The Dude

I would be quite happy with seeing first flakes of the year. Seems like that's still a possibility.

DT, thanks for the write up and nice to see you back.

Just light rain here.

25 here. Happy Nosquito Day!

Yeah, it seems pretty clear they are planning to move Jensen at the point.

Schultz's numbers are actually pretty decent when he wasn't paired with Johnson, who was horrible. He actually played pretty well when paired with Petterson , and I think he'll fit well next to Orlov. That said, I would have thought he would have been cheaper. I believe the caps still have 3M in cap space because Kempney is going to be on LTIR. Figure Siegs gets 1.2 or so, and hopefully they'll use the rest to add some scoring punch to the bottom 6.

The core of the radar-indicated winds passed over us, but I don't think we gusted much above 30-40 mph here. Torrential rain (10+ in/hr) and lots of lightning were the big story here.

TOR just issued

Thanks for stopping in to share your thoughts. The terrain is manageable. The traffic is the big challenge around here.

Great storm. Hail core just missed me to the south, but I got torrential rain (maxing out at 9.5 in/hr) and some good wind gusts likely around 40 mph.

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!

That, and Mdecoy's fleshlight...

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.