http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Weathertalk/~3/8KVb7AXOtq8/

http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=20647

Birmingham has the corner on the market for storms right now.

Heavy rain and lightning over eastern Jefferson County between Pinson and Roebuck…moving southeast toward Trussville.

Even heavier storms are over western Jefferson County between West Jefferson and Sylvan Springs and near Midfield.

There is a developing storm near Springville in St. Clair County…moving toward Branchville.

Everything is moving southeast.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AintItCoolNews-CoolNews/~3/yK0HCYcPNac/41670

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Weathertalk/~3/YHHfSasaUj4/

http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=20645

Two main clusters of storms in the Birmingham metro area right now…

….one over Northwest Jefferson County…between Gardendale and Sumiton…moving SE toward Gardendale…Tarrant City and the Birmingham Airport…it should affect areas around Centerpoint and Roebuck as well…

Areal flood advisory for Jefferson and Shelby Counties until 9 p.m. There was a report of 3-4 inches of water flowing across I-20 just east of the I-459 junction just before 7 p.m.

…the formerly severe storm is centered between Lake Purdy and Leeds…moving south southeast toward Meadowbrook and Chelsea…

Incredible lightning with all the storms…be inside when they approach…

Elsewhere…showers over Cleburne, Randolph and Chambers Counties is moving into Georgia.

cmpriest

So … I haven’t gotten any writing done this weekend, but I have an excellent excuse. See, for awhile now I’ve been talking about throwing a website up for the alternate-history universe in which my upcoming book Boneshaker is set. This universe also holds a novelette that’s up for free and immediate reading over on Subterranean Press’s website, as well as an upcoming novella through that same publisher (Clementine) and the upcoming novel upon which I ought to be writing right now (Dreadnought).

Since these stories cover three separate fiction forms and two different publishers, I thought that a website dedicated to their world setting would be a useful, unifying device to give curious readers a chance to poke around and try out the idea, just to see if they like it. And then, through a convoluted series of events that do not warrant a dry retelling, it turned out that I might very well need such a site for reference purposes within oh, say … real soon.

Therefore, with some help from the hubs, I got down to business and up to no good. It took a couple of days, some blood sweat and tears, and a whole lot of jaw-clenching, but now it’s live and fully operational — just like something that isn’t a moon. So it is with great nervousness but significant pride that I present to you all:

Please, if you have a minute (and if you are so inclined), feel free to click that link and go poking around the site you find on the other side of it — and then by all means click whatever other links you find. Flip through the tabs. Do a little reading. Tell me if there’s anything else you’d like to see included on the site, and let me know if anything isn’t working.

And if you could find it in your heart to link the site, or add it to your bookmarks, I will love you forever. The Clockwork Century will be updated periodically with artwork from the series, including maps and future book covers, publication and release information, progress on upcoming projects, and anything else even marginally pertinent to the universe. I hope it gets a little love, and maybe inspires a little pre-ordering (though right now, Boneshaker is the only thing available in that capacity).

Anyway, thanks for your time and thanks for reading, and I hope that every single one of you has a most excellent evening. I’ll see you online again tomorrow morning.

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7537

QUATERMASS, or, as it has been renamed since, THE QUATERMASS CONCLUSION, was the final QUATERMASS television presentation. (Many years later, a radio presentation, THE QUATERMASS MEMOIRS, tied the man’s life together marvellously.

Professor Bernard Quatermass, founder and head of the British Experimental Rocket Group, the other great hero of British sf television, had been off the screen since 1959. The first three QUATERMASS serials helped define television drama. Imagine an sf television series that emptied out the country’s pubs once a week. That was THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT, QUATERMASS 2 and QUATERMASS AND THE PIT. Nigel Kneale, creator and writer of all the QUATERMASS projects, offered this to the BBC, who refused it. And so Euston Films produced it for ITV in 1979.

Kneale was one of my great influences. And just tonight someone pointed out to me that (only) the first of the QUATERMASS episodes is on Google Video. It may seem a little old and creaky to you, but please do bear with it.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/highdefdigestallnews/~3/PvDqtItrsrk/predator2.html

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/2206/predator2.html

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Weathertalk/~3/bZYuy_kssPQ/

http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=20643

NWS/Birmingham has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for East/Central Jefferson County and part of Shelby County until 7:00 p.m. This includes places like Trussville, Mountain Brook and Leeds and Irondale.

At 6:30, NWS detected a severe thunderstorm that may have penny-size hail and damaging winds over 60 mph. It was located near Barber Motorsports Park. It was moving SE at 10 mph. This storm has almost continuous cloud-to-ground lighnting. It may have large hail and damaging winds.

The NWS has also posted an Aerial Flood Advisory for East/Central Jefferson including Trussville and Leeds until 8:15. Heavy rain continues across East Jefferson County. Radar estimates that as much as 2 to 3 inches has fallen in the last hour.

warren_ellis

QUATERMASS, or, as it has been renamed since, THE QUATERMASS CONCLUSION, was the final QUATERMASS television presentation. (Many years later, a radio presentation, THE QUATERMASS MEMOIRS, tied the man’s life together marvellously.

Professor Bernard Quatermass, founder and head of the British Experimental Rocket Group, the other great hero of British sf television, had been off the screen since 1959. The first three QUATERMASS serials helped define television drama. Imagine an sf television series that emptied out the country’s pubs once a week. That was THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT, QUATERMASS 2 and QUATERMASS AND THE PIT. Nigel Kneale, creator and writer of all the QUATERMASS projects, offered this to the BBC, who refused it. And so Euston Films produced it for ITV in 1979.

Kneale was one of my great influences. And just tonight someone pointed out to me that (only) the first of the QUATERMASS episodes is on Google Video. It may seem a little old and creaky to you, but please do bear with it.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Weathertalk/~3/IHgGqHECKaU/

http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=20641

* Ham radio operator at Center Point in NE Jefferson County reported hail 3/4 of an inch in diameter at 5:53 p.m.

* Lightning is very severe in NE Trussville.

* The NWS/Birmingham has now issued an area Flood Advisory for Jefferson County until 8:15. This is because of slow-moving thunderstorms dumping torrential rain in the area.

* The latest position report on some of those storms: the largest and strongest storm was over East Jefferson County from just NE of Municipal Airport across the Trussville area and then extending east along I-20 to near Leeds. The north edge of the thunderstorm was near Springville.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AintItCoolNews-Coaxial/~3/kWLskjiOsdA/41669

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Weathertalk/~3/XS-YQYKqijU/

http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=20639

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
554 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 2009

ALC063-119-122300-
/O.CON.KBMX.SV.W.0384.000000T0000Z-090712T2300Z/
SUMTER AL-GREENE AL-
554 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 2009

…A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT
FOR WEST CENTRAL GREENE AND NORTH CENTRAL SUMTER COUNTIES…

AT 553 PM CDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL…AND DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
GAINESVILLE…OR 15 MILES WEST OF EUTAW…MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO EPES
AND NEW MOUNT HEBRON.

THIS INCLUDES…
INTERSTATE 20 EXIT NUMBER 23.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS…CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER…IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER…YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Weathertalk/~3/gBpPrXbzxhg/

http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=20637

BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
548 PM CDT SUN JUL 12 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR…
EAST CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA…
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF…TRUSSVILLE…LEEDS…FULTONDALE…

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 546 PM CDT…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL…AND DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PINSON

..AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CENTER POINT…ALTON AND CLAY

THIS INCLUDES…
INTERSTATE 459 EXIT NUMBERS 31 THROUGH 33
INTERSTATE 20 EXIT NUMBERS 136 THROUGH 140
INTERSTATE 59 EXIT NUMBERS 132 THROUGH 143

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS…CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER…IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER…YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EngadgetHd/~3/iIhkMYkqBgo/

http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/07/12/hd-channel-expansion-roundup/

Filed under: Misc, Cable, Satellite

HD channel expansion roundup originally appeared on Engadget HD on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Weathertalk/~3/qrG2g5ivkv4/

http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=20635

The NWS/Birmingham has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for West/Central Greene County and North Sumter County in extreme West/Central Alabama until 6:00 p.m. The severe thunderstorm, capable of producing penny-size hail and gusts over 60, was near West Union and moving east at 15 mph.

In NE Alabama, it has been pouring rain near and north or Anniston. Michelle Miklik reports 0.85 inches of rain in Weaver with a heavy thunderstorm continuing. Meanwhile, across town on the west side of Weaver, Sky Watcher Mike Calloway, reports a very impressive 1.45 inches of rain. That is the most rain in one day since May 5.

In Jefferson County, a thunderstorm and heavy rain was centered near Trussville. Loud thunder now being heard in NE Trussville. Thunder also heard at the official weather site at Birmingham Airport.

Near the Jefferson/Walker County line a developing storm with heavy rain was SE of Parrish.

Back in East and NE Alabama, heavy rain continued over parts of Clay, Etowah and DeKalb Counties. Some heavy rain also further south over South Clay County and Northern Tallapoosa County.

Way down south, a strong thunderstorm was located near Greenville in Butler County.

Overall, these storms are moving generally toward the east and NE and they are not in a big hurry.