Be safe in this week

Yes, Wednesday with -13 for the high temp and -29 for the low temp is a bit worrisome. When it gets that cold the beams and supports in the attic creak and make snapping noises, the furnace shuts down for perhaps a total of 10 minutes per hour, and you really wonder what you would do if the power went out.

Reminds me of January, early Feb of 1996. During that time we had the same temperatures as we'll have tomorrow and Wednesday but we had a stretch of seven days where the low temps were -25 or lower. During that week my dad had a heart attack, my best friend's son was born, and I had the largest shipment in my company's history.

 

I lived in Maine for 15 years and never grew used to the below zero weather.

We move out here to western WA in 1995.
When the "winter" arrived 1n 1996 the temperature during the day was 40-50 degrees (above zero).
Some neighbors were visiting one evening and asked us what we thought of the Washington winter.
One of my kids answered "what winter?".

 

Predictions here for tomorrow night wind gusts up to 40 mph @ 7F = 30F below zero wind chill factor. I'll close the chickens up with a heat lamp and bring the outside dogs in. I hope we do get a ground cover of snow to provide some insulation to keep the ground from heaving and breaking pipes [all kinds of pipes].

 

Too bad the Super Bowl was here last year. It would have been fun to have had Super Bowl week in Minneapolis this week, with the temperatures getting down to 30 below zero!

 

I am too old for this cold. I topped off my gas tank with only a $12 purchase just in case. Traffic is light. It's no sin to be poor but it is very inconvenient. Tough winter for Indianapolis. Some absenteeism at the warehouse.

 

Cool here in the Pacific NW - high around 50, low around 35. It's always fall here, except for a couple of weeks in the winter and summer.

The Vikings had a natural advantage but ruined it by closing up their stadium. Like cold weather games in the snow myself, Atlanta was cold last week but not THAT cold.

 

Temperature this morning.



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Hmm, It was 56 above zero yesterday here in my corner of western Washington State.

Going to cool off to 51 above today.

OTH we have a measles outbreak in our state

 

I should probably feel guilty for complaining about all these cold days of only upper 60's/lower 70's and nights that would reach freezing if a few degrees lower. But living in Arizona one's blood gets thin...

 

It snowed in Minneapolis AGAIN yesterday. Previously had set a record for February with 39" on the month. With yesterday's snowfall we need to get only 7" more to set an all time season high.

Pic is of next door neighbor's front yard. Note height of snow bank relative to mailboxes.





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I hear ya, I'd say 95% of the time we hit some 80s in February, but zip, and here we are @ March 10th and not an 80s day in the forecast for the next 10 days! Not good for the gardening...

Also got 5 acres of 3' high weeds I'm clearing and expect the desert to burn down this summer.

 

4" yesterday brought snow depth to 41" - be a while before I can till the garden. The pack has a bit over 10" of water in it. An observer 2 towns to my west (and 250 feet higher elev.) reported 47" with 12.85" of water. Hoping for a few dry weeks once the real melt arrives. Do not wish another 1987, when the Kennebec River reached 22 feet above flood stage in downtown Augusta.

 

Amazing, I lived in Montville ME for 15 years. About 20 miles out of Belfast.
I worked at Digital Equipment in Augusta around 1987.

 

On 4/1/87 Augusta's lower bridge across the river had to be closed because water (and the stuff it carried) was beating against the deck. Funneling all traffic up Western Avenue made for a real mess - would've been a major pain getting to the Digital plant. That evening my son and I walked the RR tracks in downtown Gardiner - water was up to the ties, would rise another 2-3 feet overnight. We saw what looked like a small tin-roofed camp sail by, later learned it was a 40' semi trailer, wheels down with air in the front end keeping that part high. Air stunk of gasoline, thanks to low-lying stations being flooded.

 

I don't remember any of that because I probably stayed home. We lived on Bean Rd in Montville elevated a few hundred feet safe from flooding. We lived there 1980 - 1995.

 

We lived in Gardiner at 270' elevation and away from any watercourses. However, the ground was so thoroughly saturated that water came up thru the cracks in our cellar floor. Spooked our dog, who didn't expect wet feet indoors, but easily handled by the passive drain.
Three days before the deluge, we took an airplane look at potential acquisition acres near Chain of Ponds, and could see that Flagstaff Lake (huge storage facility for downstream hydro) was drawn down as far as was practical - could see the thread of the Dead River to within 3 miles of the dam, thanks to ice slumping into the old channel. Hard to comprehend that 4 days later the lake would be so full that the overflow would put 3 feet of water over the campground a mile downstream from the dam.

 

Yes we had a bit of that as well towards Liberty where things flattened out a little bit. Sandy Pond or Liberty Pond (it has 3 names, forgot the 3rd), was affected. It was our favorite ice fishing spot.

 

Eastern WY: Had a drift to the roof line in front of front door/living room window, 10 foot out from house you could see the ground. Never got below 24 but wind drove snow into the soffits/ceiling and dripped down a window on the other side. And that was a light storm even though the media called it a BOMB!