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I don’t exactly recall when The Weather Channel started naming winter storms, but I am so happy to report that we survived Winter Storm Iago here in the Mississippi Delta. The sleet started close to lunch on Monday and was coming down pretty good, so school let out early. By the time the kids were [...]
It has been oppressively hot here all week long. 100+ degree temps and there looks to be no relief in the form of rain or cooler temperatures in site for days. I’ve been seeing these funny pictures about hot weather all over my friends’ Facebook pages, so I thought I would share the best ones. [...]
It’s been a scary few days in the Mississippi Delta. We’ve fared much, much better than our neighbors in Arkansas, Northwest Mississippi and the Memphis area, but it has been really alarming hearing the tornado sirens go off in our town a few times. I’m ashamed to say we completely slept through one siren the [...]
It has been March of 2008 since our little town has seen any sort of significant snowfall. The snow has danced above and below us over the past two years, but nothing to cancel school and work which is THE GOAL. The Weather Channel started warning us last Wednesday that THE BIG ONE was on [...]
Well, it’s now Day 4 of Ohmygawditissofreakinhawt!!! and the picture above was taken inside my car yesterday at 6:30 PM. It has consistently reached 105 everyday since Sunday. We’ve lost power a couple of times in the late afternoon, but it hasn’t lasted for more than about 45 minutes at a time. Still, for the [...]
The current temperature is… My crepe myrtle tree is peeling And the monkey grass is burning to a crisp. These are the dog days of a Mississippi summer. But since I don’t have a dog, here’s a cat snoozing in a shady spot. How hot is it where you are? Do you have Mississippi beat [...]
Dear Mr. Weatherman, All I can really say at this point is FAIL! That light dusting ofsnow looks nothing like the 1-3 inches you promised and assured all of us we would get a snow day because of. I’m donewith you. Done! Your predictions mean nothing to me anymore.We’re through. Sincerely, Mommy Cracked…who will never [...]
