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In Which Orson Suffers a Slight Setback

Orson is halfway through a lecture about the physics of weather, reviewing the way that an object’s mass (a thunderhead, for example) ties force and acceleration together.

A student asks how much a cloud weighs, and Orson explains that mass is not the same as weight, and he gives the equation.

He moves on to open a discussion about lightning and how a magnetic field has lines that reach out…

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Added by Gita on January 9, 2012 at 5:19pm — 10 Comments

snowmageddon 2011

While intelligent folks would be hibernating in their cozy, heated homes, my husband and I were out shoveling the pristine-ness away in hopes of “keeping ahead of it.” Maybe it’s really just our excuse to run out into it like we’re children again playing in the snow.



Either way, I… Continue

Added by bolton carley on January 9, 2011 at 5:29pm — 7 Comments

Fry a Pancake on the Sidewalk HOT!

Now, normally heat usually beats out cold at rock, paper, scissors any day of the week in my book, but not this week: it’s Dante’s Inferno hot!…

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Added by bolton carley on August 10, 2010 at 2:02pm — 5 Comments

storms? what storms?

Shrill siren sounds coming from the TV in the other room catch my attention. I yell into my husband, “What are they saying about the storms?”…

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Added by bolton carley on July 16, 2010 at 6:30pm — 18 Comments

6 favorite bks & authors in 6S

I shielded my eyes for a better look at the islands in the net woven with Sterling's laser web.

I tried to distinguish between the light and its shadow but my sister, Shelley, asked, "Why?"

"I wonder about the dark places between."

"Ah, that's the shape of the wilderness. The heavy weather has battered the river's forest there. If you choose that path you will be transformed."

The tinker, tailor, soldier and spy urged me on and Le Carr closed the door, but not before Willy… Continue

Added by Vicki S. Nikolaidis on September 9, 2009 at 7:01am — 7 Comments

It's hot out.

“I’m sorry, I have no inspiration to write six sentences, it’s hot out, I’m almost out of lemonade, the ice cubes are gone and there’s no beer in the fridge, that should say it all!”



“But you have to, you promised you would, you said that this weekend you would write six sentences every day.”



“Well look, I just don’t have it in me and furthermore, I only made that promise to you, so you don’t have to go out and announce it to the world, do you?”



“No, but I… Continue

Added by Irene Sieders on June 28, 2009 at 11:27am — 9 Comments

It's Not About The Weather

They were all shivering under the soaked awning in the hotel entryway, waiting for the car service to take them to the next location for the day's sessions, ill prepared for such cold and foul weather in June.



He wandered over to a group of women who came from the west, finding them friendlier in general than the other attendees, really drinking and smoking and laughing at the evening cocktail sessions, they dispensed with the conference formalities and just got on with life at its… Continue

Added by Mariah on April 23, 2009 at 10:37am — 8 Comments

Zero Percent Chance of Snow

I looked up the weather on the trusty internet. Zero percent chance of snow at 2:45 p.m. My eyes moved left, from the computer screen to the dog-smudged window. Large white flakes drifted down like milky feathers from a swan's belly. Humph. I guess they're wrong.

Added by Sondra Sula on December 20, 2008 at 4:49pm — 1 Comment

Hot is a Relative Term

Yesterday, I woke up from my nap (I was supposed to be watching a movie, but the couch was soooo comfortable...) and heard the dogs whining at the door. They wanted to come in. I opened the back door and was hit with a wall of hot air. The dogs shot into the kitchen, and disappeared under my desk to hide just in case I told them to go back outside, while I blinked and tried to focus on the thermometer on the deck. 95 degrees! Just last week, it was 55 and raining. It's hard to appreciate such… Continue

Added by Lisa Miller on May 18, 2008 at 2:52pm — No Comments

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