earthquake

Power is back. It was gone for 1 day. Irene wasn’t bad, at least not as bad as CNN wanted you to think.

Electricity went bye-bye yesterday at 9:30pm. It started raining and getting a bit windy. By 11:30pm the creek by our place grew from its usual 4ft to 30ft. At 12:30am there was a slight breeze and not even a drop of water pouring down.

I woke up this morning to witness the aftermath: a slightly eroded creek and a few branches on the ground. Irene was gone. I checked the news on my phone (God bless smartphones) and Irene was already dumping her load on NYC. Parts of the media were already questioning if they had gotten too far (mea culpa anyone?).

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February 27th, 2010 – A massive earthquake has struck Chile early this morning. The epicenter of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake was near the city of Concepción, Chile’s second largest city. It was also felt in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and as far as Sao Paulo, Brasil. A tsunami alert was issued for ...

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Weekly news mashup

by Fernando on February 13, 2010

I just finished perusing these last couple of days’ news and I couldn’t decide wether to blog about Bill Clinton’s  heart surgery, the Georgian luger that lost his life in a training session (on the world’s fastest track) of Vancouver’s Winter Olympics or the blogosphere’s outrage at Googles’ new product, Buzz, ...

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