Cold Snowy Winter Comin'............ Git Ready

[IrishHeart]

Touché, you little beeyatch! Ha, ha! It's the polar vortex for you!

 

hahaha!

I   you too, you crazy NOO Englundah. 

Make a snow angel for me. 

[nvsmom]

We're back to winter again here too. Light snow and somewhere around -16C with a windchill. Brrr. The roads are a hazard now with the snow, melting and re-freezing, my road has 8 inches of ice on it with ruts.I t's so slick that if you get stuck in a rut, it's tough to get back out - even with my studded tires.  Kinda fun though.

 

Oh well, better now than April.  

[Gemini]

It's been mighty chilly here too, Nicole.  For much longer periods than the norm. However, there is no 8 inches of ice on the roads.  I have so much respect for Canadians.....they are tough when it comes to winter. You even manage to find the fun in it and yes, I like driving in the snow.  It can be very fun!

[Adalaide]

I'm so glad I'm not in the range of that evil vortex. Vortex just sounds like an evil word too. It's a gloomy day today and we expect rain, but it's rain! It's mid-30's and will probably end up making for some slick overnight and morning travel but I can't be bothered to worry about that since I don't send my husband out in it until the roads have had a chance to be cleared.

[IrishHeart]

Gloomy, rainy, foggy and 66. Blech.

Good day for ducks.

 

My cousin (lives in NH) vacationing in Myrtle beach reports the impossible was supposed to happen........light snow. ugh

Yeah, she's thrilled.  she has not told me anything yet....

[Adalaide]

Maybe she should have come to visit you instead. With this crazy weather at least she would have had a better shot at escaping winter.

[bartfull]

Myrtle Beach doesn't look like fun. The weather is better here in South Dakota right now!

 

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[IrishHeart]

Maybe she should have come to visit you instead. With this crazy weather at least she would have had a better shot at escaping winter.

 

She is staying there for a month while they break ground for building her house.(I TOLD them to build down here , but ...) 

I can only imagine what she's thinking right now.

I suspect I'll be getting an email full of expletives any minute.

 

Myrtle Beach doesn't look like fun. The weather is better here in South Dakota right now!

 

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That looks more like Cape Cod right now.. Yikes.

[nvsmom]

I guess the polar vortex has broken up but now we got the cold weather again! It has been COLD for a few days with high temps around -20C and a bit of a windchill that took it down into the minus 30's.  Brrr. My car doesn't like it. Even though I had the car's block heater plugged in, and I let it run 5 minutes before I drove, it was still cold enough that the power steering and brakes took a few blocks to thaw out enough to work.  LOL

 

It's warmer today. It's -22C at the moment but it's supposed to warm up to -12C. It feels warm. The boys and I were outside in pj's earlier putting Canada flags into the snow on the yard whereas if we'd trie that a couple of days ago we would have been shivering for half an hour afterwards... scratch that, we wouldn't have gone out in only pj's a few days ago. LOL

 

It's a shame Calgary doesn't have the Olympics this year - we have great conditions for it!

[mommida]

The schools have run out of snow days.  The roads have been plowed well enough to have school today even though the wind chill was at negative 22 degrees.

 

More snow for Saturday!  We are going to be battling flooding when all this (record setting)  starts to melt.

[Adalaide]

Send it here!!! We don't have nearly enough. We're going to have our third year with not enough snow, which will mean another bad fire season. We had some overnight. (I wasn't thrilled, had to drive home from some stupid sleep study, clean off my Jeep at 6:30 in the freakin morning. Is that even a time of day?) But it still just isn't enough. Overall for the state we're only at 76% snowpack, and that's with one county at 106%, which is the only one that has enough. Most are in the 70s, some in the 60s.

 

And it's still the law that you are required to keep your lawn green! I still can't figure Utah out. If the grass don't grow cause God didn't see fit to send rain for it, then he didn't mean for grass to grow there. But zero-scaping is illegal in front yards, so is edible landscaping. In the same newscast in the summer they'll be all blah blah blah conserve water, while talking about how to do so while watering our lawns. Here's an idea, DON'T WATER LAWNS.

[mommida]

I wish we could ship some of the extra snow off to states that need it (in this situation)., not from having Nestle pump off the Great Lakes and sell it. All the extra snow might stave off some of the damage Nestle has been doing.  The Great Lakes have been shrinking.

 

Those are some strange laws about green lawn.  I have also seen what I call "dead zones".  There are areas that just won't grow anything, no matter what you try.  One of my old neighbors had an issue like that, right in the middle of the front yard.  Looking back through history it was once the farmer's junk pit.  I think it was once a sink hole to become the dump spot, and it will be a sink hole again because no one has been dumping into it.

 

Are some of the laws because of the "dust bowl"?

[Adalaide]

It's very fertile here. It isn't like people want DIRT yards. Some people just want edible landscaping, or gardens in their front yards because they don't have a big enough back yard. Or zero-scaping because mowing is stupid. I don't know why the laws are what they are. I just know they're dumb. The city I live in is nicknamed orchard city because there are so many orchards all over the place. Some a few acres, right in the middle of the city. I significant number of houses have their own fruit trees. We do. The dust bowl was on the other side of the mountains I thought, I'm too lazy to look it up this second. Also, this is technically a dessert. So yeah, lawns are dumb.

 

Every spring for a few weeks I question why I moved here. My worst seasonal allergy is tree pollen. It's really beautiful though!

[nvsmom]

I received this email today:

 

On the sixth day, God turned to Archangel Gabriel and
said, "Today I am going to create a land called Canada. It will be a land
of outstanding natural beauty. It shall have tall majestic mountains full
of mountain goats and eagles, beautiful sparkling lakes bountiful with
bass
and trout, forests full of elk and moose, high cliffs over-looking sandy
beaches with an abundance of sea life, and rivers stocked with salmon."
God continued, "I shall make the land rich in resources
so
as to make the inhabitants prosper, I shall call these inhabitants
Canadians, and they shall be known as the most friendly people on the
earth."
"But Lord," asked Gabriel, "don't you think you are being
too generous to these Canadians??"
"Not really," replied God.. "Just wait and see the
winters I am going to give them!"

 

   

[bartfull]

Love it, NVS! I'm not in Canada, but I'm not that far from it either, and I have to tell you, I have been close to tears the past few days! I can't TAKE it anymore! 17 below zero at my house and in some of the outlying areas it has been 28 below!!

 

I can't get the temperature in my house up past 53 degrees. My furnace broke and I'm using space heaters. Every night when I get home I pull a sleeping bag up to my chest, wear my winter coat, a hat, a scarf, and gloves - while I sit there and read.

 

At the shop where I spend my days I heat with propane. At $5 a gallon I have to keep the temperature low here too. I feel like I'm NEVER going to thaw out.

 

My jaw (that growth or whatever it is) that has been giving me pain and swelling off and on for years now, hurts SO BAD when it gets cold. I'm trying to make light of it all, but honestly, I've been near tears for a week now. The weather report keeps saying it's going to warm up, but they keep changing it and putting it off. It was SUPPOSED to be warm today according to last week's forecast. Now they're saying Tuesday or Wednesday. I need it NOW!!

 

Irish? Can I come live with you?

[IrishHeart]

 I shall call these inhabitants

Canadians, and they shall be known as the most friendly people on the

earth."

"

 

True dat. I can honestly say that every Canadian I have ever met...is indeed friendly, sweet and compassionate.  (and my maternal Gramma was French Canadian and she was the biggest sweetheart  ever!!.)

 

Irish? Can I come live with you?

 

Yes. 

[nvsmom]

Love it, NVS! I'm not in Canada, but I'm not that far from it either, and I have to tell you, I have been close to tears the past few days! I can't TAKE it anymore! 17 below zero at my house and in some of the outlying areas it has been 28 below!!

 

I can't get the temperature in my house up past 53 degrees. My furnace broke and I'm using space heaters. Every night when I get home I pull a sleeping bag up to my chest, wear my winter coat, a hat, a scarf, and gloves - while I sit there and read.

 

At the shop where I spend my days I heat with propane. At $5 a gallon I have to keep the temperature low here too. I feel like I'm NEVER going to thaw out.

 

My jaw (that growth or whatever it is) that has been giving me pain and swelling off and on for years now, hurts SO BAD when it gets cold. I'm trying to make light of it all, but honestly, I've been near tears for a week now. The weather report keeps saying it's going to warm up, but they keep changing it and putting it off. It was SUPPOSED to be warm today according to last week's forecast. Now they're saying Tuesday or Wednesday. I need it NOW!!

 

Irish? Can I come live with you?

 

Ugh. That sounds awful.  It sucks when you get cold and stay that way. I hope you thaw out soon. (hugs)

 

 

True dat. I can honestly say that every Canadian I have ever met...is indeed friendly, sweet and compassionate.  (and my maternal Gramma was French Canadian and she was the biggest sweetheart  ever!!.)

Yes. 

Thanks.    We also have fat heads, eh?  LOL

 

Sigh... Florida does sound nice right now. Ground hog day went by and no one around here even noticed. I mean, of COURSE we have 6 more weeks of winter - only 6 weeks would be nice.

[w8in4dave]

We have a few more days of this cold bitter stuff, then I think it is going to break! It is going to be 19ºF today. Tonight 2ºF Then again tomorrow 14ºF , 4ºFat night, but Wednesday Woot woot a whopping 22ºF Thursday and Fri in the 30's next tuesday 43º omg we will not know how to act!

[nvsmom]

I hear you! It's supposed to get above zero by Thursday. Woo hoo.

 

I did a 7 hour car trip this weekend and it was so cold that the tires were making weird noises on the road until it warmed up to -20C. You should have seen the car, it was packed with extra toques, mitts, clothes, sleeping bags, candles, matches and lots of food and drink in case of a break down or roads clogged with accidents. Roads were pretty empty so no problems.  

[nvsmom]

Ugh. Winter is back in full force again up here. Minus 30'sC again with the windchill. Water mains are breaking and flooding some major roads with ice because it's so cold. I think it's supposed to warm-up to seasonal on Wednesday and then plunge back into winter. I can't wait for spring....sometime in late April or May.  Sigh.

 

NO ONE is allowed to mention crocuses or tulips blooming this week or you will risk my wrath!   Brrrr....

[bartfull]

Yeah, winter is back here too. The forecast goes up to next Saturday on which the HIGH is supposed to be 7 degrees!

 

I HATE WINTER!!!!!!!!!

[Adalaide]

It's in the 50s most days, 40s others. The birds are out every day. It really feels like spring. I'm trying not to get my hopes up since it's February but I doubt beyond one or two more storms we'll see any more real snow or cold.

 

Sorry. Hope you guys find spring soon!

[mommida]

This cold snap is the worst so far.  The little bit of melting caused a rush of slush to puddle into the streets.  Well now the streets are frozen solid and there are ruts in the ice.  This can jerk the car over 2 feet easy if you hit the edge of the "track".

 

Then there are the highly traveled roads that are clear of all ice.  POTHOLES are eating cars! People are losing tires, having struts and tie rods repairs, and whatever type of body work down.

 

Riding in a car over potholes is like being spanked on your bottom.  Some one was speaking to me while driving on a pothole filled road.  They sounded very calm for what was sounding like they were in a rollover car accident.

 

A "paved" road was sooo bad, they gave up and poured dirt and pebbles over it.  Someone saw tire tracks on a back road that people are choosing to go off the road and run next to "road".  (if it appears that it is not inhabited area that would be someone's front yard.)

[cahill]

-12 at 6 am

 - 5 now at 9 am

 

And I am not even in Canada

 

I AM SOOOOO DONE WITH WINTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Seriously  time to consider moving to a bit warmer climate .

[mommida]

No kidding.  The temperature was -11 at 8:30 this morning.  The kids in local areas had school today because there are no snow days left.

 

I'm keeping my fingers crossed peeps don't end up with frostbite or serious car accidents from this cold and ice.