hurricane season's a-comin'...

Michael Barton — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:42:24 +0000

And I’d rather not be surprised again. Since I rarely watch the news, I tend to hear about hurricanes when it’s time to evacuate. Last year, I tried watching the National Hurricane Center's RSS feed. Is anyone actually subscribed to this thing? The NHC posts about 86,000 items per day, and they look like this:

ABNT20 KNHC 010315
TWOAT
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1030 PM EST WED NOV 30 2005
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC…CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO…
THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON TROPICAL
STORM EPSILON… LOCATED OVER THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC ABOUT 700 MILES
…

…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.

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.

But I’m looking forward to another evacuation.

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hurricane season's a-comin'...