Weatherx.admin.niu.edu update

[Gilbert Sebenste]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Gerry Creager wrote:

> .EDU facilities needing an alternate LDM server can connect to 
> bigbird.tamu.edu.

Thanks, Gerry! I think we'll be OK, but I appreciate the offer to back us 
up. We had 3"-8" of rain in town two Mondays ago (in 70 minutes), and 
incredible lightning. Cars and dumpsters floating in a parking lot! 
Well, that might be a bit off to say the cars were "floating". :-(
We had 3 power dips as a transformer took a direct hit by lightning, but 
our feed held save for 15 seconds.

> Good luck with the flooding.  We've had our share in Texas, too.

No kidding. We should get hit around 2 AM here with an approaching line 
of storms, temporarily decreasing in intensity. Low level jet kicks in at 
40 knots, should be interesting...

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