Elliott, Christopher
"We're gonna see, you know, not just the storm surge but potential for damaging winds extending well inland all the way across portions of north Florida, into southern Georgia, into places like Savannah, Hilton Head," Brennan said. "We have hurricane warnings in effect for the fa...
Yup, just Irma. The weekend after I arrived, hurricane Irma hit Florida. Hard. This is officially my third hurricane. But the first one barely counts. That was Arthur in the summer of 2014. We just took turns chasing each other up the eastern seaboard. The last two, Matthew and Irma ...
Hurricane Beryl, which hit in July of this year and is still under review, generated at least 65 confirmed tornadoes and currently ranks fifth. By comparison, Florida overall typically sees about 50 tornadoes a year on average, according to Matthew Elliot, a warning coordination meteorolo...
And it was so, except in Florida, where God had a different plan. The elements of land and sea would be resolved not by divine decree, but through the interminable efforts of civil engineering: “Cursed is the ground,” the swamp reminds us, lest we forget—“through painful toil you ...
Much like when I started this blog in 2005, I don't know what is next. I don't know when and if we will get another pug. We are just going to take it one day at time and do what feels right. I will be stopping the Daily Pug Picture and other parts of the site soon, but ...
and twitching on the verge of recollection: WHO is that familiar face screaming on your TV screen? The new horror-thriller series from Matthew Scott Kane not only delves into the Satanic Panic of the '80s with a fresh murder mystery to unearth but also boasts an ensemble cast studded with ...
FEMA exists for emergencies. No doubt it has been mismanaged and underfunded. However, it is needed. Hurricane Katrina taught us that. Remember all those people in the “Super Dome?” They then moved some of them to a stadium in Texas. Finally they began dispersing them all over the Unite...
When the storm of empathy references finally made landfall, surging against the wind-slowing topographies of first Monday’s and then Tuesday’s news cycles like a hurricane against the shore, it had merited headlines at Huffpost (Why Was Rob Portman’s Stroke of Empathy So Shocking?), and ...
Volunteers step in to help Hurricane Helene rescue efforts: There is no support, no leadership here Florida Guard Special Missions Unit’s Jon Howard, Aerial Recovery's Charlie Keebaugh, pilot Mark Roseman, and civilian helicopter pilot Zeb Hadley on their efforts to help victims ...