Noreaster
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I could sense it all afternoon. The chatter on the radio and television stations was strong from our local officials and civil leaders: We are in control; it wasn’t as bad as we thought; we were prepared; we are returning to normal. And “returning to normal” included school systems returning to a regular schedule on…
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It’s just before 6 p.m., and the lights just won’t stop flickering. About 30 minutes ago, one of the generators in my neighborhood exploded, and our lights went with it — for just a second. They came back on, but I don’t have any confidence that they will stay on for too much longer. In…
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“THIS WILL BE A DEADLY STORM. IT’S GOING TO BE A LONG 24-36 HOURS.” Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley The magnitude of this storm continues to overwhelm me. The images are staggering, but my heart breaks when I see what is happening to our Ocean City. The two pictures below, one released by the OC Tourism…
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“HISTORIC, DESTRUCTIVE, LIFE-THREATENING.” Bernie Rayno, Meteorologist, AccuWeather.com (photo: Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun) 6:22 a.m. – We still have power, as does nearly every other family in Central Maryland. BGE is reporting less than 500 outages, but we all know that we are still in the “calm before the storm” phase of this monster weather event.…
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It amazes me how just a few miles in one direction can change so much about a storm of this magnitude. In my last update, I stressed how significant it was that the storm had shifted south, and if the center of the storm traveled up along the Chesapeake Bay, the storm surge would be…
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Romancing the Storm is a collection of blog posts and articles that I will be publishing from Saturday, October 27, through the first week of November. In these entries, I will be chronicling the approach, landfall, and aftermath of hurricane Sandy as it makes its way toward and through the Mid-Atlantic region, adding my own…
