They say although it may be colder in some areas, the overall temperature of the earth is getting warmer. So global warming is smart, basically. A cunning stalker that hides and waits. When the moment is right, all you’ll see is a killer heat wave before it goes back into hiding, waiting to pounce on its next victim.
Nice pictures - took me back to blizzards in the Rochester NY area in the mid-late ‘60s and I remember walking up the drifts and onto buildings and driving in a snow tunnel. Almost ran into a school bus buried on the road - noticed a orange spot where a chunk of snow had popped off the top corner and was able to slow enough to just plow a couple feet into the drift....
I drove from suburban Chicago to Jackson, Michigan and back in that blizzard to attend a seminar, only to bury my car in a snowdrift 150 yards from my driveway.
1977 Buick Regal with limited-slip differential. Best snow car ever.
I drove from suburban Chicago to Jackson, Michigan and back in that blizzard to attend a seminar, only to bury my car in a snowdrift 150 yards from my driveway.
1977 Buick Regal with limited-slip differential. Best snow car ever.
During the 1978 blizzard, my wife and I were living in the basement of our partially completed home. The basement had an old furnace connected to the chimney, providing the only heat in the house. Our two walk out doorways were simply covered by plywood. The snow after the blizzard was 2 feet deep in our backyard. I needed to have a friend with a bulldozer come over to clear the unfinished driveway. (This was the most snow I have ever been in, coming from only one storm.)
I remember a great story about the storm. I had to pick up a visiting professor at the airport whom I had never seen before. I borrowed a 4WD vehicle from work. This was back in the days where you could meet people coming off the plane, so I asked him how I would recognize him. His reply was: "I'll probably be the only 5 foot tall person on the plane with a dark black beard, wearing a raccoon coat and a black yarmulke. So, of course when the 5 foot tall person on the plane with a dark black beard, wearing a raccoon coat and a black yarmulke walked off the plane, I rushed up to him and introduced myself. He didn't have the slightest clue who I was, and brushed me off. I had to wait for the SECOND 5 foot tall person on the plane with a dark black beard, wearing a raccoon coat and a black yarmulke!
For a moment I thought it was about the Great Blizzard of 1888, not 1978. The 1978 blizzard was “proof” we were entering a new ICE AGE!
Honestly, it is touching us here in SoCal. We really do have less rainfall and longer summers (about 6 months now) here than when I was young. But so what? Gd created the universe and we do learn about ecosystems and climate, enough to know that CO2 didn’t cause these changes. Our cars didn’t, either. Weather and climate changes. There is no static proper earth temp. I was going to ask a stegosaurus about this the other day...
Remember well the winter of 1968-1969 when Eastern South Dakota was hard hit with some places having 100” of snow. When I came home from college for Christmas break I saw snow drifts 12-14 feet high in places. Spend Christmas Eve watching the Apollo astronauts orbit the moon while outside there was a howling blizzard dumping even more snow. Christmas Day I spent my time digging out the neighbors. 1978 was a bad year too, but nothing like 1968.
Lots of it here in Alaska, 312 inches as measured by the local ski area. Shoveled 2 feet off my deck and driveway yesterday.
Where my house sits was 3000 feet under a glacier 5 Thousand years ago. Damn the cavemen and their SUV’s