Oct 19, 2009

Brrrr. ...

Another August, another hurricane. There are a few things you can always expect with a hurricane coming to town. 1: Tony Mainolfi (WESH) will start fear mongering. 2: All sorts of people will give you preparation advice and dire warnings. 3: Lazy bastards who didn’t get their supplies before the fear mongering will clog the roads, stores, and gas...

Have you ever seen this car driving around town? I swear I’ve seen it on I-4 for a while now and it always makes me wonder. Who the hell would do something like this? I know, it’s a crappy image, but what do you expect? I was driving about 60 mph down I-4 in Downtown Orlando, fumbling around for a Canon SD800 point & shoot camera, it’s...

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. The roads are slick, so you need more time to brake and...

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.

I’ve been waiting on Ernesto to arrive for a couple of days now. He didn’t come here as a hurricane, or even a tropical storm. Ernesto is a tropical depression, and not really even worthy of a name. Still, it’s a tropical cyclone and that makes today a storm day. That’s supposed to be like a snow day, for those of you who live in the...