Nov 5th, 2009 at 1:00PM:
I didn't know a lot about Grenada before visiting recently, but one name was familiar to me: Ivan -- the hurricane that came through with force in 2004. So once I got there, I wanted to find out two things: what's it like during a hurricane? And how does the country look now, five years later? You first have to realize -- the hurricane was a fluke. The reason some residents were actually ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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The Spice Isle: Grenada moves on past Hurricane Ivan
Nov 5th, 2009 at 1:00PM:
I didn't know a lot about Grenada before visiting recently, but one name was familiar to me: Ivan -- the hurricane that came through with force in 2004. So once I got there, I wanted to find out two things: what's it like during a hurricane? And how does the country look now, five years later? You first have to realize -- the hurricane was a fluke. The reason some residents were actually ...Crazy dust storm covers Sydney in red haze
Sep 23rd, 2009 at 3:30PM: Residents and tourists in Sydney, Australia, might be feeling as though they been transported to Mars, and in fact, a glance around at the city covered in red dust against a red-orange sky does bring to mind images of what a colony on the red planet would look like. Despite its other-worldly appearance, the haze that converged on Sydney yesterday is earth-bound, composed of red dust from the ...Hurricane season is for bargain-hunters
May 27th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Hurricane season will not keep travelers from their destinations! A recent survey by TripAdvisor®, which mined the opinions of more than 1,000 U.S. travelers, reports that 43 percent plan to hit a hurricane-prone destination this summer or fall – peak hurricane season. This is up from 36 percent last year. Sixty-five percent of the survey's respondents are doing this to take advantage of ...Photo of the Day (12.06.08)
Jan 6th, 2009 at 6:00PM:
I booked a ticket to Australia a little while ago, and now that we're in the new year, the reality of my journey is starting to hit. In the throes of planning our itinerary we considered a variety of destinations, including wine country, in the South of the island. Scenes like this, taken by colmdc in Barossa Valley make me even more certain that it's a place that I want to visit. We'll see ...Cockpit Chronicles: Anatomy of a 26 hour delay.
Jan 5th, 2009 at 11:00AM: You've booked your honeymoon cruise and since you're smarter than the average traveler, you planned to be in San Juan more than a day early just to be safe. Sometimes though, no matter how hard we try, forces just stack up against passengers and their flight crews. The San Juan one-day trip I flew just before Christmas is the perfect example. digg_url = ...A Hurricane Hits Canada
Sep 30th, 2008 at 8:00AM: When television reporters try for their moment of glory by standing outside in the midst of a hurricane, there is usually a palm tree being whipped by the wind in the background. Hurricanes are known mainly as a tropical phenomenon. But not always. Hurricane Kyle battered Nova Scotia yesterday. Meanwhile, the neighboring US state of Maine issued the first hurricane warning in 17 years. Winds of 96 ...Photo of the Day (3-11-2008)
Mar 11th, 2008 at 2:00PM: Aside from a 2-week bout of the nastiest weather imaginable, winter in my cold little nook of the world has been pretty mild. In fact, the temperature today was in the mid-60s, while our neighbors to the east are experiencing severe winter weather warnings. So it's in honour of them that I choose to feature this photo of Toronto by PDPhotography today. I love the framing, I love the bleakness of ...Photo Gallery: Huge Dust Storm Takes Over Lubbock
May 28th, 2007 at 3:00PM:
One time I was headed back home to San Antonio to visit my family, and right as I crossed over the Texas-Oklahoma border -- somewhere near Denison, TX -- a dust storm took hold. In a matter of moments the sky was red, the highways were covered, and dust devils swirled every which way around the car as we poked our way down the highway at geriatric speeds. It looked very similar to the picture ...Finally, Europe Has Its Own Natural Disaster
Jan 19th, 2007 at 2:10PM: As a journalist, I find weather stories pathetic. It's mainly the use of all the tragic words I despise: devastating, gushing, torn into homes, etc. But people love them. There is nothing like a natural catastrophe that gets the readership numbers up. Now, with the high winds "blasting" across Europe, killing 45 people, European papers have stuff to write about.
Call me cynical, but I have always ...Photo of the Day (12/9/06)
Dec 9th, 2006 at 10:47AM: Snow days have arrived and in full force for certain areas. In this neighborhood-street shot taken in Vancouver B.C. by borderfilms (Doug) I get the impression no one was in any mood to rush out and take the cars on a snowy spin. Or maybe Doug just couldn't resist saving the memory of this rare snow dumped day with his Nikon D70 before pulling out the scrapper to remove nature's wintry blanket. ...
