My Dad works for the city and he sent me these pictures of the Whitemud before and after the storm. just thought you might like a peek. Most of them are taken off the 111st bridge, you can see the off ramp onto 111st eastbound if you look closely.

"freezing cold winters, destructive storms and 40 degree summers"

I've lived in Edmonton for over 22 years. Despite popular opinion, this phenomenon of extreme weather change is not a recent occurrance.

Global Warming? El Nino? Climate shifts? An impending appocalypse?

Fuck that, this is Edmonton as per normal.

you know, I almost said "what does this have to do with global warming?" ha! the eco-geek asking that.

Actually it's more like CLIMATE CHANGE, global warming will most likely not happen as such, we're just going to get a mountain of extremes like what's happened recently. Some places will get warmer, some will get colder. We might get nasty freezing cold winters, destructive storms and 40 degree summers. You never really know.

Well now. I too got hit in the back of the head with hail as I came in last night. Sadly for me it was only marble sized. I still shook my fist at the sky and taunted the clouds, but I still got whacked good. The problem of course is that my mom's basement flooded. It was not all that terribly bad though. Mostly just wet carpet. Problem was that the ground had absorbed all the moisture it could, and it started leaking in through the foundation all around the basement. I finally went to bed at about 4 when I just got plane fed up and left my mom to keep going if she wished. Ah, I love global warming...

Herman's Head

Just for Paras, Jere, and Alison who didn't know about his show. If anyone else remembers this show in all its glory, let them know what they missed out on.

... And ask yourselves, Why is this show not still on???

http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/625.html
http://www.eyrie.org/~thad/hhead/hhead.html

http://epguides.com/HermansHead/
http://www.classic-tv.com/shows/hermanshead.asp

SUV's Suck

Gaut, those first two pictures make sense, but something's off about that third one. That food looks like it has colour and/or flavour. Definitely not Beck.

For those of you using Firefox, this extension, AdBlock, is amazingly handy. You can block images from directories on a server, instead of just from the server as you can normally. More useful, though, is that you can remove annoying Flash ads from websites. It has a flash overlay that puts a little tag beside any Flash. Click on the tag, hit 'OK' and the flash ad is gone.

I know I beat this to death, but I thought this IE flaw was amusing. Apparently, it has trouble with certain style sheets (a W3C standard, by the way, that should be handled.) The following 11 characters seem to crash it: <STYLE>@;/* . Here's a webpage set up to look at this problem: http://www.ecqurity.com/adv/IEstyle.txt, and a test page containing the offending 11 characters. They've tested it on Windows 2000 and XP, so I'm not sure what happens on other versions of Windows or on Macs, but it's still a brutal oversight.

CBC news coverage

Yah, my dad's grapes got shredded... he's not too happy about that.

so... how'd everybody fare? We're fine at home, except my spinach got mutillated... but that's okay, it'll come back. The office however... Meagan's ceiling, and the hallway ceiling both drip, woo hoo! But we didn't get it nearly as bad as some of the other offices. Lots of ceiling tiles are just plain missing, and there are some drip buckets in use down here too. Hope you all are doing well. It's funny, my Dad was hoping we'd get a free roof out of the storm... priorities, priorities... what a strange person.

Ouch... I got hit in the head with a golf ball sized hail stone.