Showing posts with label storm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storm. Show all posts
Friday, January 23, 2026

Ice Blossoms, Banners, Fire Pits, and More

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When we lived in Greensboro, I regularly engaged an excellent printing company to create my banners for conventions, booksignings...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Fortifications

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WHEW! I've spent over a week playing concrete mason every morning, as so much of the old stuff around the house has broken a...
Monday, January 6, 2025

The Winter Storm Aftermath, Sort Of

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For the past few days, the local forecast called for a potentially serious winter storm starting yesterday, and a winter storm we ...
Sunday, January 5, 2025

Big Honking Winter Weather

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It's supposed to be a big honking weather event today and tomorrow, starting with snow and ending with ice, which is not a good com...
Friday, January 27, 2023

The One-Man Chainsaw Brigade

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I posted last week that the prodigious rainfall of the past month or so (with yet more in the forecast) did the root systems o...
Sunday, January 9, 2022

Winter Storms, Blogger Fuckery, Historic Churches, and Smoked Cow

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Immediately upon our return from Myrtle Beach last weekend, dire weather fell upon us. We had only a light coating of snow, but th...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Blobs, Rebels, and Rogues

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It has not been a particularly cheery week, what with ice storms, power outages, tax time, technology issues, dealing with my mom’s and...
Monday, December 10, 2018

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night!

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In front of my house about 9:00 p.m. last night. The wall of snow and ice to the right is over two feet high. To no one's surprise, ...
Sunday, December 9, 2018

T'ain't Fit for Man Nor Beast....

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I may end up snowbound for some time. The big winter storm that came in last night dropped a good 10 inches overnight, and it's st...
Sunday, October 14, 2018

Michael the Bitch

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There's a certain appealing eeriness about the total darkness—apart from my lantern—at Casa de Rodan with virtually the whole city de...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Riding the Storm Out

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Hurricane Florence hit the east coast hard the past couple of days, especially along the North and South Carolina coasts. Here in Greensbo...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Big Water

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In my damn-near six decades of existence, I have never seen water hit my old hometown of Martinsville, VA, the way it hit this afternoon....
Friday, January 22, 2016

When It Rains...

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Any idea what you're looking at in the photo? No? It's a handy-dandy little improvised space heater, the idea of which I got from ...
Friday, April 25, 2014

A Random Tornado Story

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I just heard there's a tornado watch in our area. I don't see one out there, though, so it seems a waste of time to sit here and tr...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

Ice In, Lights Out

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The third significant winter storm in as many weeks here in the North Carolina Piedmont, this one resulting in over 400,000 people in ...