Search For Tsunami Survivors Ending As Toll Nears 140,000; Truckloads Of Sand Fill Massive Sinkhole; Winnipeg Struck By 2 Storms In A Row; Radio Weatherman’s Final Forecast; Astronauts On Candy Diet After Pantry Raided; My Quick Look Back At 2004, Blog Editorials
Tsunami Update:
- Search For Tsunami Survivors Ending: Toll nears 140,000; region to adopt new early-warning system
- Tsunami Warning Failed To Get Through-Thai Expert
- Resources: Images and Videos
- Current World Quakes List (List also in lower left column of this page)
- Several Links From Lost Remote
- How To Help
- Live earthquake list in lower left column of this page/ Additional resources are in the right column of our National/International page, and in the entries below
1,282 Truckloads Of Sand Fill Massive Sinkhole: It took 1,282 truckloads of sand, but the 225-foot-wide sinkhole that opened in Deltona, Florida, has been filled.
Weather News: Winnipeg Struck By Two Storms In A Row: “Winterpeg” earned its nickname this weekend, when the second of two snow storms hit southern Manitoba.
Radio Weatherman Airs His Final Forecast
Space News: Astronauts On Candy Diet After Pantry Raided: The two U.S. and Russian astronauts on the International Space Station had to rely on a candy-laden diet for five weeks because their predecessors raided the pantry.
My Quick Look Back At 2004:
I’ve already included the Top 15 weather stories of the year, and the Top 40 visited pages on this site for the year in entries below, so I will mention some other things that I enjoyed in 2004:
Music:
Much-hyped release: U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (My review here)
Less-known release: Bob Schneider – I’m Good Now
Weather-related release: Ryan Farish – Beautiful (Plays on Weather Channel’s Weather On The 8′s)
Small Technology: My favorite new gagets of the year:
XM Satellite Radio‘s Roady2 (note to XM listeners: here’s a great site that lets you track what’s playing on all or chosen channels)
iPod (bought in late 2003)
Dell Axim Pocket PC
Online:
Blogs: Big year for blogs, this one included. My favorites are listed to the left
Browsing The Internet: Firefox 1.0 makes waves … Get your free copy here
Breaking News: RSS and Drudge Report
TV:
David Letterman and Conan O’Brien
Radio:
Coast To Coast AM with George Noory and Art Bell Weekends kept me awake on many nights while updating this Web site
The Phil Hendrie Show kept me laughing after receiving my XM radio. Nice to hear him again as he’s no longer available over the airwaves in North Texas.
Other Lists: and plenty of them: Fimoculous.com
2004 Editorials In WXnation Blog:
Sept. 5: After Frances, Ivan May Not Be Distant Enough For Floridians
Sept. 15: World Is Watching
Nov. 18: Review: Category 6 Off The Charts … Of Reason
Dec. 1: It’s Over
Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Sunday: 1. Reno 2. Los Angeles 3. Dallas-Fort Worth 4. Toronto 5. San Diego … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.
