Snowpocalypse 2011

Much of the country is digging their way out this morning after the snowpocalypse dumped up to 18 inches of snow across the country. I’ve lived through storms far worse than this but it’s been a while since I’ve been in a place as unprepared for snow as Oklahoma. I decided to venture out [...]

Driving – or lack thereof

I have wanted this for years and now they are starting to do field testing. You can stop reading and just follow the link now.

At this point 99% of my two readers will have either left via the link or simply left to read something else. How cool would it be to have [...]

Random thoughts

When I woke up this morning I was thrilled to be walking around in 65 degree weather at 3AM until I realized that it was only going to get warmer from that point forward

Even though I live on base it still feels like a third world country – my power is so unstable [...]

This is not the same country

For starters I’m not freezing to death. On average, its been about 20 degrees warmer throughout the entire day. Last time I was here we endured temps that hovered in the high teens and low twenties but now the nighttime low is in the 40s. This is simply too odd. I’ve got a bunch [...]

My uneducated view

I’m 15 pages deep into Economics 201 I don’t know near enough to figure out what has and hasn’t work in our economy in the past few years. I’m sure that with one to two more years of study I still won’t know enough to figure it out. What I do know is that [...]

This is unusual

The weather outside is frightful. The last place I want to be is around a fire. As you can see from the image Washington is experiencing some unusually high temperatures. Only 13% of homes on this side of the state have air conditioning…. you know where I’m going with this one. Its a [...]

Another month in the dark

I was up until 6AM watching bad television and bits and pieces of movies. I tried to keep myself entertained throughout the night and I also tried to keep myself jacked up on caffeine so I could keep on keeping on. Why subject yourself to late night torture? I’m heading back to working graves [...]

We’re trapped – sorta

All of the mountain passes to the east are closed due to avalanches. All of the highways to the south are flooded. We’ve had constant rain for the past few days and almost everything is flooded. The ground is completely saturated and there is nowhere for the water to go. Its odd – the [...]

The drivers outside are frightful

The weather over the next few days is the last of my worries. What worries me is my need to get around when the roads are full other people. The forecast calls for 6-20 inches of additional snow and we’ve still not seen a snowplow head down our street. The traffic has made a [...]

It’s snowing and snowing

It’s still snowing and it looks like it is going to continue for a few hours. Jessica had a snow day – I wasn’t so lucky.