In which the Weather Service was right for once. Hey, it snowed last night: Snow on my Jeep Since I don’t know where my scraper is, I took a broom outside and swept my car off this morning. Oh, the weather outside is frightful but the fire is so delightful and since we’ve no place […]
In which I list three unrelated, random things. Because this is my blog, damn it, and damn those ‘what to write about’ blog treatises too, because I’ve been blogging since before there was a fucking word for it and I’ll write whatever the hell I want to! One. I made meatloaf for Bread’s dinner the […]
In which my body still wants it to be August. It rained all day yesterday. When I stepped out of the data center at about twenty past five yesterday evening, it was snowing. Big, fat, fluffy flakes swirling down everywhere. Ugh. But it was too warm to accumulate, so it managed to be nothing more […]
In which the sky gets dark in the middle of the afternoon. …SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 150 PM CDT THU SEP 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA SOUTHEASTERN KEOKUK COUNTY IN […]
I haven’t been outside all day, but it was darkish and overcast when I woke up the first time today. (I say “the first time” because I went right back to sleep.) It’s still overcast now, and I have to say I like the whole vibe. It might be body temperature out there, but it […]
Last night I wrote a big long post about how fucking shitty I felt on Friday(*), but then I lost it – sometimes browsers just eat things. Then a huge storm rolled in and I had to shut my computer down. Brett and I walked up to the top of the driveway, it was around […]
I never would have bothered blowing up the Jeep if I’d only paid some attention to Weather.com today: … WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT… A MIXTURE OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT WITH AROUND TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH ICE ACCUMULATION EXPECTED. THE ACCUMULATION OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN […]
… WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT… FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON… AND CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY BEFORE CHANGING TO SNOW WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH ARE EXPECTED… ALONG WITH SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 4 INCHES. IN ADDITION… NORTHEAST WINDS […]
…DES MOINES IA-HENDERSON IL-HENRY IA-JEFFERSON IA-VAN BUREN IA- WARREN IL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF… BURLINGTON… FAIRFIELD… KEOSAUQUA… MONMOUTH… MOUNT PLEASANT… OQUAWKA … WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT… THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DAVENPORT HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING. FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON… AND CONTINUE […]
Woke up this mornin’ and the world was covered in ice. It’s slippery and nasty out there. I’m inside with a fire roaring, listing crap on eBay for Brett. I am not looking forward to driving to town tomorrow morning!
