Power is Out & Cold on the Way

[buckabucka]

Snow is not all that bad, baymule! Beautiful, even. There is nothing like getting out in the woods on some soft powder. But I admit I wish winter was a little shorter, mainly due to the cold temperatures.

 

[digitS']

Ah, you are a school teacher, Linn . . .

Buckabuck, you are one of 3 Maine TEG gardener regulars that I can think of - off the top of my head. I hope they are also doing okay.

My "Canadian" great-grandfather was born in your state about 150 years ago. Since his father was an English shipbuilder, family lore is that they were in Maine stealing trees to transport back to the St. Lawrence shipyards. If the revenuers want any restitution - I will claim that this was all a myth.

Yes, that is a beautiful picture: The long shadows off of the bright white of the snow.

We are finishing the year with about a 30% deficit of precipitation down here in the lower elevations. Fortunately, the snow in the mountains is substantial and substantially normal.

Steve

 

[baymule]

Buckabucka, that is a beautiful picture. I'll just admire it from here.....

 

[897tgigvib]

Lake Pillsbury is still going down, shallower and shallower, day by day.

 

[digitS']

Marshall,

The GFS model has rain coming your way on 1/8. That's a long while but . . . worth looking out for:

California Nevada River Forecast Center, NOAA

Steve

 

[bj taylor]

cold coming in again. this winter is so different. we usually skate through - but this winter, it's just bone chilling cold - earlier.

 

[buckabucka]

I love skating (not what you meant, I realize). This year was a one day opportunity and I missed it due to work.

We are bracing for another possible power outage. The trees are still coated in ice and wet snow is coming tonight. Time to fill the water buckets...

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

Our winter seems to be a record-breaker for the area. We've been having some odd warm periods. No snow and 60* weather for a day, and then it sinks back down to sub-zero temps. I mulch my more tender perennials, hopefully they're doing OK with all of this melting and freezing.

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I know how to flush toilets with buckets of water, this flat-lander gots himself an education.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

Well that was odd. I replied to the most recent post, which was supposed to be a few pages back, and then the next couple pages of comments came up?

 

[digitS']

The storms in the Southeast provide all this pull to that arctic air!

There are exciting hours in that corner of the US today!

Out West, boring inversions for the most part except for that rapid "spilling" of air out to sea going on in southern Cal!

Steve