Mark R Hunter's Blog Posts Tagged 'weather' (7)

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            There’s one thing more suspicious than a list of suggestions from the internet, and that’s a list of suggestions punctuated by exclamation points. For some reason, it makes me think of snake oil salesmen, explaining why you have to buy their stuff “right now!”

            “I’ll only be here for one day! This miracle liquid, imported from the mysterious Indian continent, cures scurvy, boils, and black lung, and can also…

Just wanted to show some photos I took right after a storm that came through Albion earlier in the month. It can be hard to get good sunset pictures, but I thought these came out fairly well.

The first was taken from Albion's main railroad crossing, looking down the tracks.

The second was taken a short time later, from just down the street and also toward…

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Author’s note: The day I wrote this, it rained all night for the first time in months, and we got another half an inch of rain today. Coincidence? Yeah, probably, but I’m taking credit.

            You know you’re having a bad day when your home town leads on The Weather Channel.

            It hasn’t been quite that bad for northeast Indiana, but mostly because everyone else is having horrible…

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My birthday gift from last year made me ruminate. But I took some antacid, and I’m feeling better now.



The rumination, which improves with ibuprofen and ice packs, started with The Annotated Wizard of Oz. Emily saw me lusting after it at a bookstore, to such an extent that they kicked me…

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            It’s human nature to complain and want change, and I’ve come to realize why people can adjust to change so quickly: It’s so they can complain some more.

            Over the winter, I heard a lot of people complain about the cold. Yet here in northeast Indiana we didn’t have that much cold. On the day I wrote this it snowed in California, but rained here. By the time you read it we’ve had a series of record high…

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            I hear it’s been a bad year for ice fishing. I thought every year was a bad year for ice fishing.

            I mean, it involves standing out on a frozen lake in the middle of winter, for crying out loud. That’s not a hobby – it’s something the Taliban would use to torture people into confessions.

            A bad year means it’s been too warm to get good ice – “good” ice, by the way, is what you put in your…