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November 07, 2007
First Flakes of Ought-Seven
The first snowflakes of the 2007-08 season have been sighted in State College! Yesterday a little before 1pm, as I was coming back to Walker Building from Subway, I spied a few isolated flakes falling. To call it a flurry would be extremely generous, but they were definitely snowflakes. A few others I talked to today said they saw some legitimate flurries yesterday as well. And then this afternoon around 3 or so there were some pretty decent flurries for a few minutes. Normally I wouldn't get excited about leftover lake-effect crap that always dies as it gets to the Alleghenies, but hey, the first snow of the season is always exciting! Now as for the first accumulating snowfall of the season? That's another story, but if everything breaks right we've got a chance on Friday from a clipper that's passing through. I think we'll have to wait longer though.
Now this is the real reason that I put up a post tonight, so I could share this! [Hat tip: Zach Armstrong]
That just might be one of the coolest things I've ever seen/heard! Yes, those are Tesla coils playing the Mario Bros. theme song. And yes, that's just another reason that Wisconsin is awesome. :-)
And while I'm at it for strange happenings, it can't get a whole lot weirder than having a cow hit a vehicle -- from above. And it can't get much more pathetic than lottery players in Britain not understanding the concept of a number line. But then again, if they're playing the lottery with any regularity, they must not be very good at math to begin with...
Posted by Jared at November 7, 2007 11:57 PM
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agree--video is cool and a half and having one's car hood targeted by a plummeting cow is "inconceivable"
Posted by: MERAmanuensis at November 9, 2007 09:16 AM