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Brrrrrrrrrr
It’s weird to think that this is the same winter during which I’ve complained about the lack of cold and snow and overall winter-ness. This week Mother Nature decided to show us that, yes indeed, winter is real and it’s
spectacular. Not only have the temps been somewhere between
Ice Station Zebra and freezing, we’ve had a parade of storms.
There’s another one due this Sunday, and then more on Tuesday. A few inches expected with each one, though the TV meteorologists haven’t been exactly on-the-nose with their forecasts. There’s so much technology, so many fancy mobile weather vehicles, so many computer models (European! American! That other one!) that it just confuses everything. When you give all of the possible weather outcomes, you’re really giving none.
Raising Sand, his bluegrass collaboration with
Alison Krauss. Among the trophies they won were Album of the Year and Record of the Year for “Please Read the Letter.”
Bruce Springsteen also left a winner, scoring the Grammy for Best Rock Song for “Girls in their Summer Clothes.”
In 1981,
Bill Haley, who many hailed as the first rock n’ roll star after the success of his 1955 hit “Rock Around the Clock,” died of a heart attack.
In 2009,