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Yeah, I know there's places a lot colder. I live in a house that's about 60 years old, and before tw's codes were put in place.

Rain here again.
We're immune to floods, living on this little hill, although the water does run down our garden path and give us a little moat to hop over when the weather has been unusually persistent.
I've never known such a prolonged period of wet country-wide.

Uncle Ted's funeral tomorrow. Well, later today really.
The only two black bottoms I have are a long pair of trousers or a very very long skirt.
I got rid of a lot of black clothes which were simply too big.
Both choices are going to act like a wick to soak up all the rain I can hear against my window :eyebrow:

I guess I shouldn't even be contemplating my rockstar trousers...
No.
Stck-heeled boots and rolling over the waistband of the skirt I think.

Still, what a dreary Winter.
I'm looking forward to Spring now, which is not like me. Because I prefer the cold to the wet and the mud. Just that this year it's hard to see how it could get wetter or muddier and at least I'd start leaving the house in the light again.

We could use a bit of that rain here, although a fairly intense low looks like it might bring some in the next week or so.

Will mail you some snow. On track for snowiest month since records began. record currently held by December 2000 -the month before we moved here. University of Michigan is closed tomorrow due to cold. that NEVER happens. Schools would be closed but they already have an off day.

In MS? Holy shit! That qualifies as real winter weather, Buster.

What kind of heat you got, buster?

Gas. Once used wood also. But not able to round up the firewood anymore. Sold my chain saw. Want to buy a used wood heater? :bolt:

Stay warm dude.

Seconded. Single digits above (daytime) and below (night, obviously), here. It's colder farther north in western PA, and the houses don't have insulation. Stay warm, folks ... without bringing the barbeque inside.

Highway patrol map Uncheck some of the shit on left and you can see roads closed and redneck bumper car derby. :jig:

6°, w/windchill of -4° rfn

Brrr.

They are predicting up to 1/4" of ice tomorrow, so I figured I would go online and see who to call when my Internet goes out. But apparently Verizon is concerned with something far more severe:

http://cellar.org/2014/verizonsaturn.jpg

You know, bars, like a signal.

It's the dawning of the Age of Precarious....

What's more current than...

good catch!

That's funny... I went searching earlier in case it was something like that, except I searched for "tropical storm Saturn." Because I apparently don't know what season it is.

We're getting the Ali jab tonight and the Foreman hammer over the weekend.

State of Emergency, I don't even have to take a vacation day!

Looks like we dodged a bullet down here today. They were predicting ice, which is really the worst. But it's mostly just cold rain with an occasional slick spot. The trees have maybe a quarter of an inch of ice on them, which is no biggie. And it's supposed to warm up a few degrees, so even that will melt.

The weekend is sounding interesting though.

Ice isno fun.

Severe icing as predicted.

So far none of the falling trees or branches have hit the house or car. So that's good.

I was able to get out and salt the driveway, and in the meantime I cut all the branches I could reach on the 2" limb leaning on the cable coming to the house. One cable is above the branch, one below it. I don't know if it's power or Internet but either way that would be bad. My chainsaw is electric...

Weird sounds coming from all over as stuff melts and falls. There are two guys on the roof of the three-story apartment building next door. A bad thing probably happened.

I read "500,000 without power in Philly"...then I thought "I wonder if the Cellar is still up?"

And here you are.

Here I am, but the Cellar servers are 30 miles south, in a data center with a big-ass diesel generator for backup power.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays Undertoad from getting it up. http://cellar.org/2012/nono.gif

Been raining very hard here, with high winds for this area.
I arrived at work looking like I was in a wet waitrose uniform contest. Had to go into the disabled toilet and take my shirt off, try to dry it under the hand-drier.
I made sure I switched the chicken rotisserie on well before I went to date-check the items in the chiller.
FSM knows what I'll do if it's like this tomorrow; it's a Bakery shift, so I start half an hour earlier (which means I'm less likely to get in early) and my first stop is the freezer. No choice, no question, straight into -20.

Actually I'll just assume its going to be as bad and wear other clothes to work. And take a towel. The weather report conspired against me this morning, as did a temporary lull while I was getting ready.

One think that did make me chuckle was as I was walking past the mosque on the way home, the wind blew over a recycling bin, out for collection. The chap whose house it was came out in a panic, looked relieved for a second that it was nothing more than the bin, then horrified as paper, cardboard and fast food containers took to the skies, and soft drinks cans skittered away, mosque-bound. As I carried on walking, the last I saw of him was his mad grabbing dance. I did wait a decent distance before sniggering.

Last week's ice storm in Slovenia. No matter how bad it is where you are, just remember it can always be worse.

That guy must be driving someone else's vehicle, like government or company owned... or he's just stupid.

I got myself a second-hand Regatta jacket from eBay.
That's a proper outdoorsy walker kind of jacket and is properly waterproof.
I've only had it a couple of days but it's shaping up to be the best purchase of 2014. Big pats on my well protected back.

Floods are still big news here. They're spreading for a start.
We're so lucky not to be affected, in this town and in this house.
Large areas of the Thames Valley are underwater, as is most of the South-West it seems. And the rain is still falling from a relentlessly grey sky. Being warm and dry seems like a distant memory.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26131515

I saw that video on the Capital Weather Gang website. And there were pictures there too, of people cleaning ice off their cars using ʄucking metal hammers. And one shot showed a smashed rear window. Imagine that. Idiots.

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What a coincidence. I also have a big-ass!

They sent us home early. I would like to thank Suzuki for a kick-ass little car.

I kept hearing a frog.

I've never heard the wind blow this hard against and around the house.
There are serious gusts.
I know I always say it, but I do live in a very protected area, geographically, so this is shocking.

I'm glad the 'rents are moving, despite the stress to me. They don't have to worry abut maintenance any more. And they're not just moving onto another hill, they're also on the first floor (second floor in US terms). They're also right above the offices of the charity they're renting from, so they'll never be stranded without power, because someone will know and come to check on them.

In the mean time, I expect to see trees uprooted when the sun comes up, because the wind is so strong and the ground so sodden. And damage to property; shed roofs and chimneys and fence panels and the like. No fatalities I hope - someone has been killed in London tonight by falling masonry.

Yeah. Was bad here too, but not as bad as last Thursday. That was mental. I was scared to go out with Carrot, because when i did I felt like i was going to be blown over. Then I told myself off for being dramatic. Later, I thought the windos were going to blow in, and again berated myself for being dramatic.

Then on Friday I saw the damage to manchester on the news. People being blown of their feet, uprooted trees, a train station evacuated because the roof was torn off, and a street evacuated because the fronts of three houses were ripped off.

Similar story in parts of Yorkshire.

Round here it looked dramatic, with wheelie bins and garden furniture, roof slates and and the like scattered about, but aside from a couple of uprooted trees and a collapsed wall blocking a road, there wasn't anything major.



100 miles an hour wind. 110 in some parts of coastal Wales.

Last Wednesday, in Shropshire...



It isn't clear what type of building it was that now has a sky view, but the escaping roof didn't look very substantial, did it?

Pretty shoddy...

Dynamite downhill ski conditions today. Went to Greek Peak and made 19 runs for about 10800 ft of elevation skied. Pete's top speed (app on her phone) was 42.5mph not bad fer an old broad. Which reminds me, I'm gassed, good night all. Sposed to be an evil rain coming this week. :(

rain just became snow... mid 50s yesterday to single digits tomorrow morning

And I had just put my Puffy Ass Coat away on Monday. Had to go dig it out of the wardrobe in the basement.

75 here two days ago. High in the low forties yesterday, maybe 50 today...Might oughta keep that bubblegoose handy, Glatt.

Winter, she might not have the same calendar as the rest of us.

65° and byooteefull, today!

The red-winged blackbirds are back, and the Toms and hens are strutting. Spring has arrived.

Tipping it down today. Back to walking to work in the dark since the clocks have gone forward.
Rumours of sunshine to come later in the week, so I'm hoping my mornings will soon be full of light and life.

Starts this week are:
Tuesday, 06.30 - dark
Wednesday, 06.30 - dark
Thursday, 06.00 - dark and miserable
Friday, 09.30 - light but in a cheaty way
Saturday, sleepy time!
Sunday, 09.00 - light but it's a customer-facing day again, so I have to hope its not monsoon weather

Getting to work in wet trousers and runny make-up doesn't bode well for a nine hour shift...

The Ac's humming along and the damn meter. When younger I never wore more that long sleeve shirt where it was above 50, Now I look like I'm going to the arctic. Same with the heat. Joys of old age. MPS cain't make up their minds about letting MP&L charge us for the ton of cost overruns at their new plant. Just a few billions of bucks. Guess when money changes hands I'll find out.

Buster, the A/C is good for you, and if you weren't spending your money on that you'd be spending it on things that are bad for you... very bad for you. :haha:

But look at the fun I'll miss.:meanface:

Welp, spring's over. 90 degrees outside today.

3 inches of rain here yesterday. Showers again, off and on, today.

One more night like the last 2 and I'm going to cover the damn AC up again. 46 last night.
Nice sleeping weather. :jig:

Flash flood watch here tonight, and probably for much of the Eastern US.

4 plus inches of rain expected tonight. Make sure those drains aren't blocked with leaves.

Chilly here today, 58°, and that's prolly all it's gonna do.

91° today, gonna feel like 98°, says Accuweather.

:greenface

Gosh, it's nice in here. :haha:

86F/ 14 MPH South.

It's 93 right now. Feels like too damn hot....UGH!!!

Gonna be nice here today, tops out in the high 70s.

Beautiful morning. Slightly cool. Crisp. Light breeze.

It's a nice change from the last few sweltering days.

awesome out up here too. And I'm off at 1pm. Woot.