Three days of School closings this week (Wednesday thru Friday), so very little activity.
Snowed in with everyone else.
Six foot mounds of snow on the edges of some of the local parking lots.
The streets and parking lots that didn't get plowed had the traditiona (local?) four inches or so of freezing/refreezing slush on Saturday.
Last week Wal Mart was COMPLETELY sold out of Snow Shovels (And everything else related to dealing with this kind of extreme weather). So much for their logistics expertise.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Netflix doesn't want me!
No, not quite that severe yet. But NPR had a brief sound bite two weeks ago about how they want to get out of the business of shipping those pesky DVD's back and forth soon (Two or three years?); I've noticed when updating my que at the local public library that they keep trying to direct me to the "Watch it Now" streaming video.
Gee folks, I DON'T HAVE high speed internet access at my house. And have no prospect of such, the "Last Mile" problem (Actually, about two miles from a "better" subdivision). It's the bundled cable service (Which I can't afford) or nothing.
I've enjoyed it, but this is just another symptom of our overstressed infrastructure and bankrupt urban planning process. Streaming video may very well be the future in affluent neighborhoods, but what about the rest of us?
(As a follow up to the previous post, it's usually about twenty four hours or so before the county makes the first pass with a plow and salt on my street when it snows) I'm three miles "Back in the woods" from the main highway.
Gee folks, I DON'T HAVE high speed internet access at my house. And have no prospect of such, the "Last Mile" problem (Actually, about two miles from a "better" subdivision). It's the bundled cable service (Which I can't afford) or nothing.
I've enjoyed it, but this is just another symptom of our overstressed infrastructure and bankrupt urban planning process. Streaming video may very well be the future in affluent neighborhoods, but what about the rest of us?
(As a follow up to the previous post, it's usually about twenty four hours or so before the county makes the first pass with a plow and salt on my street when it snows) I'm three miles "Back in the woods" from the main highway.
More Snow!
Four consecutive school canceling snow days last week (Tuesday through Friday).
And most of the smaller school districts were still closed this morning (Monday, 2/7/2011).
Snow clearance off the main highways and in the parking lots around here is based on people driving around to reduce it to slush, and wait until it melts. Not so good when you have multiple arctic fronts through like we are having this year, I was out of the house on Saturday, some of the parking lots were two inches deep in melt water, so now have refroze with an inch or two of ice.
The Manager on duty at one of the local McDonald's gave me a "Not my Job" look when I suggested he might have had his crew out in the parking lot for thirty minutes to at least push the slush to the side when it was liquid last Saturday afternoon. So now they have four inches or so of (hard) frozen slush on top of the inch of ice in their parking lot.
With sub freezing temperatures all day today, and more snow forecast for Wednesday
And most of the smaller school districts were still closed this morning (Monday, 2/7/2011).
Snow clearance off the main highways and in the parking lots around here is based on people driving around to reduce it to slush, and wait until it melts. Not so good when you have multiple arctic fronts through like we are having this year, I was out of the house on Saturday, some of the parking lots were two inches deep in melt water, so now have refroze with an inch or two of ice.
The Manager on duty at one of the local McDonald's gave me a "Not my Job" look when I suggested he might have had his crew out in the parking lot for thirty minutes to at least push the slush to the side when it was liquid last Saturday afternoon. So now they have four inches or so of (hard) frozen slush on top of the inch of ice in their parking lot.
With sub freezing temperatures all day today, and more snow forecast for Wednesday
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