Bob CollinsIt’s almost as if NPR’s standards & practices boss had Minnesota newswriters in mind when he issued his annual memo today on what not to say when telling stories about the weather. Read more →
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John EngerSailing an ice boat requires the perfect confluence of several, very rare weather events. Read more →
Here’s your moment of Minnesota Zen. Read more →
The next time someone wants to know what it means to be Minnesotan, you may refer them to this tweet from the West St. Paul Police Department. Read more →
You’re living a pretty good life in rural New Hampshire, the foliage is beautiful, the scenery along the river is lovely, and then it starts raining and doesn’t quit and, the next thing you know, your house is floating away until it’s destroyed by a bridge. Read more →
There are two stories about the state of the response of the federal government to the people of Puerto Rico, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria.
One story is being framed in Washington; one in San Juan.
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Why can’t Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, get any significant attention nor widespread help in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria that wiped it out six days ago?
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There’s something you won’t see in this drone video of the island of Barbuda, released by GlobalMedic overnight. Humans. Read more →
For our occasional series — The Beauty of Disasters — we give you this before-and-after shot from space of the water surrounding Florida. Read more →
The TV coverage of Hurricane Irma has renewed the long debate over whether journalists have a responsibility to lead by example, or whether we need the showbiz aspect of their work to understand the story they’re telling. Read more →
Here’s a political ad — sort of — that won’t have you throwing things at the TV. Read more →
Typically, a lot of light in the sky isn’t conducive to seeing the Northern Lights, so the full (or nearly so) moon would normally be no friend of fans of the cosmos in Minnesota last evening.
Not that it mattered in Paynesville. Read more →
In Florida, the people who aren’t evacuating are preparing to withstand whatever Hurricane Irma has planned for them.
That includes Pam Brekke, of Sanford, who drove 30 miles to a Lowe’s when she heard the store was getting a shipment of 216 generators. Read more →
We’re suspicious of the growing online claims that the nation’s airlines are gouging people trying to escape Hurricane Irma.
So far, the only evidence of it happening are occasional tweets claiming the airlines are charging thousands of dollars for seats out of the region. Read more →
If you want to get a sense of the kind of expertise behind the scenes at an airline, take a look at Delta Airlines, which today did what some other airlines didn’t want to do: fly into, then out of, San Juan, Puerto Rico, which is about to get hammered by Hurricane Irma. Read more →