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MAN, we are getting WACKED
S Milne
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Its 6:30 am and I can't sleep because I can here the wind blowing. The gust must be over 60 mph. It is Screaming out there.
Talk about freeze up's, we'll be doing those for the next two days. The snow appears to be very light because on one side of my house, I can see the grass. On the other side I can barely see the top of the six foot fence.
Would be nice if it was the old days when Iwas young and could enjoy this stuff. Playing Monopoly all day or bulding forts. Instead we'll be crawing around with torch's and dragging the thawing machines in and out of house's.
Oh well, I'll try and get some photos for Jeff "Winters Over " Lawrence.
Scott " Not Yet " Milne
Talk about freeze up's, we'll be doing those for the next two days. The snow appears to be very light because on one side of my house, I can see the grass. On the other side I can barely see the top of the six foot fence.
Would be nice if it was the old days when Iwas young and could enjoy this stuff. Playing Monopoly all day or bulding forts. Instead we'll be crawing around with torch's and dragging the thawing machines in and out of house's.
Oh well, I'll try and get some photos for Jeff "Winters Over " Lawrence.
Scott " Not Yet " Milne
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wind
its 14 degrees here but the wind sounds like its going to rip the siding off the house. You know that phone will be ringing soon and often this morning. J.Lockard0 -
Govenor
Has declaired a State of Emergency here for MA.
Route 128 in Gloucester/Cape Ann has been closed.
Of course,so is Logan Airport
Posted wind gust of 70mph.
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State of emergency in N.C. last week
North Carolina got an inch of snow, which turned to ice and made things pretty hairy. The governor declared a state of emergency and blamed meteorologists for not preparing the public.
That type of thing would be a ho-hum here in Michigan.0 -
And here's the kicker
After you're done with the snow, it'll get CCCooold! It's -18* here in Mich right now.
We only got about 4-6" up here but downstate, Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, they got hammered by 12-16" from what I hear. My 82 year old mom-in-law was supposed to fly out to California yesterday. Canceled of course.0 -
Getting Hammared on the Vineyard
Looks like we have about two feet, I had to let the dog out and she disappeared, went out and found her in white out conditions she was having a ball jumpimg like a rabbitt through the snow, gale force winds the scanner is chattering, I wanted to go to the beach and see the waves but it is too dangerous, I'll stand by and wait for the freeze ups to roll in. I hope the power stays on, I bought and inverter for my boiler but the biggest I could get wass 300 watts ( will not do the job) so I'll just use it to watch the Pats crush the Bus and the Steelers !!0 -
Yup,
I don't think the snow-plowers even know where to begin. Yesterdays excursion to the supermarket turned into nuclear winter preparation excercises, as carts lined the store aisles, 100' plus long!
Scenes like this transport me back to my youth in Germany when at 5:30 the office workers would rush to the food stores, etc. to buy their wares before they closed at 6PM.
Anyway, it's a winter wonderland out there. I hope that the construction site is doing well... won't know until tomorrow I guess...0 -
Baby it's cold outside.....
The back steps are bare and the drifts are piling up against the top of the fence at the 6' level.
Notice how the "squashed jellybean" shape of the car is making its own little bowl !0 -
NC
The mountains of western NC combined with an 1 inch of ice are not a good mix. John given the choice between snow or ice you can send down some of that white fluffy Mich snow any day. Best Wishes J.Lockard0 -
WOW
We do not have that. Its 14 degrees and sunny at 9:30 in the Shenandoah.The winds have stopped for now. Best wishes J.Lockard0 -
State of Emergency
Our governor in the GREAT state of New Jersey has declared a state of emergency. No unauthorized vehicles on the roads. And I was so looking forward to spending the next 18 hours fixing freeze ups and no heat calls......NOT!..Robert O'Connor/NJ0 -
It ain't over yet
The forecast this morning was for 20°.
Wrong.
It was 18° when I got up at 8:30 AM. Now at about 11:00AM, it's warmed up to a balmy but windy 20°. The good thing is it's clear out, nary a cloud in the sky.
This extreme cold (for us Southerners) is really out of the ordinary and we really suffer. If we got any of the snow y'all get, we'd be in real trouble.
Yes, Scott, I'd like to see some of the snow pictures you've got. My family wouldn't mind seeing some of the snow on a visit, because we never see it around here. Mind you, it would only be a visit though.
Take care, my friends. Stay warm.
Jeff
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Hey Jeff
Sort of like the grandparents visiting the kids...really fun for a little while but nice to go home
The snow is really fun if your on vacation.
If you wrok in it ....PITA
Snowman Milne0 -
Bunch of wimps
The shop is open. Already have been to the local hardware store for pipe hangers, walked to the bookstore for the paper. Plows are out doing their thing. It's only a little blizzard after the 18 inches from a few days ago. Minus 12 yesterday morning, a heat wave today at minus one 15 miles inland.
I just love radiant floor and panel rads and 4 wheel drive with studded snows, my boots are always pre-warmed.
And Tuesday is supposed to be 10 degrees and sunny- we may yet take the boat out this week.0 -
Curiosity !?
I know I am taking a chance of getting whipped here ...... but I have to chuckle about getting "wacked". Out here in the wilds of mid Canada a blizzard is only a minor inconvenience and we usualy have -3- to -50 wind chils with it while the mean temps are still in the deep minus range. If Doug is calling his neighbours wimps; What does that make all the midwesterners?? ie WI, MN, ND, SD, MT, WY, and in Canada AB, SK, MB and last but not least norhern ON.0 -
Doug can call us
anything he wants, I've seen the weather reports and he's getting nothing up there.
I am certainly not saying we have worse weather than anyone, just that we are getting a strong storm.
Mother nature likes to wack everyone now and then0 -
Yep here in southern Wi. we only got about a foot from the big friday storm... but the high pressure came in now and it's sunny and a balmy 7 degrees... But in my water heated house it's a comfy 70.... Happy shoveling0 -
You got it!
I couldn't imagine working in the stuff.
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A little bit of a snow drift
The wind and drifting is allmost as bad as the 26" of snow, the fence in the back ground of this shot is 6' tall. I cant wait to dig out....
Chuck0 -
Hey Doug
In no way does Maine have a corner on the market for severe weather conditions. Lighten-up on the chest beating bragging rights.
Jed0 -
-29 Here Last night
Waddington, NY, on the St. Lawerence River hit -29 last night, plus a couple inches of snow yesterday. 4 seasons here are Almost Winter, Winter, After Winter and road repair season.0 -
I feel your (back) pain...
65 and sunny here in Denver today, and all this week as a matter of fact:-)
Our time is coming...
ME0 -
Sorry. I did not
realise you were going to be so sensitive. But all this reminded me of stories of my father's winters and of course his Dad's winters. When I lived about 120 miles NE of Montreal, we walked to school, not quite a mile away. Often in winter, the snow was so high, you counted driveways because you could not see the house. When he walked to school, it was twice as far and twice as high. When his Dad walked to school, he got up to milk the cows, plowed the last 40, then went to school in the blizzard. And naturally, all this was after stoking the coal boilers.
At one point I lived in the Lake St. Jean region of Quebec. My buddy and I used to take a custom tow truck out to find the snowblowers on the main roads. A guy on snowshoes probed for abandened cars because the snowblower guys could not see buried cars. We would trail along and get authorization to tow and bring 2 in at a time, one on the hook and one pushed. We made a killing. Maine is a piece of cake by comparison.
So don't take this jibe too seriously, or yourself for that matter. But one thing is for sure. The climate is changing and you will see more extremes in weather. Just look at how Mother Nature whacked Florida in 04 for their voting system.0 -
No Worries EH
It has nothing to do with sensitivity. lol Just thought I might stir a "small tempest in the snow pot". It worked!! Yeah I remember all those Poppa stories of uphill both ways for school, losing the horse and sleigh in the drifts, chopping a cord of wood while milking the cows before breakfast, etc, etc. Isn't reminiscing fun. If nothing else, weather does get people talking. I sent you a note directly to you addie, I hope you get it. If not, try contact me direct at dawgtrax@shaw.ca0 -
The Joisey \"morning after\"...
18", just below the top of my snowblower, real light & powdery, 0 degrees still air temp on the PC8900 this AM. That's cold for NJ!0 -
We have seen
this Joisey stuff sometimes when we visit my Sister-in-Law in South Joisy. Other half is native south Joisey girl.
The picture is me finishing from the last dive of the day. The storm came in while my diver was in the water so there was nothing to do but watch it come over the bay. It is handy having radar.0 -
Doug
save some clams for the Super Bowl !!0
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