An emergency broadcast message just interrupted our newscast to announce that flooding of the river at levels above 46 feet has been projected. Everyone in low lying areas along the river have been ordered to evacuate immediately. Hopefully the storm tonight will go easy on us and homes will be saved.
December 31, 2005
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Test Due to a string of storms, one of which will hit tonight and tomorrow, the Russian River is reaching near record levels of flooding. According to the Press Democrat: Heavy rain continuing today. Up to 8 inches of rain could fall in some areas between Thursday and tonight. Another storm may arrive Sunday. Russian [...]
December 28, 2005
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Unfortunate news for the River Rats. "The Russian River is expected to hit flood stage at 32 feet in Guerneville about 7 p.m. today and to crest at about 36 feet early Thursday and begin dropping immediately." – The Press Democrat Happily we’re in no danger of being flooded out. We’re situated high on a [...]
December 23, 2005
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Wine Quiz answers are now posted in the comments section below. I’m off until after Christmas. I don’t expect I’ll be doing much blogging for one simple reason: I was insanely lucky yesterday and stumbled across an XBox while shopping for Candace. I went ahead bought it for a friend whose been searching high and [...]
December 22, 2005
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This is new to me, and provided me minutes of enjoyment. Silly Wine Tasting Notes Generator. Hat tip to Jennifer Rosen’s blog for the pointer. Here’s one it gave me using the extra silly setting: "Raw and astounding Pinot Noir. Resembles grog, over-ripe wart ointment and corpulent ganja. Drink now through graduation." It might be [...]
December 31, 2005
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