Arkansas Blog

Quick close all the schools for Friday and raid the Kroger for all the milk and bread you can carry.

"Quick close all the schools
for Friday and raid the Kroger
for all the milk and bread you
can carry.
Posted by: SamNLR"

And top up your car's gas tank even though you can't drive it anywhere.

Actually, the ground's so warm I'm sure nothing's going to say on the roads for long at all.

Still, the cheese dip is always welcome.

Fort Dreary was supposed to have sleet and snow last night but the coldest it got was 41 degrees.

We're tearin it up right now with 43 balmy degrees. Bored weathermen are a threat to us all.

"Bored weathermen are a
threat to us all.
Posted by: Deathbyinches"

I saw an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" the other day where a weatherman was falsely predicting rain the next day just to clear folks off the golf course so the weatherman could golf in peace.

A tip to the cheese dip fixers: The chef should always be well-oiled, Mama says.
But, Max, your weather map does just what LR telly stations do: Ignore SW Arkansas. That's why most people down here get TV news via Shreeseport stations, as bad as they are.

ARK. BLOG: Louie, as a veteran newspaperman, you surely know that rule that the value of news diminishes in direct proportion to the distance from which it occurs from the newspaper office.

It's icing up and snowing up in Waltonville at present. KUAF says schools to close early. Salt trucks at the ready.

Weathermen are like pyschologists in a psycho-murder trial, their educated guesses carry too much weight and the innocent can get sidelined.

Running to the store is not to prepare for a long winter hiber, but to avoid going out later. With a large contingent of Indians, Middle Easterners, boys from So. and East Ark (UofA) who have never seen snow and thousands of Mexicans who don't have drivers lic and have never seen snow, you don't want to drive around here when snow and ice hits. Wrecker-towing services come in from Missouri and Okla to get in on the kill.
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Ahhh...finally! Naturally, it won't stick, but I am looking forward to making my cheese dip, building a fire, watching the Hogs trounce the Tigers...all the while drinking an ice cold beer...I won't even have to put 'em in the 'fridge...

We're getting a good pelting of ice at present in Springdale, temp on our porch is 27F and fallng.

"Fort Dreary was supposed
to have sleet and snow last
night but the coldest it got
was 41 degrees.
Posted by: Deathbyinches"

Patience will be rewarded, DBI. Ft. Smith is more in central Arkansas than north Arkansas. AccuWeather.com shows the good stuff is just now getting down to Ft. Smith. Enjoy!

LWood,
I'm down in Durham and we don't have anything yet. Don't want to start the cheese dip and the new novel till the ice and snow starts. Send it my way soon. Getting hungry!

HEAVY SNOW AND BLIZZARDLIKE CONDITIONS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS AND NORTHERN OKLAHOMA.

Spirit, NWA is called a weathermaker zone. The jet stream dips into SW Missouri and just below the NWA border with Missouri and Okla. Sometimes Waltonville-Rogers will be blanketed with snow and the line will stop just north of Springdale-Fayetteville. If the front that is created is big enough it will push to the base of Boston Mtns, just North of Ft. Smith,
and a really large front, more Western than No.Western will get Ft Smith and surrounding areas. The flip side is that Boston Mtns act as a barrier to Okla tornadoes which visit FT Republican more regularly than us hill folk.

I used to dalily travel the entire NWA area
between Ft Smith and Bella Vista-Viagra City; many times the snow-ice line would be like someone outlined it with a straight edge ruler. Or, after a good thaw in Springdale-Fayetteville, you head north and Waltonville-Viagra City is still ice-bound.

I don't know about the rest of ya'll, but I want some real snow here in Central AR.
I from St. Louis and this sleety icy crap we get here is for the brids. I can drive on snow, but not that nasty stuff. We need a good 6 inch snow.
Now THAT would be cool.

"We need a good 6 inch snow.
Now THAT would be cool."

Word...

Honestly.
I can't figure how you guys are fans of snow, or winter in general. When I'm out there, scraping ice off my car, shoveling my driveway, whatever, and I later hear somebody say they love the weather, I have to fight the temptation to tell them I wish they had all that ice up their ass. But I won't do that with you guys, because I don't know you that well. If we could only find a way to let winter happen to only those who don't hate it.

Ice and snow are only nice if you don't have to drive in it and you have electricity. Spent 5 days stranded at home after an ice and snow storm without any electricity a few years ago. No way to run the water pump so NO indoor plumbing either. Cussed the weather a lot that year.

Ahhh...c'mon, Rick...it's not THAT bad up there. And central AR doesn't get much, so we like to see weather events like snow...

I lived in Chicago for a while, and while there wasn't much ice, there was a ton of snow and brutal temps...THAT was bad...

Yeah, Rosso. I know it's way worse in other places. Never could understand why people lived in Minnesota. And, I guess if it was THAT much of a problem for me, I'd move to Key West. For me, it's just another pain in the ass to bitch about, like the cable going out or the light bulb blowing in the garage, or getting chicken nuggets when I order buffalo tenders. I'll get over it. For the sake of you, and my son, I hope Central Ark gets snow.
That better?

"ARK. BLOG:...the value of
news diminishes in direct
proportion to the distance
from which it occurs from the
newspaper office."

Then just imagine the coverage if the Lord would bless a ranch in Pulaski county! Our little Lord's Ranch up here on the Missouri border would then be much ignored. We'd have to resurrect Joseph Weston and the Sharp Citizen mimeographed paper to get proper coverage of the shenanigans.

Thank you, Rick!

Spirit,
I thought I was the only one who remembered Joseph Weston. Wasn't his little rag something?

Wow! The Sharp Citizen.
That was required reading back in the day when I lived in Batesville. Hand-written, as I recall. That guy was just a bit radical.

One funny thing I have noticed is that wherever you go, the locals say that people from {insert place here} don't know how to drive in the snow.

So, if you know how to drive in the snow in Arkansas, you turn into an idiot when you cross the state line. And vice-versa.

I think it is an interesting example of how we stereotype people who aren't "us."

I made the boys homemade hot chocolate when we got home from school today. Haven't had that in a month of Sundays. Mmmm...mmmm good.

Tonight's menu - white chili ala Griswold's Grill (sp?). I found a great recipe online that I've modified and my family looooooves it. It's GREAT with some mozarella and homemade cornbread.

I guess I need to get busy sauteing (sp? again) some onions...

"I thought I was the only one who remembered Joseph Weston.
Posted by: BlueRidge"

Max mentioned Weston here on the Blog a couple of months ago.

Weston was ahead of his time in his modern-day muckraking. Lots of blogs and chatboards today feature similar "news" consisting, mostly, of unsubstantiated rumors. Weston just did it on typing paper in the pre-Internet days.

Weston was quite a hit until people realized he was a bit crazy, and would publish any rumor as if it were truth. It was fun while it lasted, and I never drive through Sharp County that I don't think of him.

I think Weston spent some time in jail. If I remember his case did go to the Supreme Court and he won. Can't remember details. This would have been in the 70's.
But he definitely was a few bricks shy of a load, and there were rumors that what went on in his own house was pretty tragic. Who knows?
Anyway, glad to hear that others remember.

I think Weston spent some time in jail. If I remember his case did go to the Supreme Court and he won. Can't remember details. This would have been in the 70's.
But he definitely was a few bricks shy of a load, and there were rumors that what went on in his own house was pretty tragic. Who knows?
Anyway, glad to hear that others remember.
Is anyone else getting an error message when trying to post?

BlueRidge wrote; "...and there were rumors that what went on in his own house was pretty tragic. Who knows?"

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Perhaps so, but they were only rumors. Two members of the immediate familly were my friends. They were bright, professional, kind, and among my favorite people. They suffered, but were strong and didn't talk about their lot in life.

I'm very familiar with Joe Weston and his family. They are all a brick shy of a full load.

I remember seeing those rags that he printed. They were awful....he'd print anything and everything, whether it was the truth or not. If he said it, in his mind, it was truth. His surviving family is the same way.

I was kind of shocked to see others remember him. Does anyone remember how he said that President Nixon had a hit out on him? LOL In his mind, he was a very important person.