UPDATED. The snow is gone

and so is the Courthouse.

It's a strange sad day here. Heavy snow. No school. Now about 47 degrees. Kids on bikes milling around just beyond the tape. Grownups coming to look and then looking very sad. Rumors... the Grand Jury had just convened for its twice yearly session.

UPDATE: From the local newspaper:

the fire started when a power strip in a first-floor office on the southwest corner shorted out.

Snow Day!

How exciting!

Both Mr. Big Food and Miss M called to let me know they made it to campus without incident. Others apparently were not so fortunate. It's not hard, people. Slow and steady wins the driving in the snow & ice game.

UPDATED: A total loss | WHAT THE F67#??

UPDATE from WLOV

Officials had the fire out by 7 a.m., but say the building is a total loss.

The county courthouse was built in 1915.

snip

Supervisors are holding an emergency meeting to discuss how to proceed with county business.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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Mr. Big Food and Miss M left for school minutes ago. Miss M just called and said the Court House is burning down.

And it's snowing. 

The Court House is on fire????? What has happened to all of the platt maps? 

And it's snowing.

What a way to start the day.

The Court House... .

Snow... .

Punxsutawney

Happy Ground Hog Day!

Q: How can you have more of what you haven't had?

I kid you not, there are flying insects out there. And the peepers are peeing away like crazy. We need a week of winter weather. Time is running out, but it's still possible.

February 10, 2011

 

Surely, you jest.

At 10:54 am Sunday, November 27, 2011 Wunderground Weather is forecasting snow for tomorrow.

Wouldn't that be something?

Accuweather is not buying it.

But...

The Weather Channel is throwing caution to the wind.

These forecasts from the private sector are all well & good but we should only trust The National Weather Service, an agency of The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a part of The United States Department of Commerce.

It's settled. TNWS says so.

NOAA has a 2011 budget of $5,500,000,000. That's five billion five hundred million United States Dollars, down fifty-six million dollars from 2010.