Ron Childers of Action News 5 says the rainfall and flooding risk today will be \u201cextreme,\u201d with Memphis projected to receive an additional 4.1\u201d of rain on top of the 6.8\u201d already received since Wednesday.<\/p>\n
I wonder how things are going in Horn Lake where I used to work. The creek down there is prone to overflowing. In 2013 my office was closed for 10 days because flood water got into the building.<\/p>\n
I remember, as the rain started, there was one lone duck swimming in the pond next to our building. He was loving life. I wonder if ducks ever get electrocuted by lightning?<\/p>\n
Expect an increase in panhandling Downtown in the late spring. At some future point I will reveal what makes me believe this. It’s more than the weather getting warmer.<\/p>\n
The NBA fined Ja Morant $75,000<\/a> for his finger-gun gestures on the court in the Miami game. The league had previously warned Ja to refrain from that hand motion because it could be interpreted negatively.<\/p>\n Is your iPhone running out of storage? Delete attachments from your texts.<\/a><\/p>\n Memphis made a list<\/a> of the top 50 cities in the U.S. for pizza (but just barely). Denver, Buffalo, and Boston took top-three honors.<\/p>\n YOGA! Downtown Yoga will host Stretch, Sculpt & Sip<\/a> at the Ghost River taproom at Main and Crump Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n The live music lineup<\/a> has been announced for SmokeSlam, the BBQ festival on the river the third weekend of May.<\/p>\n Almost Elton John will play the rooftop of the Hyatt Centric Saturday, April 19. Dress up as Elton for a chance to win prizes. Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n Due to the weather forecast, Memphis Made has rescheduled its Half Pints for Half Pints<\/a> fundraiser for April 26.<\/p>\n The Grizzlies have a 6 PM game with the Pistons in Detroit. TV: NBAtv, FanDuel Sports Network<\/p>\n Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n This blog is free to read, but I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/em> Ron Childers of Action News 5 says the rainfall and flooding risk today will be \u201cextreme,\u201d with Memphis projected to receive an additional 4.1\u201d of rain on top of the 6.8\u201d already received since Wednesday. I wonder how things are going in Horn Lake where I used to work. The creek down there is prone … Continue reading “Saturday update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28532,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531\/revisions\/28532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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