* 0 is how much extra bread, milk and pop tarts you should dash out and buy just because there could be a few little snowflakes over the ridges of NE Alabama at some point Monday.
* 8 is the number of confirmed tornadoes that touched down Central and SE Alabama this past Wednesday. Those 8 were in the counties that the NWS, Birmingham forecasts and warns for. As soon as surveys are complete from the NWS in Mobile (SW Alabama) and the NWS, Tallahassee (several counties in SE Alabama) the numbers will change.
* 7 is the number of Alabama counties affected. (That too will change when reports are complete)
* 8 is the number of confirmed fatalities in tornadoes in Columbus County, N.C., near Wilmington early yesterday morning.
* 4 children remain hospitalized and critical.
* 3 thousand is how many dollars a person sold his place in line for in Atlanta today waiting to buy a Play Station-3.
* 0 dollars is how much I would have paid him for his place
* 0 is how many of those I will ever own
* 0 is also how many I would like to own
* 0 is how many invitations I got to the Tom Cruise wedding
* 0 is how many invitations I wanted
* 43 will probably be the high temperature atop Mt. Cheaha and atop the ridges in NE Alabama Monday. Even Eskimos James Spann and myself might reach for a light jacket.
* 11.63 is how many inches of rain Seattle has received for the first 16 days of November
* 69 below zero was the temperature at Summit, Greenland today. That is a research station atop the Greenland Ice Cap.
* 100 below zero was the wind chill there.
* 3 is how many inches of rain that Scranton, Pa., was drenched with yesterday. The NE USA has received way too much rain lately. Baltimore got 2.35 inches.
* 28 is how many inches of snow is on the gound at Alaska’s capitol city of Juneau.
* 6 is how many cups of coffee I have had today. Running behind. Switching over to a blend of coffee called “Simply Smoothe” Tis the same brand we have been using but a different blend.
* 2007 is when I will switch to digital photography. But I will keep my trusty 26-year old Nikon FE-2 that uses film. Literally thousands of photographs made with it.
* 0 is how many Rook games I expect to win tonight. Going through a record streak of losing. But, like football it is only a game.
