I know this is a global forum, and this post has regional significance... but the north eastern US got a lot of snow last night... all the way down to the carolinas... and I thought this video was amusing and appropriate
Three more inches of snow last night here in Chicago. Ya, I know, 3 inches don't sound like a lot, but I have had it with this damn white stuff.... Hell, the airport will be a mess today.
Three more inches of snow last night here in Chicago. Ya, I know, 3 inches don't sound like a lot, but I have had it with this damn white stuff.... Hell, the airport will be a mess today.
if you ask a guy how much snow we got last night, he'd probably say we got 6 inches. The women would say its more like 4.
We lost power from tree limbs falling under the weight of that snow Pat. 5am.... power went off.... rolled over and woke back up at 7am...still no power.... dag nabbitt.... time to let the dogs out anyway so might as well get up....
Drag out the generator.... fire it up, flip the breakers that need flipping and plug that baby in and.........waaaa laaaa... lights and yup... it even runs the gas pack so we have heat.....
Power just came back at around 2:30.... 9.5 hrs on generator....
I'm ready for spring... this has been some cold weather this year..... global warming my arse.... going to 20 tonight....
well.... rant is over, unfortunately, winter is not.
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I empathize, but I can not get too excited and no, it's not because I NOW Live in the desert southwest.
Don't mean to be "cold" about it but....
Upper Michigan (at least Marquette - Gwinn area ) looks like that for at least 5 months of the year - and snow can, and usually does, start in Sep and can end as late as early MAY! And from Nov to Feb you are guaranteed to be like that in the videos.
There is nothing like shoveling out driveway to go to work and coming home later and having your drive way plowed SHUT again So you have to shovel it out again just to "get home" - and this was almost a matter of routine .
Again, I really do wish you all of you back there (and I have one brother who hasn't seen the light yet and lives in PA) the best - but that's why I'm NOT back there.
As a matter of fact, I will never again live anywhere EAST of the Mississippi river or west of the AZ, NV,ID buffer zone.
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I lived in Calgary Alberta for 12 years in the late 70's into the 80's. Don't tell me about cold, snow and how soon it gets dark in February. I actually saw -57 one day although that was a one time thing. Usually it was between +20 to -30F. Does that sound like a 50 degree swing? Yes, and it can happen in a few hours because of what they call Chinook winds. Oh almost forgot. The wind. Chicago has nothing on Calgary with it comes to wind.
Now I've been back home in SoCal for the last 25 years and it's called, Yawn, cold? Yeah it got down to 55 last night, better find that sweater..
In middle GA we've been dodging bullets for the last 10 days. Tons of rain and temperatures frequently near 32 but, mercifully, not close enough to subject us to what has occurred only 40-50 miles north of us. Normally these conditions subject us not to snow but rather to epic ice storms.
@Mario & Dan... ouch! I'm getting frostbite just from reading your posts!
@GHinCH... Thanks for the well-wishes and wisdom!
@Steve...
@Herb... I'm impressed (but not surprised) by your preparation. Cool that you had the generator and didn't really suffer from the outage.
@both Bobs... Man, y'all are just MEAN!!
@Larry... tell me more about New Mexico.... (you got my attention)
@Bud... I was looking at a weather map and saw that Georgia got hit too, and I was wondering if any of it got to you. Glad to hear you avoided it this go-round.
Jazzmammel Bob.... it's all in what you're used to.
Here in NC, we get snow and low temps.... that means a few inches and teens or the occasional single digits.... like last week. We've had a rare event of 2 snow storms in a few days span.... for a total of maybe 4 inches...and almost 2 weeks of closed and delayed schools as a result. Everyone's afraid of lawsuits if the people driving their kids to school slide into the ditch and get hurt.
For us, that's "brutal"..... having lived further north for my formative years and knowing that by November the ponds and lakes would freeze sufficiently for ice hockey and other winter sports, really is part of my long forgotten past. I don't think I've ever seen it cold enough for long enough here to freeze ponds so that anyone could walk on the ice safely..... and I kinda like the 50 degree winter days we have from time to time here....and that's almost 30 degrees above the freezing point of water..... yeah.... we complain about the cold, but I'm sure people in the Amazon rain forest complain too about a "freezing cold" 60 degree day.... Eskimo's are probably dying of heat exhaustion at 80 degrees.... and to me that's the perfect temperature. It's all in what you're used to dealing with.
Note: all temps indicated were referenced to the Fahrenheit scale.
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You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.com Add nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.
The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
I had -8 overnight and it is +4 right now at about 9:30. Sunday the forecast is for 36, so maybe some of this icy crap that I call my driveway will melt. It is too thick to salt or shovel, so I am just thanking God for front wheel drive and doing the best I can with it. I will probably salt late Saturday and allow the 36 degree highs on Sunday to melt off whatever will melt.
I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.
1. How much did you make in 2023? 2. Send it to us.
- "Dear northeast USA: when we hear blizzard, we think Dairy Queen. - Love, Arizona"
[I live in Calgary but since retirement, I head to Arizona after Hallowe'en and go back for Easter. I can sympathize with all who are getting rotten winter weather.
But I have NO sympathy for those who have the ways and means to be somewhere warm, and opt to stay home <grin>].
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