Jan. 28th, 2005

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This past weekend, folks were stranded at Arisia in Boston due to the snow. Several years ago, people were stranded at Musicon 5 in Nashville for the same reason. So, what is there to do? There's no programming planned beyond Sunday's closing ceremonies, so people probably just got together and hung out, stayed in their hotel rooms, or sat at the hotel bar downing drinks. At Musicon, there was the "sled dog" filk which lasted well into Monday morning.

28 years ago today -- has it really been 28 years since then? -- a lake-effect blizzard hit Western New York. I was living there in Tonawanda, NY at the time, and in junior high. Our school district was closed that day (Friday, January 28), presumably because there was enough weather information to predict the arrival of this storm. The storm hit in the later morning, at around 11 AM. While we lived north of Buffalo, and therefore away from the traditional "snow belt" areas of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties, we still got a lot of snow. The blowing snow left a drift that covered the picture window of my parents' house.

(How lake-effect snow happens: Warm air passes over unfrozen lake and picks up water vapor. Warm air passes over cold land and cools off quickly. Cold air can't hold water as well as warm air, so it has to dump the water somehow, and quickly. Usually it does so as snow.)

ExpandHow we survived. )
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As recalled by several of my LJ-friends today.....


In memoriam
The mission patch for STS-51L
STS-51L
Francis R. Scobee
Mihael J. Smith
Judith A. Resnik
Ellison S. Onizuka
Ronald E. McNair
Gregory B. Jarvis
Christa McAuliffe


ExpandHere's what I wrote back in 1996 about the disaster.. )

The NASA website has a nice "Rememberance Day" Flash animation on their home page to commemorate all of their fallen heroes, from Challenger, Apollo 1, and Columbia. Check it out. Also visit the NASA History Office webpage for the Challenger mission profile.

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