BS: It's Snowing...!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 06:58 PM

Tom... I have a good mind to write a letter! We should form a group and make sure our voices are heard!

I'll start...

Dear Mother Nature :

COME ON EH!!??

(any suggestions?... besides duck and cover?)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: curmudgeon
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 06:35 PM

It's 88F here. with fierce wind gusts; less than a week ago, I had the wood stove going - Tom

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Alice
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 06:23 PM

It's been spring snowing for days here in Montana.

Someone called 911 and asked, "When will it stop snowing?"

Must have been their first year living here.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 06:14 PM

Sunny day... got up to 30C... wicked thunderstorm underway right now! I was shovelling snow 14 days ago.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 05:37 AM

Don't tease sIx and I. "As the Snowstorm Sits and Spins and Spits" should be our official song. STILL snowing and the radar still looks the same. One could get dizzy!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Beer
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 09:23 PM

You poor bas....d.   My heart pumps purple pi.....for you.
Cool here today in La Belle Province. But behind the house the geese and mergansers(sp.)(common)are just bathing away. The robins are looking for worms and I'm enjoying a glass of wine thinking how nice it is going to be tomorrow.
Hang in there it is a drifting East and the sun-shine will arrive very soon.
Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: number 6
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 08:36 PM

still experiencing crappy weather here in Saint John.

Doesn't look much better for tomorrow.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: maeve
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 08:02 PM

Sending a squadron of shovel-tailed swallows to assist in the immediate removal of all uninvited snow. Their orders are to liberate clear skies and restore sunshine - effective soonest.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: curmudgeon
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 07:58 PM

You have my most sincere and heartfelt sympathies. I thought it was bad here today, a fierce ill wind out of the NW and temperatures below 40F.

Hang in there - Tom

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 06:09 PM

Maeve... recall all swallows to base.

I cannot believe it's getting worse. Haven't seen this since back before Global Warming.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 01:45 PM

Maeve... better tell them swallows to bring shovels. The storm has stalled over New Brunswick. Been just sitting in one spot, spinning around. Gathering energy and moisture from the Bay of Fundy, the Northumberland straight, the lakes and flood areas, and just spinning and dumping at 70kph. 6" more, at least.

At least it's about 3C, so the plowed streets are bare... until dark.

Oh... almost forgot... Amos and Art... ah, you know.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 10:50 AM

Puff, puff, pant... There's about an inch and a half of slush under the 6" of heavy, sticky snow. Great for making snowmen, snowballs, snowforts... sure sucks shovelling it. Glad I only have to clear the doors and a short pathway.

Oh, yeah... it's still snowing and blowing a clip.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: number 6
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 08:40 AM

snowing and cold as hell here in Saint John.

Took this shot about an hour ago ... April 12th ... and I'm freezing.

easter morning 2009

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: maeve
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 08:29 AM

Sending the sunshine to NB via the tree swallows.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 08:06 AM

Good thing the Easter Bunny didn't come by here. I'da shot the critter on accounta it must be a snowshoe hare... snowing and blowing a clip here.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 06:11 AM

Yeah! I just saw a snowfall warning issued by Environment Canada. 8" on the way tonight. A Nor'Easter storm?

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: maeve
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 05:55 AM

It's snowing this morning. I hope I can get some photographs of the snow-dusted spring flowers after sunrise.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 06:15 AM

Still? I guess that's what you get with global warming... a LOT of SNOW.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Amos
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 04:11 PM

I dunno wot it is with you lot. Can't let go of the frozen side. Use the Force!!!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 03:57 PM

That was last week, Janie!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 03:29 PM

Laundry sounds better than shovelling, Sorcha! At least the laundry doesn't need to be shovelled again in an hour. Hehehee.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Janie
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 02:49 PM

This probably isn't the place to say it is sunny, 72F, the azaleas, dogwoods, redbuds and tulips are in bloom, and yards are brimming with pansies and violas.

All the windows in the house are open, and in another week I will probably shut the furnace down for the year.

Ya'll come visit!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 02:40 PM

No idea how much 'fall' here but the wind is blowing! I have drifts at least 4' deep in my yard. Can't see the front steps at all. Can't get the Vue out of the drive. Oh well. Do laundry.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: KT
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 02:34 PM

Woke up to another inch or two on the ground this morning, with a forecast of up to 3-5 inches more. Add that to the last 6 months' accumulation ~ sigh.....   dreaming of Mexican beaches...

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 02:27 PM

And now, it's a dream. We were arse deep in snow... as I type, it's +19C, the sun is out, the open fields are brown. Still three feet of piled snow on my froint lawn, but near the house, the tulips are up about 5" and the crocii are in bloom.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Amos
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 05:00 PM

This must be an April fool's joke. I know perfectly well this whole snow thing is a big put-on.



A

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 07:04 AM

Well... they forecasted 4"... then 4 to 6"... then, on Sunday afternoon, they said possibly more than 8".... skip ahead... 16" yesterday, about 4" last night, a couple more today.

Sunny and +7C tomorrow. HAHAHAahahaaaa.... it's all a big joke...

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Amos
Date: 30 Mar 09 - 01:46 PM

YEah, we're being whip lashed out here, too. Yesterday the sky was all cloudy, the wind was biting cold and it drove the temp down to a frigid 65F. IF this keeps up I am moving to Southern California,, or something...oh...well, never mind.



A

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 30 Mar 09 - 12:50 PM

Wet, sticky, heavy snow. 40cm (16 inches expected). Temp is holding at about 0C until Wednesday; to be +7C and sunny. Been about +15 and sunny past couple of days.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Mar 09 - 12:21 PM

It's snowing...!

BFD....

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Mar 09 - 10:09 AM

4 or 5" expected here tonight. It's a good thing. Sun and about 0C tomorrow, +3 Thursday., so this snow might help to break down the heavy crust of ice on the two to three feet we now have. Then, it won't take as long to melt... unless...

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Mar 09 - 07:45 PM

Well, it's been snowing all damned day here off and on. Fortunately, nothing is really sticking yet but we're supposed to get some more tonight.

It's 39 degrees F. ferchrissakes!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: ranger1
Date: 22 Mar 09 - 07:32 PM

Relax. It's just March in northern New England flexing its muscles so we don't forget that we really have absolutely no control over the weather whatsoever!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 22 Mar 09 - 04:02 PM

We drove north from the Pioneer Valley back home (from dropping my daughter off after March break) meeting squall after squall. But nothing lasted, and now the sun's coming out!

Allison

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: maeve
Date: 22 Mar 09 - 03:50 PM

Snow and wind here too, but not so much as you describe.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Mar 09 - 02:51 PM

Unbelievable! The weather report says 39 and clear but about ten minutes ago a wild wind picked up, the wind chimes are singing and it's SNOWING HARD!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 11:55 AM

I favour King Cole Orange Pekoe from Barbour Foods in New Brunswick.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 11:44 AM

Red Rose is to tea what Budweiser is to beer.

Cellar! I know.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 11:41 AM

Well, I had quite a chuckle. The Environment Canada forecast is quoting the windchill and the UV index.

Frostbite and sunburn at the same time... only in Canada you say? How pitiful.

(ahhhh... that's a takeoff of the Red Rose Tea commercials)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 02:47 PM

There's our clue - let's contact Amos' mother-in-law. induct her into the Evil Sisterhood and set her loose on him with one non-sequitur after another.
This could work...

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Amos
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 02:26 PM

I am too much of a gentleman to go back and look up the echoes of fedupness that rattled through these hallowed halls exactly one, two and three years ago, for example. "I've had enough of this!!" must be the most common sentiment in the whole Northeast every February/March.

What was that definition of madness again? The one about doing the same thing and expecting it to turn out different?

My mother-in-law once confessed to me that as a child she would sit through second showings of a movie hoping to catch the actors out in a mistake, doing something different than the previous run, even though it was the same movie.

Reminds me of some of our conversations.

Just let me say that, despite some economic hurdles, there is PLENTY of space for good musicians here in Southern California.


A

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 02:12 PM

Yeah? Some of it musta got away. Nasty outside. But, we are promised ice pellets and freezing rain in a few hours.

It is a roller coaster ride again.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Amos
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 10:40 AM

Hey, we pay good money to make it artificially around here so the kids can at least get an idea what it IS.

We also have a natural snow-producing environment in easy reach--about thirty miles over and two miles up in the Cuyamaca mountains, where the pine forests flourish and snow lies ont he ground for at least a month or two every year.

They take children up there to go sledding--a rare treat.

The trick with snow is teaching it its place. If you aren't firm with it, it tries to get everywhere. We keep ours up in the hills and it knows better than to try to escape.


A

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: ranger1
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 08:24 AM

No, Mary, it's a F***ing miserable winter! I, personally, have had enough. I have a really f=good idea about what to do with the rest: send it to Amos. I am sure the children of San Diego would be delighted to have a snow day!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 08:08 AM

Snow, sleet, hail and slop - a lovely commute this AM. 50s this afternoon and a deep freeze tonight to turn my driveway into a skating rink. Is this a miserable winter or am I just getting old?
SIGH

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: ragdall
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 07:46 PM

We've kept all our snow since November. There's about 10 feet of it piled up on my lawn at the end of the driveway and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon. It was -32ºC this morning and has warmed to a balmy -14ºC to taunt us with hopes of Spring before it plummets back down again.

The sunshine and blue sky looks so inviting, but venturing out there leads to bitter disappointment and possible frostbite.

rags

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Amos
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 07:30 PM

HEll, SINS, if I ain't doing some blues somewhere I'll be delighted to come and watch...



A

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Becca72
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 05:19 PM

Easy for you to say, Gnu

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 05:07 PM

Sure Steve'll be sucking slurpup sap soon.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: maeve
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 03:24 PM

Truelove set the first test taps today; we'll see how fast the sap is rising before setting the rest.

maeve of the blue cast