Rainy Days

In a world where everything is go, go, go...now, now, now; the rainy day provides us with a moment to RELAX. The ability to sit back and let go, catch up with your thoughts, read a book, watch hours of television or movies, etc. So despite this gloomy weather there's a little part in all of us that enjoy it too!

Lost without Explanation

An otherwise reliable and experienced Air France flight crew are lost en route from Brazil to Paris after encountering "an electrical storm" ... oh yea and the flight pattern is just south of the Bermuda Triangle.

Although there are quite a few reported disappearances in that area, the two most notable aircraft mystery's are the Douglas DC-3 #NC16002 and US Naval Flight 19. The commonality in all of these, including the most recent Flight AF 447, has been related to electricity. Of course this poses a lot of new questions, but also possibly some answers to an industry always in need some refining. Engineers stay tuned!!!

Summer Solstice

Summer brings with it lots of joy, hope, promise, comfort (although uncomfortable at times too), and sanity. In Wisconsin, we've been like caged animals for 6 months out of the year and now that the weather is nice enough we are free!

There is one bad things about summer though...mosquito's. What is there purpose? They are only about 1/2 inch in size yet these blood suckers pass disease and kill millions of animals and people each year. Again, what is their purpose. The females are actually the blood sucker (surprise), but before biting and irritating us they inject saliva that ultimately helps to give us that nice looking itch red bump.

So, since I can't answer as to where these bloodsucking demons of life are here, I can tell you their natural predator is the Dragonfly. Needless to say my idea to make millions is through harvesting dragonflies, which I intend to begin this week.....muuhhhaaa!



...and by the way we are supposed to have record numbers of these fuckers all summer long! You can purchase Dragonfly's by coming to my home with large sums of cash!!!

Half-Million Dollar Views

Thought this was an interesting photo of the Riverwalk in Grafton, where about 2 years ago they built $500,000 condo's with walkout access to the riverwalk. Ouch, check out more photo's from this storm at JSOnline

Waterpark Capital of the World - Drained

Well not exactly are the water parks empty, but a major tourist destination in the Dells is. Lake Delton, home to the Tommy Bartlett Thrill Show, has overflowed taking with it peoples homes and dreams of a peaceful summer on the lake.

It is truly sad yet awesome to see the power mother nature once again shows us she has. No matter how many damns, levy's, or protective barriers we put in place, she reminds us that nothing can stand in her way. We pray for the people in these situations and are glad to know it is only material things that were lost in this disaster.

On a personal note, my in-laws who live on the Milwaukee River are experiencing a record high and thank god to this point haven't lost much more than a couple hours of sleep. It is times like this that I think of what Noah had to face on his ark, and we are only seeing about 1/1,000,000,000 (maybe more) of what he saw.

Meteorologist Flop

Perhaps you may have heard that a deadly cyclone hit Myanmar killing an estimated 15,000 people thus far, and the death toll continues to climb. What you maybe have not heard was the serious miscalculation on the part of their local meteorologists and the government. These quotes come from the World News on MSNBC;

-----"The government misled people. They could have warned us about the severity of the coming cyclone so we could be better prepared," said Thin Thin, a grocery store owner.

-----"Before the cyclone hit, the government had only put out “storm news,” saying the cyclone would travel at about 30 miles an hour, whereas it struck with winds of almost four times that speed"

In an area that has seen many of these natural diasters (tsunami's, tidal waves, cyclones/hurricanes) strike over the past few years no mild storm should every be assumed.

Shook to Sleep

While you were snug in your beds this morning at 4:36 a.m. you were being shook by an earthquake that measured 5.2 on the Richter Scale. Its epicenter struck at near the town of West Salem, Ill., which is a small town that lies near the Wabash fault line, or the larger New Madrid fault.




This is big news here because we don't see earthquakes as large or as often as some of our other states. In the past two weeks alone the United States (Puerto Rico included) has experienced 1009 earthquakes. So by that measure if I have ever been to California, Alaska, or Nevada, I probably experienced an earthquake before...but then again that is where the major fault lines fall (San Andreas and Denali).

Do you know we learned all this in 7th and 8th grade yet I feel like a seismologist working for the USGS...awesome!

Sping? Not in Wisconsin

Well today declares the first day of the Spring. The sounds of birds chirping and new activity outside was mostly covered by my chattering teeth. Check out our lovely forecast for Easter weekend.

Friday
mid 20's to low 30's, chance of snow 70%, accumulation 1-3 inches.

Saturday
30% chance of snow showers in the morning, mid 20's to low 30's

Sunday
mid 20's to low 30's, 30% chance of snow showers

This is insane. I am now jealous of my brother Joe living in Guam, my cousin Scott who is currently vacationing in the Dominican Republic, my cousin Jeffery who is debating on moving back to Wisconsin from beautiful California, and the rest of my family and friends in warmer more pleasant Spring-like areas. When will this all end?