It is snowing; not hard but it is accumulating and the roads are getting slippery. This is supposed to be the light part with heavy snow beginning around 4 PM. I guess we beat you for accumulating snow @Ken Anderson. The ground is frozen, so I assume it will stick around for a while if not all winter.
Today, we're having our first snow accumulating on the ground. The last one melted as it hit the ground.
Our temps are gonna hit the mid-teens over the next 10 days, but there's no precip in the forecast. Often, when the clouds move in, they provide insulation so the temps stay at-or-above freezing and we'll get cold rain rather than the white stuff. But even that's not gonna happen for the foreseeable future.
We lost power yesterday afternoon, probably due to the heavy (wet) snow. It was still out at 2 a.m. but on again when I woke up at about 4 a.m. This morning was the first time I've had to shovel this year. Some of it is melting today, but it's only a few degrees above freezing so I'm sure it won't all be gone by nightfall.
It is a newer trend to do cardio and then jump into an ice bath. Just think about it; In a way you’re doing both at once which makes you so, like, totally up on the latest health fads dude !
I used to do that. -Raquetball for an hour. -Jump into cold water. -Jump into a hot tub. -Back into the cold water. -Wonder when you'll be too old to take the cardio risk.
I don’t want to find out. I might have written about it before but…… When I was Very young, we went to visit some of our relatives in Moose Jaw, Sas (Canada). Now, I’m not sure what culture started it but on a very snowy morning, a bunch of the guys, including this naive lad, went to some remote steam lodge where the guys, sans clothing sat around, drank a lot and practiced their one-up manship or rather, told bigger lies than the guy before him. At some point, I guess the guys got tired of talking and drinking because the flap on the lodge came open and everyone dove out into the snow including my unwillingly self who was helped by someone throwing me butt over tea kettle out into the freezing mix. Since then, I have been in the snow on many occasions but not once, nay, not even a part of once have I thought of getting naked in the stuff ever again.
There was a story similar to @Bobby Cole's that was told here. Not a personal experience, but there was a sauna shack on the Kenai Peninsula that was on public property and used by the locals. Two couples who had been friends for several years thought thy would share a sauna. It was on a slope that was skiable, so the men went to the top, leaving one vehicle at the bottom of the hill taking the other to the top. They used cross country skis since the slope was not steep and skied to the shack where they deposited wine and some firewood, and started a fire inn the sauna. The men skied to the bottom and went home to pick up their wives. The couples then repeated the process, leaving one vehicle at the bottom and went to the top to ski down. Upon arriving at the sauna, which was now fairly warm. They stokes the fire a bit and opened the wine, disrobing and leaving the skis and boots outside. After a couple glasses of wine, someone got the idea to chop a hole in the ice in the small pond outside the shack and jump in. The couples left the shack and ran naked to the pond to engage in the Finnish custom of jumping into water or snow, then returning to the sauna to warm up and dry off. When the couples climbed out of the water, they noticed the sauna shack ablaze with their clothes inside. In a panic they tried unsuccessfully to extinguish the fire. Four naked people nearing hypothermia with nothing but skis and boots. There was a thought that one of the men could ski down and get clothes' and return, with the others warming themselves by the heat of the burning sauna. That was rejected in favor of all four skiing down to the vehicle at the bottom of the hill and warming in the running car. In a very stressful trip, they skied to the bottom of the hill only to discover that the keys to the car were in their clothes that burned in the shack. The four saw no alternative but to ski down to the bottom of the hill and hope they could find someone to help. At the bottom of the hill was a small church that was holding a women's Bible study group, and the foursome flagged down a lady on her way home. The church lady gave them a blanket--she only had one in her car--and drove them to the local hospital in Soldotna where they were treated for hypothermia and mild frostbite and released.
I've never combined the experience with a sauna, but I did jump into a hole in the ice one winter. Menominee, Michigan, did that yearly, like many other Northern communities, although only about twenty people participated. At that time, they cut two large holes in the ice on Lake Michigan, and participants would dive into one and come up in the other. They had a barricade in place so that you couldn't overshoot the exit hole. I was only 17, so a cardiac episode wasn't likely, but it sure was a rush. Someone would wait with a warm towel once you came up, but that was still an experience.
Nope. I am sitting here IN my HOUSE in fleece lined jeans and half dressed in winter attire (not always wearing my coat) which I will basically keep on until MAY. I try not even getting splashed when watering the animals.