Calm returns

[altivo]

10 JUL 2008 7:16 pm radar
Originally uploaded by Altivo

But 90 minutes ago a major storm front passed through here. Wind was strong but not as bad as farther east where they reported cloud rotation, penny sized hail, and three inches of rain in about ten minutes. Here one large branch bounced off the roof but no trees are down within sight of the house. Don't know about the pasture, and now it's dark. The crimson of the sunset covered most of the sky. Alas, no camera. Gary must have taken it to Chicago with him. The power was out in Harvard, because I heard it reported on the emergency services net and then later when I checked, the library network was down. It seems to have come back up about 20 minutes before closing time. Thunder continues to rumble through here even now, though all storm watches have been lifted and the rain has stopped.

I may have resolved the Elsie Dinsmore nonsense. First thing this morning I cataloged the Project Gutenberg text of the book in our library catalog, with a link on the screen so anyone who wants to read it has only to click and they can read the entire book right on their display. I'll find out tomorrow if that woman really insisted on having a copy of the book borrowed from elsewhere in the state or if she settled for the online version.

Comments

[saythename.livejournal.com]

The thing thats extraordinary is that men road these huge
inland seas on boats made of wood, with no navigation
equipment, no way to know that such shallow seas would
be mercy to eight miles of atmospher that could turn
the water into watery hell.

And that was without wars.

I admire sailors. When I was swimming a few hundred yards
out to a sandbar, and losing my breath, I felt that,
"I'm going to die here" panic, just for a moment.

And it was a wonderful summer day, and I didn't die.

What of those men that sailed these seas?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99rOzMVtcx4

[altivo.livejournal.com]

What of those men that sailed these seas?

Stupidity or desperation makes people do strange things. ;p

[hrrunka]

We've had a few flood warnings in the last few days, but the list along the bottom of that image is in a different league...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Well, the list is only a key and there was no actual tornado warning in the zone shown on the map. But you're right that the other three were all present. The severe thunderstorm warning had only just been lifted from my location when the image was captured.

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

First thing this morning I cataloged the Project Gutenberg text of the book in our library catalog...

Well, if you're going down that road, any reason to not catalog everything else PG has available?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Just that it would take me a couple of years and most of it would never be used. Their own catalog is actually adequate for most uses in and of itself. I did this one in this way to specifically provide an out for a particular problem. I may do it again for other titles if a similar situation arises.

We are dealing with people here who have no idea how to find such things on the internet. Remember a couple of weeks ago when I took the "search the internet" link off our home page and dozens of them complained that they could no longer "search the internet"? They didn't even know enough to type "google.com" into the location bar.