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In the early days of PenguinRadio, I noticed my business partner was often listening to BBC London in the office pretty much throughout the day.  It wasn’t that he necessarily liked what was being played he said, it’s just that he enjoyed hearing the traffic news as it made him feel a bit like “he [...]

The net is a great source of information in storms like this.  In fact, sometimes you get too much data, but you can eventually sort through it to come up with a pretty good picture of the current situation. This weather map from WeatherUnderground shows the potential wind speeds from Hurricane Irene. Starting from the [...]

I’ve been quite busy over the last 24 hours tracking Irene. Well that’s not entirely accurate–I’ve been tracking Irene for days, but I’ve gotten quite worried about Irene in the last 24 hours. The “Oh Crap” moment came yesterday when I took a look at the computer models that showed a distinct Western track of [...]

Too busy to type but this is the view out the window.

The COMFORT is on station off the coast, as you’ll see from this Navy photo just released.

    For those in the Annapolis area (and who can see through this bit of fog we have on the Bay today), you might be able to catch a glimpse of the USNS COMFORT hospital ship on its way to Haiti sometime around 11:30. Good viewing points in Sandy Point State Park, the Bay [...]

Hurricane / TS / TD / Rain from Ida is making waves in the backyard.  Actually quite a bit higher than this photo earlier.

The Hoegh Traveller is passing by the house at this moment.  Not really sure what is inside.  It’s supposed to be cars, but who is going to buy them? As I’ve mentioned, the backlog in worldwide shipping is noticeable here on the Bay with dozens of ships parked in the Annapolis anchorage with nothing better [...]

Everyone talks the talk about accountability.  I’m looking today at some guy stepping down because Air Force One freaked out a bunch of New Yorkers.  But Gene Kranz is a guy who has walked the walk.  I was doing a bit of Googling tonight came across this quote following the disaster of Apollo 1.  Just [...]

Ok, I’m not sure what this is.  It’s military grey, and it looks like it has the MSC ‘rainbow’ on the back stack (hard to tell because of the fog).  But the outline doesn’t match any USNS ships that I can see on the USNS poster, so I’m at a bit of a loss.

Really cool video here: More details: The first half begins just below the Port of Houston Authority Turning Basin (the very end of the channel) and continues down to Green’s Bayou. The second half takes us from there to Morgan’s Point at the head of Galveston Bay. From there we still have 31.5 miles of [...]

  Well hell. It’s grey and cloudy here but if it clears up by tonight you might want to head to somewhere with a good Eastern view (think the Western Shore of Maryland, Annapolis, etc) to catch a glimpse of a big Minotaur rocket going up from Wallops Island, VA http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/05/nasa-will-try-to-launch-a-rocket-in-virginia-tonight-watch-it-with-your-kids/ These things are pretty [...]

You read about in my blog three weeks ago. Too many cars on the water. Now the local papers are writing about it. Recession Leads to Backup at Local Anchorage. Glad I don’t subscribe to a newspaper that tells me what I can already see outside my window.

Floating parking lot full of new cars? For the last few weeks, I’ve noticed up to the north a couple of RO-RO ships sitting in the Annapolis Anchorage (a deep water anchorage where ships often wait for room on the Baltimore dock to free up before heading to port). I can rarely make out ships [...]