More weather problems

It's finally stopped raining; now it's just cold. HOWEVER, we seem to have been struck by lightning the other night (notwithstanding all the lightning rods on the house). There's no breaker thrown, but two of the outlets just above the ice maker in the kitchen AND the ice maker seem to be deader than a hammer. There's still water standing everywhere, but it'll go away today.

Michael's comment about Houston is apt. Houston, however, is flatter than a pancake and has monsoons. Also, they have turned the entire metropolitan area into a giant paved parking lot (except for the freeways) so there is no place for water to go. We used to refer to William Marsh Rice University as Will Rice's marsh. Here in Kentucky we seem to get big, heavy rains and then flash floods. North Broadway in Lexington just inside New Circle Road (the loop) ALWAYS is impassable after a big rain. But it runs off quickly.

We wouldn't actually BUTCHER a cow ourselves; we would pay Critchfield's to do it.

On other fronts, the front page of the Lexington Herald-Leader (the local rag) once again has essentially nothing on it but basketball, although the head of the Fire Department is about to get fired. Seems all 25 recruits last year were white males, and also seems that this was not unusual. Evidently there are other problems, too. Also the UK hospital system (the Med center being the only part of the university that actually has MONEY...Top Twenty my eye) is losing its "magnet" status because the quality of nursing care has dropped.

I really should quit reading the newspapers.

CHeers, Lillie