November 9, 2020
Senator Kelly Loeffler reacts to supporters during an Election Night party at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead on November 3.
Photograph by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images
We’ve had a taste of this over the past few days, but now it’s official: For the next two months, Georgia becomes the center of the world. The state’s two U.S. Senate races are going to a January 5 runoff; the outcome almost certainly will determine control of the chamber, and therefore of the legislative branch. If both Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock win their races and if two other not-yet-called contests, in North Carolina and Alaska, go to Republicans, as is expected Democrats will have 50 Senate seats, with vice president Kamala Harris able to cast a tie-breaking 51st vote. 2020 has been a wild ride, no? Now, in the year’s final turn, that entire vehicle careens down I-75 and crashes into Georgia like a flaming dump truck.
Shifting Sands: Tech maps Ga. beaches
Shifting Sands: Tech maps Ga. beaches By Jamie Ertle | December 11, 2020 at 4:57 PM EST - Updated December 11 at 6:35 PM
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WTOC) - We spent some time on Tybee Island this week, talking to researchers about how the sand has already shifted after the last beach renourishment thatâs not even a year old.
Flying the skies to map the sand below and how it moves and shifts.
âYou can see things like tire marks on the vertical level you have a centimeter resolution as well as on the lateral levelâ
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Researcher Claudia Venherm is getting the best resolution ever of our shifting sand with her drone, taking thousands of overlapping pictures.