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dpesek

  1. Getting some small hail w/ the thunderstorm moving through SW Cedar Rapids around 6:30 a.m.
  2. Early morning garage fire on 19th Ave. SW in Cedar Rapids: Updated at 1:19 p.m. by Jeff Raasch CEDAR RAPIDS – No o... http://bit.ly/aztEBJ
  3. Fire dept. responded to a garage fire around 4 a.m. in 900 block of 19th Ave. SW, Cedar Rapids, Monday. Fire quickly extinguished.
  4. The Gazette's looking for Eastern Iowans impacted by an illegal “buying club” scam by Vertrue http://bit.ly/aY7kwE E-mail news@gazcomm.com
  5. @stevebuttry Congratulations, Gramps! Julia's a beauty!
  6. @jamietie It gets easier, really. And it's a lot of fun -- you'll enjoy it once you get past the first jitters.
  7. Texas rare bird alert: (Testing for auto-post) Aztec Thrush reported in Texas. http://bit.ly/cj9SQg
  8. @jamietie Congrats on your new job, Jamie, but we'll miss you here.
  9. Some type of freezing precip has arrived at my house on the SW side of CR in the last few minutes.
  10. @stevebuttry I'm interested in checking out Google Wave.
  11. RT: @CH_BirdersWorld Scientists mounted small cameras on 4 albatrosses on Bird Island, S. Georgia, last Jan. http://is.gd/42O5m
  12. RT @NiemanLab Local news videos on YouTube generating modest views (like, double digits), but new features show potential http://tr.im/AKRf
  13. New link in dinosaur to bird evolution? http://bit.ly/4l0SFe
  14. @dvdlee I've had those. Generally it's that I have 4 empty pages to fill and it's 1/2 before deadline....
  15. RT @birdchaser: Photos of Sand Plover in VA: http://www.flickr.com/photo... Dang, this bird is my hometown's back yard. I need vacation now!
  16. Interesting weather phenom in CR this am: http://tinyurl.com/nrsc6d Wind was blowing so hard at 5:30 I barely got door open to let dogs out
  17. RT: @BirdLife_News New songbird discovered in Laos http://url4.eu/9bgP
  18. @zack52240 Thanks, Zack. Friend says cars were being directed off of interstate onto the exits and 3 lanes of traffic were backed up.