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Items of interest from the Triangle & Triad

Slave cemetery

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Spent a little while in a slave cemetery not far from where I live.
A sad place for all kinds of reasons with sunken depressions and stones in a row.
As I wandered around and photographed the stones, had a Blind Lemon Jefferson song running through my head.
See That My Grave Is Swept Clean
Well there’s one kind [...]

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Fire, Freeze, Red Flag

Saturday, April 7, 2007

 

Dry, windy weather this time of year gets you these kind of warnings:
Fire Weather Watch
Freeze Warning
Hazardous Weather Outlook
Red Flag Warning
Special Weather Statement

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Nuphar lutea (L.) Yellow Pond Lily

Sunday, December 24, 2006

This Yellow Pond Lily resides in the water gardens at the NC Botanical Garden. Photographed in September, 2006.

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Tropical Storm Ernesto

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Update: The storm has grown in intensity and shifted east with landfall now a little farther up the coast. Winds are approaching hurricane strength and a hurricane watch is on. NHC 2 p.m. advisory.
Original post: Ernesto is still pretty much on track for a Thursday night landfall along the S.C. coast. The storm will [...]

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Somewhere between I-40 and I-85 in 72 hrs

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

That’s what the NHC is where Ernesto is headed—well maybe. Things change, of course, and as retiring NHC director Max Mayfield has said he wants on his gravestone:
DON’T FOCUS ON THE CENTER BLACK LINE! Pay attention to the cone of probability when looking at hurricane forecast tracks.
So you people in the cone should be prepared [...]

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