Wacky weather
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I went outside and had planned to use the leaf blower to get rid of what I thought was light powdery snow. Turns out the top is light powdery snow but underneath it was semi-frozen slush on the driveway. The driveway is black, so it tends to warm up and retain heat, which it must have done over the last few days, as it has been warm. I had to get the shovel out to scrape everything down to the bare blacktop.
The winds were howling all night and I didn't get much sleep; I was awake worrying about a tree branch coming down on the house.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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We're in the middle of a winter storm. Woke up to ice covered everything. Power went out at 10 am, came back on around 2:45 pm. Internet came back around 3:30 pm.
Everything is still covered in ice, storm warning is in effect til 7 pm, I believe. Very beautiful.
The industrial revolution cheapened everything.
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I went outside and had planned to use the leaf blower to get rid of what I thought was light powdery snow. Turns out the top is light powdery snow but underneath it was semi-frozen slush on the driveway. The driveway is black, so it tends to warm up and retain heat, which it must have done over the last few days, as it has been warm. I had to get the shovel out to scrape everything down to the bare blacktop.
The winds were howling all night and I didn't get much sleep; I was awake worrying about a tree branch coming down on the house.
@wtg said in Wacky weather:
I was awake worrying about a tree branch coming down on the house.
That is the worst worry, especially in the middle of the night when you can't see anything! Glad you made it through ok!
@bernard glad your power came back! We had a few flickers last night but managed to to get through without an actual outage. Whew.
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We're in the middle of a winter storm. Woke up to ice covered everything. Power went out at 10 am, came back on around 2:45 pm. Internet came back around 3:30 pm.
Everything is still covered in ice, storm warning is in effect til 7 pm, I believe. Very beautiful.
@Bernard Ice is beautiful but can also be so destructive. We don't get a lot of ice storms around here (they tend to be a couple of hundred miles to the south of us). We did get more than a 1/4" of ice in a storm maybe 35 years ago and it took power lines down all over the place and our power was out for three days in the middle of winter.
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Boy howdy!
Forecast was 61 and rain, currently like 20 degrees with 50 MPH wind. Wind chill -7! 🥶 Hard little snow pellets whipping around and piling up against the rocks . Forecast has been revised to 25 degrees by 5 PM.
Sharon left for CA this morning and her plane got off despite the wind. I’m on my own for a week and don’t plan to leave the house!
@Steve-Miller said in Wacky weather:
Boy howdy!
Forecast was 61 and rain, currently like 20 degrees with 50 MPH wind. Wind chill -7! 🥶 Hard little snow pellets whipping around and piling up against the rocks . Forecast has been revised to 25 degrees by 5 PM.
Sharon left for CA this morning and her plane got off despite the wind. I’m on my own for a week and don’t plan to leave the house!
So how's it going? Cleveland was on the national news today. Canopy blew off of a gas station. We sent you our wind. You're welcome.
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@bernard Do you ever see hoarfrost in your garden? I've only seen it twice, both times when we were up in Door County for a winter visit. It is the most magical thing!
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Just another brisk winter day in the heartland. At least the snow is dry enough that I don’t have to shovel it.
Only issue is that I can’t put out the trash bags full of Christmas detritus for bulk pickup for fear they’ll blow down to the end of the street and in to the forest.
Let us now bow our heads and pray for the continued health and wellbeing of my furnace.
