Posts Tagged ‘Weather’
Awfully Hot Out Isn’t It
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life
So far this year, the weather has been just incredibly mild; we’d only hit 80+ degrees once prior to this week. Naturally this long string of lovely weather inspired me to save up some household tasks for this week, when I’m out of the office on furlough. And naturally enough, Mother Nature decided to punish […]
Winter Weather Driving Tips
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants
Given the number of intellectually-challenged persons I had to drive around to get home over lunch today1, I figured it was long past time to write up my best winter weather driving tips. If the weather looks worse than you feel comfortable driving in, then don’t. Stay home and save the rest of us some headaches. […]
Tags: driving, Weather, Winter
The Great Cedar Rapids Flood
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life
Just to let everybody know, we’re still here and doing ok. Our house is approximately 1 mile outside of the 500 year flood plain1, so hopefully we won’t have to evacuate. Our main problem around here at the moment is a lack of usable water. The city only has one well working at the moment, […]
Tags: Cedar Rapids, Flood, Iowa, Rain, Weather
Fraking Weather and Fraking Weather “Reporters”
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life
The one thing I don’t like about my house would have to be the weather we seem to get around it. In the 10–12 years I lived in that stupid apartment in Coralville, IA, I only remember going for shelter from tornado warnings maybe 4 or 5 times. I think we’ve done that many so […]
Tags: tornado, warning, Weather
Bloody Weather
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life
We got hit with a blizzard warning for the weekend and last night things were not looking pretty out the windows. Then about 6:30 PM, the power went out. Fortunately, our house has a fireplace so we were able to stay warm until the power came back on around 1:00 AM this morning. We trooped […]
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