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Latest Blog Posts

  • Please do not read this on a weak stomach

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    I took my elder cat, Scotty, to see the vet for long overdue shots. There has also been a somewhat ovious case of increased itching among the family, along with little blackish specks that disolve into a reddish color in water. The diagnosis: fleas. Add some Advantage flea medicine to the list, which has been…

  • New SLT stuff

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    Two new articles have been published on the front of the local section regarding the South Lawrence Trafficway Quality of new, restored wetlands center of debate — questioning of if any mitigated wetlands will be good enough KDOT could file lawsuit over trafficway — KDOT is prepared to call the “wetland supporters” on wheather they…

  • Rehnquist passing

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    Two things are certain after the recent news of the passing of Chief Justice William Rehnquist 1. The flag shall be flown at half staff for 10 days in accordance with the flag code 2. Anticipate bickering about his replacment, and if the replacment comes from the associate SCOTUS justices, who will fill the second…

  • more from the gauge

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    While watching the weather channel on Hurrican Katrina, we had a bit of a cell pass through. I came up with another 7 tenths

  • storm cell

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    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

  • rain rain rain

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    Another 0.6″ was found in the rain gauge this morning

  • rainfall

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    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.

  • The Thunder Rolls

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    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.

  • Very wet

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    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.

  • Where to start…

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    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…