What's in a name?

Via Charlie Pierce, this is really a brilliant idea for naming major storms.



And while you're at it, just click over and read everything Charlie has to say. Perfect place to catch up on the news that matters when you've been offline for a while.

In the eye of the hurricane

Looks like Isaac is going to be a pretty big storm. Not a Katrina category hurricane but bad enough to worry about your friends on the Gulf coast. Likely to be some flooding and power outages.

Josh Stearns, Public Media Campaign Director for Free Press, storified CNN's Lizzie O'Leary's #Hurricane 101 tweet series. I believe she's a Nola native and she put these up as a guide for reporters, but the advice is useful for anyone stuck on the coast during the storm. Added bonus, she name checked me in the last tweet on page two of the Storify.

Lizzie also posts the Nola evacuation map, just in case things take a turn for the worse, but at this point it's probably too late to leave. [Inga Sarda-Sorensen photo of a storm yesterday in NYC]

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I want to be a part of it

As long time readers know, I collect links to livestream webcams. (A few of my favorites on way down on the sidebar.)I was thinking about my friends in the Northeast who are about to battered with storms tonight and suddenly remembered I could watch in real time on the Times Square livecams. Last I checked the first storm passed through. I'm told there's a second round on its way.

[Suggested soundtrack]

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