weather
Sleeping at the Switch
We got less than 1/2-inch of snow, but the state was still caught sleeping at the switch.
When I slid yesterday, it had been snowing for over 2 hours and the roads hadn’t been treated. In fact, the whole way home from my last shopping trip I never once saw a plow or salt truck. The [...]
Let it Snow!
I finished our Christmas shopping today. The lines were awful and it was taking waaaay longer than I ever expected, but as I walked out of the next-to-last store it started snowing. I didn’t even know it was supposed to snow. It’s sticking, enough so that I slid and almost missed one of my turns [...]
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…
It’s gotten very cold here. Today’s high was 32°F, which is just a bit unusual. We had our first snow forecast before Halloween (!) although the snow never materialized. We had our first snow on Monday (11/17), but none of it stuck. We had our second snow yesterday while I was in Huntsville, AL on [...]
Critters ‘n Gasoline n’ Other Stuff
We spent Father’s Day weekend with John’s parents. It was a nice weekend; pretty hot though. When we got back, my Gas Price Barameter (a family-owned non-branded service station), who had held their ground at $3.99 for weeks while every other station in town hit $4+, had hit $4.03 for a gallon of regular unleaded. [...]
Melting Yet?
The house that I grew up in didn’t have central a/c or heat. In the winter, we had electric baseboard heaters and a wood burning stove; in the summer we had a couple of window a/c units (Four?). The window units were on when it was really hot outside; any other time, the windows were [...]
Wicked Weather
We had some wicked storms in the area today. My office had a dozen brown-outs and a couple outright power failures. After the last power hit that the building took, the network and phones didn’t come back up, so I finally had to just face facts and send everyone home. Power was out everywhere I [...]
Great Weekend for a Fly
We left the house for the airport early on Friday afternoon, headed to John’s parents house for the weekend. Route 70 was jammed, so it took us forever to get to the airport. Once we were in the air, John wasn’t getting a response from Potomac for our ADIZ clearance code so we had to [...]
