Why Credit Card Companies Charge Such High Interest Rates. The short answer is because corporate profits and corporations in general are favored over protecting the individual from harm these days. Below is only one court decision in the long dismantlement of individual rights in favor of corporate rights.
Iowa in midst of 9th coldest winter in 121 years of records (AUDIO). January 28, 2014 by Pat Curtis. Icycles form on tree branch in Des Moines. To most Iowans, itâs felt like an extremely cold winter and the record books back it up. AUDIO: Radio Iowaâs Pat Curtis reports :55. State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says, over the last four months, the statewide average temperature has been 30.1 degrees. âItâs been the 9th coldest October through January period in the past 121 years,â Hillaker said.
In about half of all winters, a daily snowfall of five to six. inches or more is recorded in southern Iowa and seven to eight inches or more in northern Iowa. December, January and February are normally the snowiest months, averaging about seven. inches each. However, late winter and early spring storms in March and April have produced as. much as 27 inches of snow in a single storm and 24-hour amounts have reached 24 inches. The. snowiest winter of record (since 1887 - 1888) was 1961 - 1962 with a statewide average of 59.0. inches while the lowest State average, only 11.9 inches, occurred in the winter of 1965 - 1966.