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We now return you to our regularly scheduled weather

With most of the rain from Ernesto moving away toward a projected landfall just west of Wilmington, NC, it’s time to wait for the flooded streets to drain before life gets back to normal. Lots of rain, flooding in all the usual places and some power outages, but so far I haven’t heard of much in the way of damage.
Before people start celebrating though, there might be more rain on the way later tonight associated with a front currently moving through Georgia.
Also from NHC‘s Tropical Weather Outlook, this might be the next system to keep an eye on.

A TROPICAL WAVE LOCATED ABOUT 700 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS HAS BECOME A LITTLE BETTER ORGANIZED THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL SLOW DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT DAY OR TWO AS THE SYSTEM MOVES SLOWLY WESTWARD.

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Tasty B5 rumours

From Bureau 42 comes news of a new straight-to-DVD series of B5 episodes featuring some of the original cast. Should be interesting to see the kinds of stories JMS comes up with.
And for the truly die-hard B5 fans, the complete set of B5 scripts written by JMS is being compiled and released in a 14 volume set (volumes 1-8 are available now). Not sure how news of this got by me, but it sure would look cool on the bookshelf..

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More eyes on Ernesto

The latest 5pm forecast for Ernesto has moved it back to the west and puts it just off the coast of Charleston by around 2ish tomorrow afternoon.
It’s a tropical depression now, so any strengthening it does over water once it leaves Florida will probably only bring it back to tropical storm status. This is good. It will still be windy and rainy tomorrow though. If the Melbourne, FL radar is any indication, very rainy.
I will have to remember to bring along an extra pair of socks, shoes and pants tomorrow, just in case I have to swim to get to work.
Ernesto - 30-Aug-06

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TeXing away

Spotted a new plugin for incorporating TeX into MT

[tex]x^2+y^2[/tex]
[tex]\Large f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^x e^{-t^2}dt[/tex]
[tex]\Large e^x=\lim_{n\to\infty} \left(1+\frac~xn\right)^n[/tex]
[tex]\Large\left.\begin{eqnarray} x+y+z&=&3\2y&=&x+z\2x+y&=&z\end{eqnarray}\right}[/tex]
[tex]\Large\hspace{5}\unitlength{1} \picture(175,100){~(50,50){\circle(100)} (1,50){\overbrace{\line(46)}^{4$\;\;a}} (52,50){\line(125)}~(50,52;115;2){\mid}~(52,55){\longleftar[60]} (130,56){\longrightar[35]}~(116,58){r}~(c85,50;80;2){\bullet} (c85,36){3$-q}~(c165,36){3$q} (42,29){\underbrace{\line(32)}_{1$a^2/r\;\;\;}}~}[/tex]

Very cool. I like it. Doesn’t work for dynamic publishing yet though.

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Sandbagging

So where does one go to get sandbags? And where do you go to fill them up without raiding sand from the beach?

The wife is worried about the garage getting wet with water by Ernesto. When there’s big rain, a little water sometimes makes it past the garage door seal into the garage. Nothing that doesn’t dry up in a few hours though. She likes to be conservative and on the safe side so now I’m looking for sandbags.

Now that I’m thinking about it, I think I can solve the garage water problem if I just angle the eavestrough downspout away from the house a little more. That reminds me, I should probably get up there and make sure the eavestroughs are clear before all the rain starts.

Update: Postscript’s Stormwatch blog provided me with the answer.

City of Charleston fire department has sandbags if you need them