Power's out.

Bubble time.

WiFi works because the modem"s on battery backup!

My Spell Of Deflection is working.

Or, it would, if this things wasn't as big as SC, NC and VA combined.

No rain yet, but the wind is picking up. Branches are falling.

Power has flickered a couple of times.

40" of rain?

Forty inches?????

There's a little metric I like to keep in mind when thinking about rainfall: an inch of rain is equivalent to ten inches of snow.

So... this would be 400 inches of snow. That's over thirty three feet of snow.

We're on a pretty steep hill. So, I'm worried about the slope turning liquid and sending us sliding down into the creek. Or, the trees around the house falling over in the saturated soil.

Sigh.

I feel for the people out in the eastern 1/3 of the state, where the ground is basically flat and the winds will be stronger.

Flo!

We're between the Friday AM and Saturday AM dots.

That's far enough inland that the winds should be only 40 - 70mph or so (!) when the storm gets to us Friday morning. But the local police department put up a map predicting that we're going to get "historic" rain totals because it's going to slow down and drag over us for a day or so. I'll get to see if the new French drains we just had put in are going to work or not.

The whole South Carolina coast just got put on evacuation notice.

Wilmington NC area schools are already closed for the week. Our friends there are coming up to this area to ride it out.

Friday is our 22nd wedding anniversary. I have a special bottle of wine for us to drink in the dark. I think we'll probably have to pass on the dinner reservations we made for Saturday, too.

Who among us does not wish the briny snotty flavor of clams was available in a lickable candy stick?

Two years ago I wrote this post:

Someone at the Washington Post woke up sober.

The Hillary Clinton email story is out of control

Imagine how history would judge today’s Americans if, looking back at this election, the record showed that voters empowered a dangerous man because of . . . a minor email scandal. There is no equivalence between Ms. Clinton’s wrongs and Mr. Trump’s manifest unfitness for office.

Yeah. Imagine that.

...according to The Guardian.

Cameras used to be their own devices with lenses and film and trips to the drug store to get the pictures developed. Then, they disappeared into phones, tablets, laptops, and video game consoles. Now, it appears that cameras could someday become as inconspicuous as a pane of glass.

According to new research, a photodetector pressed up against the edge of a window can detect the reflections that bounce around inside the glass—like light signals traversing a fiber optic cable. And some clever processing of those tiny trickles of detected light enables the pane of glass to act like a giant camera lens.

The resulting grainy images (think of pixelated, somewhat distorted and lower-resolution cousins to shots taken by first-generation smartphones) won’t compete anytime soon with conventional cameras for picture quality. But for the purposes of many computer vision programs, a window pane or a piece of car windshield may provide all the resolution that an image processing algorithm or neural network might need.