According to Matt Gaetz, Florida is also good at emergencies because we have one every third day. (Random news interview from early 2020, but I'd agree with that assessment).
In his CPAC 2021 speech, he said "Every day, I'm a Florida Man!"
In that case... they missed.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/114641.shtml?swath#contents
It's a small storm that will only hit the west coast of the state. It'll just be a rainy day (if that) on the east coast.
Better to use the National Hurricane Center site directly than the Weather Channel bobos: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/114641.shtml?cone#contents
Yeah, bad case of "not made here syndrome". This causes reinventing the wheel, only the new made here wheel is 3 times as expensive and half as performant as normal wheels available on the public market.
Microsoft used to have this badly, it's gotten better.
Technically, a US national that is not a citizen is a thing - this happens to people born in American Samoa, as congress did not pass a law stating people born in that territory receive full citizenship (whereas in other territories, such as Puerto Rico, anyone born there becomes a citizen at birth).
A US National can have a normal US passport, and has almost every right of a citizen, but they cannot vote in national elections, issue passports, or hold jobs explicitly requiring citizenship for some reason. They do have the right to work anywhere in the United States, DC, or territories like regular citizens.
They can become naturalized citizens by going through the same process as anyone else who is legally allowed in the country.
However, this situation does not apply to the people on I-95.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_blackout_of_July_2019
I was there when it happened. It was a Saturday afternoon. Had walked from Penn Station to roughly 10th and 42nd, and noticed power was out above 42nd (initially).
I went to New Jersey because I didn't want to be in Manhattan in case it got a bit too 1973.
(There wasn't really any looting or unusual crime as far as I heard).
Port Authority Bus Terminal was running on generators, and the fire alarm was going off, although fire alarms in there was such a common occurrence that no one cared. Someone explained later that there had been smoke in a power vault in the PABT that set the alarm off. The official story was that a malfunction occurred at a substation around 57th Street on the west side, first taking Manhattan between about 42nd and 96th, as well as a piece of Queens down. Power went out below 42nd some time later. Grid layout was weird - there are pictures of half of Times Square being out.
Sorry for the shitty ABC link. First picture caption is inaccurate - power is out on one side of Broadway:
There was the strange NYC 2019 power failure in Midtown Manhattan during the height of the Epstein stuff. A lot of strangeness surrounding that incident - some people think it had something to do with exfiltrating something from Epstein's house, which was in the blackout area.
295 is the Baltimore-Washington Parkway which runs between DC and Baltimore. The bridge that fell is in DC.
695 goes around Baltimore, another 695 goes across DC (entirely in DC) 495 goes around DC, 395 goes between Tysons Corner, VA and the Mall in DC past the Pentagon, and 895 is the Baltimore Harbour Tunnel Thruway.
Edit: there's another 395 in downtown Baltimore that is a short spur to Camden Yards, and a 795 spur off of 695 (MD). To clarify, 3 digit Interstate numbers can repeat across the various states, but there can't be two separate instances of the same number in a given state. There are more I-295s than any other number (FL, NC, VA (Richmond Belt), DC/MD (BW Parkway), DE/PA/NJ, NY (Clearview Expressway), RI/MA, ME). 395 and 695 repeat within the Baltimore-DC area, but not within a state. 295 is an interstate south of US-50, and a state highway (DC/MD) north of US-50 all the way to Baltimore (trucks cannot use this road north of there).
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Even has a wikipedia article... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
The world we live in really sounds like the Monorail Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZM
Actually, many sites partially depend on the public cloud services from Amazon AWS and Microsoft, sometimes others. If AWS became completely unavailable, a lot of things would break, sometimes in weird and not obvious ways.
For example, some sites use their own server for the text, but store images in AWS to improve load times and reduce cost. In this case, the page would partially load...
At least the National Weather Service tells you where the temperature was taken (often an airport)