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Weathering the storms

5/21/2008 – 3:46 pm

We had a batch of bad weather come through here yesterday. I had seen a severe thunderstorm warning earlier in the day, but didn’t think much about it. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Personal, Whatever | Also tagged canton, cherokee county, ga, Georgia, holly springs, Storms, Tornadoes, woodstock | Comments (5)

Many of you are probably currently familiar with hearing about the tornado that hit Enterprise, Alabama yesterday. What you might not realize is that my wife and I both graduated from the high school that was leveled in that storm system. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Family, Personal, The South | Also tagged Alabama, Feeds, Google, RSS, Tornado, Tornadoes, Wiregrass, yahoo | Comments (9)

Snow

2/16/2006 – 5:17 pm

Snow falling last Monday

I originally wrote this up on Monday the 13th, but didn’t get to post it until now because I wound up tracking down a WordPress bug.

Just about everyone knows about the blizzard up in the northeast last week. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Personal | Also tagged Atlanta, Georgia, WordPress | Comments (0)

Katrina aftermath

9/6/2005 – 12:52 pm

I talked to my mom this morning, and she said that all of our Mississippi relatives are accounted for. One family lost their house and is staying with other relatives, and one of my great aunts fell and broke her hip, and is in the hospital. . [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Family, News, The South | Also tagged Hurricanes, Katrina, Mississippi, Relief, Storms | Comments (4)

Katrina

9/2/2005 – 12:59 pm

I have a lot of family in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Fortunately, my closest relatives — my mother, father, step-father, grandmother, plus some aunts, uncles, and first cousins — were not in the most heavily affected areas. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Family, News, The South | Also tagged Alabama, Atlanta, Charity, Disasters, Georgia, Google, Hurricanes, Katrina, Mississippi, PHP, Relief, Storms | Comments (16)

Officially Winter

12/21/2004 – 7:29 pm

Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, the beginning of winter. Ironically, today was much warmer than the last couple around here. We had snow flurries on Sunday, with highs in the 30’s. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Personal | Comments (0)

No eclipse for us

10/28/2004 – 10:42 am

We missed the eclipse last night. Despite having mostly clear skies in the early part of the day, at the time that the lunar eclipse started, it was raining here. Bummer.