Sunday, January 05, 2014

0900 And A Quarter-Inch

You see this here?  This here is some snow, Mr. Gore.
     Bringing the total to a nice even 3.5".

     This is a very wet, heavy, sticking snow.   It's too heavy for the snowblower and may be too heavy to shovel for very long at a time.

     When the deep freeze hits, this stuff is going to become a solid mass.  I'm giving serious thought to moving my car around front, as the alley may become impassible.  I'd say, "I can walk to the store," except when it hits -15 (wind chills of -45 or worse), I probably can't. Oh, my, the fun we have! 

     My sibs and I are all on "Mom X Alert," in case she loses electricity.  She says she'll just build a fire in the fireplace, and we're all invited to stop in and get warm if we lose power.  Yes, that's my mother, all right.

     Shot out the kitchen window:

     Out the back door -- and I just swept that walk an hour ago!
     The streaks and blobs of white?  Great clumps of snow, drifting down like tiny, white anvils.

4 comments:

  1. Far be it from me but your scale rule is measuring deciliters?

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  2. Why, could it be? (That took longer than I thought! ...Deciliters, centimeters, some darn heathen scale. ;) (Note the paper itself is metric ruled).

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  3. As long as it isn't calibrated in iambic pentameter. The conversion involves Old English eye of newt and you can't export it anymore.

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  4. More efficient, more accurate, more universal, too! It's good for our economy, our country and for YOU! Take 10!

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