WeirdLooking.com: Michael Barton's BlogCopyright 2006Michael Bartonpalrich@gmail.com2012-05-19T18:29:33ZWeirdLooking.comhttp://www.weirdlooking.com/images/feed.pnghttp://www.weirdlooking.com/hurricane season's a-comin'...Michael Bartonhttp://www.weirdlooking.com/blog/hurricane-seasons-a-comin2006-05-11T12:42:24Z2006-05-11T12:42:24ZAnd I’d rather not be surprised <em>again</em>. Since I rarely watch the news, I tend to hear about hurricanes when it’s time to evacuate. Last year, I tried watching the <a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutrss.shtml" style="position: relative; padding-left: 8px; zoom: 1;"><span style="position: absolute; top: -5px; left: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px; background: URL(http://www.weirdlooking.com/exticon?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nhc.noaa.gov%2Faboutrss.shtml) no-repeat center center; -moz-opacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; filter:alpha(opacity=30);"></span>National Hurricane Center's RSS feed</a>. Is <a href="http://inkblots.markwoodman.com/2005/09/22/hurricane-rss-feeds/" style="position: relative; padding-left: 8px; zoom: 1;"><span style="position: absolute; top: -5px; left: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px; background: URL(http://www.weirdlooking.com/exticon?http%3A%2F%2Finkblots.markwoodman.com%2F2005%2F09%2F22%2Fhurricane-rss-feeds%2F) no-repeat center center; -moz-opacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; filter:alpha(opacity=30);"></span>anyone</a> actually subscribed to this thing? The NHC posts about 86,000 items per day, and they look like this:<br /><br /><blockquote><p>ABNT20 KNHC 010315<br />TWOAT<br />TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK<br />NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL<br />1030 PM EST WED NOV 30 2005<br />FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC…CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO…<br />THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON TROPICAL<br />STORM EPSILON… LOCATED OVER THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC ABOUT 700 MILES<br />…</p></blockquote><br /><br />…I’d rather be hit by a hurricane. What I’d like is a feed of the headlines: new storms and major changes in landfall predictions, nothing else. I’ve searched a lot and can’t really find anything along those lines.<br /><br />Maybe some news site will emerge with optimal hurricane story density after we get our first storm. Or maybe I can scrape the important bits out of NHC alerts. I don’t know.<br /><br />But I’m looking forward to another <a href="http://www.weirdlooking.com/blog/33" style="position: relative; padding-left: 8px; zoom: 1;"><span style="position: absolute; top: -5px; left: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px; background: URL(http://www.weirdlooking.com/exticon?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.weirdlooking.com%2Fblog%2F33) no-repeat center center; -moz-opacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; filter:alpha(opacity=30);"></span>evacuation</a>.http://www.weirdlooking.com/atom/comments/565