I had my morning coffee in my favorite Ohio State mug. By game time, Gidget and I had our Ohio State jerseys on, prepared to watch the first game of the 2014 season. Usual protocols followed for an Ohio State football game.
After a week of reading all the pregame analyses and musings of various sportswriters, I was prepared to watch this game with the same uneasiness I think most Buckeye fans were experiencing. After all, we'd lost senior quarterback Braxton Miller to a shoulder injury in practice two weeks earlier forcing Urban Meyer to start...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Posted by Jon Dalton
On 11:59 AM
Ten years ago today, we knew our Friday the 13th (Aug. 13, 2004) would not be a normal day.
Hurricane Charley was churning through the Gulf of Mexico along the southwest coast of Florida, with expected landfall somewhere in the Tampa Bay area. With that in mind, we were not overly concerned, but of course, had made appropriate preparations just in case. Boarding up the windows, gas in the cars, cash in hand, etc.
Employed as a reporter with the Charlotte Sun-Herald and working out of the Englewood office (our hometown), my beat was Sarasota County...
Categories: Charley, emergency management, Friday the 13th, Hurricane Charley, hurricanes
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