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Title: Zipporah Iced in With No Power in Northern Ky. How's the weather where you are?
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Published: Feb 14, 2007
Author: christine
Post Date: 2007-02-14 11:03:35 by christine
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At least Zip's got gas so she has hot water and can cook on her stovetop. A kerosene heater is all she's got to keep warm as long as the kerosene holds out. There are power outages all over so it could be days before electricity is restored.
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#31. To: rowdee (#27)
One of the first things I noticed when I moved to South Dakota was the little dings I saw in cars parked in a mall parking lot. I told my wife "they must let their kids run amuck with B-B guns around here". Little did I know... Several months later, a horrible hailstorm brushed the northern suburbs of Rapid City, causing damage similar to what you cited: smashed windows and windshields; amazing destruction for a relatively small storm. They had to call out the plows to scrape the deep hail off of the Interstate. We never suffered any damage with out there, though...but with two weeks to go until moving day in Tennessee, a very localized hail event went right over my damn house, and dinged my Toyota all to hell, after five years of hail-free weather. Go figure. (Let me tell you...the racket of all that hail hitting my house was deafening, and had my cats completely freaked out.)
Vacationed in SD last summer. Rental car had recent hail damage according to the retail agreement . . . and hood to tail dents. Don't think that I'd want to live in an area where ice falling from the sky is a regular event. Richard W.
Then there are the tornadoes...not to mention the good 'ol fashioned high plains blizzards. One year was enough.
And so you know what I was talkin about! And I know about the sound on the roof. At the ranch we had composition roof, but here I have metal....I really don't want to go thru another one of those, even without having my kitties any longer! I think back to the days in So-Cal when my husband would come home on the weekends from his work down in Palm Springs and he'd talk about the sandstorms--the damaged cars, etc. We had an acquaintance that had rented a car back in NY or some New England state to drive back to So-Cal rather than fly. And she took the southern route and out somewhere in the Coachella Valley she hit a sandstorm and it took the paint off that car! So there are quirky weather things just about everywhere.
So you were the one.
Zippy the Ice Queen :P
About twenty years ago, my wife and I were driving from New Hampshire to San Diego. While barreling across the So Cal desert on Interstate 8, I noticed a 'cloud' at ground level several miles in the distance. I thought it was a sandstorm, and I knew what it was going to do to the paint on my brand-new Toyota van. Turns out it wasn't sand, it was...BUTTERFLIES! Thousands and thousands of them. It took months before we were able to clean the last traces of splattered butterflies and all-around goop off the van...what a mess!
Two degrees this morn in Colorado Springs, got a little sun but by noon the icey clouds rolled in and it's spitting snow now. Supposed to get more in the next few days. Gad - we were just starting to thaw out of the last two months of artic ice. The roads here are in terrible shape terrific pot holes and destroyed lanes of major roads aroung the city. Gonna cost millions to repair. But the ciy council just gave juicy raises to the city manager - $188,000/yr plus juicy benefits all the while saying there's just not enough money.
LOL I was actually surprised at how many tourists were there. Richard W.
"Guayaquil" actually, but yes.
puke - same here
According to Colorado's 'Comprehensive Annual Financial Report'; the state has a 6 BILLION dollar surplus that they currently "aren't using".
S Dakota is actually a great place to visit - as you know. There is just about no crime, usually clean and good heartland folks.
36 and breezy, with a wad of freezing rain the next county over. I'm eating pizza heated in the wood stove. Monday's storm knocked down some medium sized oak branches, pieces of which have the stove radiating nicely.
Hope she has dogs; they keep you very warm at night. Except pugs, which are almost completely worthless since they want to sleep in your armpit, where it's already warm.
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
& deg; without the space will produce the degree sign: ° If that doesn't work then just use & #176;
God is always good! yep, the entire northeast has.
34° here in austin right now. thanks, ricky.
resourceful ;)
Right Now for Wilmington, DE Light Snow 21°F Feels Like 5°F Spent an hour removing ice from cars.
that's what you've got a son for. you're not supposed to be out in that cold!
I am in Colorado and it's been really warm for us too. I think that's why we've had all the snow. When it's zero to 10 below for eight to ten weeks the air dry and it never snows. That's the way it used to be here. What we've been getting for the past two years is 40 degree weather with short cold snaps that last for a day or two. Snows like hell when the cold hits the warm moist air.
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We're getting something I have rarely seen...heavy snow with REALLY cold weather mixed in. Usually, it's relatively warm when it snows, in the 20s. Now we're getting heavy snow and wind combined with temps in the single digits. Not a nice combo. It's still snowing lightly here, but the temp is about 8 degrees.
Those cheap fares to Mexico are quite tempting.
Everyone here dreams of going to Hawaii. I spent a lot of time in California where everyone thinks Hawaii sucks. So it's weird to hear these people go on. All the young women I interact with here plan to move to Hawaii as soon as they finish blah, blah blah.
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The model says that the northern north American shield is supposed to get more like Siberia. Blazing hot in the summer with short, very frigid cold snaps in the winter as severe artic storms come through. The east coast temperature is supposed to drop over the next few years until the climate is like the UK. The UK will become more like Norway.
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poor Zip - I hope she's doing ok. ice is nasty, not much you can do but stay indoors until it melts. I don't miss living in the north in the winter (and when I say north I only mean D.C. - that's how much I don't like cold and ice and snow). today in Alabama we had flurries - I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! but it didn't amount to anything at all. I hope Zip has lots of wine and scented candles and just enjoys this break from technology and the modern world. on the plus side, she'll miss the news for a couple of days :)
I hope Zip has lots of wine and scented candles and just enjoys this break from technology and the modern world. on the plus side, she'll miss the news for a couple of days :) If your OK prepared it can be a pretty interesting time. Back to basics. Gotta keep water handy. Zip will be fine - she is a straight thinking women.
We got dumped on pretty good here in Ft. Wayne starting early Tues. AM & ending Wed. about 4 AM. The blizzard warning expired 7 AM Wed. For a while, I guess we were under a level 3 snow emergency. (Basiclly martial law, only government employees are allowed out, everyone else is subject to arrest and vehicle seizure.) All manufacturing was shut down starting with the 2nd shift Tues. and not resuming until at least 2nd shift Wed. A lot of them remained closed until this morning. (You know it's bad when the companies give up a whole day of their precious profits.) I don't know how much snow we really got, but I'd guess about a foot, but it was a really dense, heavy, granular snow, kind of like sand. The temps here have been just brutally cold for about three weeks now, dipping well below zero almost every day. Thankfully, yesterday the winds died down and the temp rose to a blistering 20 degrees with sunny skies, making the Herculean task of digging out not quite so dangerous. The snow was driven by really high winds. Depending on where you were standing, there could be no snow, or as much as 4 feet. The average on my property was about 16 inches. My 19 year-old snow thrower really earned it's keep this year. I can't tell you how glad I am that I took the time to tweak that thing up this fall, otherwise I'd probably be stuck inside the fence until Spring.
oh my. i'm so glad i'm in central texas.
I spoke with Zip on the phone last night. The electric company had been by earlier in the day, but weren't able to restore their power. She was miserable..very cold.
Yes, we enjoyed it very much. The was also very enlightening. I found that I could barely order a cup of coffee at Hartsfield without speaking Indian or Pakistani, nor was it all that easy to order lunch at Wall Drug where most of the employees were East European "students". Wall Drug, out in the middle on nowhere, importing cheap labor by the plane load. Who could ever imagine. Richard W.
The wifey was like a caged wild animal. Not being able to jump in her car and do as she pleases for two whole days really unhinged her. She's gonna have a hard time adjusting to life in a Freedom & Liberty Camp when the day comes.
It seems the phone lines are always the last to go. Whatever the phone companies are doing to protect their lines the electric companies should copy if possible.
God is always good! i just called her and her power was restored in the middle of the night. she's back at work today.
Thank GOD and the power company I now have HEAT!! There are still 30,000 businesses and homes in my area that are still w/o power! Thankfully I'm not one of them :P
Excellent news!* Although I've always thought you have a substantial amount of natural heat anyway... :P
Uhem .. Had to stay home yesterday .. very boring.. just tried to stay warm :P
They call me the "Human Furnace" :P
You'd be safe and warm, if you were in L.A.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestI can remember a hail storm in Montana back in 78 or maybe 79, where we had hail the size of snowballs!
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#32. To: who knows what evil (#31)
I noticed when I moved to South Dakota was the little dings I saw in cars
#33. To: Arete (#32)
Don't think that I'd want to live in an area where ice falling from the sky is a regular event.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#34. To: who knows what evil (#31)
#35. To: Arete (#32)
Vacationed in SD last summer.
#36. To: christine, Zipporah (#0)
Zipporah Iced in
#37. To: rowdee (#34)
I think back to the days in So-Cal when my husband would come home on the weekends from his work down in Palm Springs and he'd talk about the sandstorms--the damaged cars, etc.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#38. To: christine (#0)
#39. To: tom007 (#35)
So you were the one.
#40. To: tom007 (#25)
#41. To: tom007 (#38)
But the ciy council just gave juicy raises to the city manager - $188,000/yr plus juicy benefits all the while saying there's just not enough money.
#42. To: tom007 (#38)
Gonna cost millions to repair. But the ciy council just gave juicy raises to the city manager - $188,000/yr plus juicy benefits all the while saying there's just not enough money.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#43. To: Arete (#39)
#44. To: christine (#0)
#45. To: christine (#0)
#46. To: christine (#12)
"It was an interesting day." - President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02]
#47. To: Mekons4 (#30)
I may hate this weather right now, but compared to the average winter, we got off easy so far.
#48. To: RickyJ (#46)
#49. To: RickyJ (#46)
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#50. To: DeaconBenjamin (#44)
Monday's storm knocked down some medium sized oak branches, pieces of which have the stove radiating nicely.
#51. To: christine (#48)
34° here in austin right now.
#52. To: HOUNDDAWG (#51)
#53. To: Mekons4 (#30)
#54. To: ... (#53)
#55. To: ... (#53)
we've been getting for the past two years is 40 degree weather with short cold snaps that last for a day or two. Snows like hell when the cold hits the warm moist air.
#56. To: tom007 (#55)
#57. To: Mekons4 (#54)
#58. To: christine (#0)
#59. To: kiki (#58)
,don't miss living in the north in the winter (and when I say north I only mean D.C. - that's how much I don't like cold and ice and snow). today in Alabama we had flurries - I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! but it didn't amount to anything at all.
#60. To: christine (#0)
NEVER FORGET!
#61. To: Esso (#60)
#62. To: All (#60)
#63. To: tom007 (#43)
a great place to visit
#64. To: christine (#61)
NEVER FORGET!
#65. To: christine (#62)
I spoke with Zip on the phone last night. The electric company had been by earlier in the day, but weren't able to restore their power. She was miserable..very cold.
"It was an interesting day." - President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02]
#66. To: Esso, Zipporah's back! (#64)
#67. To: christine, ALL (#0)
#68. To: Zipporah (#67)
Thank GOD and the power company I now have HEAT!!
#69. To: Peetie Wheatstraw (#68)
#70. To: Zipporah (#69)
Had to stay home yesterday .. very boring.. just tried to stay warm :P
#71. To: Zipporah (#69)
Had to stay home yesterday .. very boring.. just tried to stay warm
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