If you grew up in an area where it freezes regularly, you probably know all this already - feel free to disregard; but if you didn't, and are living in northern temperate zones, or you will be having visitors around who aren't from cold climates, here is some practical advice which might be unnecessary anyway, but you can't be too careful when it ( Read more... )

Perhaps only someone who spent most of their childhood in Tornado Alley can completely comprehend how literally unnatural it is to have cyclones there in the dead of winter - we who had tornado drills regularly along with our fire drills in grammar school, who knew the drill for what to do to give yourself a ghost of a chance if you lived in a ( Read more... )

We got 6" or so total of light, fluffy snow, between 1pm and 5 pm, and although it came down steadily it was never at white-out densities, and there was no sleet/freezing rain mixed in, so I still don't see what the fuss was about ( Read more... )

Even though it's inconvenient for me personally today, I'm glad it's pouring again - the drought has been so bad this past month-plus that I can see stones in the river that I've never seen before, and I think there are parts where I (and I am short, remember) could actually walk across the river, from sandbar to rock to island to rock to sandbar ( Read more... )

Absolute *monsoon* outside now, complete with thunder, so going offline now - which wouldn't be such a problem if we hadn't had all that rain last month. They're warning of possible floods again tonight, so be careful all New Englanders in low-lying regions or who have to travel through them. (Obviously we're being smote for something-or-other, ( Read more... )

It's gone now.

And - as predicted - it's raining again. This is really going to help things. And in what has to be TEH LAMEST attempt at passing one's self off as a Seer in the history of Divination, Pat "My String-Pulling Senate Committee Dad Got Me A Safe Berth At HQ In The War" Robertson has declared that God has personally told him that we're ( Read more... )

--I think it may be a UFO. I'll keep you posted.

I have some probably-pretty-good photos of the river from yesterday when it was still drizzling, but I can't find the gadget that I need to download them so you'll have to wait. (This is the problem with high-tech gadgets the size of sticks of gum.)

A commentary on the floods as paradigm for the ( Read more... )