Snow at Christmas with us away from home, snow in Maryland with us back in Little Rhody, rumors and reports of an incoming "snowmageddon" for the Northeastern U.S., friends posting weather reports on Failbook with various New Englanders tagged therein ...
It's what we call winter up here folks. Ain't no thang.
Except when it is.
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| Vehicles are seen stranded and abandoned in the deep snow on the exit for Burncoat Street off Interstate 290 in Worcester, Mass., Feb. 7, 1978, during the now infamous Blizzard of 1978. (AP Photo/Worcester Telegram Gazette) (Source) |
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Anyhoo, snow storms in New England (well, anywhere for that matter) can be fairly deadly. I missed the Blizzard of '78, which occurred the month after The Missus Herself and Your Humble Scribe tied the knot. So I was in the Far East at the time. (Note, "Far East" is a British term, because from where I sit, Okinawa, Japan, Korea, et al are the "Far West." Just saying ...)
Friday's snow event was a fairly low key thing here in Little Rhody, six to eight inches by my reckoning, based on the amount of snow I had to sweep off of Blue. The storm was supposed to start around 0300, when I answered a "call of nature" at 0400, no snow was to be seen falling from the heavens.
But when I awakened, different story ...
Left the neighborhood very Christmasy looking.
Two weeks after the day itself ...
Sigh.
Maybe next year.
Yes, another snow post, like Skip says, if all else fails, blog about the weather ...
Welcome to white winter Sarge.
ReplyDeleteIt's how I grew up.
DeleteCool, drizzly and rather dreary down here. But as Barbacat posted "Only 6 Mondays left until Spring"
ReplyDeleteUm, she needs a new calendar. I make it ten Mondays.
DeleteWell, thanks. The pics were just enough snow to fill my desire to see snow. I can now survive the rest of winter, regardless of when spring arrives. Could we amend DST to move one month forward in the winter? That would, no doubt, save a lot more energy than moving a mere hour forward. I think I'll forward this suggestion to the President for action.
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Oh yeah, that should work. 🙄
DeleteThe morning brought us about three inches of snow and the snow removal took around 45 minutes with the snowblower doing the brunt of the job.
ReplyDeleteThen a relaxing cup of hot chocolate.
We dropped down to 20 last night and that's cool enough for Philly.
It is beautiful and peaceful out there.
Pretty brisk here last night as well.
DeleteSo pretty, but you can keep that carp up there where it belongs.
ReplyDeleteAt least you were home instead of on the road when it happened.
Gonna be 80 tomorrow, then rainy the next day then lows of 31 the following day. That should be a good turkey rendering day, cold enough to open the house up as the smell of boiling turkey carcasses makes Mrs. Andrew unhappy.
On the road up here wouldn't have been bad, been there, done that. Some other areas of the country don't handle snow so well as they don't get it often enough to be really prepared for it.
DeleteLooks like you have plenty of precipitation to last you a while. Be sure to turn off your automatic sprinklers! haha. That's actually something I've had the pleasure of doing several times recently due to all the rainfall we've gotten. Not a frequent occurrence to be sure. It's been much colder too, as my gas bill will attest.
ReplyDeleteSprinklers? Ah, yes, my wife wants to put those in. I say if it can't grow in this climate, then perhaps it shouldn't.
DeleteGee! I'm really missin' all that white powdery stuff settin' down here in the Gulf just off that limp appendage that hangs off Georgia.
ReplyDeleteNo you're not. 😁
DeleteYour time in Ft Collins likely exposed you to some "real" winter. So far this winter has been a joke.
ReplyDeleteThe winters in Vermont when I was a kid were harsher than anything I ever saw in Ft. Collins.
DeleteIt looks lovely - and really gives a different view to the garden!
ReplyDeleteIt is always fun for me to see weather other places.
Reading all the angst, I really wonder if the weather is really "worse" than it used to be, or we just expect things to be effectively climate controlled outside the way it is inside?
Weather here has been more or less the same for 22+ years. There are some outliers from time to time, but most of the angst I've seen about weather is just another trick to get people to watch whatever channel/outlet is selling the weather.
DeleteFollow the money, climate change has been going on since the planet cooled.
No frost in the ground makes it difficult to plow where the lawn is. OG
ReplyDeleteVery true. Rather easy to pick up a bit of turf while doing so!
DeleteWell, glad you got all the snow there Sarge. It wasn't supposed to do anything here, but when I went outside there was an inch on my car to clear off on Friday. Tomorrow we are supposed to get freezing rain...personally I would rather have snow than freezing rain. And, yes, this winter here in the great NorthEast...or at least here northeast of Albany...has been pretty light on "winter weather". This morning was 6* which is the coldest it's been here this winter season.
ReplyDeleteJust for the record I have been very happy with the lack of cold white fluffy stuff that needs me to exercise the Ariens. Just saying...
Well, I've had my one snowfall. So winter can stop now. 😏
DeleteAlmost every year in our Sierra Nevada Mountains, snow and cold take at least 1 life. Either from skiers who generally are where they aren't supposed to be or have the misfortune of finding an avalanche. Just a few days ago Search and Rescue decided to call of the search for a lost skier. Many of them, after a fresh snow, go off the established runs and a few get into deep power for which they can't get out.
ReplyDeleteThey'll probably find him in the spring.
Then there are the motorists, who come unprepared. Those who perish usually take off roads and get trapped in the snow.
Happens in New England as well. Well, just about anywhere you have rough terrain and snow.
DeleteSnow is bad! Snow is evil! God told Noah to build a boat. He didn't say nothing about snowshoes, skis or a sled...
ReplyDeleteHeh.
DeleteI grew up in RI and remember well the blizzard of 78. The number of stranded cars on the roads leaving Providence that day was legendary. I had the good sense to walk home from high school instead of getting on the jam-packed city bus at my stop. I passed that bus a mile down the road and I doubt it made it to my house as Smith St was near impassable a little further up. Have a number of memories of that week. I still love a good snowstorm but the 6 months of cold weather you have to endure to get them is a bad tradeoff for me. I like year round golf a lot more.
ReplyDeleteI understand that point of view very well, even I get tired of winter around mid-January.
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