By the way, Booth, an email was passing around work today about alternate methods of travelling there, given our current snowy conditions.  I had no choice but to include "a photo of my own method of transport".

I credited you, though. 

Just like the weatherman predicted last week, it rained today. But as is so often the case, it rained through the wee hours of the morning and now there's just some wet pavement to show for it. Plants looking happy. A few puddles for Lola to gallomph through.

My gutters were cleaned last week so I'm ready for more! My trees were trimmed last month so the roof is pretty leaf-free. My storm drains were flushed last month too. So bring it on, Extreme Weather! I can handle it!

Christmas and Christmas Eve forecast: mild, sunny, mid-60s but I'll be dreaming of all those other white Christmases though. 

Susan (brrrrr)

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Wow, it is tough going here today-light off and on rain and when I went out for breakfast at 8:00 am it was 52 degrees! 

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

OK the sun is out ,it's 1 pm and it is 57 degrees. That's better. Hey Rocky (down below) you are having a heat wave !

Got to almost 40 today--felt like spring! Supposed to rain in the morning...changing to all snow by the afternoon. Now they are predicting 1-3 inches.  A lot of our previous snow has melted...which is nice because it was very icy in spots, so this is at least getting rid of that rubbish.  The snow was nice and soft today--I might have thrown a few snowballs at Eric...hope it's still good packing snow tomorrow--if so, something's getting built.  Sore back be damned. :)

**EDIT**

1-3 inches...HA! Try about 8 inches of drifting white.  Supposed to get another 3-4 today.  Good day to stay home inside...:)  I kind of want to go play in it, but the winds are about 45 MPH...

**EDIT* It finally stopped snowing. We got 12.5 inches of snow. There's supposed to be some more showers, but nothing that should amount to very much more accumulation. The cars are dug out and moved to the street, hopefully our landlord will come in the morning to plow out the parking lot. You should see the drift in front of our door! T'is HUGE!

We've got fantastic weather going on right now. Raining cats, dogs, horses, elephants, and anything else mother nature has to throw at us. I'm listening to radio reports of severe power outages, floods, and downed trees. My house is bright, warm, and dry, so I'm feeling good. Ended up working from home today because after five minutes on the freeway this morning, I realized it was stupid to even try to commute today.

Worried about SoCal. With all that burned recently, it just leaves them more susceptible to landslides! :(

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

Windy and rainy tonight in SoCal!  In fact, it's been raining all day.  Lola won't go out without a companion so that has been tough today.  I will be interested to see what happened to the property behind us on a hillside.  They have been doing construction for a couple years in fits and starts and the entire property is covered with piles of fill soil and blown away blue tarps.  It is supposed to rain the entire weekend and boy did we need it.  Hope everything stays put though.

Amanda did you hear about that truck that turned over on the San Rafael bridge today?

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

No! I didn't hear about that. I was watching a lot of Sacramento-based news, and they had the whole freeway on either side of the Sacramento Airport shut down due to multiple big-rig accidents on both sides. That's the only access to the airport, so you can imagine the trouble it caused, not to mention the winds were so ferocious that a lot of planes couldn't land for hours. Yeesh.

I know up in the Sacramento area they had requested semis not travel on I-5 and I-80 for several hours yesterday while the winds were at their peak. Sounds like maybe they should've put that same restriction on all of our bridges. I know they all get ridiculous when the wind kicks into high gear, and the SF area yesterday had gusts of like 60-70mph. Insane.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

Rain, rain, rain for over a week!  I love it!  They say California has had more rain this month than Seattle.  So there.

Tuesday the sun is supposed to return and then I guess it will be spring.

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Oh, it is to laugh.  Tomorrow is supposed to reach near 50...and then on Tuesday...a high of 6.  Wiggity, wiggity...

So...good news? Tomorrow is supposed to rain quite a bit--snow will melt.

Bad news? Tuesday it will freeze and we will have skating rinks for roads and parking lots...

Ha. Ha.

:D

**EDIT**

Got to 47 yesterday.  Was so gorgeous.  Melting like mad.  Today we are in the middle of a winter storm.  So far it has only been windy as f*ck--gusts around 40-45 mph right now--with some light to moderately heavy snow.  They are predicting 1-2 inches of snow for here--with up to 6 inches on the outskirts.  I can't even see our car past the snow pile in front of the parking lot anymore...

It's also cold. Sitting at 3 above right now with a windchill of -24.  Windchills are supposed to dip into the negative 30's and 40's over the next two days.  But then we will be back up into the mid to upper 20's. Thank goodness.  WANT SPRING!!!! :D

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

I feel ya, Smokey.  We're actually warmed up this morning--now  -1 with an -18 windchill. FRICKIN' FREEZIN', MR. BIGGLESWORTH! :) Tomorrow's supposed to be up to 16 above.  That will feel niiiiice.  I'll go outside in Bermuda shorts singing "We're Havin' A Heat Wave"... ;)  Pretty soon those 40's and higher will be here for a longer duration.  That was just too glorious.  Then our happy strings get cut, "FREEZE, PUPPETS, FREEZE!" Weather's just been plain goofy.  The good news is that we didn't get hardly any snow here.  Maybe an inch.  Eric's bowling was cancelled last night because there was blowing snow and because it was so f-ing cold.  That's pretty bad when you live in Wisconsin. LOL.

It got relatively warm today--hit 35.  Was a mixed bag of stuff...had thunder-snow...snow...sleet...then snow again before it stopped.  Was warm enough that it all melted off of the car, which was nice.  Now it's greyer than grey outside.  Going to go shovel the walk in a moment.

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If it's February 7, then it must be spring in So-Cal.  And so it seems to be.  The 70s with sunshine and clear skies.  Yawn.  So much for our two weeks of winter, I guess.  Time to think about planting those annuals.

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

The weather here is....well...weird!!

On one side of the country (East), it's been raining for a couple of months, they've had flooding problems, and have been asking where Summer is...

On my side of the country (West), we've had non-stop hot days 37,38,39,38,37...etc.  Today was a mild 36.  We had a couple earlier on that went over 40.  Last week out of nowhere we had 2 days of rain that covered the normal monthly rainfall, and then like a tap turning off we resumed the heat.  I'm loving it actually - normally I don't like intense heat, and prefer warm over hot - but we have AC everywhere these days so it's not an issue.

 This sums it up...YouTube - Arkansas Tornado Damage Aftermath Clinton Van Buren Feb 5th