Achenblog: September 14, 2008 - September 20, 2008
Atom Smasher Throws a Rod
You build a 17-mile long atom smasher for $10 billion, you can't get too bent out of shape just because the thing goes on the fritz immediately. But it does seem that almost every day the Large Hadron Collider...
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Joel Achenbach
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September 20, 2008; 9:11 AM ET |
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Rich Man, Poor Man
[Galveston, after Ike.] After the hurricane the ATMs, like everything else, wouldn't work in Galveston. What I didn't realize is that they weren't working because the American banking system had collapsed. I know about as much about what's happening...
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Joel Achenbach
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September 18, 2008; 8:36 AM ET |
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Life After Ike
John H. Savoy, 53, a mechanic, retrieves a power jack from his car on Saturday. He said of the storm, "It's the best one I've run across so far, I'll put it like that." What a lady: Elizabeth Madson,...
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Joel Achenbach
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September 16, 2008; 8:05 AM ET |
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The Night of the Hurricane
[Amazingly, the feeble aircard continued to work throughout the hurricane, and I filed a story at 4:45 a.m. CDT even as the very worst of Ike's winds, the crazy, shrieking 105-mph stuff on the rear eye wall, were blasting...
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Joel Achenbach
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September 16, 2008; 6:45 AM ET |
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What's Left of Galveston
[I have limited Internet connectivity -- duh -- and so I'm just going to experiment with posting a couple of photos really quickly. Later on I'll try to get a bunch more shots posted to the blog and explain...
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Joel Achenbach
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September 15, 2008; 4:21 PM ET |
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Not Quite Joel
Joel doesn't have internet access at the moment, but called from Texas to ask us to post his most recent Post pieces about Ike to the Kit: Along Texas Coast, 'Monumental' Damage What's Left: A Ravaged Island Covered With Rubbish...
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Michael Corones
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September 15, 2008; 3:12 PM ET |
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