My wanderings, in and around Virginia Beach, VA
Rain rain and more rain…
The national hurricane center continues to reduce the wind speeds associated with hurricane Irene, whole the media continues to err towards the side of eminent doom…
In my neighborhood were seeing winds in the high 30′s gusts to 55, and a bit over 3 inches of rain…
Heres the view from my house…
Its 6:30 PM and it looks like the latest from the National Weather service and National Hurricane center, is that the sustained winds estimates are being lowered, well at least for my neighborhood from 80 to 72 MPH, but gusts went from ~100 to 105 MPH.
Feeling better and better about this and my initial estimate with every report.
Still trying to understand how the local TV weather people are able to sleep at night, after filling peoples heads with improbable predictions, and trying to imply that the worst possible outcome is going to happen.
Oh yeah here’s how the next 48 hours will look for Virginia Beach..
Well it looks like Irene is going to be visiting in the next 48 hours or so. Doesn’t look to be outside of my comfort zone tolerance so we will be staying in VB, and I plan on posting pictures if they are relevant. The eye should be over us around 2am on Sunday morning so I Guess I can sleep Sunday….
For more information on the status and track of Hurricane Irene, go to the National Hurricane Center‘s web site
For more information on the local forecast and impact go to the National Weather Service Virginia Beach Forecast..
More to come
It’s annoying enough to be stuck behind someone one driving slow because they are to busy on the phone to drive the speed limit, but it is even more annoying to be stuck behind someone on the cell phone, who is paid by your tax dollars in a vehicle paid for by your tax dollars.
This is not an isolated incident, it seems every time I see a city vehicle, the driver has their cell phone plastered to their ear.
I think the city should be setting an example in safety an ban cell phone use be people driving city vehicles.
City employee driving on the cell phone
BTW this photo was take while stopped at a red light…
It really makes you wonder about the brainiac’s running this city, when for years and years there were no guardrails on Princess Anne road between Dam Neck and the Municipal center, but now that the road is being expanded someone thought it a good idea to go ahead and spend a lot of money to install guardrails the majority of that section of road.
The city is saying how poor they(we) are, and trying to steal money from the schools, but they have plenty of the stuff to do this road upgrade for a road that essentially is going away in the near future. Well maybe not that soon, considering how slow this city Builds roads, I think it took 4 years to widen London Bridge road…