It was hit or miss today, the original forecast for today had been 10% POP but, as can be attested to by my rained out bike ride, mother nature does not watch the weather reports. So some workmen showed up today, milled around a bit and then left. Some of the other guys came by … Continue reading 2012 Home Renovations – Part 25 – Rock Face completed
The rain forecast for the next few days doesn’t look very promising, some variation on “Thunderstorms” is being promised through until Sunday. It rained last night so things are pretty sloppy outside now. The most substantial change is the trench for the footer for the retaining wall There was a fair amount of work done … Continue reading 2012 Home Renovations – Part 05 – Digging the trench for the retaining wall footer
I’m currently on the phone with a Comcast rep as I type this post using my Blackberry. We had some spectacular thunderstorms move through here today. When all was said and done, my little Comcast-supplied Motorola SURFboard modem was no longer showing indications of activity on its “PC/Activity” indicator. Resetting the modem didn’t help at … Continue reading Comcast modem zapped again
Mich, Robbie, one of our friend’s kids, and I spent part of this past July 4th enjoying the view of the dozens of fireworks displays from the vantage point of a rental airplane. The weather up North (Pennsylvania and the Northeastern states) was stormy and there were some storm systems to our West but none … Continue reading July 4th from the Air
On Tuesday (July 19) I got home from work and found that my garage door wouldn’t open for me. There have been a lot of storms around here lately – fallout from the recent hurricane and just some really odd, pedantic weather systems. So I wasn’t too surprised when I found that the circuit breaker … Continue reading No Comcast Internet connection
With Hurricane Dennis about to make landfall I thought it would be appropriate to post a number of weather links that I like to use when planning my flights. Some of them have excellent facilities for tracking and projecting tropical storms and hurricanes. Basic I rather like Yahoo!’s interface to the weather channel for both … Continue reading Weather Resources
