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Cold Weather Driving tips
By James on January 18th, 2010
I was in the Armed Forces for about 10 years and spent about 7 of those years in Anchorage, Alaska and Washington D.C.
In both of those duty assignments, cold weather was one of the harshest enemies we faced.
I have compiled some tips that can help you have a safer winter, and some of these can actually help the environment. Remember, Reno generally does not get as cold as Alaska or D.C. It does have a chance of that occurring, however. Read more…
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Garden Gnomes and Wiper Blades
By Joe R on October 22nd, 2009
The big rain storm that slammed California on October 13th was the largest and most powerful October storm since 1962. NPR estimated that it dumped more than 8 billion gallons of water onto Lake Tahoe. If each gallon of water weighs 8.34 lbs that means the combined weight of all that water was an astounding 66,720,000,000 lbs. Yes, you read that right…that’s billion with a B, folks. That’s just an incredible amount of water! The level of the lake actually rose over a foot in just one 24 hour period.
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