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Yeah, I'm posting about the weather again. Deal with it.
On wednesday, the temp dropped by almost twenty degrees. Thursday, it was twenty degrees colder yet. And windy, so it was really fricking cold out there. Like winter, in fact. The forecasts had been calling for snow on thursday and friday, but it was only cloudy, and clearing. The sun was out by late afternoon. Still damn cold, though. In the evening, the radar didn't show any precipitation... except down in Illinois. It seemed to be moving northeast, and it was in a northeastern line, so I was doubtful that we were going to get any of it. It still wasn't snowing by midnight when I went to bed.
Cyn woke me up before 6:30 complaining about the snow. She said there were three inches of it in the driveway. It sounded pretty bad, and pretty much just like the forecasts said - starting after midnight, with most accumulation happening in the morning hours. She stayed home from work. When I got up, there were a few inches of snow covering the plants outside the back windows. Within a couple of hours, there was a three-foot drift.
Around two o'clock, the snow quit and the sky cleared. Very pretty, but still damn cold. Actually, it was near thirty, but windy. Cyn and I went out and shoveled for over an hour and a half. I'm beat. I used a lot of muscles. Probably hadn't used them since last winter. The snow was surprisingly heavy and sticky. It was really a pain, since it stuck to our shovels. I tried WD-40 on the shovel, and it seemed to help after a while.
If the snow is nice tomorrow, I want to ski.
On wednesday, the temp dropped by almost twenty degrees. Thursday, it was twenty degrees colder yet. And windy, so it was really fricking cold out there. Like winter, in fact. The forecasts had been calling for snow on thursday and friday, but it was only cloudy, and clearing. The sun was out by late afternoon. Still damn cold, though. In the evening, the radar didn't show any precipitation... except down in Illinois. It seemed to be moving northeast, and it was in a northeastern line, so I was doubtful that we were going to get any of it. It still wasn't snowing by midnight when I went to bed.
Cyn woke me up before 6:30 complaining about the snow. She said there were three inches of it in the driveway. It sounded pretty bad, and pretty much just like the forecasts said - starting after midnight, with most accumulation happening in the morning hours. She stayed home from work. When I got up, there were a few inches of snow covering the plants outside the back windows. Within a couple of hours, there was a three-foot drift.
Around two o'clock, the snow quit and the sky cleared. Very pretty, but still damn cold. Actually, it was near thirty, but windy. Cyn and I went out and shoveled for over an hour and a half. I'm beat. I used a lot of muscles. Probably hadn't used them since last winter. The snow was surprisingly heavy and sticky. It was really a pain, since it stuck to our shovels. I tried WD-40 on the shovel, and it seemed to help after a while.
If the snow is nice tomorrow, I want to ski.
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Date: 2006-12-02 12:41 am (UTC)From:That's a nice christmassy picture, with that snow-frosted tree in the background. :)
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Date: 2006-12-02 04:17 pm (UTC)From:i'm responding about the weather. deal with it ;)
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Date: 2006-12-02 01:42 am (UTC)From:I'm SO glad
So here I was all day, staring at the brown grass.... K.
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Date: 2006-12-02 04:16 pm (UTC)From:Down near the Illinois border, in Kenosha, they got sixteen inches. Between Milwaukee and Sheboygan we got between eight and twelve. They seemed to handle it pretty well, though. Schools were closed, but by evening the roads were reasonable.
The strange thing is that we had no garbage pickup. I've never heard of garbage being cancelled. Doesn't surprise me, I guess, but I don't remember that ever happening. No mail either, even though we saw a mail truck go by.