Monday, December 7, 2009

Mr. Wizard, It's a Blizzard

Let's get the bad news out of the way first. We had a little warm-up snow system traveling through today giving Columbus about 1.5 inches of now. However - look out there in the west (on the map). That is the engine and to the south is gas for a major winter storm that is heading our way. There is a Winter Storm Watch out for Tuesday late afternoon and it WILL be upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning at some point and . . . if everything comes together perfectly that will be upgraded to Blizzard Warnings.


The Low will head straight east until it meets the warm Gulf moister and then the system will get bumped north. The BIG energy will be south in Tennessee but we will have the northern tier of the storm. At this moment they are saying 8-12 inches, 12 hours ago it was 9-13 so it's diminishing . . . a little (big deal). The kicker is the wind on Wednesday which will have gusts to 40mph and with a fresh 10+ inches of snow . . . . .

Many many schools will be closed and I doubt I will make it to work on Wednesday, can someone put my name on the white board?
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With all that said - here is a pretty shot from the Danville Mill bridge looking the other direction.

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A year ago this past weekend Bret Favre's arm started to fall off. I mention that because that was certainly a MOST enjoyable game last night, that is until E.J. Henderson's leg basically fell off in that gruesome injury. STILL, the only winning team the Vikings have beaten are the Packers. grrrrrrr

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We put up our Christmas tree this weekend. The best place we have found for tree's is Tate's which is next to the Truck Driving School on Hwy 151. Very nice cut your own place.

Cutting your own Christmas Tree is the environmentally smart way to go. The reason is that Christmas Trees are a renewable resource and give cover for birds. If you go with a plastic (oil) tree it hurts the Christmas Tree growers and they will plant less trees and provide less cover for birds. So basically buying a plastic tree you are killing birds. :-)

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That's it for today - I gotta get my butt in gear for some work.

Talk to you tomorrow.

Rod

11 comments:

  1. who's going to shovel all the snow on my sidewalks.

    Love that picture of the river. Saw it on your website the other day and thought is ws awesome.

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  2. Rod, Is this picture an opposite look from the bridge pic?

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  3. Char yes - it's the OTHER direction. Ya almost don't notice it the 1st direction is so sweet.

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  4. That's Caydence's monkey that her Gram Gram got for her :)

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  5. That's not a monkey silly, its a hippo! :)

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  6. "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"...nice tree!

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  7. Rod, I may have to think about getting the river scene to go along with my bridge scene. It would be kind of neat to have both views. I like the idea of different seasons as well.

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  8. OH Char - sorry - wrong bridge. My Bad - that is the Danville Mill Bridge. The bridge you are talking about is at Tenny Park in Madison.

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  9. Great Blog!!!

    Wow!! We are in for it!!
    I hope you all have your muscles oiled!
    or Snow Blowers! lol

    Love the pic Rod. Very Wintery

    Pretty Tree!

    Hope all are keeping warm and planning the next few days...

    Be Safe!

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  10. OH yeah, I forgot it was a hippo :P

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  11. Sorry Todd!!! Who doesn't even shovel his own snow...you're on your own!!!

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