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As is apparent, the layout has changed slightly, I re-constructed my theme around scribbish. I think it’s a bit cleaner then it was before, certainly looks nicer on the code end. It’s a nice update just prior to the final Typo 4.0 upgrade occuring as I type this message.

So last week St. Louis was hit by heavy storms, knocking out power, followed by 100 degree weather, followed by a repeat of heavy storms, knocking out power in even more areas (500 thousand or so at most I believe), and finally cooling down this weekend. Mostly it had no effect on me, as I did not lose power and neither did my place of work. It seems to have bothered quite a number of other people though. It’s interesting that this is the opposite problem of the ice-storm of ’97 in Maine. That happened at the start of january and knocked out power for weeks in some places — at a time when heating is very important. Here, power is knocked out in the middle of summer, at a time when air-conditioning is very important.

I took a few pictures of the dust at the beginning of the storm, I’ll see if I can’t post them at some point. It was a nice cold rain and since the back of my apartment is set back from it’s neighbors giving a bit of a barrier from the winds, I was entertained by running outside to be drenched by the rain. It’s always nice to do that after a being in the heat for too long.