Frosted Flakes: Floods, Aunt Becky and Forgetting

If you live in Nebraska (or South Dakota), you’ve probably been hearing four words the past two days, flood, blizzard, wind, and historic. The first three are never fun words, but are especially unwelcome when accompanied by the fourth.

The photo at top is the view from my living room window into a pasture and the neighbor’s crop field. The soil is still frozen, the rain and warmer temperatures are melting the snow rapidly and the forecast for the next 24 hours is more rain. I expect the water will get much deeper.

Don’t worry about us though. Our house is up on a hill and we will stay dry. Not sure if the roads will remain passable but I guess we can always get the canoe out...

Frosted Flakes

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Two time All-American...

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Sportsin’ Stuff Outside the 402/308

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Athletes shouldn’t try to rap.

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So, Jack, when you get out there today with Dad, try and remember some of this. Don’t forget to let that elbow go loose. Don’t forget to give Barbara a call. And don’t forget to go to dinner with Arnie.

More Noise and Other Disturbances

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Researchers have analyzed the real-time effect of a large-scale hack on automobiles in a major urban environment.

Then There’s This

I think my generation has failed miserably as parents. We do so much stuff for our kids that they don’t know how to do anything for themselves. We are so afraid of failure that avoiding it has almost become some sort of toxic competition. One part of this “Aunt Becky” scandal that amazes me the most is that some of these kids didn’t even realize what the parents were doing on their behalf. They thought they were smart enough to get those test scores. They live in a reality that isn’t real.

OK, getting off my soapbox and heading outside to bail water out of one window well. If you are in the path of this storm, I hope you are able to stay warm and dry!

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