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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you know you’re hardcore when….
when attending a meeting on the new US 59 freeway, I was reconized by two folks there, one a retired KDOT engineer, another one of the KDOT reps there….
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rainfall
as of 8:00 this morning, 1.9 inches of rain had fallen overnight. There’s probably a little more in the rain gauge since then.
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Graduation Weekend
This past weekend was graduation at KU…. and there was a member of the “family” that was walking down the hill. Not only was it Ashley Lafond‘s graduation, but this Saturday happened to also be her birthday. I dropped by for a little over an hour on Sunday afternoon and said hi, brought a card,…
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Rain gauge
last night, we got 0.9 inches up at the top of the hill where I’m located
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More Rain
As many can tell by the messages left here by the weather office, we had a thunderstorm pass through. Here at home, we had moderate wind, very little (if any) hail, and a lot of rain. I haven’t had a chance to check the rain gauge.
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Rainfall
As of about 7:15 this morning, 2.6 inches of rain have fallen where I’m located.
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Ok, I think we’ve survived this one
We had quite a storm head through here, prompting a severe t-storm warning. Wind wasn’t that bad here, but we did get some rain, and they just issued a Flash Flood Warning. About half an inch fell during the first storm, another 2/10s has fallen in subsequent storms
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blog update
I’ve did a little messing around with using syndicated RSS feeds from the National Weather Service, and a Yahoo! email list related to Dance Teams.
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picture count
As of the end of Sunday evening, the picture count stands at 22,365. 357 shots have been “counted” since I went to the new Digital Rebel — $50 worth of film and processing with 10 36-exposure rolls at $3 and $2 processing per roll — not to mention time I would have to spend scanning,…
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Twice the speed of life
No sooner did I send birthday girl Nicole Lafond an e card than I got a nice thank you note back. Must be good timing to send her the card just before she cheked the email box 🙂