Denise, it's the first snow that's amounted to anything all season. Previously we'd get an inch or two, and in a few days it would be gone and the ground would be bare for a week or so. This is only a big deal to the media because (well, they need something to panic over) it's the first significant snowfall this year and it's late in coming. I have a whole-house generator so not worried about losing power, besides I live down in a hole and don't get any wind.
That's good Bruce, glad to hear it. Some of the videos and photos are pretty scarey to me anyway! Also, spoke to a friend in Florida that had tornados very close to them so that area is on my "watch" list as well. We had a slight earthquake lastnight, well, should say this a.m. around 4-5 o'clock. Only, out of the ordinary, that's happened here lately.
we got dusting of snow.....the birds are all over the feeders...squirrels on their feeders and peanuts
It's so beautiful. When I was working, I'd be one of the few who showed up in this kind of weather because a 4x4 is a tank when the bed has a half ton of snow in it. Not only was it fun to drive in, there would be no other traffic.
He's great, isn't he? I liked his explanation of one weather system literally "bouncing" off of another like an irregularly-shaped ball (as this storm did when it screamed through the mid west and hit a system in the gulf of Mexico.) I've never known that. But in all fairness to the tv weather guys, they aren't given 15 minutes of time to explain a single storm in detail like that. And they're paid to tell us that we're all gonna die this afternoon, and to tune in tomorrow for details Regarding the earthquake: I don't know how specifically you've disclosed your location here on this public forum, but was that east coast or west coast? I'm real near the epicenter of that 5.8 we had in August of 2011 and I get USGS alerts...I've seen nothing recently.
Hi John, yes, I though he gave all weathermen pretty good thumbs-up, he's smart as a whip but still has humility, love that! I liked the bouncing ball and the blue blobs descriptions! LOL! Those are the tekkie terms I can understand I'm on the West Coast John just 1.5 miles inland from the beach. We actually had 2 extra feet of water, I heard, down on our beaches after that Volcano went of in, was it Tongkin I think? Some island I'd never even heard of, probably a lot of those Edit: 1.5 miles not 1/5th, oops Also, I am way up NW corner of CA, almost to Oregon, my home-State. Wouldn't be here if I wasn't so rooted in. I would move back to Oregon, maybe Idaho but anymore, there's no place to hide from what is happening to our world is there.
I just watched his new vid @John Brunner so I'm getting his alerts like I should, yeehaw!! This one started out pretty funny too, not the bad weather, but the guy communicating with Ryan on what he's observing first-hand:
Yeh, my roots in Virginia go back until I was 9 years old. I've stayed here because of inertia, because I bought a house there when I was pretty young, and because the ever-expanding DC area job market kept me hanging around. Until things got hyper-crowded, I'd always be at the museums or the art galleries or even hanging around the monuments late on a weekday summer evening, watching the bats eat the bugs in the halogen spotlights in memory of our past presidents. The most recent administration here might have pushed me elsewhere, but I'm not gonna be corralled into a smaller area so we can be more easily controlled. I'm staying put and fighting as best I am able, disrupting their echo-chamber whenever possible. Regarding, Tonga: Don Alaska started a thread about that volcano. I found a brief video of it that was captured by a Japanese weather satellite. Fascinating stuff. Here's the thread. I enjoy this kind of stuff because it is eternal, regardless of which class of humans tries to crap on things in the moment.
I hear that John on staying put, I'm standing my ground here, with other conservatives in California. Yep, we have some, fighting the good fight Thank you for the link, I'm headed over there now.
A little more snow overnight. Possibly mixed with freezing rain---a frozen crust on the deck this morning. That's enough. Let's not overdo it.
Hi dudes and dude'ettes! It's so lovely today I woke up at about 8, slept in, but it was 56 degrees so I figured we might have a warm one Sun was out already, and even at just 56 it was really wonderful out there. Mimi and I took a good walk about 11:30 though, and I made this little video, silly, but thought it would be kinda fun to do By the way, I did say I didn't "like living in this small-town" but it's not because it's small, it's because it is too far from a bigger town that has more to offer as far as medical/dental facilities, and better shopping opportunities
OK, it is to the point no one trusts the local forecasts around here. Check one site and it is going to be -20 for two days next week, another it will be -4 or there abouts. One minute they say snow, the next it misses us. Fingers crossed your electric stays sound. It would be bad for us too if it went down for too long.
When I lived outside of DC, I had 4 great supermarkets and many nice restaurants less than a mile from my house. Just driving another 2-3 miles increased my choices exponentially. I used to go to the museums and art galleries in DC, sometimes driving there during a bored summer's weeknight to sit by the lighted monuments contemplating life and watching the bats eat the bugs that were attracted to the spotlights. I've been fossil hunting with the Smithsonian. I've been to book lectures. I did all sorts of stuff. Now I'm in a county that offers none of that. A couple of election cycles ago I went to a political debate at a college a little over an hour's drive from here, located in a larger town. When I left the event I was talking to a retired guy who lived in the adjoining neighborhood. He walked to the event, and was telling me of others like it (free lectures on a whole bunch of stuff) he could just walk to whenever he wanted. I was wondering if I made the right choice, as I headed to my car to drive the one hour back to my secluded spot. Then I got into their traffic. Eight o'clock at night, and I just sat waiting for my turn to crawl through the intersections. And then there's the noise. I was damn glad to get home. When I want that stuff, I'll drive to it, but I ain't gonna live in it. COVID made me even more gladder I don't live in a crowded area.