[Spiff]

I've added you to the map. Stay safe.

Here's the latest map. The hurricane is making landfall so I zoomed in and the details are more visible. The hi-res reflectivity Radar from NSSL/U of Oklahoma dynamic data layer is broken this morning. Luckily, someone put together a dynamic data layer based upon images from the weather channel. It's not as pretty, it isn't radar but instead enhanced IR satellite images, but the key thing is that it is working. I hope the live radar comes back up this morning.

[onyx]

Excellent again, spiff!

Light rain here now, wind at 20mph, and gray skies:
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/forecast-current-conditions.asp?partner=townnews&myadc=0&traveler=1&zipcode=39182&metric=0

Going to the office today bourbon or?

[Spiff]

The problem is that the servers which serve that data upon which the dynamic data layers are totally overloaded. And then the guy that created the excellent and data rich Tropical Data and NHC Model data layer has family in New Orleans and he's worried about them right now and is trying to keep up with them instead of working on the data layer. Who could blame him.

This Google Earth stuff is so new, but it has caught on like wildfire on the Internet, apparently, and we're seeing the servers get overloaded as so many people discover how incredible it is to use this to track a storm.

[Spiff]

OK. The NSSL hi-res reflectivity data layer is back up. Here's the latest radar map overlayed on Google Earth with the FReepers who are riding out the storm mapped. (1010 EDT).