Hurricanes

What is a hurricane many people ask…it’s actually quite simple; a hurricane is a rotating weather system that forms over water that has winds that reach a minimum speed of 74 miles per hour. Hurricanes are most dangerous because of wind but they also bring torrential rains and the danger of storm surge. Wind and water damage are what best categorize the worst of what hurricanes can do. Hurrica

“Nothing wrong with spending a weekend at the beach. Imagine, however, being at this particular beach where the Miami Hurricanes Cheerleaders and fearless leader Christina Demaria recently decided to do a photoshoot.” [H/T Uncoached] I could not possibly agree more with the folks at Uncoached. But I’d like to expand on that thought. [...]

Today we are going to the Aronoff Center to see “Jersey Boys.” This is the last play of our “Broadway across America” series, and for the most part it has been very enjoyable. It started off schmaltzy, with “My Fair Lady” and “Camelot,” and picked up some steam with “Wicked” and “The Color Purple.” “The Drowsy Chaperone” was a dud, and “Sweeney Todd” was disappointi

The Crusaders bounced back from last week's defeat to the Highlanders in the first Semi final of the 2008 Super 14 beating the Hurricanes by 33 points to 22. The result means that the 2008 Super 14 final will be held at the AMI Stadium in Christchurch and that means home advantage for the Crusaders. The Crusaders were in ominous form as they completely dominated the Hurricanes in all facets of the

The Carolina Hurricanes know their coach will be back next season. They’re still waiting to find out whether two of their aging defensemen will join him. General manager Jim Rutherford said Friday that the team would retain coach Peter Laviolette, who in 2006 led the Hurricanes to their only Stanley Cup. Powered by Bookmarkify™ Tags: Fresh, GOLF, [...]

Hurricanes 21 - Force 10 Despite having nothing really to play for, solid defence from the Force managed to restrict the Canes to 2 tries, which could well prove important from a Waratahs home semi perspective. In only his second match in Super 14, the 17 year old James O'Connor had his hands full playing opposite the speeding tree trunk, Ma'a Nonu. Here's how that worked out The... ....follow link for more

In late April, AccuWeather.com, led by Joe Bastardi, its chief meteorologist, issued a news release that was, to be kind, pure mush. The early warning forecast for 2008’s June to November hurricane season said that conditions like La Nina and a “continued warm water cycle in the Atlantic Basin” held forth the “chance for U.S.

Jogo de capital importância para as duas equipas, apenas dois pontos separam ambas, apenas dois pontos define neste momento quem vai ou não vai aos playoffs a três jogos do fim da época regular. Capitals é actualmente a equipa a jogar melhor hóquei e em melhor forma, a equipa vem de 6 jogos fora consecutivos onde [...]

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The Jaunt considers the many promotions and giveaways at sporting events throughout the season, and hand-picks the best of the week.NHL - Carolina Hurricanes - RBC CenterSunday, March 16 vs. Ottawa Senators, 3:00 p.m.- Cam Ward Figurine Night (first 10,000 fans).Fans will receive a limited edition figurine of goaltender Cam Ward holding up the Conn Smythe Award, as part of a series of four collectibles commemorating the Carolina Hurricanes' 10 year anniversary. There are a few other promotional highlights on this day as well; including a TNT Freestyle Motocross Demo prior to the game and Slap Shot Sunday -- giving younger fans a chance to take the ice post-game for a shot on goal.

Here's a rundown of this Aussie Super 14 games as I saw them. Cheetahs 15 vs Western Force 16 This was truly a bizarre game. If you'd ignored the scoreline but watched the stats, you would have sworn the Force would have won this by 20 points. 35 minutes in they'd had 70% possession and the territory to go with it, but no points. By the end of the game the Cheetahs had made 140 odd tackles to... ....follow link for more

Workers helping to rebuild New Orleans after hurricanes Katrina and Rita suffered from several different skin disorders, and new research suggests that many of the rashes were caused by some kind of insect bite."Dermatologic conditions have always been really common, but a systematic investigation had not really been done in the past," said study author Rebecca Noe, a staff epidemiologist with the National Center for Preparedness, Detection and Control of Infectious Disease at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. "When I did a literature search, I typically saw people saying 'rashes.' It was really general."The study was published in the November issue of the Archives of Dermatology.After the devastation of Katrina and Rita in August and September 2005, scientists had a chance to delve deeper.Twenty-two percent of diseases treated in the aftermath of the twin disasters were skin-related.At the end of September 2005, members of the CDC were asked by New Orle

Sometimes Camille Paglia of Slate on-line magazine is right-on.  Here she is about the wildfires in California that famous people are using to promote Man-Bear-Pig:The recent horrific wildfires in California set off a gratuitous series of maunderings (from Jamie Lee Curtis to Thomas Friedman) about human culpability in global warming, the new liberal theology. Man is evil! Natural disasters are escalating! The world is coming to an end! Good lord, were all these people in a coma through the gigantic storms like Hurricane Camille in 1969? The destruction wrought by that Category 5 storm is chronicled in Philip D. Hearn's book, "Hurricane Camille: Monster Storm of the Gulf Coast," published three years ago. With winds of 200 miles per hour, Camille devastated 26 miles of Mississippi's coastline and killed 170 people. The tidal surge reached 35 feet, while the barometric pressure approached an all-time low. One of my prized possessions is a poster torn from a London new

Well here is a true test of where the Canucks are at at this point...by taking on the Hurricanes. The Canes have returned to their Cup contender form and are 4-1-3 to start the season. The Canucks are 4-4-0. So much can go wrong for the Nucks tonight. - Luongo isn't known for being sharp after a night off is he? - The Canucks hardly deserved to win their last game against Columbus, being outshot 14-0 in the second period, taking too many dumb penalties it seemed.- The Canes are on their game right now and the Canucks are not. I hope that changes tonight and they can put a better overall game together. But I am not counting on it.The Canes are good, and will burn their sorry asses if Vancouver wants to run around in their own zone and take too many penalties. The Canucks' PP is good for 6th in the NHL. The Canes are 2nd. Their penalty kill ranks are 16th and 17th overall respectively. The Canes lost their last 2 games in OT. They are going to be hungry tonight.My PredictionI'm just n

That's a graph of blogicito visitors for 30 days ending three days after Hurricane Felix. What a difference a hurricane makes. Too bad I wasn't charging admission to the blogicito. ;-)La Gringa had her 15 seconds of fame on CNN! The newscaster didn't seem too thrilled with my answers and demanded to know, "Why not?!" when I said we weren't going to evacuate. I was also contacted by email by the UK's BBC, but unfortunately my internet connection was out and I didn't get the email until it was too late.La Prensa reported that the supermarkets did a booming business from people stocking up for the duration. Sadly, the hardware stores weren't quite so lucky as very few people in Honduras feel the need to do any preparations for a hurricane.The news organizations went crazy with all sorts of exaggerated reports, even to the point of apparently showing video of the hurricane from other countries and calling it Honduras. CNN showed video of rain and high winds blowing palm trees under

Well, I hate politics. But this joke was sent to me today that I couldn't pass up in regards to Sheila Jackson Lee's (U.S. Rep- Houston) comments last year about Hurricane names not be very racially fair because black people's names are never used. Anyways, a pathetic and irrelevant issue, so here is the joke:A black congresswoman (Sheila Jackson Lee) reportedly complainedthat the names of hurricanes are all Caucasian soundingnames. She would prefer some names that reflectAfrican-American culture such as: Chamiqua, Tanisha,Woeisha, Shaqueal, and Jamal. She would also like theweather reports to be broadcast in Language that streetpeople can understand because one of the problems in NewOrleans is that regular folks couldn't understand theseriousness of the situation due to the racially biasedlanguage of the weather report.I can hear it now: A weatherman in Houston reports..."Wazzup, mutha-fukkas! Hehr-i-cane Chamiqua be headin' fo'yo ass like Leroy on a crotch rocket! Bitch be a ca

Image: National Hurricane Center, 09/04/07You know how we US Americans are. (Here I am stereotyping again. Just think "in general" so I don't have to write it each time.) We always have to DO SOMETHING. If a hurricane is coming, we worry, we look up the hurricane preparedness guidelines, we protect, we prepare, we evacuate. Not so with Hondurans for the most part. "Si Dios quiere" (if God wills it) is the rule of the day. I have to qualify that by saying that the Honduran government did seem to have an organized plan. I've never been anywhere near a Hurricane before. I was getting the National Hurricane Center email warnings every couple of hours instructing me to "immediately complete preparations for this catastrophic hurricane." Internet friends were giving me advice and links to hurricane preparedness sites. I was reading about tons of stuff that there was no way we could do in the amount of time that was left. I was getting really scared at the point when most of the predictio

There is a class-action lawsuit that has been developing under the radar over the last several months. The information reported about it, however, has not been sufficient to flesh out the major issues of the case. The case I am talking about involves the degenerate trial lawyer Gerald Maples. Maples, known for his class-action asbestos litigation, is now taking advantage of poor Hurricane Katrina victims. He should be embarrassed for what he is perpetrating, but like most lawyers, he has no shame.This time, Maples is suing 26 oil companies for contributing to Hurricane Katrina because of their greenhouse gas emissions. Not only should this be thrown out of Federal Court for clear lack of Standing, Maples should be sanctioned for filing a frivolous lawsuit. It is frivolous because there is ample case law preventing grievances such as these from being heard in Federal Court. Instead, the grievances posed in this case by the Katrina victims "is the function of Congress and the Chie

There is a class-action lawsuit that has been developing under the radar over the last several months. The information reported about it, however, has not been sufficient to flesh out the major issues of the case. The case I am talking about involves the degenerate trial lawyer Gerald Maples. Maples, known for his class-action asbestos litigation, is now taking advantage of poor Hurricane Katrina victims. He should be embarrassed for what he is perpetrating, but like most lawyers, he has no shame.This time, Maples is suing 26 oil companies for contributing to Hurricane Katrina because of their greenhouse gas emissions. This case should be thrown out of Federal Court, and Maples should be sanctioned for filing a frivolous lawsuit. It is frivolous because there is no statute from which to base Maples' class-action lawsuit, and the State and Federal Common Law claims are too attenuated.By filling under the Common Law, rather than a Federal Statute, this avoids the typical standing

Thanks to Mack Hall for letting me publish this. My family as well as Mack Went through Rita and the Southeast Texas area was hit incredible and all you ever still hear about it Katrina… Secret National Press Guide for Reporting Hurricanes   1.   Remember: hurricane reporting is always about Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. 2.   If you simply can't avoid mentioning the fact that a hurricane destroyed large parts of Mexico, Texas, western Louisiana, or Mississippi, skip over it lightly and get back to talking about existential angst in New Orleans. 3.   Showing pictures of the dead in Jamaica is acceptable only if you make a New Orleans connection 4.   Employ lots and lots of hyperbole and personification: "Mother Nature's Fateful Wrath of Hell-Storm Dean Bearing Down on Doomed Island Leaving a Swath of Destruction in His Wake" is good. Also remember that storms are always poising, bearing down, aiming, plowing, blasting, raki

Update: Looks like the tsunami watch for Hawaii has been cancelled. Thank goodness.  However, the devastation in Peru turned out to be worst than was first expected. So far, 48 dead and 350 injured. My prayers are with them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At about 1 pm HST, a 7.5 earthquake hit the central coast of Peru causing damage to some of it’s buildings. Luckily, no one was reported injured. Hawaii residents are now being warned that this earthquake could possibly generate a tsunami which may hit the Hawaiian Islands around 2am, Thursday. I’ve been watching the news all afternoon and so far nothing has been confirmed. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!

Sitting out on my porch tonight, enjoying the lovely sunset over the ocean and waiting for Hurricane Flossie, I saw a freakishly close meteorite (at least I think that’s what it was since I’ve not seen anything like that before) go down into the water, probably about 10 miles out, if that. I could see the large fireball streak down through the dusky sky, in a sort of serpentine curve, leaving a trail of white smoke in its wake. We live at altitude so I had a very good view. What’s weird is, it seemed to break apart as it came down, and one of the pieces just hung there in the sky, burning like a bright white piece of smoke or something, I don’t know; not moving, just hanging there, gradually streaking out horizontally as it was pulled by the wind. Maybe it was the setting sun behind a dense puff of smoke, but it sure looked weird. I watched it for about 20 minutes, half-expecting it to suddenly take off or something.   Ok, maybe I spend too much time o

So I'm frying up some italian sausage and the window starts rattling, for about 10 seconds. There's nothing else unusual going on anywhere else in the house, so I figure I'll check the time in case there was a small earthquake. 7:28. During "Fat Walk" on ABC a bit over a half hour later there's a hurricane update.... oh, and by the way, there was a 5.3 quake about 20 miles south of Hilo on the Big Island at 7:28pm.... any other day and that'd been one of the first mentions on the 10 o'clock news, as a 5.3 is a once every year or two or three event if I recall correctly. Here's the LINK to the USGS Hawaii earthquake mapAnyway, the current thinking is the hurricane won't hit the island directly, but might generate surf and 40-50 mph winds on the southeast side as well as surf on most of the east side. No talk about the Kona side yet. More updates later, if I'm still up (I'm getting to where I actually go to bed around night news time -10pm here), I'll update any new news I

At least according to new head coach Randy Shannon. Maybe it's the new Luther Campbell influence.From the Herald:When asked about [Graig ] Cooper in the spring, Shannon said: "I think Coop did a great job. He brought some some excitement to the team. And he's a calm guy. He's not an arrogant or flamboyant guy." It was going well, then coach goofed. "Belive it or not, he and Javarris James are kind of like butt buddies."Maybe this is what he was referring to and he just got confused...I mean those are some nice butts Luther and his buddies have on the stage, no?STUB HUB: The Safe Way to Buy & Sell Tickets Online

“You push this bill through that produces a windfall for the drug companies. And then a short time later, you go to work for the drug lobby at a salary of $2 million. That doesn’t look good.” Take a look at this facinating story from Sunday’s 60 Minutes, about the disturbing relationship between Congress and the drug lobby. Oxfam has released a report saying nearly half of Iraqis live in absolute poverty, and 8 million are in need of immediate humanitarian aid. President Bush is trying to sell Persian Gulf countries $20 billion worth of new, sophisticated arms, in exchange for their cooperation in containing Iran. (Hmmm, this sounds like one of those annoying tidbits Bill O’Reilly’s successors will be denying on television in a few years…) High-profile New York Senator Chuck Schumer is breaking with Democratic party lines, pledging to protect his hedge-funded constituents from overly burdensome taxes. With an exceptionally strong rating from th

I pulled that one off a Canucks Board. Not sure if I like it. Too much going on in the front with the number added there. The following is from NHL 08, not yet released. It could be a true glimpse at the new Canes jerseys. New Blue Jackets jerseys.T Tags: New+Islanders+Blu+Jackets+Hurricanes+jerseys

Hurricanes may be unlikely saviours of coral reefs - earth - 02 July 2007 - New Scientist Environment"Hurricanes Katrina and Rita may have been unlikely saviours for the coral reefs under their paths, say researchers. They have found evidence that the cooling effect hurricanes have on sea temperatures may help corals recover from the bleaching caused by warming oceans.Coral reefs get their colour from tiny algae called zooxanthellae that live within them.The corals and the algae live in symbiosis, but if the corals become stressed they can expel the algae – which results in coral bleaching. One source of stress to corals is high sea temperatures, which is why global warming is predicted to bring about widespread coral bleaching.In the North Atlantic, warmer temperatures at the ocean surface also help hurricanes form. Now, Derek Manzello, at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and colleagues have shown that hurricanes cool temperatures and may assist coral recovery

Recruits You Care About:QB: Robert Marve, Rivals 4-star, 4380 PaYd, 48 PaTD, 13 PaINT, 832 RuYd, 8 RuTDRB: Graig Cooper, Rivals 5-starRB: Lee Chambers, Rivals 3-starRB: Shawnbrey McNeal, Rivals 3-star, 1556 RuYd, 22 RuTDWR: Jermaine McKenzie, Rivals 4-starWR: Leonard Hankerson, Rivals 3-star, 608 ReYd, 14 PaTDWR: Daniel Adderley, Rivals 2-starATH: Demarcus VanDyke, Rivals 4-starWasn't it nice of the cops to let Michael Irvin wear his college colors while getting booked on charges? Apparently, playing at "The U" has its privileges . . . Fantasy College Impact:It ain't called Quaterback U for nothing. Miami has recruited another top notch QB in 4-star Robert Marve. However, Marve is going to watch from the sidelines as Kyle Wright (1654 PaYd, 8 PaTD, 7 PaINT) tries his best to keep the job he has held for the last two seasons. Unfortunately, Wright has not lived up to the hype since coming out of high school as a 5-star beast and has been hearing the footsteps of Kirby Freeman (460 PaY

Caribbean Vacation: ; Caribbean Vacation; Hurricanes. By tater03 5 comments. Have you ever been on a vacation during a hurricane.[1] Not sure, does the caribbean get alot of hurricanes I would definetly be hitting the high road if one were heading my way.[2] Vacation or no … —Last comment Sat Apr 7 22:26:50 2007 by raven from somewhere :I would definitely book around hurricane season.[1] Last year wasn’t too bad but the weather can change so quickly.[2] I couldn’t imagine being trapped on an island during one. … Reader Rating: 100.0% like, 0.0% don’t like. Original post by Caribbean Vacation Forum

- It's amazing how loose Ottawa looks right now. On the offensive attack, they looked like they were playing pond hockey. It looked that easy for them. Their passes were crisp and their speed game was impressive. Ah, it's so easy to be loose when you're winning! The Sens have won 8 of their last 9.-It was a different story for the Hurricanes. They looked out of sync and frustrated. Whenever they generated a decent scoring chance tonight, Ray Emery stoned them. The Canes are now 6-5-0 in their last 11, and are in danger of missing the playoffs. At the same time, the teams around them-the Leafs and Canadiens- don't appear to be in the mood to put together win streaks.- Speaking of Ray Emery, it appears that the Sens no longer have problems in goal. Emery looks absolutely confident in the Sens' net as the starting goalie. In 43 games this season, Emery has a 25-13-2 record. He ranks 12th in the league in GAA (2.51), 5th overall in save percentage (.919) and 4th with shutouts (5). I'

The week started fairly disappointingly - but what an end! Sunday saw Oasis Sun running well below what we’d hoped at Kempton. The only good thing is that Brett Doyle was a lot less disappointed and said we should step her up in trip. He feels that, given a better draw, she’ll acquit herself ok - so we’ll hopefully find something early in the New Year. Epineuse was another disappointment, but there was certainly something amiss after the week. We don’t seem to be able to find out what - we have our own blood testing equipment, but nothing showed there or in a scope. Maybe only time will tell. Hotchpotch ran well enough on Tuesday and would definitely have been third if he hadn’t been hampered in the closing stages. He’ll find a race soon. Monashee Prince just didn’t get the 1 1/4 miles, having travelled well, and we’ll drop him back and find a race soon over seven furlongs or a mile. Wednesday was our big day, and luckily we weren’t

I present to you "Exhibit B" in the trial of what's wrong with football players (Exhibit A being Albert Haynesworth doing his interpretation of the musical Stomp on the head of a Dallas Cowboy). For those of you wondering, the thug-wannabe who chimes in on this is former Hurricane WR Lamar Thomas. Hard to say what was worse in this video: the violence, Miami's helmet-raising rally afterwards, or Thomas' egging on of the antics.

Over at the awesome Braves Journal, besides thinking of ways to hurt members of the Braves bullpen, we've also wrote some college football team previews. You can find previews for Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia Tech and Tennessee.I decided to embarrass myself by writing a preview for my Miami Hurricanes. So, if anyone cares, here it is...and I won't blame you for wanting to stab me in the lungs after reading it..Miami Hurricanes football preview.When a team goes 9-2 in the regular season and makes the Peach Bowl, the season is often considered a success and an assistant coach might be in line for a promotion. When that team is the Miami Hurricanes, the season is considered a disappointment and assistant coaches get fired. Of course, getting crushed 40-3 in the Peach Bowl by LSU doesn't help much either.. On September 4th, in primetime, Miami will get a chance to get over that LSU debacle when they open their season at home. Waiting for them will be hated ACC rival Florida S

The impact of Katrina on home building resources will be significant, undoubtably causing a noticeable increase in the cost of building materials. Even though the hurricane winds didn't destroy as many houses as Andrew did in South Florida in 1992, many more houses that survived intact have been rendered uninhabitable by extended submersion in floodwaters. When rebuilding starts, lumber and other buildings materials will be in great demand (read: cost much more).At the same time, the Southeastern US is a source of a great deal of raw lumber and is home to many lumber production facilities. Some of these facilities were damaged by Katrina and will be unable to process trees into lumber for some time.Finally, hurricanes fell many mature trees - trees that will rot if not soon harvested. Ironically, these same felled trees block access into the lumber forests and make their harvesting more difficult and expensive.Read the NAHB's take on Katrina here: http://www.nahb.org/news_details

PhD Researchers in Global Change and Hurricanes, Utrecht University The departments of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences are currently looking for 2 PhD students (AIO) (f/m) for the High Potential Programme granted by the Utrecht University: Global Change and Hurricanes. The research of the departments is part of the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation and of the Organic Geochemistry group from the department of Earth Sciences.