Snoopin’ with the Snoop

I really haven’t much to say, except my “rain gear” isn’t strong enough for the Remnants of Ike. Got up before sunrise this morning — just woke up, no alarms or anything — and took a walk outside. Realized that when I cleaned the gutters in the early summer I didn’t clean out the garage gutters, and the rain was pouring over the sides. So I dragged out the ladder, climbed up, and by pulling out handfuls of maple seeds, released a deluge in both downspouts.

I printed the screen of my web browser because I think it’s really cool the way that Ike is still defined over Illinois:

The spiral structure is still there!

According to the tracking map at WeatherUnderground, it looks like it’s going to head out to the Atlantic up the Great Lakes as a Tropical Storm. Cool.

And later today after the rain stopped, I filmed some video footage. Good stock footage in general, but I pieced together the following for the fun of it:

Remnants of Ike