NWS Bulletin

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URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
610 AM CST WED DEC 3 2008

...WINTER WEATHER EXPECTED TODAY...

.A STRONG UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO CENTRAL IOWA TODAY.
SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHWEST IOWA AND WILL
GRADUALLY INTENSIFY AS IT MOVES INTO CENTRAL IOWA THIS MORNING.
SNOW WILL THEN INCREASE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA BY MID TO LATE
MORNING. IN ADDITION... NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 15 TO
25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH CAUSING BLOWING SNOW.

This is what I woke up to today. Obviously, I'm still working in Des Moines. It's actually a really nice town, but the weather here is awful. Thankfully there is a massive system of sky-walks downtown that connect all the major buildings. Most importantly, they connect the Marriott where I'm staying to the Principal offices where I work. Nice.

The city of Lexington is after me again for yet another piece of fence that's apparently mine and is definitely falling down. We fixed one fence already, but when they came out to inspect that one, they realized there's another fence that still needs fixing. Get a site survey whenever you buy a home. It appears now that the people who built the fence on one side of my lot line were either idiots or were bribed by my neighbor - a chunk of our yard is on HER side of the fence. Nice.

I may not have mentioned it, but we got a new dog. Her name is Kylie and she's an Australian Kelpie Shepherd mix. She's 2, and we got her from the Woodford Humane Society. She's spectacular. Looks like a German Shepherd, but only 2/3 the size. She's the perfect playmate for Tobi. Sadly, Tobi now has arthritis and a torn ACL. We discovered this after $300 worth of puppy x-rays. The solution is to put her on anti-inflamatory medication and puppy glucosamine/condroitin. Nice.

Using taxpayer dollars to bail out the Big 3 AGAIN is absolutely stupid. That's what chapter 11 is for - you hold off your creditors while you re-organize your business into something that can actually turn a profit. Odd that Nissan, Honda, Subaru, Mazda, Toyota, Hyundai, Mercedes, and BMW are all building cars here in the United States, and they're not talking about bankruptcy at all.

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