I had not to my knowledge worked with this guy before, though he claims to remember me from assignments in #Lousiana and #Missouri. (In #MO, I was field supervisor in charge of tech support for all facilities outside Jefferson City in the entire state. Maybe he was in JCMO, but he sure wasn't in any of "my" offices.)
@gnu2 I am currently staying in a hotel in #AL, but I live in a house in #CA ... or in #MO ( #GS3 asked me when I am coming back home ). In a week or a month or a few of each, I will return home after my assignment is done.
( Current thinking is about three or four more weeks until I leave. )
Having seen the 2017 "Great American Eclipse" from Cape Girardeau, #MO, I know that the four or five minutes of totality is worth all the effort it will take to get there. I do not know how worthwhile it will be to travel to see a partial or annular eclipse.
This is potentially deadly weather, so if you're in an affected area, make sure you have food, fuel, water, blankets, warm clothing, and then stay inside with your heater running.
#NOAA / #NWS has been alerting about this for a few days to encourage people to prepare.
200,000 fiber-enabled units ... it sounds like they sold the areas they hadn't invested in modernizing. I recall that they were starting to pull fiber optic cabling into some neighborhoods in Columbia and Jefferson City #MO one time when I worked there. But they weren't prepared to offer it to the local businesses and residents yet.
This has been a tremendous trip. It turned out to be nothing like the early plans (eleven weeks in SW #MO instead of two weeks in #SW_MO plus 1 week each in #KCMO and #Omaha #NE), but this has been a needed bonding time with the youngest set of grandkids.
#GS4 still thinks I live in the computer screen. #GS3 has seen me in person, but that was half his life ago.
Because I was in #NYC so long, this trip is later than expected. Thus, because of school schedules, I cannot be sure that I will get to visit the older grandchildren during this trip.
I had told him that I had been looking forward to the end of the assignment because I was feeling a little tired. Then they sent me to #Albany, and I felt somewhat refreshed. After a few weeks there, they said to return to #NYC, and I had told him that if my body started to feel the same as it had, I would head back to #SoCal for a couple of weeks and then attempt to visit #MO.
He said that since it is sometimes difficult to get large chunks of time off when desired, I should wait, because they wanted me to visit later in the year, when there would be another baby to meet.
Includes snow, mixed precipitation, wind, ice, extreme cold (-30F / -34C in central Nebraska), with extreme wind chills being mostly across the Northern part of the area. #NOAA / #NWS has sent at least 20 alerts since 04:00 Eastern (03:00 Central). Weather begins this afternoon / evening and continues through Saturday, possibly into Sunday in some areas.
If you're in the middle of the US, take proper care. This weather can kill, either directly or by causing traffic collisions.