Our local paper, The Progress-Index reported today that Monday’s tornado that cut through Dimmock Square Shopping Center and other businesses in Colonial Heights’ Southpark area has caused roughly $2 million in damage. Read more…
Entries from April 2008
April 30, 2008
American Idol: Top 5 recap
The top 5 perfromed last night on “Idol”. The theme was Neil Diamond songs. Here we go…
Jason Castro sang “Forever in Blue Jeans” and “September Morn”. Randy said the first and second performance were okay. Paula said it was safe and tells him to get outside of his comfort zone. Simon said both performances were unforgettable. I [...]
April 29, 2008
April 29th: Best Day Ever!
Let’s see. DaBlog V2 had its first anniversary on WordPress.com…
…had a whopping 229 views in one day mostly due to the Virginia tornado coverage, meaning that the old record of 191 (back in September 3rd) is now a distant memory…
…and it’s number 46 on WordPress.com’s “Growing Blogs” list, meaning that a WP blog gained the most popularity. Woot!
I’ll say it [...]
April 29, 2008
Tornado pics
The Richmond Times-Dispatch has a slideshow of yesterday’s tornado damage in Suffolk, Brunswick County and Colonial Heights. Click here.
Here’s more from the Daily Press in the Peninsula.
UPDATE (2:15p) Cleanup begins in Colonial Heights. From NBC12…
April 29, 2008
Happy anniversary, DaBlog v2!
I can’t believe it’s been a year since DaBlog (v2) debuted on WordPress after the accidental deletion of my old blog on Blogger.com. I like to thank everyone who have been supporting us and those who’ve stopped by to check us out. Currently, I have no problems with this blog and have no problems with WordPress. I’m cool with that.
As of now…
we have 318 [...]
April 29, 2008
Tornado hits Colonial Heights’ Southpark area
The Progress-Index and the local TV stations reported yesterday that a tornado injured more than 20 people and caused significant damage to the Dimmock Square Shopping Center in Colonial Heights (see map) near Southpark Mall. The strong winds tossed about a half dozen cars in the parking lot. The NWS has confirmed that the tornado was an [...]
April 25, 2008
Did You Know? #21
*UPDATED*
KWEX-TV in San Antonio, Texas (founded in 1955) is the first commercially-based Spanish-language television station in the United States. Today, it is one of Univision’s owned-and-operated stations.
April 24, 2008
Warm!
I’ve already calmed down after the last post. But it’s gonna be so nice today, tomorrow and Saturday. I’m talking about the lower 80s. Woot!
Later. I got to get ready for work.
P.S.: A few more days left until our first anniversary on WordPress!
April 24, 2008
I can’t believe this…
After 38 million votes, Carly Smithson got the boot last night on “American Idol”. Man, that’s bull! She did a really good job, too. Dang it! And I also can’t believe that Jason Castro and Brooke “I Forgot The Lyric” White are safe. You know what, I think they’ve got the sympathy vote. It’s gotta be it. Anyway, Syesha [...]
April 23, 2008
American Idol: Top 6 Recap
The top 6 performed last night on American Idol. The theme was the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Judge Randy Jackson said it’s gonna be the toughest night of the season. Here we go…
First, it’s Syesha Mercado with “One Rock ‘n Roll Too Many” from “Straight Express”. An awesome and stunning perfromance. Randy said it [...]
