Back from two week tour of some high points of the East Coast. Started in Colonial Williamsburg, then hit museums, parks, landmarks through Norfolk, Myrtle Beach, spent T-Day in Wilmington so we weren’t driving on that day, then Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, and back home via Corbing KY and Cumberland Falls.
(Hoped to see a moonbow but it didn’t materialize that night.)
Started first day with new company, same job yesterday. Whee!
Still going on well here.
Had some good rains, everything was flooded. Dam and three 1000l tanks are full and is overflowing.
Good stuff.
My sister/cousins and I put our heads together this morning, and AZ cos got the straw to hop on the nearest plane to Mom. Skirball was getting just close enough to Santa Monica to make us nervous about leaving Mom to her own devices. Kid Bro is there, but he’s…well, Kid Bro.
Good to know your toes aren’t getting toasted, F10. Yep, gimme a hurricane over this any day. At least the survival odds are better if you run out of evacuation options. 8-/
Bloom County is now officially located in California, since Berkeley’s Facebook page says things are on hold for the moment.
Hey, it’s @Datababe!
I just drove through your neighborhood! We vacationed down the eastern coast. Colonial Williamsburg, then museums and zoos and stuff in Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta.
It’s a DB sighting!
We’ve got a big fire now in north San Diego County but it’s still 45 minutes to an hour from here.
You should try driving through our neighborhood right about now, LOL. Provided you’re on a snowmobile. Hubby beat the storm by one day while I stayed for a bit longer in CA.
Second year in a row I missed playing in a blizzard. And YES, I am ticked at Mother Nature and her timing!
Gimme a heads up if you’re in the area again come spring. I may be organizing a bear hunt…
Seemed like as good a place as any to put this…
Ars republished the story about Harvey from one year ago…
I love this passage, so very true… (emphasis mine)
Nationally, Houston has a lousy reputation. It’s too hot, too humid, and too, well, too sprawly. It is all of those things. And don’t tell the Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau I said this, but it’s not a great city to visit. There isn’t much to do here that’s touristy, especially during our sultry summers. But here’s a little secret: Houston is a great place to live. It’s the opposite of, “It’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.” Rather, Houston may not be a nice place to visit, but you would want to live there. I do.
EDIT: One part of the story says that there are around 5 million people in the Houston area. I know there are many ways to calculate that, but it seems low. In the past month, I read that Houston has over 4 million in the city limits, and around 7 million in the greater metro area, but that seems high.
From the Houston Wiki:
I dunno. Hard to tell if the Metro number was 2010, or a more recent estimate. It’s a big dang city, though.
Okay, this isn’t about any of our fellow CoGers, but my relatives are in the path of typhoon Jebi. I sent a text this morning asking if everyone was okay, but I haven’t heard anything back yet.
I hope everyone is okay! 
I have a friend honey-mooning in japan and im not super sure of the area she was last in but i haven’t heard from her in about 2~3 days. I really hope everything is okay for people.
Update 25 minutes after posting she texted me that she got back last night.
Threadus Ressurectus!
Cali folks, I heard there was a pretty strong quake out there. Everyone okay?
6.4. Meh. 
That was in southern CA, so I didn’t feel it way up here. @Force10?
Edit: Seriously, though I do hope that everyone is okay and that no fires get out of control.
We didn’t feel anything here either. Too far south. A lot of my FB friends in LA felt it though.
Eisch, hope everybody’s ok that side of the world.
Hurricane Laura has shifted east, so Houston will not get the worst of it, but it just (15:15) started raining on the north side, and the wind is kicking up. I don’t know if @Lee_Ars is still hosting https://spacecityweather.com/ for them, but Eric and Matt are doing a great job of updating and letting us know what to expect.
Step-daughter lives down by Clear Lake / Kemah / League City, and came up last night. Better safe than sorry.
If anyone gets hit and needs to evac for safety for a while I have room. Stay safe guys.
Freakin scary weather reports… Lake Charles, LA might get 20 foot storm surge. That’s a two story HOUSE.
Fingers crossed for those in the path.
Yeah, Lake Charles got slammed. The rain here yesterday only lasted about 20 minutes; it has been dry and quiet ever since.
@dakboy: Hoping the riots are avoiding you and yours?
We’re relatively far out from the city (not even in the same county). From what I’ve gathered, the worst of the protestor/police altercations have been happening a few blocks from one of my old workplaces, out front of the public safety building and county courthouse/jail.
It’s impossible to know who’s starting the violence each night - is it the police (some videos imply that it is), is it someone with the legitimate protest group(s) getting out of hand (there’s always an a-hole in the crowd), or is it outsiders infiltrating to destabilize things (we’ve seen this section of the playbook before)? There are a lot of peaceful protests happening in the city too but media isn’t covering that as much.
It’s…it’s a 
show.
The RPD chief and the 4 highest-ranking people under him, the very top of the RPD command structure, have all resigned. The chief will be there until end of month - plenty of time to make things worse. He knows something bad’s coming his way.
The mayor still thinks she can do no wrong. Her “press conference” about the RPD chief resigning yesterday was 90 seconds of her saying “I can confirm that he resigned, I just found this out, I don’t know what happens next, I’m not taking any questions.” She’s been accused of lying to the city council about the circumstances around Daniel Prude’s death. Which continues her legacy of being a terrible mayor, just another in a long succession of poor city leadership.
What’s going to be everyone’s ultimate undoing is not that it happened (as terrible as that is), but the 6-month coverup. The ME ruled Daniel Prude’s death a homicide the day after he died. The mayor told the city council in August that he died of a drug overdose. She claims that the chief told her about the incident on March 23rd, but didn’t follow up and heard nothing more until August. Claims that she didn’t know about there being a video until then. Really, you’re the mayor and you don’t even think to ask if there’s video of a police-involved death? And then don’t ask any further questions of your chief of police for 4+ months?
This seems to be a decent timeline of what’s happened
Tune in to /r/rochester for more.
Our city PD (though I live just outside the city line, so they aren’t technically “my” PD) marched with the protestors during the early protest events early in the summer. It’s been otherwise quiet here.