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January 04, 2005
Payment for our mild winter comes due
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Before today we hadn't gotten but maybe an inch of snow this winter. On Christmas day it was nearly 60 degrees and the low temperature barely got below freezing the week between Christmas and New Year's Day.
Yesterday the freezing rain and sleet started. Now the snow is falling at a pretty steady clip. I'm glad it's still break because I'd be going nuts wondering if the chancellor was going to cancel school for tomorrow. The university rarely shuts down due to weather but if it's bad enough, and a layer of ice under a foot of icy, wet snow would probably qualify, it would.
Sarah was in that position last night. The new superintendant of Lincoln Public Schools had gone on record when she took the job as saying that she thought we had too many snow days, although Lincoln has fewer than any other school in the state. By this morning most of the schools in southeast Nebraska had shut down but Lincoln was still full speed ahead.
She doesn't have to worry about tomorrow, though. Lincoln schools are closed. Usually the determination doesn't happen until 5 am the day of but I imagine the superintendant's office got enough angry phone calls today to encourage the early decision.
I'm wondering if the firm is going to be closed tomorrow. It's small enough that they tend to close for weather-related situations more often than one would expect. I need to work but if they think it's too dangerous for me to drive to the office, I won't argue. I'm still trying to figure out how to win playing Numidia in Rome: Total War and I could use a full day to dedicate to that problem.
P.S. How good is USC? Wow. The way OU looked on their first drive I would have never expected a total blowout the other way.
Posted by Half-Cocked at January 4, 2005 10:23 PM
Comments
we're open! lots of people made it. even the ones who live on hills where the plows don't go for 2 days. no one came in from omaha or adams.
Posted by: julee at January 5, 2005 11:56 AM
I agree USC looked good, but I think OU was more of a fraud than USC was awesome. In my opinion, you can't be considered a great team if you almost lose 3 times in one year (Cal, V.Tech, UCLA), and would have lost but for a very bad pass interference call (V.Tech). Then again, maybe I'm just bitter because I truly HATE USC.
By the way....They're going down in 2007!!!!
Posted by: Mark at January 6, 2005 08:07 PM