All over the place, I see cars with a lot of smudges on their windshields. The Love Bugs are back in season. Twice a year, spring and autumn, these little buggers rise from the earth to mate all over the place. It seems their traditional mating place is hovering a few feet above each road,…
Ms. Shamu and baby Originally uploaded by mickogirl. Today is a good day to be born. First, I got the news that my friends Niki & Zoli welcomed their new son, Cole, this morning at 10:07 am. The nice folks over at Sea World have a new baby on their hands, a 7-foot-long, 350-pound calf…
If you’re going to live in Central Florida, the thunderstorm capital of America, you need to know how to drive in the rain. We had a pretty good soaker today at the usual time, which is whenever I’m driving home from work. The common wisdom is that you should slow down when it starts raining….
About 11:00 ET this morning, I’m sitting in my home office chair surfing the web. Something strange happens. The chair starts a very gentle wobble. The desk does the same thing. In fact, so does the whole house. It’s very slight, but also very real. It turns out there was a 6.0 earthquake in the…
5,593. That’s how many lightning strikes we’ve had in Central Florida in the past four hours, according to WESH’s Ivan Cabrerra. That’s why Central Florida is the Lightning capital of America.
