WELL - saw THAT one coming! I submitted 4.6 inches and 0.28 inches of quantitative precipitation(would you believe I spelled both of thsoe words corectly teh first time?) to NOAA.
side note - I receive a letter last month from NOAA, thanking me for being a member of CoCoRaHS for 15 years (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network).
Not sure where the big numbers are coming from in snow totals.
I measured 3 different spots and 7.5 inches are the TOTAL on the ground right now from BOTH storms.
Take a look - the snow will not be around very long. 46 degrees today and it only gets better. a LOT of melting sun the next 10 days and highs in the 60s by Sunday.
OH - if you look at the City website that is my weather widget on the upper right hand corner.
BTW - www.cityofcolumbuswi.com is down this morning
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In other news I pulled the trigger on a small investment - Canopy Growth (TWMJF). They advertise themselves as a cannabis growing company but ACTUALLY, they have been gobbling up Canadian cannabis delivery infrastructure companies. The PROBLEM is that Canada might have a glut of cannabis but these guys recently purchased an international morphine company which gives them inroads to all sorts of nations that are about to legalize medical cannabis.
There is a BUNCH of risk but the upside far outweighs the downside. If you look at all the numbers like a normal company it's a "I pass" but this is an industry that is brand new so you really can not compare this to pretty much anything.
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Brewers - for ME the big thing was seeing Yelich play CF. WHEW - I have a CF for next year. No catchers but a CF at least.
And when was the last time a batter hit a 2 run home run in back to back games to win 2-0 in BOTH games? NEVER.
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I'm going to make a formal request to the city to give the Council President SOMETHING more then more work. And extra $50? NOBODY wants to be Council President, it's a pain in the ass and I thank Alderman Traxler for taking this on. He did a GREAT job at the first meeting.
Of course this will not help Andy since the rules say a ruling party can not give them selves a raise unless they are Federal Government and can always give themselves raises.
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We had plumbing finally come in and install our wet bar and bathroom downstairs. OH OH - problem . . for some reason there is an obstruction somewhere in the downstairs toilet plumbing. They ran a roto about 30 feet and found nothing wrong and will now video. I THINK our wastewater connection is in the backyard ??? and not the street. This could get messy.
We also got a NEST sensor for the basement and it works GREAT.
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OH - one quick Strat-o-matic thingy - I predicted I would win 85 games this year. That was before I started the season 20-7 (12-3 on the road). GOOD LORD my pitching staff as an ERA 2.17 and a WHIP of 1.01. Granted I played against some REALLY bad teams so I just have to hang on now with May games getting harder.
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and then there is Sean Hannity who's producer Jack Hanick has deep DEEP ties to Russia. He left FOX Entertainment News (no really - they will start running a banner in May saying their network is Entertainment/Opinion Network, NOT an actual news network).
ANYWAY - why did Jack Hanick leave FOX? Because he was hired by Russian billionaire Konstantin Malofeev, who has been under US sanctions since 2014 for funding separatists in Crimea, and was hired to set up and launch the Orthodox Christian network Tsargard TV which went on the air in 2014.
Jack Hanick was also invited, by Konstantin Rykov, who has boasted on Facebook of having recruited the former Apprentice star (Donald Trump) to run for President as part of an “insane plan” in Rykov’s own words.
OH - Hannity says HE FORGOT Michael Cohen was his lawyer which is why he never mentioned it when he was blasting everybody about being bad to Cohen.
Fox News has been deliberately pushing Russian bot propaganda because it dovetails with their Conservative agenda.
Fox Entertainment/Opinion News is a danger to democracy and to America.
Robert Mueller – Republican
Rod Rosenstein – Republican
Andrew McCabe – Republican
Current FBI Director Christopher Wray – Republican
Judge Kimba Wood - currently in charge of the investigation of Michael Cohen – appointed to her Judgeship by Ronald Wilson Reagan Republican
Geoffrey Berman - The NY Prosecutor in the Southern District of NY whose office was overseeing the raid on Michael Cohen and recused himself from it - REPUBLICAN
this is NOT a liberal witch hunt
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Donald Trumps approval rating from Evangelical Protestants? 75%
Imbruvica, a blood cancer drug used to cost $148,000 a year but Doctors found that taking a LOT less of the drug yielded the same results. So the drug making changed it's pricing strategy to $400 a pill regardless of the dosage. Triple the cost of the original pill.
Who needs those pesky regulations right?
Sort of like banks who are making BILLIONS and BILLIONS with the new tax code. YET - still are stingy on home loans.
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Seems baseball umpires don't like extra Innings. A study of 32,000 pitches show that in extra innings the strike zone changes depending on who has a better chance of winning. A team that gets a man on base all of a sudden has a smaller strike zone then in the first 9 innings.
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Priests from around the world are flocking to the Vatican for a course called “Exorcism and the Prayer of Liberation,” which teaches the rituals behind expelling demons and how to identify demonic possession.
Of course LOL
Have a Great Thursday
