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Jun
28

60 minutes in 30 seconds

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When a severe thunderstorm blew through Columbia, Mo., yesterday, I set up my Flip Mino inside a window overlooking Ninth and Broadway, and later sped up the footage on my iMac to about 100x with Final Cut Express, just for fun.

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Jun
24

Mommy, get the oil off!!!

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Child is screaming for mom to get the oil off her. Thousands of very fresh tar balls rolling in on Destin Beach. Kid with oil stuck on her! Destin Beach, Fl. June 23rd, 2010.

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May
14

Schuylkill Lightning

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We caught some crazy lightning over the Schuylkill Expressway with my iPhone and qik.com, on our way into Center City Philly earlier tonight.
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Mar
02

Slush of Death?

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I just snapped this scene from my stoop in Center City.

I just snapped this scene from my stoop in Center City.

Maybe I live in some crazy, cosmic, no-snow triangle, but the street scene I just snapped here in Center City looks nothing like the local news headlines online here in Philadelphia.

Philly Digging Out From Winter Storm – A massive late winter storm moved… 

Delaware Valley residents and commuters were walloped by a nor’easter on Monday.

Officially, 9.3 inches of snow has been measured at Philadelphia International Airport…

This is weather – not war, economics or politics. This should be easy.

For decades, I have been frustrated by editors who seemed uninterested in learning that what I saw on the street did not always support what they were reporting. I hope they find social media more difficult to deny.

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Jan
28

Upper Crust

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Upper Crust - Ice cakes rooftops in the Washington West section of Philadelphia Wednesday morning. Photographs by Jim MacMillan

Ice covered rooftops in Philadelphia between dusk Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Photographs by Jim MacMillan

The winter storm warning led to just a coating of ice in my Center City Philadelphia neighborhood this morning, but event cancellations and flight delays have been reported. Temperatures are going up now but the forecast is calling for a long, wet day.

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