Recommended Stuff Spring 2014 Edition: Weather, Video Streaming, Cheap Books, Boston Booze…

Here's a few items that I seem to be telling people about quite a bit lately. You may want to check them out. Weather Underground – A Weather App That Doesn't Suck  It seems like as each of the main weather apps we all use on our phones (The Weather Channel, Accuweahter, Yahoo! Weather) have been […]

New 2011 Japanese Tsunami Video Shows River Wipe Out Town

This a fairly new video of the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. It shows an incredible amount of water hitting the town through a rising river. Very scary. 

Amazing Video of a Supercell Storm Forming in Texas

This is an amazing video from from Mike Obilinski of a supercell storm forming in Booker, Texas.  The Vimeo page has the details on how he got this fantastic shot. You can buy prints of this storm here.  A supercell near Booker, Texas from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.    

Satellite Pictures of the Moore, Oklahoma Tornado Path on Google Maps

The path of the tornado left a wide lane of destruction. The Purple mark is the locaiton of Briarwood Elementary School Google Maps has done their usual crisis work and detailed the path of the tornado. The colors indicate level of damage where purple is the most damanged area, red less, yellow less… If you […]

Video: Damage to New England From The “Long Island Express” Hurricane of 1938

The hurricane hits Westport, MA. From UncoveringWestport on Flickr (Map and more pics here) Wikipedia gives some background: The New England Hurricane of 1938 (or Great New England Hurricane, Yankee Clipper, Long Island Express, or simply the Great Hurricane) was the first major hurricane to strike New England since 1869. The storm formed near the coast […]