I had to turn off the crunching machines last night due to thunder snow. We haven't gotten as much snow as predicted, but we got several inches and it's blowing. No more thunder though, so the crunching is back in gear.

Not much -- we only got 5 or 6 inches here (Iowa City/Coralville). Some other parts of Iowa, including the Des Moines area, got over a foot. It hasn't been a big deal as far as quantity of snow, but there were high winds. It was the blowing snow that caused the 25-car pile-up on I-80 in Iowa this afternoon.

I got up this morning to find my ISP down This in turn caused on of my linux crunchers to have the status on boinc manager of "trying to connect." I have not discovered how to get it to re-connect other than restarting. It appears to have gone into this status for about 4 hours. During this time it appears the the actual crunching ceases, but I can't say for sure because I can not see what it is doing. So I restarted and everything returned to normal. I have this machine set to only connect between 00:01 and 11:00 (to relieve congestion on my connection)so it was trying to be active when the outage occurred. Since I am not that well versed on the ins and outs of linux, if anyone could add some insight on why this occurs and how I might prevent it I would be most appreciative. Other than this and the congestion problem ( which I believe is solved) this machine is pretty rock solid. The other linux crunchers had a couple of WU's error out but they did not hang the manager. TIA.
Cheers

Edit: The windows machines were totally unscathed - no problems.

I can not see the halo in your picture, but I do see a sun pillar. I have seen halos occasionally, but have never thought to take a picture of them.
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I lost heating for half a day.
Some magnetic valve was broken or jammed or something on boiler room.
Inside temp dropped less than two degree during those twelve hours, so have to admit that new buildings are awesome on many ways.

Some funny video
http://youtu.be/2LFtYUUXJlE