White Christmas

I'm saying this before I forget. If you have a cell phone and wish you could recharge it in your car go to Walgreens or True value or whatever and get one of those $2.99 car chargers.  They work great. OR, go to Best Buy and buy one for $6. 

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Everything is working out for the Packers.  Now if we can get Rodgers back AND if he is back let's hope he shows no rust from sitting for 7 weeks.  Everybody assumes he will be back but I still think it's a 50/50 bet.

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It actually took me 10 seconds to figure out what was wrong. I knew it was wrong but what was it???

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Did you know The Beatles never ever sold less then 1 million albums!

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Merry Christmas from inside the New World Creative Studio.

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Because we did not have enough people at the CDA to have a quorum we sat around and gossiped.

This was going to be Steve Sobiaks last CDA meeting and it pissed me off a little that members of the CDA could not make it because of AN INCH OF SNOW??  Kelly, Nathan and I were the only ones that showed up.

One of Steve's very first assigements was to get a grant for LED Streetlights. He went out and got the grant (which no one thought he could) and now we could be the first city in America to have LED streetlights.  One problem.  No one makes them in America.!!

There were some being made in China and those were tested but they all sucked and burned out.  This was a big risk to the city, spending a half million dollars for street lights that did not work.

OH, there was one tiny town in Alaska that had LEDs.

Finally a company was found and we were about to order 600 street lights.  One problem.  At the same time Los Angeles ordered 114,067 of the same lights!

We got them and became the very first city in America to have LED Street lights saving the city a TON of money every year.  Los Angeles saves over $5 million a year, saving 63% on their lighting bills.

THANK YOU Steve.  Portage is getting a very good Director and Columbus better get it's act together and hire someone with initiative and drive.  Steve will be missed!

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Another image from inside New World Creative Studio.

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Looks like a white Christmas for Madison and Columbus.  In the last 107 years this happens 69% of the time. The last time we did not have snow on the ground at Christmas was 2006 (2011 we had a "trace" of snow).

The warmest high  was 56 degrees in 1982 and the coldest low was -21 in 2000.

Here is a map of the historical probability of a white Christmas.

     
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Nuff said.

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