The storm is now forecast to come ashore ON Galveston island, 15 miles WSW of the city's dot on the map. This is also just 48 miles SSE of me in the Galleria area. This forecast path should take the eye almost right over me. Yikes.
Ike is still "only" a category 2 hurricane, with winds topping out at 100 mph. They are still forecasting strengthening to major hurricane status, but there are a lot of factors against this, such as dry air, cooler water temperatures, and a bit of wind sheer. But some of these factors are forecast to go away.
Again I must focus on NHC's inability to provide a reliable track. They keep moving the hurricane east, east, east. I don't understand why the models are predicting an immediate turn to the WNW when the hurricane is chugging along to the NW the whole time. If the models don't kick in as suggested, the hurricane may make it all the way to Beaumont, and we'll be on the better side of the hurricane.
However, with hurricane force winds spreading out over 115 miles from the center, there is no doubt that wherever this things strikes, this weekend's going to be a wet and windy one.
I'll post some more images and some vital stats on Ike in a moment. Google Earth is being a pain and crashing all the time lately. What the hell did they do with their app that it's so unstable these days?
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In California, truck license plates are 7 characters, all numbers except for one letter in either the second or the sixth position. Whenever that letter is an X, I get nerd snipped into treating it as a multiplication problem and solving it in my head.
we should have paid more attention to the cats who, for decades, put their bodies on the line to walk on keyboards and sit on laptops and prevent us from programming
Former 2 time world champion DogPlayingTetris becomes the first player to ever rollover the level counter in NES Tetris, performing what's known in the community as "Rebirth". Final score: 29,486,164, 4216 lines, level 347 (256 + 91)... all huge world records. #tetris
I'd also love a 6 hour layover overnight instead of taking the red eye I was going to take and be 7 hours later getting into Cleveland than I wanted, why do you ask? #airporthell
Why yes, I'd love to leave at 4:40 to get to the airport at 6:20 for an 8:20 flight that got delayed to 9:05 which is too late for my connection so now I'm on a 10:20 flight instead. Why do you ask? #airporthell
@shanselman Who at Microsoft do I have to bribe to fix ADO so that those of us on dark mode who copy/paste text from one task to another can do so without our friends on light mode seeing dark text on a dark background?
I updated the blog post with a statement from Revival. While I'm not particularly happy with Revival's decision, I understand their motives. It's just a shame that it was someone from Interplay that had to go and do this. "By games for gamers" my ass.
Damn, got another Tetris world record! This time in the arcade variant developed by Atari. 6,008,005 points, 5,386 lines, round 363. Be warned, it's nearly FIVE HOURS. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2131759212