If any of you have waited until the last minute to do your taxes, you can probably relate to the wave panic that overcomes you when you realize that, not only do you not get a refund – you owe – but also that you don’t have your electronic filing pin from the IRS. You [...]
Posts Tagged ‘scary’
16 Dec
Metro to do random bag searches (for real this time)
Remember a while back when WMATA said that everyone’s bags and whatever they were bringing into metro stations was subject to search? Well, they’re doing it again…or perhaps, actually doing it for the first time – or so they say. Two years ago, Metro announced that it was going to start random bag searches, but [...]
10 Dec
64 Bus Hits Car
About 45 minutes ago, the 64 bus, headed towards Federal Triangle, hit a small car in the bus lane off 11th St. The driver has yet to get out of the car, and it doesn’t look like a really high speed impact (I didn’t actually see it while it was occurring) but with something as [...]
8 Oct
Murder and the Dharma Initiative’s Arrival
While driving home last night, I saw some work being done on a power line by Dominion Power. However, driving past this on the parkway, I got a closer look and was able to see that it wasn’t work being done on the power lines – it was a news truck and it was broadcasting [...]
16 Jul
OMG EARTHQUAKE
…which I and nearly everyone else completely slept through. Alert DC @ 5:58 AM: USGS reports: Magnitude: 3.7 (Preliminary magnitude) Location: 39.145*N, 77.222 W Depth 20 km (12.4miles) set by location program 20 Miles NW from Washington, DC And at 6:22 AM: No injuries, No Utilities, Building or property damages reported due to the Minor [...]
12 Feb
And now, for your epic weekly disaster…
Today marks the first day of what can only be referred to as “reverse Snowmageddon”. Rather than fleeing the city in a panic back out to the suburbs, commuters from Maryland and Virginia flooded into the city, especially clogging roads like 495-N and I-66 E. What would normally have been a 30-45 minute commute turned [...]
19 Jan
Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue in Haiti
The Military Times’ blog, Line of Sight, had a very interesting/relevant post today, particularly to residents of Fairfax County. The photo in the post, which shows part of the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue Team, specifically shows the team performing a rescue operation in the Hotel Montana in Port au Prince. Charities that you [...]
18 Dec
SNOWNOZ!
Have you gone to the store yet to stock up on toilet paper, milk and assorted useless stuff you don’t need? What about GameStop? Yes? Then you’re probably a native. Chances are that, if you’ve grown up in this region, you react to snow kind of like Cookie Monster when he gets a cookie. Seriously, [...]
4 Dec
Afghanistan
As a general rule, I don’t usually post about political stuff. However, this was so insane/absurd/mindblowing that I feel compelled to share it: Dynamic Planning for COIN (Counter-insurgency) in Afghanistan. Found it through the New York Times’ At War: Notes from the Front Lines blog. The slideshow/presentation starts out summarizing strategy and makes sense for [...]
