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Old 12-09-2014, 12:49 PM   #751
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Just threw the km right out the window, huh?

Poor little km.

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Old 12-10-2014, 08:54 AM   #752
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Good luck Limey!

Snow day here, crappy roads but not much accumulation.
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Old 12-10-2014, 08:56 AM   #753
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Wind, rain, sleet, hail, wind, big waves, high tide, wind. No power outage yet (that'll be when I decide to do some baking later, no doubt).
This is a little unusual, though "The MV Caledonian Isles has had to leave Ardrossan as it was unsafe to remain there and is now berthed in Brodick."
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Old 12-10-2014, 09:28 AM   #754
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That's the power gone ...


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Old 12-10-2014, 09:46 AM   #755
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Sounds exciting, stay dry!
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Old 12-10-2014, 10:27 AM   #756
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Got the power back for now. Oh, I'm not in a hurry to go anywhere tonight and the house is 130m above sea-level, so we should avoid the high tide OK!


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Old 12-10-2014, 01:09 PM   #757
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With the high wind from the northwest it's probably pushing the waves from North Bay right into the marina at Ardrossan.
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Old 12-10-2014, 01:20 PM   #758
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Well, yes. Usually the boat "shelters" at Brodick when the weather is lively, so we were a little puzzled to discover that she was away over there. Brodick is far easier to get in and out of, that wee wiggle coming into Ardrossan can prove very entertaining. She has to come into the harbour at quite a lick and then do a handbrake turn pretty sharpish.
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Old 12-10-2014, 03:38 PM   #759
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Christ, that would scare the barnacles right off the keel.

Maybe they were at Ardrossan when the weather blew up but the captain's girlfriend is at Brodick, I hear there's a lot of hot ladies on Arran.
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Old 12-11-2014, 01:46 PM   #760
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66 degrees and raining sideways yesterday, a new high temperature record. today, 30-40 mph high wind warning in effect with gusty winds to 65 mph predicted.
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Old 12-11-2014, 01:48 PM   #761
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Christ, that would scare the barnacles right off the keel.

Maybe they were at Ardrossan when the weather blew up but the captain's girlfriend is at Brodick, I hear there's a lot of hot ladies on Arran.
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Old 12-11-2014, 02:38 PM   #762
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today, 30-40 mph high wind warning in effect with gusty winds to 65 mph predicted.
Paraphrasing Jerry Reed in "Smokey & The Bandit" (1,2, & 3):

"Hold on to your ass, Ed."[/JR]
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Old 12-11-2014, 06:14 PM   #763
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Snow light, snow bright,
The first snow I saw last night
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wished all night.
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Old 12-11-2014, 07:46 PM   #764
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Good luck Limey!

Snow day here, crappy roads but not much accumulation.
Except that it kept coming. Storm total just shy of 10"

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Old 12-12-2014, 01:59 AM   #765
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You're what, 13 or 14 hundred feet there? Chillier than down here.
When I got home about 3:30 this afternoon, it was 32 degrees and the half inch of snow was gone, except on the evergreen trees.
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