BS: It's Snowing...!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 02:20 PM

Actually, sIx, it's been darn good here in Moncton. Yes, we got a few nasty storms and yes, -30 to -40WC for a while, but, for the most part, Moncton dodged a lot of bullets... so far. The snow and heavy ice storms seemed to split in the Albert County hills and pass us to the north and south... so far.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: number 6
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 01:54 PM

Hopefully that snow will miss New Brusnwick blow over to Nova Scotia gnu.

This has been one hell of aa long cold, harsh winter.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 11:32 AM

Rats! +8 was just a ruse by Mom Nature. -19C tonight and 40cm of snow beginning tomorrow night.... sooooo...

IN LIKE A LION!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 11:26 AM

It's snowing.... March flakes. Ya know them there HUGE flakes what comes down real fast cause they are just barely snow and make a "splat" noise when they hit yer forehead and melt right quikc and run down yer face? That's them.

It was +8 and raining, but someone upstarirs messed with the thermostat, I guess.

Since yesterday morn, our snow shrank over 60cm.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 09 - 09:32 PM

I know what you mean, Sins. Back in January I was wearing Yaktrax as I cleared the driveway. (If you don't know what Yaktrax are....)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Feb 09 - 08:50 PM

It makes me feel old and fragile. I dread falling on the ice. Have avoided it this year...so far.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Amos
Date: 24 Feb 09 - 08:22 PM

I don't understand that at all...here we are offering the sole hope for Spring, the first glimmer of renewal and hope, and we get castigated. You guys enjoy suffering, don't you? Admit it, now!! It makes you feel big and brave.



A

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 09 - 08:15 PM

"Valleys" is a relative term, I guess. The town is at 4,400 feet above sea level and my house is at about 4,800 feet.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 09 - 08:14 PM

48.6F and sunny today. The snow is going away, away (at least in the valleys).

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 09 - 06:34 PM

My Gramma Owens used to be shocked at the people scurrying to clear the snow and get to work in the busy city... back in the 60s. She told me that when a storm would sock in, it meant some more carrots and turnip in the stew on the back of the wood stove and more time to enjoy company.

Your "listening to the quiet" reminds me of Gramma, Maeve. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: maeve
Date: 24 Feb 09 - 06:27 PM

A neighbor up the road toward the village has a generator, but we haven't needed one in the ten years we've been here. Nearer to town there are many generators, and it gets noisy.

Here, we listen to the quiet and the birds and put another log on the fire while the bread bakes.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: curmudgeon
Date: 24 Feb 09 - 06:04 PM

When we lose power here, which we did yesterday for seven hours, the silence is broken by the noise of the neighborhood generators.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 09 - 06:01 PM

Love the quiet.... I love it.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: maeve
Date: 24 Feb 09 - 05:01 PM

Here in midcoast Maine we have 16" of heavy wet snow on top of the 2-3' already on the ground. We will be shovelling and using the snow rake all week. The snow banking all around the house foundation is now four to five feet high. We can walk up the drift behind one shed all the way up to the roof. We enjoyed rye bread baked in a Dutch oven on the wood stove.

Central Maine Power has worked hard restoring power to the 130,000 people and businesses reporting outages across Maine at the height of the storm. I have no idea how many are still waiting; ours was out for only 36 hours.

I love the quiet while all the power is off.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 09 - 05:23 AM

The plow just winged the snow banks and then cleaned the street. He put one "chunk" of packed snow in the driveway that is over three feet across. And, there's a fair sized drift in the driveway. Hot wet heat, eh SINS?

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: MaineDog
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 07:46 PM

Yup
They canceled my Sunday pm gig. Beat the storm home. Woke up this AM to 8 inches of heavy wet. I have about enough room for 3 more storms, then I'll have to start selling used cars.
MD

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 06:33 PM

Gnu - warm wet heat helps. Try wrapping your hands in a wet warm towel if nothing better is available.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 06:14 PM

How (chuckle chuckle) awful for you. It's actually raining a little bit here and a lot of the snow has melted away.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 04:48 PM

Jeri... swipe? I got swipe ass deep. I can swipe and more for well over six months. I am a boy sprout, always prepared.

On the other hand, it's snowing a banshee again.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Charmion
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 02:56 PM

Make the drink in a big enough bucket and you can use your regular umbrella.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Jeri
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 01:47 PM

Hope you got enough toilet paper, gnu. Hang in there!
(Crabs got hands? I didn't know crabs got hands!)

I think I might mix up some cranberry juice. I need something to put the rum in - at least the first glass. I'm on a low fat diet, but happily, rum is 100& fat free. My only regret is that I don't have any of those little umbrellas.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 01:10 PM

AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!! GUESS WHAT! SOB!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 12:58 PM

Yeah, Rap? Well, take a look at this pic of my cat Snowball walking away from me across the front yard earlier today....



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Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 12:48 PM

Oh, you people need to see some REAL snow. Just a couple of miles from here there between four and six FEET. No power, no water, no nothin', either. Nobody's getting out or getting in.


























Of course, it's on top of Scout Mountain and Kinport Peak and...down here it's 40+ and the snow is rapidly melting.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 12:41 PM

Oh SINS! Had to take a vacation day! That reeeeally sucks. And then to find out about the bridges... insulting to say the least.

I am dreading tomorrow morning... or even tonight if I wake up... when I will probably have crab hands. My poor arthritic fingers are in pain with every move.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 11:14 AM

To add insult to injury, both bridges in and out of South Portland/Portland are closed.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 11:04 AM

Oh FUCK!
That about sums it up.
I had one more day of vacation left from last year and took it today. Good thing. I couldn't have got out of the driveway anyway - a power line is dangling there and i am not about to see if it is live.
Dug out the front walk and the back. Dug out the car.
Amos, it is official. I hate the state of California.
BUT...there is a large yellow dog asleep on my couch - he refused to go home on Saturday. He loves the snow and loves to steal the mittens right off my hands while I shovel. You have to laugh.
Maybe I will make a snowman later. Why not?

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 11:02 AM

Yes, Rapaire. Here too... gonna be an awful mess when it turns back to snow late afternoon.

Jeri... like... God put it there so God can take it away?

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Jeri
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 09:12 AM

Bird feeder's working. I did a half-assed job porch, driveway and car. I'm considering waiting for it to melt. Hell, I have water, power, food and toilet paper. I could do it. The snow weights about 50 lbs a shovel-full and doesn't come off the shovel without a fight. It's the perfect packing snow for ... Hey! Anybody ever tried making snow flamingos? Maybe a snow whale or a shark or something.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 09:07 AM

No, right now it's raining.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 08:58 AM

I like storms like that. I looked out at 02:30h and it wasn't bad. Must have started up around 3 or so. I looked out at 5 and it was bad. I shovelled the doors clear at 5:30 and the drifts were about 2 feet. And the wind was gusting around 50mph. Dunno how much snow we got, but I went back out at 8 and the drifts were 4 feet on the lee side of the house.

"Like?", you ask. Yup. 3AM to 8AM. Nice and short.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Jeri
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 08:07 AM

My power came back on about 1:30 AM. The snow is lovely and all the young birch trees are flopped over (and will likely stay that way forever). My squirrel-proof bird feeder isn't snow proof, and it's now bird-proof as well, so I must go out and liberate the seed. The hell with the car - I ain't goin' nowhere, but it's going to be a challenge to open my door.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 07:51 AM

Amos - shut up and get back to the cellar.

Looks like, instead of the promised 3-6" we got about a foot.

Kendall's out there with the snowblower right now.

I took these about 30 minutes ago.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 07:25 AM

Yup- we got about 8 inches last night. I guess we'll take the Jeep when I go to mother's today.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 04:29 AM

Yup. This IS a storm. A real Nor'easter. Comin down sideways and heavy. The radar pic is real pretty. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Amos
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 11:30 PM

The first edge of Spring has crept into San Diego after a really wicked series of cold rainy days when even the surfers were beginning to get depressed. We are all feeling hopeful.


A

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 09:25 PM

And my power just went out. Time to call it a night and go read by flashlight.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 08:50 PM

Yep.
Bah, HUMBUG!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 08:28 PM

AAARGGHHHH!
More snow.
We had some Thursday into Friday and I did not know it was coming.
Now it started as rain, turned to ice and now wet, heavy snow. My house is warm and dry. I have little to complain about.
SIGH I am so tired of this.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 04:58 PM

Here in Juneau, Alaska, we still have plenty of snow on the ground and on roofs but streets and sidewalks are bare and the sun is brilliant. We're supposed to have a couple more days of this clear weather and then who knows what will happen.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: maire-aine
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 04:43 PM

Well, it took 2 weeks, but we finally got our thaw. Several days of mild weather (mid-40F) and rain yesterday, and almost all of the snow is gone. Lots of mud now.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 03:10 AM

My two little lads (furry child kind) have been having great fun running about in the snow this morning.

And then of course, they come in all excited and want to chirrup at you and tell you all about their big adventures 'out there' when they get in.

Little muddy wet pawprints dab-dancing all over the paperwork on my desk...

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Leadfingers
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 08:36 PM

We were told the snow would hit West London about midnight ! Its now 01.35 , and all we seem to be getting is a bit of drizzle . NOT that I want any snow , but it seem churlish not to be able to join in with all you people who are buried in the stuff .

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 09:33 AM

What do you do if you are working? it would have been easier to cancel the day than have all this mid-day pick up nonsense.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Rasener
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 08:51 AM

Took my daagters into school this morning just after it had snowed. About 11:00am, I got a call from my daughters to pick them up as the school was closing. The reason was that the bus company that ships all the kids in and out, had phoned and said they would not be collecting the kids at 3:30 becuase of the weather but would be coming to pick everybody up at 11:00am.

So its not always the school themselves.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 08:46 AM

Rain and a thaw expected this weekend. Hopefully the ice columns hanging from my roof will go away without pulling the house down.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Penny S.
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 06:34 AM

It is raining, and I am debating how to get out - walk into Bluewater, getting wet. Or try with the car, with the access area glassy last night and therefore horribly slippy now. The roads are OK, so's the drive, but manoeuvering on that stuff seems risky.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: Girl Friday
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 09:42 AM

"If only!   Rain would would be better though. "

Rain I am looking forward to after eight inches of snow in Orpington... trouble with rain is... it freezes!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 08:32 AM

I did miss my snow elf this year and finally had to break down and hire someone to deal with the back porch and walk. I can handle the front withj he snow blower Kendall gave me but the back door has a drift against it and the electric cord doesn't reach so...
He does good work though and is reasonable.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Snowing...!
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 06:49 AM

Winter has returned. Must be that damn hog! We only got about 25cm and the wind wasn't bad at about 60kph.

But, I see it's to be around +5C again by the weekend. Once again, winter will be over.

This was storm number 9 but we haven't had any big ones yet. I think we've had almost that number of thaw cycles which included rain. VERY rough on the wildlife.