The Dude

Good riddance.

Just ban the posters who keep breaking the rules.

AHL is a different beast since it is basically all gate driven. I can't imagine they'll continue their season. Through its TV rights, the NHL will still bring in a ton of revenue if it completes the season, so it will do everything reasonably possible to make it happen.

Just spiked to 80 here.

Torrential rain, some wind and some thunder and lightning. Nice storm to kick off the season. Glad the more severe winds didn't materialize. I've spent the last month or so stocking the freezer, and am glad not to lose power.

Thanks. I guess I need to check my weather radio to see why it didn't go off.

More from Bethesda below. I may have missed it, but I don't think there was a warning out for this portion of the line. I'm a few miles away, and it doesn't seem like we had any significant wind here. My weather station (which is highly sheltered from wind) only had a reading of 10 mph. It tends to run 40-50% of actual winds, so it suggests we didn't see anything above the low 20s.

What Bob actually wrote: What the weenies see: Edit: Ninja'd by Zugzwang!

I think it can be implied in the right to bare arms.

That, and Mdecoy's fleshlight...

Looks like 11.5" will be the total here.

Up to 10 inches here. It just doesn't want to stop.

7.5 inches here. Perfect snow day.

I've got around 6" in N. Bethesda. Beautiful sight!

3" in N. Bethesda.

Great find. at the cars being tossed around at :40.

Just a beautiful storm!

This is the last bit of damage I could find: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Joplin,+MO&hl=en&ll=37.030441,-94.330346&spn=0.003606,0.006968&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=57.772232,114.169922&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=18 What are you seeing down by Granby?

It woke my wife up, and she woke me up. I felt the bed vibrating a bit. It felt pretty similar to the Germantown earthquake last year; nothing like Tuesday's.

Yeah, but it was in Missouri then...

Agreed. There is zero need to take any precautions like checking structural integrity. This is America's capital, damnit. I'm sure the buildings and subway system were built strong enough. And I am appalled that the news is covering this event. Sure, we don't get quakes this size around here but one a millennium or so, but other places get them pretty regularly. They are such pansies for focusing on it. And anyone taking pictures of their trash cans to show the impact of a weather event is definitely a pansy. Glad there's no one like that around here.

Looks like it's back to being a 5.8, and the depth is now listed at 6 km.

WHERE IS FEMA??!?!?!?

Sounds right to me. Nothing broken here, but there's no way anyone inside could have missed it. Felt more like a train passing nearby than a truck.

I presume that's preliminary? I note it's described as "poorly constrained," but have no idea what that means.