{"id":1515,"date":"2011-08-27T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/27\/natural-disaster-report\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:37:23","slug":"natural-disaster-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/27\/natural-disaster-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Disaster Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Norfolkradar.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 211px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Norfolkradar.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645685779799123938\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">We have battened down the hatches and are enjoying a quiet evening at home as Hurricane Irene approaches. The radar image from Norfolk Virginia describes the current situation quite well. You can see the eye about 150 km south-east of us. We currently have moderate rain and wind. I don&#8217;t think it is going to be bad for us. Best wishes for all those under this storm. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">As for the earthquake, well, most everyone has their earthquake story (those who don&#8217;t are said to have Earthquake Envy). I was at poolside with Billy and Maria. It was quite a jolt here, stronger than anything we felt in Italy. When we got home, the only noticeable impact was that Maria&#8217;s ET doll had fallen from a shelf in the shack. More details in SolderSmoke 137. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our Book Store: <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have battened down the hatches and are enjoying a quiet evening at home as Hurricane Irene approaches. The radar image from Norfolk Virginia describes the current situation quite well. You can see the eye about 150 km south-east of us. We currently have moderate rain and wind. I don&#8217;t think it is going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/27\/natural-disaster-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Natural Disaster Report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288,289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earthquake","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}