Welcome to route56.com
Welcome to my anchor point on the web. For over 20 years, I have shared various subjects regarding highway, railways, local radio, and more.
I chose the name “route56” in honor of the green and white variant of the US Highway shield that the Kansas Department of Transportation and its predecessor agency used specifically to mark US 56 from its creation until the mid 1980s.
Click on the links above to access the pages devoted to the history of local radio and Kansas Highways, along with other creative outlets.
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Latest Blog Posts
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storm cell
0320: I am wakened by a thunderstorm. I tune in the weather radio and subsequently find out that power went out (the weather radio has a battery backup) 0420: Power comes back on 0500: Another Cell passes through 0750: 2.2 inches of rain has fallen since the last time I had emptied the gauge
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rain rain rain
Another 0.6″ was found in the rain gauge this morning
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rainfall
Anothe 1.7 inches of rain had fallen since Thurdsay evening, mostly last night. I went over to GCSAA at about 11 last night and found that power had indeed gone off there. One of the racks in the data center had shut down, three of the servers had to be restarted.
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The Thunder Rolls
We had a bit of a squall line come through here… just before 9:00, we had a power failure that lasted about an hour. The rain is still going a bit.
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Very wet
1.6 inches of rain fell into my rain gauge on Friday. However, that was nothing compared to the 3.4 inches that fell on Saturday. Some places in town got as high as 4 inches, and there was a bit of flash flooding. The Journal-World ran a front-page story on the weather.
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Where to start…
Last Night, I went bowling with the several of my co-workers, and found out a couple of things about the latest addition to the GCSAA tech group. First of all, he’s a Lawrence native, and he is a fellow ’97 graduate of Lawrence High. He also mentioned that his girlfriend was a Chiefs Cheerleader. I…
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Colbalt Debut
My new laptop came in off the big brown truck this morning. I set it up to work off the wireless network, and am posting from up in the dining room.
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Whither Cobalt
The offical word from Dell is that a laptop that I ordered was sent on the brown truck (UPS) by this morning. At some point, I will be transferring data from my desktop “Monte-Carlo” to the new laptop “Cobalt,” then I will re-image (read: format) Monte-Carlo for my brother, and put back any files that…
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rainfall
Got about .50″-.55″ in the rain gauge this evening
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Hot hot hot
The Mercury topped 100 today, and if the forecast holds up, will do so again tomorrow. I’ll probably stay at home and finish up the web site…. maybe work on my train layout