¡STORMS
HIT PACIFIC NORTHWEST!
¡PREDICTED WHITE CHRISTMAS
IS GREEN! |
| Storms hit the pacific northwest
during the last week of December. The storm started as snow and turned
to rain and wind. The Washington state passes were closed on Sunday and
a state of emergency was declaired for kititas county due to 4000 people
being stranded at the pass. The state department of Transportation is predicting
more pass closures due to Avalanche control. In Oregon the town of Tillamook
was closed off from the rest of the world due to mudslides and flooding. |
| ¡What's
New on ¡DavE!'s Whirled Wide Web in 1999! |
Well it's a new year and we here
at ¡DavE!'s Whirled Wide Web will be doing more changes to make the
site better perform etc. Look for these changes here. On the main page
in the editor's note. Umong some new features will be-
Starting with Issue 4 Volume 1-There
will be A Web Cam site of the week.
Starting with February there will
be a Music Site of the month
Starting in March-There will be
a new monthly feature called ¡DavE!'s Book of lists. Each month I
will publish a list of 100 of the best of this century. Subjects include
best music, people etc. There will be ten total lists in all.
Keep Checking back weekly to see
what new changes are happening here at ¡DavE!'s Whirled Wide Web! |
| ¡Favorite
Quote of the week! |
| "If Dandelions were hard to grow,
they would be most welcome on any lawn"
-Andrew V. Mason
|
| ¡Useless
Facts! |
WE'LL HAVE NONE OF THIS: The
answer is "Zero"
1. Lawsuits lost by 60 Minutes
2. Number of skyscrapers in Washington
D.C.
3. Oscars for Best Director for
Alfred Hitchcock
4. Apple varieties native to America
5. Tony awards won by west Side
Story
6. Shared place names in all 50
states
7. Times lincoln slept in the "lincoln
Bedroom"-He used the whitehouse room as an office. |
| ¡BONUS
USELESS FACTS:USELESS HOLIDAY FACTS! |
AULD LYNE SYE: Facts for a New
Year
·The New york ball in times
square first started dropping in 1907.
·Don't blink. At Midnight
on Dec 31. Time keepers around the world will add one second to the day.
The last time a Leap second was added was in 1947.
·There will be 365 days
left until the turn of the century but there will be 730 days until the
start of the 21st century. |
| ¡New
weekly Feature-Remember When. . .! |
1953-Hank Williams dies from an
overdose of drugs and alcohol. He was 29 and had a hit"I'll never get out
of this world alive"
1956-Elvis ends the year with ten
number one singles under his belt
1960-Johnny Cash performs his first
performance at San quenton Prison
1983-Beach Boy Dennis Wilson drowns
in a surfing accident |
| ¡Name
That tune! |
ach week i will print a lyric to
a song here. All you have to do is guess what it is. I'll post the answer
next week.
Last Week's Lyric-
City sidewalks, pretty sidewalks
dressed in holiday style In the air there's a feeling of Christmas
Answer-
Traditional, Silver Bells
This week's lyric: . . .It's the
end of the party and the moment feels so stray, so unlike yesterday now's
the time for us to say. . .
Answers Will appear next week. |
| ¡Journal! |
Dear Journal,
This week we had Christmas at Heather's.
Serena got spoiled as per usual. She was off school this week also so we
pretty much played with our new toys from santa. Other than that it's been
pretty quiet. So I guess I'll just see you next year.
Happy New Year!!!
¡DavE! |
| ¡And
now for !'s opportunity to chip his teeth! |
| I decided not to do my usual Commentary
this week due to the holiday so instead. I just want to wish everyone a
Safe and happy new year! |
