Archive for January 19th, 2008

Snow in Alabama today, a.k.a. “Winter Storm 2008″

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

The local NBC station proclaimed today’s snowfall “Winter Storm 2008.” While there was some snow and that was nice to see around here, it wasn’t the big deal they tried to make it out to be. I’ll find out what real winter weather is like tomorrow. The forecast is -6° F in Minneapolis Sunday at 8 PM, OUCH!

Snow in front yard
Snow in my front yard
If you need your own Ron Paul yard sign, let me know!

Snow on car
Snow on my house-mate’s car

Baxter
Baxter

Baxter in the snow
Baxter in the snow

Snowman at a neighbor’s house
Snowman at a neighbor’s house

Snow-critter on mailbox
Snow-critter

Snow-critter
Snow-critter

Winter Storm 2008 - Linda White
NBC’s “Winter Storm 2008″ reporter Linda White with a field of mostly melted snow in the background.

Locals on camera
Locals on camera. This guy kept making funny faces on camera as part of the live Winter Storm Coverage.

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My new blog! First Post

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

I’m about to head up to Minneapolis, Minnesota, for some training of the next few weeks and months so I finally to the plunge into the “blogosphere,” which is something I’ve been thinking about doing for some time. This will be a good way to give everyone I know back in Birmingham a glimpse of what winter (and summer) is like 1000 miles north. The name of my blog, North by Northwest, comes from the classic movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock (see DVD cover below) and the fact that it looks like I will be flying north to MN on Northwest Airlines most of the time. It seemed fitting enough to me. In fact, I leave tomorrow (Sunday, January 19th) for the first set of classes and should be back next Wednesday, the 30th. I still have some fixing up to do, but I wanted to go ahead and get it up and running today before I leave.

Be sure to add this blog to your feed reader!
http://northbynwa.com/feed/

North by Northwest poster
North by Northwest DVD cover.

Posted in Alabama, Minnesota | 6 Comments »