The view from this morning:
Showing posts with label views from the balcony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label views from the balcony. Show all posts
22 November 2011
Sunshine, Please. Please!
Another foggy, rainy, sunless morning in DC. Just like yesterday was and just like tomorrow is predicted to be. I like a rainy day here and there, but not a whole week. Come on, just a peek of sun, please.
The view from this morning:
The view from this morning:
27 August 2011
The Sky Is [Not] Falling
Hurricane Irene is headed north and we're all doomed!
Good grief, there's been nothing on the news for days except reporting about this storm and how it's going to get us all. We'll be wind-blown, flooded, skewered with debris, and so on and on and on. I haven't heard this much doom saying since ... since ... well, since Tuesday afternoon when the earthquake turned us all into idiots.
I watched the weather this morning. Some reporter was on the beach at Ocean City admonishing that nobody in their right mind would be on the beach at Ocean City this morning (that's true), and telling us that it was getting bad. "Let me check the windspeed for you back there in the studio. ... We're having sustained winds of 14 MPH. This storm is getting cranked up!" 14 MPH? Really?
I don't doubt that we'll get some wind, a good bit of rain, and that Old Town Alexandria, Annapolis and other flood-prone areas will flood. But, is the world to come to an end tonight? I doubt it.
I like to watch the news to see what's going but it becomes just a comedy when the reporters get sucked into their self-created vortex of doomsaying.
Here the rain has just begun and the wind is picking up a little. Maybe it'll gust up to 14 MPH soon! LOL
The first photo below is of the Washington Monument, which looked black. The camera doesn't capture that very well, but it looked black against a gray sky. The second picture is of the first rain bands of the storm. It was neat that we could see them on the horizon about five minutes before the rain arrived here.
Good grief, there's been nothing on the news for days except reporting about this storm and how it's going to get us all. We'll be wind-blown, flooded, skewered with debris, and so on and on and on. I haven't heard this much doom saying since ... since ... well, since Tuesday afternoon when the earthquake turned us all into idiots.
I watched the weather this morning. Some reporter was on the beach at Ocean City admonishing that nobody in their right mind would be on the beach at Ocean City this morning (that's true), and telling us that it was getting bad. "Let me check the windspeed for you back there in the studio. ... We're having sustained winds of 14 MPH. This storm is getting cranked up!" 14 MPH? Really?
I don't doubt that we'll get some wind, a good bit of rain, and that Old Town Alexandria, Annapolis and other flood-prone areas will flood. But, is the world to come to an end tonight? I doubt it.
I like to watch the news to see what's going but it becomes just a comedy when the reporters get sucked into their self-created vortex of doomsaying.
Here the rain has just begun and the wind is picking up a little. Maybe it'll gust up to 14 MPH soon! LOL
The first photo below is of the Washington Monument, which looked black. The camera doesn't capture that very well, but it looked black against a gray sky. The second picture is of the first rain bands of the storm. It was neat that we could see them on the horizon about five minutes before the rain arrived here.
16 July 2011
More Balcony Produce
The balcony garden is having a productive year. Today's harvest was about a half dozen jalapenos. Photos of the peppers, part of the garden, and the beautiful, green mid-summer view:
03 July 2011
Hotter Than Hell...
...then all hell breaks loose. Heat index of over a hundred today, with crazy humidity and zero breeze.
Then, all of a sudden, at about half past six, the sky became black, the wind came up, rain came in torrents, and there was tons of lightening, with some strikes so close that they shook the building. Thankfully it cooled things down significantly: temperature in downtown DC went from 92 to 68 in fifteen minutes!
Photos from the balcony, which don't really do the storm justice:
Then, all of a sudden, at about half past six, the sky became black, the wind came up, rain came in torrents, and there was tons of lightening, with some strikes so close that they shook the building. Thankfully it cooled things down significantly: temperature in downtown DC went from 92 to 68 in fifteen minutes!
Photos from the balcony, which don't really do the storm justice:
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