With 2020 in full swing and being a year of craziness, COVID-19 and lockdowns worldwide, we were waiting for something positive to happen in the early summer to change things a bit. The last several years we have had a few comets make their way through our solar system towards the sun with hope that they would make the swing around and make their way back out to space giving us a nighttime show to watch….but that just didn’t happen. The comets never survived the trip and burned up before coming out the other side.
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Hurricane Dorian made his way along the southeast coast of the United States this past week making landfall along the Outer Banks of North Carolina over Cape Hatteras. Lots of damage to the Outer Banks but nothing devastating like the Bahamas thankfully. For my area here in Hampton Roads we received tropical storm force winds with some gusts nearing 70mph.
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On August 20, 2019 we had afternoon storms that fired in the area around Hampton Roads. I went out to “chase” the storms but wasn’t having much luck as I went deep into the city of Suffolk and southward to near the North Carolina border. I had pretty much started to give up for the day when another cell developed over Wakefield and was slowly pulling northeast. So I decided to head back up Rt. 13 to Rt. 58 where I jumped on I664 and headed to the northern portion of Suffolk to and area and neighborhood called Harbour View which is along the Nansemond River.
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