Good morning.
For Tuesday, Whitewater will have scattered snow showers in the afternoon, with a high of thirty-one falling to twenty-four by late afternoon.
About yesterday’s snow, I’d say we were under one inch (the National Weather Service station for Milwaukee/Sullivan official record is .7 inches for their location. Admittedly, we might have had more than that, but I think still we were under an inch.)
Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM today.
On this day in 1931, a cloverleaf makes the cover:
The first cloverleaf interchange to be built in the United States, at the junction of NJ Rt. 25 (now U.S. Rt. 1) and NJ Rt. 4 (now NJ Rt. 35) in Woodbridge, New Jersey, is featured on the cover of this week’s issue of the Engineering News-Record. (By contrast, a piece on the under-construction Hoover Dam was relegated to the journal’s back pages.)
With their four circular ramps, cloverleaf interchanges were designed to let motorists merge from one road to another without braking. They worked well enough—and became so ubiquitous as a result—that writer Lewis Mumford once declared that “our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.” But many of the older cloverleaves were not built to handle the volume and speed of traffic they now receive, and many have been demolished and rebuilt.
There’s a documentary video that includes information on this cloverleaf:
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This Week’s Game — November 25-29
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With Thanks
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It’s all about the stuffing this week. For each day, we started with a word or phrase, added the six letters in the word THANKS, and rearranged all the letters to get a new word or phrase. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the shorter one first.
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Example:
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Rosary component; what you might go to hell in
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Answer:
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Bead; handbasket
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What to Submit:
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Submit both pieces, with the shorter one first (as “Bead; handbasket” in the example), for your answer.
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Tuesday, November 26
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