But Bird had a couple of factors working in his favor. First and foremost, he was a businessman with a businessman's head governing his restaurateur's heart. He knew exactly what he was getting into when he picked up this Hampden Avenue space -- formerly a buck-a-scoop Chinese buffet of no renown, but with good street visibility and a big parking lot -- and chose it over properties he'd been scouting in Boulder, L.A. and the Bay Area. I figured I could mitigate my chance of failure to 50 percent here, ... Seriously, I didn't go into this thinking I had an 80, 90 percent chance of success. I'm not deluded.
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In the course of three days we've gone from a deficit (of rainfall) to over two-and-a-half inches positive.Tom Bird
That's it. We're all done.
Tom Bird
Right now we have an upper-level disturbance tracking across us from the southwest, and that's responsible for the current round of showers and thunderstorms. (Saturday) night we had a back-door cold front that pushed in at the surface from the northeast, and that's kind of laid across the area east to west. It's increasing the coverage of showers and thunderstorms.
Tom Bird
We've been dry now for a few months, and we're going into part of what is the driest part of the year (early 2006), and with the winds in the forecast, we're going to have the same fire conditions they had up in North Texas.
Tom Bird
We didn't use to be open on Sundays.
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