Notes of the Day and Personal Agenda of the Day

Hey everyone! Inglemoor High School started 1 hour late this morning due to flooding. It was a nightmare trying to get home last night and a smaller scale nightmare trying to get out of Inglemoor today. However, we're alive. Firstly, the snow began on Saturday. It was pretty nice to tell you the truth. By Sunday, it had begun to rain. And then it rained. And the snow was gone. And before you knew it, the portables were flooded, they were doing something bizarre to save the planetarium roof, the puddles were rising, every river in Western Washington was on flood warning (not exaggerating), the dike in Chehalis broke, the entire downtown city of Woodinville was underwater as was part of Bothell, I-5 down in Chehalis was closed (and as such, the detour from Vancouver, WA to Seattle entailed going to Portland, east to La Grande, up to Yakima and over through Ellensburg, and then everything was a complete mess. That's the flooding story in detail.

Agenda of the Day: I'm really sick of seeing fat, hanging-over-the-bikini flab ads on webpages. They're always going for the weight-loss thing, but you're just sicking me out. I try refreshing the page in hopes I'll get a new ad, but it doesn't always work. That's just so disgusting to me. I don't understand how they think this will sell anything.

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george & clarine review said…
Thanks for doing the job of being the reporter. gwh
December 5, 2007 at 6:51 PM
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