Posts Tagged ‘Winter’

Winter Weather Driving Tips

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. […]

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Ice Storm Photos

11 Dec 2007. Iowa. Cedar Rapids. The weather did suck. Mightly. 12 Dec 2007 every­thing was coated in a beau­ti­ful1 layer of ice. For­tu­nately my employer allows me to work from home and I did so yes­ter­day. I still went out­side, cleared off the cars and moved them to the other side of the street. […]

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Bloody Weather

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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Bah Humbug!

It was rain­ing when I went home for lunch today. When I left to head back to the office; the rain was mixed with snow. *blech* It’s still too warm out for the snow to do any­thing except melt the moment it touches down, but it’s a sign that we’ve truly moved into Win­ter. Bah […]

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Lovely Weather

As I’m sure I’ve men­tioned pre­vi­ously, I live in Iowa. The last cou­ple of years we’ve had cold win­ters but haven’t really had that much snow. Appar­ently, Mother Nature was feel­ing it’s time to rec­tify that sit­u­a­tion and we’ve been hav­ing quite the snow­storm. See­ing how I like tak­ing pic­tures and dis­like get­ting cold; here’s […]

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