Richie Kennedy | route56.com

Month: August 2005

  • more from the gauge

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    While watching the weather channel on Hurrican Katrina, we had a bit of a cell pass through. I came up with another 7 tenths

  • storm cell

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    0320: I am wakened by a thunderstorm. I tune in the weather radio and subsequently find out that power went out (the weather radio has a battery backup) 0420: Power comes back on 0500: Another Cell passes through 0750: 2.2 inches of rain has fallen since the last time I had emptied the gauge

  • rain rain rain

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    Another 0.6″ was found in the rain gauge this morning

  • rainfall

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    Anothe 1.7 inches of rain had fallen since Thurdsay evening, mostly last night. I went over to GCSAA at about 11 last night and found that power had indeed gone off there. One of the racks in the data center had shut down, three of the servers had to be restarted.

  • The Thunder Rolls

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    We had a bit of a squall line come through here… just before 9:00, we had a power failure that lasted about an hour. The rain is still going a bit.

  • Very wet

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    1.6 inches of rain fell into my rain gauge on Friday. However, that was nothing compared to the 3.4 inches that fell on Saturday. Some places in town got as high as 4 inches, and there was a bit of flash flooding. The Journal-World ran a front-page story on the weather.

  • Where to start…

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    Last Night, I went bowling with the several of my co-workers, and found out a couple of things about the latest addition to the GCSAA tech group. First of all, he’s a Lawrence native, and he is a fellow ’97 graduate of Lawrence High. He also mentioned that his girlfriend was a Chiefs Cheerleader. I…

  • Colbalt Debut

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    My new laptop came in off the big brown truck this morning. I set it up to work off the wireless network, and am posting from up in the dining room.

  • Whither Cobalt

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    The offical word from Dell is that a laptop that I ordered was sent on the brown truck (UPS) by this morning. At some point, I will be transferring data from my desktop “Monte-Carlo” to the new laptop “Cobalt,” then I will re-image (read: format) Monte-Carlo for my brother, and put back any files that…