There's Always The Weather

[kyennamo]

i am in north west of philly. i hate the goddamn winter. every time the weather reports say its not gonna be so bad in philly but you guys north and west of the city are screwed, they are talking about me

[Riverwind]

i am in north west of philly. i hate the goddamn winter. every time the weather reports say its not gonna be so bad in philly but you guys north and west of the city are screwed, they are talking about me

I am so sorry,

River

[fhunter]

After -20C just a week ago, we now have +1C with rain. It was supposed to be snow, but probably thawed in flight . If that continues any longer, we will soon become a real northern Venice, with channels instead of streets. For now in places it is slippery mess and in another places - looots of water.

So, as Moi asked: will our weather stop Napoleon?
I answer: it will. By drowning.

[Dave]

About 1:30am last night, The electric went out and the lack of "stuff" woke me. SO I called the Power Company and they said - 3:30. I have one of those crank-up flashlights and after tossing and turning, I kept it on and couldn't fall asleep. at 3:30 they said 5:30 at 5#0 they said 7:30 at 73:30 they said 10:30 ... The power finally came on about 10:45.

My part of the electric grid travels through a county park and apparently, they had to trace the lines through the park all night and cut away the branches leaning on them. What a thankless job that must be. It rained hard all night. Imagine tracing power lines and cutting branches off them in the rain. And we think proctologists have a bad job?

So I looked outside at about noon - windy, colder and light flurries -- nothing big and bad like north of Pittsburgh (think Butler and north to interstate 80) or east of Pittsburgh (think Ligonier or Uniontown or Johnstown) got hit with. Dodged the bullet again.

It actually hit 50 deg F last night and right now, it's 32F
Schizophrenic weather.

[A-1]

Well, gang,

The weather is HERE... Wish YOU were BEAUTIFUL...

[Dave]

On a much more serious note...
How are our memebers in the midwest (like Chicago, Illinois, Ohio) doing?

They got hit bad as far as I can tell.

[clysmaniac]

It was so bad here that Bobbie, OneBallBoi, Tome and myself missed our weekly eunuch breakfast this morning.

[moi621]

From Central Coastal O.C. there is a Weather Alert for the Santa Ana or Santa Anna winds.
Sky is clean and blue with bright sun and temp around seventy. Watered heavily before with imported water to make sure my garden holds up as colder temperatures and winds can be very desiccating. And it does get cold at night like maybe down to 55F.
Sorry about Dave's electricity as it wasn't his storm. Because I really 'hate' that, i installed a automatic, emergency, natural gas electric generator.
Streetglide likewise reports being storm bypassed without the electric outage.
fhunter, for the report from Petrograd.
Mud is good to stop tanks too.
Looking forward to hearing from our record storm experienced member and not just the bypassed ones. Maybe they cannot get online.
Moi
Today I went to Armstrong Garden Center and bought some sweet snap pole peas, red leaf lettuce and some black and boysenberries.

[Dave]

Hey, my neighborhood was lucky. Lots of places took the brunt of a really bad storm. Fortunately, geography and Jet Streams conspired for it to miss me.

And I have seriously thought about getting an automatic emergency generator.

[butterflyjack]

Here in Wallkill, NY, about 70 miles northwest of NYC, we got about a foot of assorted crap over that last day or so...To make the total in the last month about 6-7 feet...of snow...and most of it is still out there...Huge piles of the filthy stuff...But...like everything else..soon to be gone...The sooner the better. It's also been unusually cold here...Better days ahead...dragonfly

[Riverwind]

ButterflyJack, its just a guess but if I read you right YOU HATE THE SNOW.

River

[fhunter]

fhunter, for the report from Petrograd.
Mud is good to stop tanks too.

There is a bumper sticker here:
"tanks are not afraid of the mud" and another one, more rare: "dirty tank can't be seen in combat"

[moi621]

There is a bumber sticker here:
"tanks are not afraid of the mud" and another one, more rare: "dirty tank can't be seen in combat"

And here I thought it was;
a repaired pot hole would stop a tank
they would be so confused and worried
(What is it? What's going on?)

BECAUSE after all we know only a truly free society repairs their pot holes and the WEATHER is so hard on roads.

Air is dry and fifty degrees is a cold fifty this evening along the central O.C. coast.
Moi

[butterflyjack]

ButterflyJack, its just a guess but if I read you right YOU HATE THE SNOW.

River

Hehehe...How did you guess, River? And this spew coming from someone born in Sydney, NS, Canada...and lived in St. John , NB, Canada before coming down to tropical New York in 1959 at the age of 14...The novelty wore off a long, long time ago...Now it's white scum hehehe dragonfly

[moi621]

Doing some hand watering with imported liquid and thought I would report,
Narcissus and Loquat are post flowering.
Lime & Lemon are full of ripe fruit and producing the next generation. Avocado threatening to blossom.
Royal Apricot and Cherry trees are cracking their shelled buds and showing some color.
Mission Fig still quite dormant.
Sweet shelling peas, onions, garlic, lettuce growing in large garden boxes. Beefsteak and Cherry tomatoes initiating while ripening is a weird sweet pepper.
Should tell ya somethin' of the weather from
Central coastal O.C.
Moi