Someone left the north doors open this weekend. That Arctic Blast hit with a vengeance. I know other parts of the country got it worse than we did, but these sub-freezing temperatures are too cold. I hope nobody had any pipes freeze up.
Where is the highest restaurant in a building located?
Hello to all in area nursing and assisted living facilities. Hello also to all in area hospitals and rehab centers.
We offer our sympathy to all who lost loved ones this past week. May they rest in peace.
Church was cancelled at the Toronto United Methodist Church Sunday due to the extreme cold. On the national news over the weekend they showed a map of the U.S. displaying the areas that were going to be in sub-freezing temperatures and I couldn’t help but laugh. Right in the middle it showed the eastern half of Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma and a sliver of Missouri as being the only areas in the U.S. that weren’t going to be in the extreme cold.
I went and checked two different thermometers and both showed the temperature to be 17 degrees. How can they say our area was not in extreme cold? In my opinion anything below 20° is extreme. Heck I don’t even like it to get below 45°!
By the time you read this, I will have undergone back surgery to relieve the pressure on my sciatic nerve that has been causing numbness and pain in my left leg and foot. I have great hope that this will allow me to be able to get out and about and do things. This will not fix all my back problems, but it’s a place to start.
Answer: The “Heavenly Jin” in Shanghai holds the Guinness World Record at 1,825 ft above sea level on the 120th floor of the 2,073 ft high Shanghai Tower! If you have acrophopia you wouldn’t be able to go to that restaurant.
I’m not sure I would even want to go there. How about you? I kind of like to keep my feet on the good ole terra firma.
Work is still progressing, albeit slowly, on Cedar Creek bridge on Highway 105. Some day it will be done and we won’t have to worry about the stoplights being so slow and irregular.
I noticed the other day when we went to Eureka, that the work on Homer Creek bridge on Highway 54 is really coming along. Looks like it will be done within a couple months.
Monday was the historic inauguration of Donald Trump. This is only the second time in our history that a president has been elected to a second non consecutive term. The only other time this happened was when Grover Cleveland was elected for the second time back in 1893.
Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration was held inside due to extreme cold and in1909, William Taft took the oath of office inside the Senate chamber after a blizzard dropped nearly 10 inches of snow on D.C. He was quoted as saying: “I always knew it would be a cold day in hell when I became president.”
That is not something I would want to attend, regardless of the weather. There are way too many people. Cheers to our next four years!
Quote: “We don’t always succeed in what we try - certainly not by the world’s standards - but I think you’ll find it’s the willingness to keep trying that matters the most. Fred Rogers
