature at 10:45 is 82ºF with about 60% humidity.  It feels pretty warm when you walk outside.  Forecast today is for the upper 80’s with no rain.  That seems to have been the mantra for most of our summer…..no rain.  We have managed to squeeze a few drops here and there to keep things from completely dying….but the ground is quite dusty and could use a few days of water.  But…..be careful what you wish for this time of year because we are heading into the heart of the tropical and hurricane season right now and there…

  • Life In General,  Miscellaneous,  Virginia

    Wet

    I saw on The Weather Channel this morningwe are expected to have back to back coastal storms…….or Nor’easter as they are called.  One affecting us today, another on Sunday.   I explained a Nor’easter in this post, but the short and simple of it is a nor’easter is like tropical systems we get in the summer, except not so much tropical.  They develop and produce cold northeasterly winds and like their summer counterparts, they can move real slow and dump days and days of rain.  They generally develop on or off the coast of the mid-Atlantic.   We have gotten our fair share of rain today…..with more expected this evening.  I haven’t heard so much about strong winds…