big bear wrote:electric service out all night a tree fell across the road right below my house its back now 25 degrees and windy its kinda hard to believe in global warming when your freezing
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big bear wrote:electric service out all night a tree fell across the road right below my house its back now 25 degrees and windy its kinda hard to believe in global warming when your freezing
Snap, crackle, pop house noises from heavy wind. . .pretty much describes it.It's Still Windy this Monday evening at 11:58pm and it will continue overnight into Tues. with gusts up to 45 mph.
I'm Back tracking now...I was awake most of Sun night into Mon morning due to the wind. The house was snap crackle and popping everywhere. I imagined roof joists were breaking and shingles were flying. Then at some point within the mix of noise I heard a thud. A very deep sounding thud. I got out of bed looked out the window and saw nothing but garbage cans blown over and crap from them blowing everywhere. Don't cha just love that? Back in bed I went to rock 'n roll. Very little sleep was had. So beit.
Skipping you past the morning and now onto this afternoon. Our landscapers showed up. They were cleaning, blowing, collecting debri and even mowing w/bagger. The winds blowing, their blowing - kinda dumb I thought. What a mess!
So I got in my truck and took a spin around the community. Everything okay I wondered? No, it was not! Down the road around the block and to my left I see a parked car squashed by a fallen pine tree. I park. I get out, camera in hand and walk towards it. Talk about wind? This is the block behind my townhome. I bet this was that "thud!"
Really nice looking area.February has been warm and dry in the UK this year. An unusually good start to the biking season. We had a nice 6 mile riverside walk today (first day I've not been out on the bike) but I expect that it will all change soon. This time last year we had almost 2 feet of snow.
I saw that in the news. Sad again. Another one of those "It looks like a war zone deals". If it isn't one thing it's another lately. We get tornadoes occasionally now also and years ago they were almost non-existent in New England. Just one or two major ones and then none for years. . ..We have great weather sometimes, and then...
Just got all my shoveling done also. Same situation. Wet heavy snow. . .. A few tree limbs busted in my yard also. One of them fell near a fire hydrant and sidewalk. I tried to move it out of the way myself but it was too heavy and stuck too high up in the branches. Traffic was wizzing by pretty close. I was concerned if I screwed up it may fall on me, a pedestrian, or in the road. So after I called it in the local gendarmes came by right away and moved it out of the way so the fire department could respond without impediment if need be. Great bunch of folks. They never get enough credit.Got it! OldGrinner, but not as much as they originally predicted. Maybe 4-5" of Heavy slushy p.i.t.a. Snow. Shovel time again. Cleaning the truck off is my boog-a-boo! Aw well, the suns shining
Old Grinner wrote:More snow coming tonight and tomorrow night. . ..
Maybe it's getting time to show the weather who's boss!
Yikes! That Taurus looks like the one my mom had when I was a kid. She'd drive me and my brother everywhere in it. One day we were on the interstate and we just heard a clank-thud-GRINDDDDDDDDDD. The engine had literally rusted off the mounts, and the engine and transmission were dragging on the ground. Needless to say, we had to get a tow and mom got a new car.WhiteNoise wrote:And with the sun setting, here's the scene later in the day. Scary site heh?
I guess someone's getting a new car