Posted on 02/05/2008 6:15:06 AM PST by rellimpank
We're in bull's-eye, expert says
Winter-weary Wisconsinites could rightly grouse about La Niña, or complain about devilish upper-level air patterns, as they prepare for yet another snowstorm, one predicted to pile another 10 inches on already snowbound areas.
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Lucky bastards, we never get a decent snow here in central NC. I will say though its 75 degrees here today, hehehehe.
We’re going to be in the 70s today. Normal high is the 40s. Expecting to set records all over the place.
OMG!!!!! GLOBAL WARMING ALERT!!!!!!
Here in Washington our mountains are at 150% - 200% of normal, with another 50 inches expected by the end of the week. I have never seen anything like it. We are talking 20 feet of snow with 30 foot drifts at the snoqualmie pass ski area. Many cabins and cars cannot be seen because they are under the snow.
MGD always says he'd love a word or two with his ancestors who settled here--He imagined them saying, "Ach! It's yust like da olt country!"
To which he would have replied -"Yeah, the old country SUCKED--that's why you left it!!!"
The last memorable snowfall was 78-79, IIRc. Every weekend for 4-5 weeks we’d leave work, stop and buy groceries, then stay home. I lived in a 2-story condo at the time and could only see the neighbor’s unit (25’ away) from my second-story window. There was a single path shoveled out between units through 10’ high drifts so we could get to our front doors.
They ran out of room in mall parking lots to pile the snow and had to begin hauling it away. People drove with flags & stuff hanging from their antennas & CB radio masts so they’d be seen at intersections because of the piles of snow. You even had to watch for large piles of snow along the roads because they could contain buried vehicles. Toward the end, when they began getting highways cleared, I decided to visit my Mom in SE Wisconsin, just to get out of the house. I was on Hwy 23 North going toward Harvard, IL and hit a stretch of 5 miles where there was only one lane, with 12-15’ drifts both sides. Fortunately, I meet a vehicle going South until I was out of the single-lane section.Now, that was a winter! We haven’t seen anything remotely like it since. This year, which pales in comparison, is the closest I can remember. I do believe, however, there was a year in the late 80’s that had some heavy snow, but we were out of state then.
She is right to be concerned. There are too many stupid people out there that can hit you when they do stupid things driving in snow.
we broke down and bought our first snowblower in December. My husband had already had enough. Of course, that first storm was wet and heavy and lots of it!!
La Nina is weather, El Nino is climate.
Were those ancestors names Sven, Ole or Lars by any chance? :)
We’re not gonna get it today. It’s supposed to be in the 70s in Richmond.
One of my co-workers also drives in from Columbus, and likes to brag about his 4wd vehicle. He found out a couple of weeks ago that 4wd is worthless on ice! Hit an ice patch near the Diesel Driving School just outside of Sun Prairie. Now he’s driving a rental car until he works out the insurance details and gets it fixed! :-)
And ours gave out after 17 years. Now the stores only have top-on-the-line blowers on the floor for mega bucks. I can't shovel because of heart problems and the wife has arthritis. But a couple neighbors are helping out. We're going to get another blower at the end of the season.
--here in the land of Art Bell and Heidi Fleiss it's cold , too--will only get to about 60F today---
It’s 73 today and very sunny in SE VA.
Just letting you know ( -;
Tired of hearing about the midwest and east coast winter. My home in Idaho has four feet of snow in the yard...shoveled roofs....cannot see out the windows. Rest of the nation gets weather coverage....not the pacific northwest. Brian Williams (gasp) even got a letter from someone in the northwest last week. Here, the storms come and go...we accept winter and can deal with it.
Glad you have some good neighbors! My husband is using the new snowblower to also help one of our neighbors. She gave him a 12-pack as a thank you! At the rate he drinks, he’ll probably still have some left by Spring! :-)
We buy a 6 pack of Heineken for the neighbor next door. He has a plow on the front of his pickup and does our driveway. He says we don't have to do that, but we are happy to. The one two doors down who blows the sidewalk wants banana bread. So be it!
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