Hurricanes both suck and blow. It’s the most atmospheric smut there is. Will New Orleans get any? Ask your Pig.
Posted on November 11, 2009 at 11:06 am by Dr. Jim
A few days ago, Jim of the West posted on a Caribbean storm named Ida that might wreck the SBL meeting in New Orleans. The Sensuous Curmudgeon, whose blog should be on everyone’s blogroll of interesting atheists, has a whole whack of hurricane watching links.
Here are the “official” ones he lists.
GeoStationary Satellite Server
Atlantic and Caribbean Tropical Satellite Imagery “
Of course, there is a
MUCH BETTER ONE
Perfected in Saskatchewan
Predicting Weather with a Pig Spleen
by Christina Cherneskey
Legendary forecaster Gus Wickstrom of Tompkins, Saskatchewan
Gus, a man of Swedish descent who lived in this prairie province all of his life, was a weather forecaster. He predicted weather conditions six months in advance, yet his technology required no fancy equipment, no high-tech razzle-dazzle. All Gus needed was a barn and a farmhand or two standing by. . .because he predicted the weather by looking at a pig spleen.
Every 6 months or so, Gus slaughtered a pig, and in the frugal way of farm families, he found a way to use everything but the squeal, as they say. Gus closely scrutinized the spleen, using a method he learned from his father and Harold Pearson, a neighbor.
Take that, you scientists!
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November 11, 2009 at 3:57 pm
our prayers availed and the city of new orleans was spared. so now we can all go there and… meet. yes thats it.
November 11, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Ah, I guess the New Brunswick chicken sacrifices did the trick!