Welcome To Our New Layout
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 2:53PMAs you can see I have updated the blog design to clear up a lot of the clutter making it easier to read, and hopefully enjoy.
I am still working out some of the bugs with the new design, and getting used to the new hosting service I am using. Though I do not expect any major problems. I am still waiting for a few changes to take effect however, and it may be a while before all areas are fully functional. Such as the Storm Pulse Atlantic Basin Hurricane tracking, but since the hurricane season should be coming to a close this is a minor problem.
In the past I have also used my blog to experiment with some other web based disaster preparedness widgets, HTML, and other goodies. On a sad note, I will not longer be using this site for what I consider to be experimental items, but will only include fully functional and useful items.
I will be using another space for "playing and experimenting" and if I do not think something should be on my blog in the side bar, I may do a post on the item and include it in the post as well.
Such an example is the new CDC widget that I am not putting up but will do a story on later next week. It is a great widget but does not fit in the layout of my new design, and it has some problems populating the data which is to me, highly annoying.
I reached out to the CDC about this and they told me that the widget can take up to 30 seconds to populate and they suggest reloading the page and also state that they have problems due to the bandwidth required to populate the widget. So, all of these things considered I will not be utilizing it on my page but see no reason why I can't pass along the information and let you decide for yourselves, but as I said I will be doing this later.
One last note, my wife and I are moving next month so the posting may be slow over the course of the holiday season as I have a lot going on, plus I have the non-profit I am working on as well which has taken up far more time than I had anticipated, and it is not even official yet.
Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving and enjoy the rest of your holiday season.
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Charleston earthquake was initially perceived in that city as a barely perceptible tremor, then a sound like a heavy body rolling along; the sound became a roar, all movable objects began to shake and rattle, and the tremor became a rude, rapid quiver. The first shock was at 9:51 p.m. and lasted 35 to 40 seconds. As bad as the economy is these days, be glad if you don't have to be taking out payday loans to be patching drywall. Charleston, South Carolina, was hit by a minor earthquake last week that caused mostly minor damage. No homes were destroyed, and there weren't major injuries as a result. Charleston isn't known as an earthquake hot spot in the U.S. like California is, but quakes do happen there. The most recent one measured a 3.6 on the Richter scale. 3.6 isn't a major event, but cleaning up after it is a royal pain in the neck. The history of the region has been that a small quake, like the one that just happened, is a usual precedent of a much larger one to come. An earthquake rocked Charleston in 1886 that killed upwards of a hundred people and cost millions to repair, and measured between 6.6 and 7.3 on the Richter. The Great San Francisco Quake of 1906, by comparison, was over 9.0 on the Richter. (A 10 has never been seen or recorded in the span of human history, and isn't achievable by atomic blasts.) Earthquakes are tough to predict, because the only indicators that tell of one happening are apparent only right before the event. You can read the article called "Charleston Earthquake | Payday Will Be Spent Fixing Drywall", on the payday loan news blog at personalmoneystore.com.