Magnetic drum

Here I sit on the cusp of an impending hurricane....

Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.

Out of the south cometh the whirlwind and cold out of the north.

The Mark III and Mark IV used magnetic drum memory and the Mark IV also had magnetic core memory.

So, I have to use a 1980s drum scanner, which was designed in the days when everyone shot photographs on film.

I want to write about a tornado that comes into our house and blows all the windows out and ruins all the furniture and kills everybody.

Caribbean Comment provides an analysis on how Hurricane Dean continues to affect Jamaican politics.

In 2007, Hurricane Dean caused significant damage to the agricultural sector as well as the country's infrastructure, especially roads.

A week before we got to the workshop, a massive landslide, caused by Hurricane Stan, last October, came in and buried 600 people alive in their village.

Folk musician and storyteller David Holt plays the banjo and shares photographs and old wisdom from the Appalachian Mountains. He also demonstrates some unusual instruments like the mouth bow and a surprising electric drum kit he calls thunderwear.

Annan and Gurría also neglected to note that global Accumulated Cyclone Energy, an index for total hurricane activity, is hovering at the lowest values seen since the 1970 s. Indeed, the trend for strong hurricanes around the Philippines has declined since 1951.