Indianapolis is My Home

10
Jun

Property Tax Increases for Lake Front Property

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Humor, Real Estate, Weather

A friend of mine sent me this photo of the recent floods and I began wondering if many Hoosier residents should expect some property tax increases for their new lakefront property?

It doesn’t look too bad until you notice the 5ft mailboxes that are almost covered.

08
Jun

Flooding Information on Disaster Declarations, Shelters, Closings

Author: Jason Bean, Category: News, WISH - Channel 8, Weather

Here’s a link to get more information about closings, disaster areas and shelters.

Flooding Information on WISHTV8

IndyChannel 6 has collected some really good photos from readers of their experiences and views of the flooding

08
Jun

You’ve Come Along Way Baby

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Health, Humor, Indianapolis Star, News, Weather

My brother brought my attention to this photo that was on the front page of the IndyStar website this morning.

Seems like a good time for a smoke right? Carrying a kid across a flooded road or something? I mean you want to protect them from danger right? All this rain and flooding has been killing people. Yep, so does smoking!

Guess smoking really is a stress reliever. I’m sure this situation was pretty stressful. Oh wait! It’s not even lit. Probably a good thing for the boy.

At least one of the three butts in this picture are still dry.

07
Jun

Flooding

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Areas, Weather

I’ve been looking for a female, albino aardvark all day and just can’t find one. The rain actually stopped so maybe I should stop collecting animal pairs. Now what in the world am I going to do with these two walruses?

How’s everyone? Did you make it through the rains? Is your property flooded? Where are you located? I’d love to see some photos and stories of what the past 24 hours has been like for each of you.

My photo above was taken from the parking lot of Texas Roadhouse off of 135 in Greenwood. This photo does nothing for what it really looked like. I wish I had my real camera with me. The sky right over our heads was dark and stormy, while the sky to the north was this weird, eerie shade of yellowish orange.

07
Jan

Warm Indianapolis Weather

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Government, Indianapolis Area, News, Weather

Can you believe how warm it is in January? If you’ve lived here very long you probably can, nothing too surprising here for residents of Indianapolis and Indiana.

I was driving in to work today at 7:30am and had my windows down in the beginning of January! It goes both ways though, I remember one year getting a couple of inches of snow in April!

I’m sure we’re not over winter though by any means. Good thing too, my son is eagerly awaiting building another snow fort together after the first good snow this year.

Although I couldn’t really get the information from the website. The photo above appears to be the local offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration here in Indianapolis.

Photo Source: NOAA.GOV

05
Dec

First Snow of the Season

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Indianapolis History, Weather

We woke up this morning to our first real snow fall of the season and it looked nice. I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve got a bit of the “adultitis” when it comes to snow these days. All I think about is the financial impact of someone crashing into my car on the snow and ice.

This morning was a little different though. As I pushed the couple of inches off of my windshield I appreciated the fact that this was a very nice “packing” snowfall. The thought even flashed through my mind about how much fun it would be to stay home from work and build a snow fort with my kids.

Reality set in though and reminded me that going to work wasn’t an option and I was already running a little bit late. It is Indianapolis after all, I’m sure we’ll have more.

Besides, now my biggest problem is risking life and limb to get on my roof and hang the Christmas icicle lights that my wife and kids have been asking me about.

Photo Source: Webshots

20
Aug

It’s Still About the Weather

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Keystone, News, Weather

The news lately has been the extreme heat. Today though it’s about the severe thunderstorms and rain that hit our city. It started fairly late in the afternoon and really ramped up right at and around evening rush hour of course.

I was trying to get home to the south side and was coming from the Keystone at the Crossing area. I waited a bit before I left so as to not get hung up right at the beginning, but in the end it didn’t matter.

On the entire trip home I rarely got my speedometer over 40mph. I took almost 2 hours to get home for some reason. I was a bit bad and had a not very friendly thought. After getting to Brookville Road and not seeing any reason for the delay, I began to think to myself, “There had better be a wreck up here or something causing this delay”. I caught myself after I said it and thought how selfish of me to wish harm on someone else to have an excuse for me being delayed. Not very nice at all.

How friendly are you on the roads? Do you let people in front of you? Why not? Is one car ahead of you really going to matter that much?

11
Aug

The Heat Wave Continues

Author: Jason Bean, Category: News, Weather

It doesn’t look like the heat wave is letting up anytime real soon in Indianapolis. 100 on the burners for tomorrow. I think I’ll be going to the pool with my family. Kids already started school, so the weekends are pretty much all we’ve got left.

13
Jul

Absolutely Beautiful Day in Indianapolis

Author: Jason Bean, Category: General, Indianapolis Golf, Weather

Today was an absolutely beautiful day in Indianapolis. Did you notice. The sky looked like a painting. A wide expanse of perfect blue dotted with hundres of white cotton-candy clouds.

The temperature was a very comfortable mid-80’s and the humidity almost felt non-existent.

Can someone please answer me one question though?

Why wasn’t I on the golf course?

19
Jun

Does Indy Have a Water Shortage?

Author: Jason Bean, Category: News, Weather

Lot’s of talk recently about the apparent shortage of water in Indianapolis over the past few weeks. The truth of the matter though is that there’s not a shortage of water at all, there’s a shortage of production of clean water.

I was driving home from work this evening and heard a great explanation and story about the “shortage” on WIBC. The producer, Matt Hibbeln, was frustrated with the statement of “shortage” and Steve Simpson gave the illustration of a funnel.

The top large part of the funnel represents the reservoirs, there’s plenty of water there. He stated that under the funnel is a medium sized bucket that the funnel is trying to fill up. Only so much water can come through the skinny part of the funnel at any time. The problem now is that the bucket underneath the funnel is much, much larger now. It doesn’t matter how much water is available in the top, it’s still got to come through the skinny part of the funnel.

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