Snowstorm
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Snowstorm
What a beautiful morning. Already a foot of snow on the ground in South Jersey and another foot is expected by tonight. Lovin' the weather!
Rich
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I'm jealous! It's been snowing all day here and we still don't have any measurable snow on the ground, just a few white patches here and there.
Tom
Tom
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ALWAYS wear a helmet when on 2 wheels; a helmet saved my life on 1Oct2007!
ALWAYS wear a helmet when on 2 wheels; a helmet saved my life on 1Oct2007!
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Here in Rhode Island they're upping the ante on the forecast: ten to sixteen inches by tomorrow. Like good Rhode Islanders we already bought bread and milk last night. (And being a good Minnesota boy, I also bought gas for the snow-blower and borrowed a movie.)
Oddly, the worst weather will be along the ocean shore. Usually it's worse farther inland. Neener-neener!
- Will
Oddly, the worst weather will be along the ocean shore. Usually it's worse farther inland. Neener-neener!
- Will
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And my two sons, who were due home today for Xmas, are now stranded in Philadelphia....sigh. Well, we were fortunate though as we managed to get the last two seats on a rescheduled flight Monday. I do miss the seasonal weather though. No matter how long I am here I've never gotten used to, or okay with, this tropical swamp trip. Xmas just isn't real to me in this kind of climate.
Regards,
Gordon
Regards,
Gordon
- fallingwickets
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Ha, Sam. Not before, during, or since. Especially since; I just played the boy a game of Stratego on the bed and had to log roll off onto the floor. The back and shoulders are not happy.
I am going to have to hit it again tomorrow to clear the mailbox; I stupidly threw much of the snow from the lower driveway right in front of the post.
I am going to have to hit it again tomorrow to clear the mailbox; I stupidly threw much of the snow from the lower driveway right in front of the post.
Doug
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We've been fortunate to have daytime sun and dry air, so we get some good melting/drying action. Unfortunately at night it refreezes to glare ice on the roadways. We had a late Christmas at my mom's yesterday, and the neighborhood streets were ice-packed curb to curb. When we must go out, we're doing it between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. to get full advantage of the sun.
Doug
Thank you, Jani. That is the neighbor's house across the street, of course -- belonging to a retired minister and his wife. Ours has an upstairs, but it follows that style. One thing I can say -- they have large driveways!
In other news, the black tuque mojo was invoked again today. We visited my in-laws and got stuck at the bottom of their hill in our family van. We had to grab the shovels and bust through half-inch ice down to bare pavement, then sprinkle sand and salt for traction. We cleared a "launch pad" about double the footprint of our car, then left about 15 yards where snowpack still covered the ice. Then, on the critical part of the hill, we cleared two ruts running for about 20 yards. I put on the tuque, backed the van into the launch pad, and let it go. The launch pad gave me the momentum to cross the snowpack and hit the ruts. Coming out of those, I was able to skip over more snowpack to a dry patch where a car had been parked curbside. When I felt the tires bite on the dry patch and kick me out, I knew I had the last 20 yards of level snowpack in the bag. I never fancied myself a "lucky hat" kind of guy, but as I told my wife, "I know it's not causation, but it's correlation that is meaningful to me."
In other news, the black tuque mojo was invoked again today. We visited my in-laws and got stuck at the bottom of their hill in our family van. We had to grab the shovels and bust through half-inch ice down to bare pavement, then sprinkle sand and salt for traction. We cleared a "launch pad" about double the footprint of our car, then left about 15 yards where snowpack still covered the ice. Then, on the critical part of the hill, we cleared two ruts running for about 20 yards. I put on the tuque, backed the van into the launch pad, and let it go. The launch pad gave me the momentum to cross the snowpack and hit the ruts. Coming out of those, I was able to skip over more snowpack to a dry patch where a car had been parked curbside. When I felt the tires bite on the dry patch and kick me out, I knew I had the last 20 yards of level snowpack in the bag. I never fancied myself a "lucky hat" kind of guy, but as I told my wife, "I know it's not causation, but it's correlation that is meaningful to me."
Doug
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