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The greatest review of Pan Am you will ever read

Katie Heaney, please never stop writing the way you do.

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The Waffle House Index: determining a storm’s severity through Waffle House

Photo via Multinational Monitor The Wall Street Journal has published a rather interesting article about how FEMA relies on an unofficial metric called the Waffle House Index to determine how badly a storm has hit an area. Essentially it boils … Continue reading

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Hurricane Andrew: A recollection of events from The Weather Channel

As I mentioned earlier, today is the 19th anniversary of the landing of Hurricane Andrew on South Florida/Miami Dade. The Weather Channel has written up a very informative break-down from the days leading up to August 24, 1992 and explains … Continue reading

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A trip into modern-day Chernobyl

Here is amazing video of modern day Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster 25 years ago and a recent hot topic due to the nuclear disaster in Japan. PBS Newshour correspondent Miles O’Brien ventures into the … Continue reading

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New video of Japanese tsunami shows people nearly being swept away

From atop a hill at a local school, people watch and scream in terror as tsunami flood waters come crashing into the town below sweeping everything away in its path. People can be seen running for their lives as water … Continue reading

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Chernobyl disaster photos

Photo: ZUFAROV/AFP/Getty Images The Atlantic’s In Focus blog has 39 big images of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster which is coming up on its 25th anniversary on April 26th. Man, talk about seeing some crazy abandoned disaster porn!

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