Last year, I made a habit of checking the live feed of a particularly pitiful webcam. The view showed a muddy gravel lot bisected by a chain-link fence in the coastal marshes of southern New Jersey.

The advisory was for Mason, Lake, Osceola, Clare, Oceana, Newaygo, Mecosta, Isabella, Muskegon, Montcalm, Gratiot, Ottawa, Kent, Ionia, Clinton, Allegan, Barry, Eaton, Ingham, Van Buren, Kalamazoo, Calhoun and Jackson counties.

At 1:22 p.m. on Saturday, the NWS Blacksburg VA issued a wind advisory valid from Sunday 6 a.m. until Monday midnight. The advisory is for Ashe, Alleghany and Watauga counties.

As power gets more dicey, personal energy generation only gets more appealing. Shine’s compact turbine isn’t going to power your house any time soon (though the company’s co-founder told me they have plans in that direction) but it can suck up the energy required to refill a smartphone in as little as 17 minutes.

The president propped up old coal plants and killed offshore wind farms in the name of national security. That has raised accusations of contradictory