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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
The local talk show had the topic yesterday of 'why can't KC drivers remember how to drive in the snow from one year to the next? Why can't they remember from one storm to the next in the same year? Discussion was good but there appeared to be no clear consensus but all concurred that it was the other drivers that were the ones with defective winter driving skills.
I was thinking along the lines of something with lots of sulfur compounds...
JWs.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Howdy, howdy! Welcome to the Hobbit Hole!
*snort*
Evening - we turned on the TV to see the news on the storms; plenty of coverage on the ice in OK and floods in TX.
How's your side of the town?
We saw a snow plow down our street, yes we did.
Rain has moved off to the east for now, nothing happening here right now except the temperature dropping. It's down to 36°F currently.
Here are some pictures...this is the limb that broke right when I posted earlier. It hit the gutter and didn't cause a bit of damage...it actually got caught on one the pillars of the tree fort and it's holding it up and keeping it from breaking more and hitting the fence.
This is what the ice looked like on the limbs at midday. Another wave of freezing rain came through after I took this picture, so there's about half as much more on the limbs now...they're really sagging, but holding up so far...
We're glad to know you're on the high ground. 36 degrees is getting right chilly for your area. Friend of ours just moved there from southern LA, don't think he'll be amused.
Oops...ping to the above pictures.
It's 26°F here and supposed to drop to the low 20s. All that white you see isn't but maybe 1% snow...it's all ice pellets and ice sheets.
It's supposed to get up to 24°F tomorrow and then another, possibly more severe storm is coming through. With wind. That's gonna leave a mark. The trees and power lines will have a hard time taking wind.
That should be the last storm, but it's going to be bitter cold...down in the single digits at night. So the ice won't melt for a while...a long while.
That is quite a picture, glad no real damage was done.
Roads are pretty clear...had several trucks come by looking for something to scrape and dropping salt. I guess I coulda made a bread/milk/egg run if I had to.
I ran out of sudafed!! Put it on my list of "Don't ever go into a potential disaster situation without" list. He heh!
I ended up finding some in the very back of the bathroom drawer.
LOL!! I love it. If you'd driven up in My Precious, it woulda been perfect...
Heh. I forgot to check the dental floss. Fortunately, I've got enoughfor a few days.
Just a tiny bit of freezing rain here. But maybe this is a chance for me to drag out my soapbox, and expound on my theory of "preparedness" that's counter-intuitive, and contradictory to what we pay our government to tell us.
I prefer Cycalume light sticks and LED lanterns to candles and oil or Coleman lamps for illumination. I'm not a big fan of open flames in a house (birthday cakes excepted), or the heat they generate on hot, powerless summer nights.
"Survival candles", are another matter, however. They're short, fat, candles in metal cans that are used more for heating and cooking. Most are big enough to burn for 20-40 hours. They should be part of your bail-out bag. There is also "survival sterno", a gelled alcohol, that comes with a folding "stove", and is very low in carbon monoxide emissions.
Bottled water, bought by the case, is the cheapest "survival tool" out there. Costco sells a case of 35 half-liter bottles for about $6. Plan on two cases per person. I keep my inventory fresh by keeping some in the refirgerator, and drinking it before and after cutting the lawn in the summer. The "boil water advisory" is a real pain, especially if you have no energy source to boil that dubious tap water. It's far easier to just twist off a cap.
You can't have enough redundancy. Disposable butane lighters are the best source of fire, but "lifeboat" matches and fire starters are needed as backups. For light, LED flashlights should be supplemented by lightsticks, which can be stashed in all sorts of odd locations, increasing redundancy. Upgrade your Maglites to LED, or buy some of the newer, less expensive ones coming out all the time now. The lamps and batteries last almost forever, adding to reliability, and offsetting the initial cost.
"Paint Your Wagon" (They Call the Wind Maria) comes on TCM at 10:30 EST.
Brr. Cold here. We finally have a little bit of snow, maybe an inch. Talon and I went out for dinner. It was a year ago today that we got officially engaged. In real life, not online.
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