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Gulf dodges first hurricane bullet of oil spill season

Just a Guy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:46:54 +0000

For a few days there it looked like the cry throughout the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent states was “batten down the hatches” for Hurricane Alex. Fortunately, the storm turned sharply to the west, away from the oil spill area, and averted a worse disaster.

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Gulf dodges first hurricane bullet of oil spill season

Thinking I am brontophobic — no, it has nothing to do with literature

Just a Guy — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:40:17 +0000

I think I’ve found a label for one of the problems I’ve developed in recent years: brontophobia, a fear of lighting and thunderstorms. It’s also called astraphobia, keraunophobia, or tonitrophobia.

And the headline on this article is my lame attempt at humor, playing of the name of the Greek god of thunder (Bronte) off of the Bronte sisters, a couple of wonderful English writers. I love a good pun. Although most of the puns I make are admittedly questionable.

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El Nino effects on weather downright confusing to me

Just a Guy — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:31:29 +0000

I don’t know about you, but the weather effects of what’s come to be known as “El Nino” are downright confusing to me. I just read that the current El Nino — blamed by many for the snowfall and serious winter throughout much of the U.S. this year — will probably continue through spring. That’s sort of good news and bad news, as far as I could tell — depending on where you live.

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Does harsh winter disprove reality of ‘global warming’?

Just a Guy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:49:19 +0000

I think some otherwise intelligent people are seriously asking whether this year’s harsh winter might actually disprove the reality of so-called global warming. I mean, with a foot of snow in Dallas, Texas yesterday and a couple of inches in Atlanta, Georgia, today — doesn’t that sort of weather make you at least a LITTLE bit skeptical about global warming??

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Storm named Fay really dumped on Florida, didn’t she?

Just a Guy — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:23:13 +0000

I suppose it’s been a pretty good year for Orlando vacations, despite tropical storms and hurricane threats. I guess if you live in Florida or visit their much, you get accustomed to those things. (I live in southwest Missouri, and I guarantee you I’ve never gotten accustomed to tornadoes, but who knows?)

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Storm named Fay really dumped on Florida, didn’t she?

Storms, flooding hit home in a small way for my wife and me

Just a Guy — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:44:16 +0000

If you live there, you really need no travel guides or GPS equipment, or road maps, or anything else to help you find “Tornado Alley,” that part of the southern and central Plains area smacked regularly in the spring and summer by, well, TORNADOES, of course.

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Ah, once again — the beauties of winter life in the Missouri Ozarks

Just a Guy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:14:26 +0000

Welcome to southwest Missouri, where I live. We’ve had a touch of snow here. We’ve had a lot of rain, a few tornadoes, and a whole many, many tons of ice. What a winter.

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Everybody’s talking about the weather but nobody’s doing anything about it

Just a Guy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:01:21 +0000

Since I was a teenager, I’ve never really trusted the weathermen/women when it comes to forecasting. My wariness began when I saw one of the early space launches canceled because of a chance of thunderstorms within a few dozen miles of the launch site. It occurred to me — when those thunderstorms never happened — that we can develop technology to put people in space, but we can’t accurately tell whether it’ll rain.

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Another winter, another ice storm — winter in the freezing zone

Just a Guy — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:52:08 +0000

You call it Interstate 44; I call it the freezing zone. This is the 29th winter my family and I have lived in the southwest Missouri Ozarks, in a city along I-44. Not a winter goes by that we don’t have at least one, and usually more, ice storms which weather forecasters inevitably warn will be coming to “areas along I-44.”

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Another winter, another ice storm — winter in the freezing zone