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h/t Commander Zero Mind the gap. Meet the five luckiest people in CA in January 1994 without winning the Lotto jackpot. Underwear resup...

The geo-dweebs warn after an earthquake that there's a lottery-level chance a bigger one is coming. They always say that. Tonight, ...

Developing... Shook moderately hard here for 30-40 seconds, got bigger as it went. Probably a lot bigger somewhere els...

Our thoughts, prayers, and sincerest sympathies are with the residents in and around Anchorage at the moment. A 7.0 earthquake ain'...

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HEADLINE: Camp Lejeune being evacuated. Yeah, they're evacuating the dependents and non-essential personnel, ...

h/t Gun Free Zone CNN tweet: The Cajun Navy, the famous volunteer rescue group that formed in Louisiana after Hurricane K...

h/t Phil Hurricane Florence projected track If NOAA is on the case, Swamp Lejeune and the 2nd MarDiv, along with UNC-Wi...

h/t Peter @ Bayou Renaissance Man Vegas shooting ER team Ironman, Captain America, Superman, and Batman   From this month's Em...

h/t Bayou Renaissance Man Peter notes today this story, which describes the dire straits things are in down in Puerto Rico, a month af...

But wait, there's more! Thousands of containers sit, refrigerators running, in Port of San Juan Thursday Sept. 28. Photo: Angel Vale...

Go and read the entire post over at The Daily Sheeple . It's true on the short-term micro-catastrophe side. And it's true on...

From recent comments on an earlier "Irma" post, here's a reader update on the Central FL aftermath of  The Storm Hax...

Clostridium tetani spore (@about 12,000X magnification): 6350 of these to the inch 125 end to end would be the width of this period: ....

h/t Kenny After five, six, eight or more (?) deaths at a nursing home in Hollywood, FL, in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, it seems li...

Miami earlier today after waves breached seawall           Waves from hurricane pounding Havana Cuba seawall yesterday Havan...

  So, about 2 1/2 hrs ago, all three of the live streaming cams on Key West that I was following went to no signal, as the 130MPH wind...

So out of disinterested (from 3000 miles away) curiosity about the details, I pulled up a random 7.5 minute topo of Florida's west (...

                         (This embiggens.) Bad news if you live on the Gulf Coast side of the FL peninsula.

  In the last few weeks, Houston, the southeast of Texas, and the south of Louisiana were flooded and slammed by Hurricane Harvey...