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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Monday March 2, 2009
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A NEW LAKE COMMUNITY

Horizons on Logan Martin Lake in Pell City, Alabama is a new lake
lifestyle community. As of this month, we have available for sale and
occupancy, 4 upscale town homes and 31 prime lake lots.

The community is unique in that there are 15 acres of common lake
property with 3000 feet of shoreline.

There is an 8 foot wide boardwalk the entire 3000 feet, ready
for your morning or evening walk. The clubhouse is complete
and includes an upstairs and downstairs great room and kitchen,
an exercise room, 12 foot covered porch all around, pool,
showers and much more.

You can buy your lot and plan your dream home and start enjoying all
the amenities today. Launch your boat on our private launch, dock at
your private space or just sit on the boardwalk and tan. Enjoy the
pool, take a shower before dinner and plan your own get together at
the 4000 square foot club house.
Check us out at http://www.horizonsloganmartinlake.com or call
ReMax Realty Pros at 205-884-6000
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...Our Bungee Thermometers...

TOPSY-TURVY WEATHER: Bless our thermometers. They have had a real
workout lately running up and down their scale. There is some good
news in the forecast today. We are going to have a milder trend
starting tomorrow afternoon that will become even better as the week
goes on. So much so from Thursday all the way into next week we will
have high temperatures in the 70s. That is about 10 degrees warmer
than the average for this time of year. We have listed 73 for the high
Friday, but Saturday will be unseasonably warm with a high of around
77. The chance of rain is very slim for the next several days. In
fact, some of the precipitation projections show it dry all across the
Southern USA through Friday. About the earliest we can expect any
showers, and maybe a few storms, would be early next week.

DO WE NEED RAIN? Not really at the moment, because we had some great
totals during that severe weather event leading up to the Sunday snow.
We had one report of over 9 inches at Samantha in North Tuscaloosa
County and numerous reports over 5 inches. This heavy rain caused the
2009 deficiency at Birmingham Airport to jump to a surplus of 1.66
inches as of today.

THE SEMI SNOWSTORM: It did not really qualify for a snowstorm,
although based on our standards we might call it that. We will try to
post a roundup of snow amounts from that storm on the BLOG later today
or tonight. Generally, most amounts across Central Alabama were around
2 inches. There were reports of over 5 inches in Hueytown and some of
the area in East/Central Alabama, like Sylacauga, had 3 to 5 inches.
It was a semi-historic event with all the local weather people doing
without sleep over 24 hours in a row. I suppose most of us are still
semi-groggy today. But all the kiddies are not groggy and that is what
counts. I was talking to a lady at my local bank this morning and she
said her youngsters simply demanded snow ice cream. She admitted that
she liked it too, because her mother made it for her and her
grandmother made it for her mother. Traditions are hard to break. I
stocked up on Buffalo Rock (diet version) and some Vienna sausage to
get me through the long hours. The Wall Street Journal reported in a
story in their front section this morning that 210 churches in Central
Alabama cancelled their Sunday morning services because of the snow.
There was a similar story in USA Today. I heard some folks on a
nationwide radio program this morning tossing a bit of fun at us
because we are in the middle of the Bible Belt. That is okay. We are
not thin-skinned.

AFTER THE STORM LEFT ALABAMA: A real booger of a storm as it advanced
up the east coast. However, the center was moving further off shore
this afternoon and the snow was ending in the Big Apple. A massive
shut down of Interstate 85 between Greenville, Spartanburg and
Charlotte. Literally hundreds of cars were stalled all night. Some
ran out of gas and could not get off to find a place to eat.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Little Miss Molly is going through some
confusing times. We had to put her little bathroom bell out of reach,
because
little Brandon (our great grandson) was treating it like a golf ball.
But Miss Molly is smart as a whip. She now goes to the back door,
looks straight up at the bell, which is at doorknob height, and turns
around and glares at us. It is all the signal she needs. Last night
she took the situation in her own hands (er, paws) and had a one
inning ballgame by herself that was the most vigorous I have seen. She
had very little room in the living area to play ball, so she would
grab one and run in circles of a few feet and bounce off the back of
the couch to go for more. Life goes on.

J. B. Elliott
jb.elliott@theweathercompany.com

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FREE HEALTH & WELLNESS EXPO
MARCH 11

Are you ready to get fit? Get started by attending the free Health &
Wellness Expo on Wednesday, March 11 at Hunter Street Baptist Church,
2600 John Hawkins Parkway in Hoover. The Expo is open from 3:00 to
6:00 p.m. at the church.
Princeton Hoover will provide free health screenings or information
about blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), bone density, glucose/
cholesterol, dermascan, vision, hearing and balance.
Medical specialists will answer questions and there will be
information about Sleep Study. The American Red Cross will provide
blood typing.
A back and shoulder massage chair will be available and participants
can try a free group fitness sampler class and tour the fitness room.
Visit http://www.hunterstreet.org or call the Church Office for more
information, 205.985.7295.
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TONIGHT
Numerous showers and thunderstorms. a few may be severe. Rain heavy at
times.
Morning Low 23
WIND: N 4-8

TUESDAY
Showers and some thunderstorms, more numerous in the morning. Colder
Saturday night with snow showers late.
Morning Low 23 Afternoon High 51
WIND: NE 6-12

WEDNESDAY
Morning snow showers. Light accumulation possible. Clearing, windy and
very cold.
Morning Low 29 Afternoon High 63
WIND: S 7-14

THURSDAY
Sunny. A cold morning.
Morning Low 44 Afternoon High 70
WIND: SW 6-12

FRIDAY
Sunny. A milder afternoon.
Morning Low 53 Afternoon High 73
WIND: SW 6-12

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