Compilation of Weather Channel clips in Syracuse during the Valentine’s Day Storm of 2007.
Category: Syracuse
Windstorm
Last Friday there was a pretty strong wind storm that knocked out power a lot of places across Upstate New York. Fortunately my power only went out for about 15 seconds. However, check out how far the lawn chair on my front porch traveled (red circle): The winds reached 64mph (103 km/h) at the Syracuse’s…
Distaste for Your Professor? Better Keep it to Yourself
Let’s say you don’t like one of your professors this semester. Shouldn’t you be able to give him or her a review online? Apparently Syracuse University doesn’t think so. The Daily Orange‘s big story yesterday was about four SU freshmen, who, after apparently feeling their writing instructor didn’t “know what she’s doing ever,” started a…
Homicide
Last Friday night (actually Saturday morning), I was driving home from Fayetteville, the Syracuse suburb where I work. I had worked until about 10:15 and then went to Pizzeria Uno across the parking lot. I left there around 12:35, and around 12:55 I was standing at the traffic light at the corner of Coumbus Ave….
Is Syracuse Neverland? Part II
Is Syracuse Neverland?
Today I read a quite funny article by Jeff Kramer, who writes a weekly humor column in the Post-Standard. This week he compared Syracuse to Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, and managed to find over a dozen similarities. Is Syracuse just another Neverland? This past week Syracuse Police began teaming up with the Onondaga County Sheriff’s…