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Finally a Hurricane in the Atlantic
2007-08-16 16:35:00 After a quiet tropical season in the Atlantic basin so far we finally have a hurricane. Tropical storm Dean became a hurricane at the 5am advisory. It should be fun to finally track a storm. hurricane, tropical, weather More About: Finally , The A , Cane , Hurricane
Philly Trip
2007-08-16 15:15:00 Molly had jury duty earlier this week in Philadelphia,pa. This is the third time she’s been called but the first time she actually had to go. We were going to get a hotel in center city but in the end we stayed at my mom’s house just outside Philly . That worked out ... More About: General , Trip
A Couple Days of Hell Like Heat
2007-08-09 15:40:00 Today we should get some nice thunderstorms. There’s a sweet looking cell out near Pittsburgh this morning. It will be interesting to watch how that complex of storms moves across the state and holds together. It’s a shame that it will probably miss us to the south but it’s worth it to not have ... More About: Weather , Couple , Heat , Hell , Days
PA Delorme and All Counties Challenge Road Trip
2007-08-06 17:36:00 Last week was Molly’s vacation and we had wanted to work on the Pennsylvania Delorme and all county challenges. We were able to hook up with Geometeacher from York and had a great two day trip in western Pa. We got to see some pretty cool things. One of the caches we ... More About: Trip , Challenge , Road Trip , Road , Allen
Early AM Thunderstorms
2007-07-29 22:59:00 We had near misses yesterday and last night with some awesome thunderstorms. Yesterday afternoon we had one that pretty much formed over the next town east of here. There was lots of lightning a mile or two off to the east and then a heavy shower formed right over us. Then it ... More About: Early , Under , Thunderstorms , Earl , Hunde
Great Summer so far
2007-07-26 15:16:00 This summer so far has been great. It has to be the best summer that I can remember. Gotta love the trough in the East this year. Now if only it would stick around for winter. That would be too good to be true though. There’s been no real heat. ... More About: Summer , Great
No Thunderstorms Today
2007-07-20 02:50:00 I was hoping for some good thunderstorms today but we never ended up getting much of anything. Most of the day we were stuck under clouds from left over thunderstorms to our west last night so it didn’t allow much heating to destabilize the atmosphere. It did clear up late in the afternoon ... More About: Today , Under , Thunderstorms , Hunde
Teen Girls Accused Of Setting Kitten on Fire
2007-07-20 02:13:00 Teen Girls Accu sed Of Setting Kitten Ablaze What the hell is it with people who burn or otherwise torture animals? The worst part is when they think it’s funny. It’s not funny to set a kitten on fire. What would be funny is if these dumb asses burned each other then that would ... More About: Fire
Ten Thousand losses for the Phillies
2007-07-17 20:34:00 I haven’t paid much attention to baseball even though I have become interested in it again for the first time since the strike in the 1990’s The main reason is because I don’t know what channel the Phillies are on with our cable channels. Just last week Molly was surfing and I saw ... More About: Sports , Thousand , Losses , Lies
My Creative Zen Vision W
2007-07-13 17:42:00 Molly gave me a Creative Zen Visio n W for my birthday this year. I am impressed with how well I can see the screen. It’s bright even at 50% back light and has good contrast. That’s important to me because with my old player I could hardly see it with it’s pretty ... More About: Creative Zen
July Fifth Thunderstorms
2007-07-06 01:52:00 We had a nice storm come through this afternoon. I wasn’t expecting much today with all the clouds in the morning and with yesterday’s disappointment still fresh in my mind. Seems like every time we get a tornado watch nothing really happens in the area. The one in 2003 that was a ... More About: July , Fifth , Under , Thunderstorms , Hunde
Teddy Sleeping on Her Side
2007-07-02 14:16:00 With it being warmer Our four guinea pigs have been laying around more outside of their igloos except for peppy. Anyways here’s how Teddy lays on her side. She lays that way often and sometimes we are worried she’s dead because she doesn’t wake up very quickly. The other ones we have lay on ... More About: Sleeping , Side , Ping
Guinea Pigs Mounting Each Other
2007-07-02 03:35:00 Guinea pigs make great pets. They’re easy to take care of and don’t need a lot but they have different personalities. We have four of them. Sometimes they have the strangest behaviors. I got a couple of pictures last week and Molly finally got them off of her camera so here ... More About: Guinea Pigs , Pigs , Guinea , Mount , Guin
My Vision Teacher
2007-06-29 23:26:00 Did you ever lose touch with a friend and wish you didn’t? I always considered the vision teacher I had through out most of school a real friend but when I graduated I lost touch with her even though I had her phone number. I’m not sure why. My best guess I ... More About: General , Teacher , Vision , Visio , Teac
Last Night?s Lightning
2007-06-28 16:43:00 Yesterday was hot and humid. I know I’ve seen many days that were much worse but yesterday seemed pretty rough. I guess I’m just not used to this. When I lived near Philly there were days where it was around 100 and dew point in the 70s or even close to 80. ... More About: Lightning , Night
Celebrity Obsession
2007-06-27 16:27:00 With the news lately it leaves me to wonder why in the world are celebrities so important in the United States. This crap is important enough that some rich person who has done nothing goes to jail and it’s national news. I never understood the obsession with Paris Hilton. I mean why does ... More About: Celebrity , General , Obsession
Gosselin TV Show
2007-06-25 16:18:00 Molly was watching tv in bed last night while I was on the computer not really paying a whole lot of attention to it until I heard them say central Pa. It was a show about the Gosselin family who had sextuplets. I had to Google it to see if it was the ... More About: General , Show
Summer Snow on Mount Washington
2007-06-24 14:28:00 This is pretty cool. On June 22 there was a trace of snow on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. I know they’ve had snow every month of the year but I just that it was something worth mentioning. I wish I could’ve been there. Mount Washington is one of those places I ... More About: Weather , Summer , Snow , Shin
Pa. Smoking Ban
2007-06-22 18:13:00 Pa. smoking ban I’m not sure I really agree with the government banning smoking in public places. I can’t stand the smell of cigarettes smoke myself and would prefer to not be around the smoke. I just don’t think it’s quite right for them to pass a law to make public places like bars ... More About: Smoking
Hurricane Agnes 35 Years Ago
2007-06-22 16:54:00 It was around this time in 1972 that the remnants of Hurricane Agnes impacted the area. I’ve always been interested in that storm. The storm made landfall over Florida on June 19th and then moved northeast and weakened to a tropical depression. It became a tropical storm again over North Carolina and moved made ... More About: Years , Cane , Year , Ears
Summer solstice
2007-06-22 04:05:00 Today was the summer solstice. Today the sun reached it’s highest point in the northern hemisphere and will begin sinking back to the south. The days will start getting shorter and in a month or two the average temperature will begin to fall. We’ll begin that slow slide until it’s that time of ... More About: Summer , General , Solstice
President Bush and his morals again
2007-06-22 00:45:00 I over heard President Bush on the tv this morning. I sorta. I heard him talk about embryonic stem cell research. I’m not at all surprised he vetoed the bill that would allow research. I had to sort of laugh to my self when I heard him say something about moral values. ... More About: President Bush , Morals , Oral
Western Pa storms
2007-06-22 00:16:00 It looks like there’s some nice thunderstorms out in western Pennsylvania. I’ve been watching them move south east today but the first batch missed me by a couple of counties. Maybe more can for or something before the cold front moves through. I’ve been feeling the humidity creep up after a nice cool night ... More About: Western , Este
June 19?s Thunderstorms
More articles from this author:2007-06-20 15:11:00 Yesterday was one of the best storm days we’ve had in a while. It didn’t seem like things would work out for us to have good storms when the first line weakened as it approached. I was pretty disapointed because before I shut down the computer and went outside to watch they looked ... More About: June , Under , Thunderstorms , Hunde 1, 2, 3 |
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