Yay, look at our mountain! :P
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11850270 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11850270)
The only downside is I'm sick with the flu and can't get out in it! We're suppost to get a blizzard for tues/wed...fingers crossed. Anyone else lucky yet?
No snow here, but we get 6+ earthquakes more often than snow...
It's snowing in Seattle, though, which means it might be another white christmas for me! Of course, a white Christmas in Seattle isn't always a good thing... It means people stuck at home and unable to meet up for Christmas Eve...
They had a particularly nasty storm up there in Washington State last week and my friend *whom I hope to convince to come to Triad* had a very scary experience.
QuoteI drove through a war zone! At least, that's what it felt like. Monday night, we had snow and violent winds. It took me from 4:30pm-10:00pm to get home from work. As I was driving home, the winds really picked up. The road was covered in debris from the forest that it passes through. Trees were falling everywhere and power lines were down. At one point, I had to drive UNDER a fallen power line. I also drove under a fallen tree, with the branches scraping across the top of my SUV. I counted at least eight huge 100 foot pine trees that had fallen.
Then, a tree fell. Right in front of my car, scraping the front of it. I had not time to stop and ended up somehow going over it, becoming AIRBORNE and landing on the other side of it at an angle. I screamed and froze. Some guy got out of his car, opened my door and said, "you need to keep driving, it's not safe here." There were branches flying. So I followed him and we made it into town where I pulled into a parking lot. He got out and came to my car to make sure I was okay. I was shaking like a leaf! My car STILL drives fine! Hurray for Mazda.
Eeeeeeee! I can still see that tree coming down in front of me.
Suzee, that's because the weather knows I'm coming home for Christmas. The last time I went back to Seattle for Christmas, there was a massive snow storm, buried the city in snow for two weeks, got stuck in the old folks home with grandma eating mac-and-cheese for Christmas. Not that I'm complaining, I was happy to be there! And the time before that, a massive windstorm hit Seattle, cut power to over a million people over the Northwest. I think after this my friends are going to say "Stay in Japan, dang it! Stop breaking Seattle!"
We don't have just snow, we have also frigging cold! :cold: I can't remember being this cold in November.. and we're breaking coldness recods all over country (-34 C in Lappland).
Would that cold snap in Lapland explain Olli's finger, Paula? Maybe he wasn't being a git, maybe it had frozen in that position? (being from Rovaniemi and all) ;-)
Maybe, since he doesn't even remember showing it... :compress:
So this was a a mirage then? :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9coZFyqxn2U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9coZFyqxn2U)
My two and a half year old acts more mature than him. :cyclopsani:
At long last, here in the cold North West of England we have snow! Bad enoough that we were sat in the hotel in Prague watching BBC world news to see if the airports were open... Not a peep about Manchester, but they were showing the bad weather, then they said that the next nearest airports (Leeds-Bradford, Liverpool, Doncaster, East Midlands and Birmingham) were closed or had severe delays.... But we made it back.
Prague is a beautiful city, and th snow made it look even more stunning (except when we were avoiding a blizzard by hiding in Subway!). The markets were great, and the shopping - well to some extent we could have just gone to the Trafford Centre once we found M&S, Debenhams, Next, H&M.... Although we did to to C&A just because.
Happy Chanukah, girl!
Prague photos (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=582303&id=536730244&l=5657caf050)
Love the cider with 'Cannabis vodka'!!! :tongue:
Beautiful city...love the centre squares in European cities. Cheers for the photos! Maybe when I finially get to photograph THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az81uQBbjyw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az81uQBbjyw)) we'll all get to see Prague. :alien:
Well, we have even more snow now, about feet last night. And my hubby wrenched his back showeling it out from our yard, so I'm the one who has to clear it away now. :disgusted: Too much is too much.
Well the next lot is supposed to be headed in from the west, so that means I'm going to get cold, and you might get it as well Len....
When this one? I thought they said we were going to get warmish by thurs!!! Are you guys getting this nasty frost? This is the first time since we moved here that I it's gotten into what is normally a frost pocket by our back door. Just glad I brought my hardy orchid and an elm bonsai into the house just before it hit there. The poor baby peas in the garden are just hanging on by the skin of their little leaves! >.<
Supposed to arrive overnight through cumbia and Lancashire and won into Wales
Snow...real snow....finally arrived :( I could do without it! I hate driving in it! We got quite a few inches last night with temps in the below zero F range as well...
So now I've got nearly 4 months of dealing with icy, snowy driving weather to deal with! Yuck!
You so lucky!! I love love love snow...we're suppost to get some starting thurs and we're predicted to get a white Christmas. And as we live on a mountain and our back garden is basically a almost an acre of it, that means sledding all week! As long as one of us doesn't crash into one of the apple trees we should have a grand time..can't wait to see the monkey on a sledge for the first time :tongue:
We're under an early warning for Thursday as well, forecast for us has sleet on Thursday, turning into snow over the weekend...
Last winter was partly in Rhode Island but it was abnormally warm for the beginning of it. Then I was home till I went to school. And that was baddd.... I slipped and slid down the driveway a few times.
Things at home weren't great on Monday apparently. Even Mom is freezing in Florida, though there isn't any snow. Me.. don't get none of it. Pft. Weather people say it's a La Nina winter, so tis to be VERY bad.
Oh and Eimi, I used to know a webcomic artist who lived in Seattle. And she posted about that year when everything shut down. They basically holed up and survived with fire and canned food.
Oh 17 F at home. FUN!!!
We have -20 C this morning...it's going to be cold Christmas :cold2: (-4 in Fahrenheit).
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It's a couple of weeks old now but here was our snow on the mountain!