Iowa Highway Ends (etc.)

That’s a change from a few hours ago. A game in Jesup has been postponed, too, so the only game in northeast Iowa tonight will be in Waukon.

The District 8 Final will be played Friday in Conrad.

I wonder, if given enough advance warning (i.e. NOW), if Saturday’s Class 1A substate games could be postponed to Monday, even if they had to be at different locations. Back-to-back games can be done, but with the open week before the tournament it would seem to be a better solution.

UPDATE: Only three games were played Thursday, two in Sioux County and the one in Waukon.

So the Weather Channel insists that the snowfall today should be called “Winter Storm Q.”

But it’s not this Q:

Or this Q:

Or even this Q:

It’s named after the Q subway line in New York City.

This “naming winter storms” thing is ridiculous.

NOTE: As of noon, a bunch of boys’ basketball games have been postponed but others, including North Tama vs. Gladbrook-Reinbeck at Grundy Center, are just moved an hour earlier. That game and the one in Mapleton are the only games south of US 20 that have not been moved to Friday.

For the centennial year of the Iowa Highway Commission/Iowa Department of Transportation, a historical “Photo of the Week” is being posted online. I have added a link in the blogroll.

The first photo is the most obvious choice, and probably THE photo of the first decade of roads in Iowa: A Model T working through axle-deep ruts on a muddy Lincoln Highway in Story County in 1918. Conditions like this were the basis for the Good Roads Movement in Iowa. A piece about the movement written for American Motorist magazine six years before that can be read via Google.