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| Saturday, 29 January 2022 |
That's the view from my window as I write this. In fact, that's been the view from my window all day long. It's what we call a blizzard, yes, the Weather Channel named the bloody storm and gave it some fancy "scare the shit out of everyone" name, but here, it's a blizzard. Pure and simple.
It's hard for me to tell just how much snow we received, I can tell that it's a lot, but the precise amount is tough to tell, what with all the wind moving it all around. Battleship Cove, in nearby Fall River, says they've received two feet. I'll take their word for it.
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Not a good day to visit the ships ...
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So I'm content to sit back, stream movies on my computer, watch interesting YouTube videos from the likes of The Chieftain and Ward Carroll, and scope out my new games.
Enjoy what remains of the weekend, I need to go check on Billy, Jan, and Jürgen.
Be seeing you ...
Hoping the power has stayed on for you there in Lil' Rhoadie, Sarge. While I am far enough west that I only received a coating of the white stuff, it has been a bit brisk outside over the past day or so (0.7 on the digital thermometer as I type this), the wind was blowing around like crazy last night when I tucked into bed.
ReplyDeleteHoping the blizzard blew all of your snow out to sea and ya don't have to bundle up to do a major snow removal procedure!
Stay warm!!
Power stayed on, I checked the National Grid outage map and there were five spots along the south coast which had power issues, dozens impacted. Massachusetts had a few places with power problems, hundreds impacted. It seemed to me that the winds were not as strong as forecasted. The snow exceeded early expectations. There's at least one local weather guesser I'll never listen to again.
DeleteNot much snow down here in east central Florida right now (9:20 AM on Sunday), but the temperature is only 41 degrees. I suspect they got their forecast iguana drop in Miami last night.
ReplyDeletePretty brisk for the Sunshine State.
DeleteGot down to 23 degrees last night in North Central Florida, with current temps at 12:46 PM being 52 degrees. We got the apartment down to 51 degrees last night by leaving the door open, and after closing the door and going to bed, got it to 61 degrees.
DeleteNo iguana up here to drop, but if they do get up here and they do drop, I'll be harvesting them for the new freezer we're getting this year.
Tastes like chicken ...
DeleteSarge, sensible me says with two feet of snow, staying inside and occupying one's self is a fairly reasonable idea. Hopefully you will not have to get out in it on the morrow.
ReplyDeleteIt is amusing to me that events which we just called "weather" once upon a time now have fancy and usually alarming titles. I wonder if it is because our idea of what "normal" weather is has compressed to a very narrow range of acceptability
From my perch atop the battlements it appears that the task of snow removal was worked on through the night. Driveway and roads are pretty clear. I have a wonderful next door neighbor who does my driveway with a snowblower (or thrower, YMMV), all is well in Little Rhody.
DeleteWork beckons on the morrow, but it shouldn't be a problem, travel-wise.
We dodged the big snow bullet, and ended up with maybe eight (ish) inches of snow in Philly.
ReplyDeleteOur experience over the past thirty or so years of using a snowthrower is that the best time to remove snow is shortly after it stops falling, and that meant Operation Snow Go Away started around 1400 with the outside temperature at 18 and gusts of wind up into the the low thirties.
We cleared what we needed to clear and headed back inside for warmth and hot chocolate.
Boba Fett threw a very interesting twist into the mix this week.
Take care up there in the snowy Northlands.
John, I would argue last week's episode was the best one yet.
DeleteMaybe Sarge can organize "Boba Fett Book Club" for us one day a week...
Concur on the Boba Fett episode. It just surprised me that they waited that long.
DeleteTB - Concur, best one yet.
Delete22” in Sub Capital of the World.
ReplyDeleteSounds about right, The Missus Herself believes we got less than the two feet total that's been bandied about. Hard to tell, the window was blowing it to the east faster than it could accumulate! (Battleship Cove is to our east, so that's why they had so much. 🙄)
DeleteAh dunno; 65 years ago I saw this out my window, I said "Yippee. No school today." 10 years later, I trudged over to the clinic from the BOQ (Yeah! just try to get the car started) through stuff like this daily - didn't think much about it either so long as the accumulation stayed under 6' (uphill both ways, 'course!).
ReplyDeleteI remember that so well.
DeleteAs to going to work in this stuff, just a couple of times, in Korea. No surprise there. Left early to get to work (a bus ride was involved), then a long walk from the admin side of base to the sharp end. Cold, snowy, and windy, there was an exercise in progress so we were in helmets and flak vests. About ten minutes after getting to work they called the whole thing off and sent us home. Fortunately the buses were still running off base.
I think I remember that exercise. The walk from the BOQ (on the far side of the Golf Course, it IS an AF Base) across the base to the 80th was brisk (in both pace and temp) to say the least. Flying a Fighter involves sweating, usually heavy, shutting down in the quick turn revetments and doing a postflight was chilling in the winter. All the above contributed mightily to our decision to retire in Texas. However the forecast for the end of this week is snow and temps in the teens. We shall see.
DeleteGrowing up in the Rockies blizzards were just something to deal with. Livestock still needed to be taken care of. Some 56+ years ago, driving around West Germany in a M37 3/4 ton truck as the company courier made me appreciate what I learned growing up.
Deletejuvat - I can still feel the wind on that long walk to the Ops side!
DeleteWSF - Yup, not my first rodeo.
DeleteFunny how weather memories stay with you. Coldest wind I ever felt was on in October afternoon in Chicago with the wind blowing straight off the lake into me. I can never forget how the wind absolutely cut through every layer of clothing I was wearing.
DeleteYes, the wind is a big killer!
DeleteCrusty Old TV Tech here. The one I remember at Da Griff was when, in addition to the usual 1-2" a day, we got a blast of wind and 2 feet. Elsewhere, it would have been a blizzard, in CNY, it was called winter. WxGuesser on WIXT said we'd get "some snow", yeah, we did!
DeleteThen it got cold, like -10 deg F with no wind. Breath hanging in the air, frozen, kinda like those pictures of Thule and CLear they used to scare us comm weenies. "Screw up and THIS is your next PCS!" sort of thing.
Next morning, the car's driver door opened, but would not stay closed and latched. Giving thanks that I had changed to winter oil a month before, it took every "grrruunnnhhh!" the battery had to start the engine. One more and it would have been hoofing the 3 miles to base. So, I drove, holding the driver's door with one hand, shifting with the other, and steering with...well, somehow I got to Depot 1. It was so cold, even calcium chloride was not doing the trick.
Oh, and the active never shut down, and the base was fully plowed and urea'ed by noon.
Folks in the northern tier bases knew how to operate in winter.
DeleteThat bit of "cornice development" along the peak of the neighbor's roof gave me shivers. And the Generac is a must, I bet. Keep warm in the Abode du Sarge.
ReplyDeleteI've seen that sort of thing off the mountain peaks south of Colorado Springs on a cold day in January when I was heading south to San Antonio. Still gives me the shivers!
DeleteAhh yes, bomb cyclone, arctic river, and other such scary descriptives. That's the news for us now, over-sensationalized and diluted to just some juicy bits of partial truths. Yes, it's a good day to hunker down and watch some vids. Maybe some football. That photo brought back some icy memories by the way, of being on ships pierside in the dead of winter, which seemed cold and lonely. A memory that chills me a little, even in sunny San Diego. Enjoy your video watching.
ReplyDeleteAnd today is bright and sunny, though the temps are in the teens. At least I can see the sky!
DeleteDriveway’s been plowed, we cleaned up around the mailbox. All’s right with the world.
DeleteJust came in from tidying up around the walks and the mailbox. Cars cleaned off and ready for action on Monday.
DeleteTemperature probably in the mid-20s, worked up a good sweat though. Got inside before I could catch a chill. I know winter.
Ever since the wind chill chart was revised some years back the local weather guessers..er..forecasters have given more time to showing wind chill numbers rather than the actual temps. Start off with the actual temps for 4 seconds then bam! "Feels Like" numbers come up on the screen and stay there for half a minute. Oh Noes! It gets cold in the winter. especially when the wind blows? You're lucky to have such a good neighbor Sarge.
ReplyDeleteTelevision weather guessers, I have no time for them. Especially those clowns on the Weather Channel.
DeleteI occasionally surf by the weather channel, hoping to see some idiot get dope-slapped by the weather Gods or Goddesses for being so **** +++++++ ######. Old Guns
DeleteIt IS entertaining to see that.
Delete(Don McCollor)...Each year I forget that in winter "warming up" means the temperature rises to 0F. The wind chill seems to remain the same whatever the temperature is...
DeleteIndeed.
DeleteYet you say more in your 'I'm not saying anything' than a lot of people, like Neal Young, say all their lives. Funny when a guy who made his cake spouting government-conspiracy songs gets all up about someone who spouts government-conspiracy podcasts. Same with Jonie Mitchell and the rest.
ReplyDeleteOh, well, enjoy the day and stay warm.
Sigh, shut up and sing.
DeleteApropos of nothing: Roomie says I have “ramrod posture”. I thank the Navy for that.
ReplyDeleteMilitary bearing, it stays with you. (But wait, you were in the Navy, so would that be "true" or "relative" bearing? 😉)
DeleteWinter. Happens every year. It will snow, sometimes a whole lot, sometimes just a bit, sometimes often, sometimes only a few times over the course of a winter. Shut up and shovel, it will all be nice again in a couple of months. Then we can complain about the heat.
ReplyDeleteI notice that the alarmists managed to contort themselves into claims that warmer ocean temps from global warming/climate change causes more "lake effect" snowfall for this storm. We can be sure that if next winter has less snow, that too will be the fault of Al Gore and his theories.
Good neighbor! But, with a snowblower it really is not much effort to clear a few extra walks and a driveway or two- as I do for my neighbors when we get more than 3-4 inches here in the mountain west. Of course, when it is less than that, they often easily clear mine with their shovels, so it is an exchange of services, not pure altruism.
JB
Good neighbors are a treasure!
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