September 23, 2004
Storms and Family
filed under: Stuff you never, ever needed to knowI posted a couple weeks ago about our family connection to this year's hurricane season.
When we found out that both "Ivan" and "Lisa" (my wife's name, and her father's) were on the list this year, we began joking that Ivan was going to be massive and destructive, and I speculated that Lisa would flare up just long enough to get a name, then drop back down into a "tropical depression" and sort of wander around the Atlantic somewhere.
Well, Lisa is still a tropical storm, but she's having trouble getting organized:
And, amazingly, Ivan has resurrected himself as a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico. Which led to this poignant screen capture:
Lisa's dad has been gone for 14 years now, so it would be deeply startling if he suddenly reappeared. But right now, satellite imagery shows us Ivan (middle far left, in the Gulf) and Lisa (bottom right) together again.
(click on picture for full size, which is HUGE).
All images are from NOAA, which (along with the National Hurricane Center) are fascinating to read during storm season. For instance, NOAA is currently running a story full of hi-def aerial shots of the post-Ivan destruction in the Gulf.
