The Last Word: When big storms hit, the roads empty. When Hurricane Harvey was still two hours offshore, the major roads were Houston had very, very little traffic. Usually on a Friday night, the streets are packed. But not this Friday night. Harvey was making his presence felt.
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Stormwatch: Building Up
The dimensions and slow pace of the storm are becoming clearer. At this stage, Harvey is still Cat 2. But that would change later in the day. The Fine Print: Screenshot of Weather Channel, 25 August 2017, taken with Apple iPhone 6. Stormwatch is a production of Perception Engineering and The Media Bunker. Contents Copyright (c) …
Stormwatch: Shelf Life
The Latest Word: One of the ways you know it’s a serious storm is by what you can’t get easily anymore. Like Water. Or Ramen Noodles. Or fruit. Or bread. Or Water. read. Or water.
Stormwatch: Hurricane Resource List
The Latest Word: Embed from Getty Images If you want to follow the storm–or if you’re like me and lots of others and will stay up late tonight tracking it–here are some resources for you. Television Coverage: The Weather Channel. CNN Fox News BBC Also check your local stations especially if you are located in …
Storm Watch: Rising Tides
The Latest Word: During the Stormwatch, we took screen shots of the Weather Channel and local coverage of Hurricane Harvey. Everything was time stamped, so seen as a sequence, it provides a visual timeline of Hurricane Harvey as it closed in on the Texas coast. If you read the text on the screen carefully, you …
Stormwatch: Dan Rather Makes Weather History
The Latest Word: On September 11th, 1961, a young Houston news director, Dan Rather, of KHOU-TV (Channel 11), made television weather history with his coverage of Hurricane Carla. Rather risked his life to provide coverage of Carla to Houston viewers. The storm was monstrous, a Category 5 hurricane, with winds of up to 175MPH. The …
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Stormwatch: Hurricane Harvey Winds Up
The Latest Word: And so it begins. There is some debate about which buildup for Hurricane Harvey is biggest: the storm itself or the media coverage. If you watch The Weather Channel–which is doing an excellent job–you will receive the impression that this thing, Harvey, is an absolute freak of nature and one of the …
The Nightshift: 25 August 2017
Press Clippings: Good Morning, it’s Friday, 25 August 2017, and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. Tropical Storm Harvey is bearing down on the Texas Gulf Coast and is expected to make landfall late Friday night or early Saturday morning near Corpus Christi. The storm is–as of this …
The Nightshift: 24 August 2017
Press Clippings: Good Morning, it’s Thursday, 24 August 2017, and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. Embed from Getty Images Tropical Storm Harvey is in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s expected to become a category 1 Hurricane and to drop up to 20 inches of rain along the …
The Nightshift: 23 August 2017
Editors Note: The editorial team has been on the road, with no access to the internet and thus today’s edition of The Nightshift is fast becoming tonight’s edition of The Nightshift. Enjoy. See you at the regular time(s) tomorrow. Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Wednesday, 23 August 2017, and this is …