Power is Out & Cold on the Way

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Oh that's so gorgeous! I saw the sky on fire over the tree tops while I was out feeding the animals and came in to grab my camera but couldn't find it. Glad you got a shot!
No Thistle',

The local folks that show up on my Twitter feed wore me down over the last few days. There have been about 4 or 5 of these sunset pictures on there. They were sent to local teevee personalities.

Not mine.


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Gorgeous sunset! I took a sunset photo with the trees lit up golden with ice, but the camera made it look more like a forest fire.

I agree that this winter seems much colder early on. We already hit 23 below in mid-December, and now we are bracing for the next cold snap, with highs in the single digits.
Still, I do remember an occasional night at 40 below, or a week that doesn't break zero, but that hasn't happened in years. I can't say I miss that weather, although maybe it is not a good sign for the planet.
 

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These beautiful sunsets are the result of air that has finally moved around a bit after laying like a blanket over the landscape for hours.

Christmas was indeed white! A bright white fog!

There is a small chance of snow Monday. Our most recent "storm" passed unnoticed but the air did clear. Or, at least, the blanket lifted, fluttering in the sunset.

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Our sunsets have been gorgeous here the last few days.

I wasn't going to do this but I'd have to take a drive to get away from these powerlines & get a good picture. Or . . . . go on twitter & have one of the local folks post a picture like 2 minutes after sundown! They wore me down:

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Steve


Beautiful.....but not beautiful enough for me to live there--Lucky local residents

We stopped burning wood this year--new heating system but I have generator backup that I hope I never use.

Be thinking of you.
 

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And that, my friends, is why I live in Texas. Hotter than H E double L in the summer, but livable in the winter. Hurricanes? Bring 'em on. No power? Can handle that too. Snow measured in FEET deep???? Oh, H E double L NONONONONONONONO!!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

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While we are anxious about arctic cold descending south - and happy where it isn't happening to us - southern California is having more than a fluttering of clouds . . !

Yes, with that year-around "perfect" weather -- NOAA is predicting gusts out of the NE as high as 70mph this afternoon . . !

(Notice how that blew my exclamation point off to the SW, towards the open ocean ______ ;).)

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And that, my friends, is why I live in Texas. Hotter than H E double L in the summer, but livable in the winter. Hurricanes? Bring 'em on. No power? Can handle that too. Snow measured in FEET deep???? Oh, H E double L NONONONONONONONO!!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Which is why I live in central USA. Avoid extremes-most of the time- & equipped to handle all types of weather.
 

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While we are anxious about arctic cold descending south - and happy where it isn't happening to us - southern California is having more than a fluttering of clouds . . !

Yes, with that year-around "perfect" weather -- NOAA is predicting gusts out of the NE as high as 70mph this afternoon . . !

(Notice how that blew my exclamation point off to the SW, towards the open ocean ______ ;).)

Steve

My parents moved me to that "perfect" climate, kicking and screaming 56 years ago. I was just a baby so the kicking and screaming may not have been related to the geographical change. ;)

Where I lived for 25 years of married life we suffered through Santa Ana winds. They aren't so severe where Hoodat is, but we lived on the flank of a mountain, on the south side of a pass and we often got winds up to 70 mph. Took the roofing off our detached garage one year.
Now we're "home" and I'm happy to be back.
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That blown off roof happened to my home on the California coast. However, I was a long, long way north.

By the way, what happened to your smiley - I've had that experience. It is absolutely true :rolleyes:. (Bay' should take note ;).)

I was much older than should have allowed for such stupidity :rolleyes:. Fortunately, I had a can of pop in my hand (that might be "a can of soda" or "a can of coke" in some parts of the country). Anyway, I just sloshed it on the steel pipe somewhere in the vicinity of my nose . . . & my tongue came right off. Not "off" off but "off the pipe."

Steve :/
 

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