Below are a few more of my photos of Rita that didn’t make it into last night’s post.
Today Rita’s cloud cover has moved east and we have sunny skies here in Oklahoma. People in Texas and Louisiana are assessing the damage and talking about the Texodus and what needs to be done better next time. Further north and east Rita’s squally remnants are dumping rain and causing severe weather as she continues to weaken.
Let’s hope the experts are wrong and Stan’s not headed our way anytime soon.
Hurricane Rita hurled clouds across much of the central US today as it weakened into a tropical storm, then a depression. Where I was in northeastern Oklahoma (marked on the Google Earth image at right with a pin placemark) the cloud cover provided a spectacular, fiery sunset (see bottom picture). Click on either picture to enlarge or leave comments in my Flickr photostream (subscribe via RSS or Atom).
Additional pictures and video of Rita continued pouring in from around the Web:
This has started me thinking about better ways to represent geolocation where a photo is taken or video is recorded both in the metadata of the picture or movie file and also on the Web and in 3D applications such as Google Earth. I’m going to delve into the possibilities of geoblogging future photos via Flickr.
And that reminds me, somebody really needs to start selling a high end consumer camera with integrated GPS so that pictures can be automatically “location stamped” just as they are already date stamped. Another blog entry for another time, I suppose.
Last night as I was writing about “Tracking Rita“, a lot of other people had her on their mind, too.
And they blogged it, pushing the latest update from CNN to the top of the News heap:
My first Topnorati. Snap!
