Well back home

After 4 days out of town. But I'm leaving for Chicago on Sunday. - I decided to add local gas prices for Cookeville, TN to the site, thanks to Gas Buddy. The price has gotten so high any info is good info.

Well my internet is back up.

Been down for 2 days - I has an appiontment with Charter to come out today - The tech cancelled the appointment with no notice - said I had signal to my modem. Well I agree - but I was a network admin at one time - I had signal but no DCHP connect. Well after 6 people and 2 hours thay say they will be here Tuesday the 22nd. Well you ask how I'm posting this?? and how my weather station is back on line? - well 2 hours after I got off the phone with them it magically came back on. The whole spill they go through with unplug, reboot and all that - well guess what - I NEVER TOUCHED A THING HERE! No reboots - no recycling the modem - not a thing. They kept saying it was on my end - well guess what Charter - IT WASN'T ON MY END! When it went down I did the trick of ipconfig /release and got it to release - well when I used ipconfig /renew - it wouldn't - which means no DCHP signal coming in from the cable connection. I guess after raising enough h3ll with them and threating to cancel thay decided to work on it from their end. I got one thing to say - Hey Charter - I ain't that stupid. And I won't cancel the appointment on Tursday. Let them make up for not showing up today.

If anyone has any sugestions for another ISP here - let me know - BTW - I use VOIP and no phone line here.

Rain, Sleet & Snow!

Well I got home in time to see rain. sleet and snow today! It covered the mulch on the ground but I couldn't get any good pictures. We also have chances for more this evening and frost warnings for the AM. Here it is the middle of April and Mother Nature is giving us the cold shoulder! Let's hope for a rapid return to warm weather.

Spring has Sprung - well sort of!

The yard is looking green . but it may have patches of white on Monday! Can you believe this? Snow in April? The middle of April at that.

Here's what NWS has to say:

COLDER AIR WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE REGION TODAY AND MONDAY
ALONG WITH A COUPLE OF COLD UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS.
SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TODAY...AND THESE SHOWERS WILL
MIX WITH SLEET OR SNOW AT TIMES TODAY IN THE NORTH AND ON THE
PLATEAU.

SCATTERED SHOWERS OF RAIN...SLEET AND SNOW WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE MID
STATE TONIGHT. THE PLATEAU WILL HAVE MAINLY SNOW TONIGHT...WITH
MINOR ACCUMULATIONS IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. TEMPERATURES WILL
DROP TO FREEZING TONIGHT FOR A FEW LOCATIONS ON THE PLATEAU AND
ADJACENT AREAS.

Severe Weather

Tornado watch till 4pm.

Well it appears we have some activity near Layfette and Lawrencebug TN areas. I'm working on watching these on radar. I'll post updates as needed.

Flash flood watch

Well the rain is here and more is coming!

Friday: Rain and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 69. South southwest wind between 10 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

Flood Watch

FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
336 PM CDT THU APR 3 2008

...A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
THROUGH FRIDAY...

.A STRENGTHENING AREA OF LOW PRESSURE ALONG A STRONG FRONTAL
BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA ON FRIDAY. THIS
BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO BRING WIDESPREAD RAINFALL TO MIDDLE
TENNESSEE. MOST AREAS WILL MEASURE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3
INCHES THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING...WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS OF AS MUCH AS 5
INCHES POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA.

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/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
ROBERTSON-SUMNER-MACON-CLAY-PICKETT-CHEATHAM-DAVIDSON-WILSON-
TROUSDALE-SMITH-JACKSON-PUTNAM-OVERTON-PERRY-HICKMAN-LEWIS-
WILLIAMSON-MAURY-RUTHERFORD-CANNON-DEKALB-
336 PM CDT THU APR 3 2008

...FLOOD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY
EVENING...

THE FLOOD WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR

* A PORTION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING
 AREAS...CANNON...CHEATHAM...CLAY...DAVIDSON...DEKALB...
 HICKMAN...JACKSON...LEWIS...MACON...MAURY...OVERTON...PERRY...
 PICKETT...PUTNAM...ROBERTSON...RUTHERFORD...SMITH...SUMNER...
 TROUSDALE...WILLIAMSON AND WILSON.

* FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING

* A STRENGTHENING AREA OF LOW PRESSURE ALONG A STRONG FRONTAL
 BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA ON FRIDAY. THIS
 BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO BRING WIDESPREAD RAINFALL TO MIDDLE
 TENNESSEE. MOST AREAS WILL MEASURE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3
 INCHES THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING...WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS OF AS MUCH
 AS 5 INCHES POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA.

A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING BASED ON
CURRENT FORECASTS.

YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE
FLOOD WARNINGS. THOSE LIVING IN AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE
PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLOODING DEVELOP.