Storm Report

Compulsions:
One of the shows I like to watch on the Teevees is called Monk. It’s about a suspended police detective who suffers from compulsions. It’s very funny. He tries to navigate where nothing is up to his standards and yet he solves the most complex crimes.

His compulsions are really the show. The other day he was trying to deal with a blogger who thought the whole Universe revolved around him. He published his blog whenever he felt like it and his main rules were – accuracy: optional – plagiarism; not above it – and frequency; whenever… Very odd guy.

Monk and his compulsions had a major problem dealing with the casual attitude of this blogger, especially the accuracy issue. Monk seemed to think everyone should endeavor to produce the most accurate report possible, or Monk would point out the errors.

Just a minute; I think I hear the door bell.

Winter Storms - Brrrrrrr:

We had some rough weather starting last week and it’s still going on. The whole country is suffering from this. Caribou Barbie is behind it, I think. The weather map shows the jet stream cruising down the west coast from Alaska and then east over the rest of the country. It’s very unusual.

The weather predictors had a hard time the last couple of days because they couldn’t show exactly where the snow would fall, how much, where the wind would blow, and how cold it would get. Our mountains once again made a hash of it.

There were high winds coming down the west slopes of the Cascades over the foothills. In Newcastle it was almost still. On the east slopes of the Olympics they had a great deal of snow. Newcastle got another 8” or so, depending on whether you were trying to play golf or not.

And it’s been very cold in this area for over a week. That means frozen roads. Since big snow events are rare (the last big one was in 1990) we don’t have fleets of snow removal equipment. Thus it takes a long time to deal with it.

But the rest of America is taking worse weather. Very cold here is around 20 but farther east it’s more like minus 20. I understand Nebraska had thunder snow which is weird. Ice storms farther east pretty much close things down.

This year I think a lot of folks will be doing Christmas in January. Best just keep warm and wait it out.

Oh, if your power is out I hope you have heat. You can read this by candlelight. Anyway, be careful and stay warm as best you can.

Al