First Snow in Lincoln, NE 2011 Timelapse
Today was the first major snow storm in Lincoln. Predictions called for up to 4 to 6" but in the south part of Lincoln we only got about 2-3". I made a timelapse video of the storm and of me scooping the driveway. I took about 750 individual frames totally 8.5gb to make this. The music is Emancipator - First Snow (Ooah Remix).
Make sure to watch this in 720P or 1080P at full screen!
Summer Thunderstorms in Lincoln
Last night on 8/6/11 Lincoln experienced a damaging thunderstorm. The air has been full of humidity and there was lots of heat in the atmosphere so energy was abundant. The storm had tons of lighting, it knocked out power all over town and made it pretty unstable for the rest of town. One of the local TV stations took a direct hit (During the weather cast) and was offline for a little while. After the storm there were reports of lots of down trees, fences, etc. Nature repeated itself later that night with a second round.
The pictures below were all taken after the storm except the first one. The storm rolled through when the sun was starting to set so this created some great colors on the clouds. The bubble clouds are mammatus clouds. These were some of the most defined mammantus clouds I have seen recently.
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Nebraska Furniture Mart replaces fridge because of leaky ice maker
Since becoming a new homeowner I have experienced a few joys of home ownership such as a faulty toilet valve and now a leaky ice maker. At the beginning of May I purchased a new GE fridge with an optional ice maker. This was a dealer installed option. I received my fridge on May 26th and it has been working great. This weekend June 12-13 I noticed that I was getting some ice under the ice maker/bin. I found this odd and removed it to monitor the progress. 24 hours later the ice is back. Time for a warranty call.
I called Nebraska Furniture Mart customer service and told the nice lady about my problem. After verifying my account she said that there were no technicians that could come service my ice maker so the only option they had was to replace the entire fridge. I was shocked that they would do this, it seems overly expensive and inefficient but its great, who can argue about an entirely new refrigerator? Ya its an inconvenience but the replacement will be an entirely new unit with a new ice maker. This also seems overly complicated for a unit that is not even a year old. Since they have to order me a fridge I have to wait a week for delivery. I will update the blog when I get the new unit after a few weeks of use. Overall I am impressed with the customer service of NFM and will buy again from them.
