Webster County

There's a conversation, this conversation's been brewing for a while about the possibility of building data centers around the Ozarks.

One is being worked on out in Webster County, and the really big hubbub is about the possibility of one being built in Springfield.

Now, there's been a wrinkle in all that because the owner/developer of the two projects, one out in Webster County and one in Springfield, announced in the last 48 hours he is suing not one but two separate individuals for defamation.

Both individuals had posted on social media that there was a fire at the Webster County Data Center.

Apparently, the argument is that's not true.

The fire department was called, but there was no subsequent fire, and the developer's now suing, uh, one private individual and one individual who is a candidate for county commission saying, "Look, you've, you've besmirched the project.

The first of the chapter, he quotes an old hillman who says, them government weathermen do pretty well on a flat prairie like Kansas or western Oklahoma, an old man told me, but they ain't worth a damn in hilly country.

And I'll tell you what, right now, if you live in Webster County, you'd agree with him.

i'm a mile from the doppler and i'm beginning to think that that thing keeps us from getting rain because every time it shows us we're going to get things flip that thing on and sure enough we don't but randolph picked up many uh rain which i hope we're going to get here really soon uh indications of rain If rabbits are seen playing in the dusty road, if dogs suddenly begin to eat grass, if cats sneeze or wash behind their ears or lick their fur against the grain, if large numbers of field mice are seen running in the open, that kind of makes sense, if sheep turn their backs to the wind, Huh.

If wolves howl before sunset, the hillman expects a shower.