Mad (food) Science!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/kitchen/e71f/?cpg=151T&link

If I was younger and had kids, I'd *so* be using this to make "weird" food for them.

Another reason I'm glad I haven't lived there in decades...

My hometown, Spokane, AW. Is in the national news.

Somebody planted a bomb along the route of the annual MLK day Unity parade.

A friend of mine (a few years older than me) had lived in Spokane about time I was in high schoiol before he moved back to Portland.

His decription is quite apt. "Spokane is the biggest 'small town' I've ever seen."

What's wring with this picture?

Ok, we've had some flooding in outlying areas. Especially up towards Mt. Hood.

6 inches of rain plus a lot of melting snow will do that.

One of the big stories is the 150+ folks cut off because the Sandy River shifted course and made about a mile of Lolo Pass Road the new riverbed.

Snow still chokes off the passes that are the only other access to the area that is cut off. Meanwhile phone and power is out, and water is out too (I assume that's more because without power, folks can't run their well pumps but it could be that a pipeline got taken out)

The county is talking about shifting the river back to the old bed. In a few weeks.

Meanwhile the only way in or out is an improvised trail thru several miles of woods, marked by caution tape.

I seem to recall the road getting hit by floods a few years back. And a few years before *that*.

Personally, I think the county needs to bite the bullet and move that stretch of the road up the hillside, rather than hope that the river won't shift again.

ETA: Ah, I just took a closer look at the map. The road runs thru a national park... that complicates things.