We had a trickle of water coming in the basement on Sunday during a thaw with plenty of rain, and since then it’s been really cold, so everything froze up again. Even the streets – where on Sunday there were running streams of water, trying to find their way to the storm drains (which were mostly blocked by snow and ice dams left by the village plows) we now have sheets of hard frozen ice. The bottoms of everyone’s driveways are also either ice dams or sheets of smooth, glassy ice, and in some suburbs, there’s so much ice left…
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If you agree he’s an embarassment, there’s an online initiative for you: We don’t support Chris Buttars – Signatures
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Quake hits NE Nevada, has buildings swaying in downtown Salt Lake City – Salt Lake Tribune There was an earthquake in Nevada that shook buildings – hard – in Salt Lake, more than 200 miles away. I’m not too worried about family members there, but I expect they’ll have some good ‘all shook up’ stories for me later.
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My husband David will be so disappointed to hear this: ‘Fraudulent’ British celebrity chef faces sack from US TV show after claiming he made Diana’s wedding cake | the Daily Mail A celebrity British chef who has his own TV show in America faces the sack after he was unmasked as a fraud. Robert Irvine claimed he had helped make the wedding cake for the marriage of Prince Charles and Diana. And in a bid to impress Americans the former royal chef said he was knighted by the Queen – and even boasted that he had been given a castle…