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Mon, 02 February 2009 17:48  |
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 AJLR
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Snow
Brrr!
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| Re: Snow [message #10904 is a reply to message #10901 ] |
Mon, 02 February 2009 17:58  |
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Black Bear
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London is CLOSED?? Good lord, how much snow did THEY get? Surely London is prepped for the occasional wintery blast, more so than Hampshire at any rate...
here’s a simple practical activity–it barely rates as a skill–you need to be able to perform, shovelling out your driveway, and it kills you. I don’t care whether you can beat the boss at squash/tennis/mud wrestling/miniature golf, but you ought to be able clear the snow off your own pavement.
Yeah. I hate shoveling, cold air doesn't agree with my asthma... but yet if I don't do it I don't get out. Ergo, it's one of the few tasks I ever do that gives me the rush of having performed a real vital skill--I have a HUGE sense of accomplishment after I shovel out my drive, much more so than lawnmowing or brush hauling or whathaveyou. Thus my pride in having extracted my car from the 12" of Pure Fun we got this week...
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: Snow [message #10912 is a reply to message #10901 ] |
Mon, 02 February 2009 18:10 |
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Woooo snow!!
We were supposed to get snow today. This morning the sky was blue and clear, it go up to 57 and I turned down the heat...
About an hour ago I noticed it was completely overcast and the temperature had dropped to 50, and there was this white stuff falling from the sky. I think it was the infamous "wintry mix" at first, but it appears to be snowish stuff now. It's 40F and the ground is white.
Well.
So much for my weather-prediction skills.
Your snow is gorgeous. I guess the flowers don't feel the same way, though?
(What happened to the photos? I used to could click and make them bigger. No more.)
Smooshes!
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| Re: Snow [message #10924 is a reply to message #10901 ] |
Mon, 02 February 2009 19:01 |
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Growlit
Growlit is lovely - it could even be a new genre of popular gardening literature...
Why is snow so light and fluffy on the ground and yet it weighs a TON on your shovel? I bought some salt last week (first aid cupboard, for bathing wounds) and have re-homed it to front step duty, after having skiied down our steps last time they froze.
Bin men in the morning - wonder how they'll cope?
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Snow [message #10929 is a reply to message #10927 ] |
Mon, 02 February 2009 21:33 |
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| skating librarian wrote on Mon, 02 February 2009 20:37 |
www.snowflakebentley.com
Can't resist passing on this link. Wilson Bentley was a scientific genius ... but the work he produced is art.
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You might enjoy this flickr set. One of my contacts there has been taking shots of snowflakes trying to see if she sees any that are the same. Her photos are beautiful: http://www.flickr.com/photos/piper/sets/94833/
Smooshes!
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| Re: Snow [message #10933 is a reply to message #10901 ] |
Tue, 03 February 2009 02:26 |
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Diane in MN
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NPR reported tonight that London got a foot of snow (and was closed), and I wondered how much had fallen on Hampshire (and on the other UK denizens of this forum). 3-4 inches isn't so bad, although I know from experience that in places where it "never" snows it might as well be a blizzard. Robin, I hope you were not beaten down by ME and were able to get back into your driveway tonight.
Next year not only am I going to have the summerhouse at Third House insulated and growlighted^, I am going to have a proper snow shovel and some proper road grit.
Well, at least the shovel will be cheap!  Although your local council (or your neighbors) may decide to invest in snow shovels next year and clean out the shops.
It looks like snow the hellhounds could have had fun in, unless they got too cold. We were back in the deep freeze today, so Saturday's soft snow reverted to being crusty and slick and full of lumps and holes--no fun at all. According to a majority of prognosticating groundhogs, we are in for six more weeks of winter, and the way things have been going I'm sure they are right.
And belated congratulations on your ringing success--brava, brava! That's something to keep you warm regardless of the snow.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Snow [message #10937 is a reply to message #10904 ] |
Tue, 03 February 2009 06:40 |
Louiz
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| Black Bear wrote on Mon, 02 February 2009 17:58 |
London is CLOSED?? Good lord, how much snow did THEY get? Surely London is prepped for the occasional wintery blast, more so than Hampshire at any rate...
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Nope, we got about 10 cm... and the buses for the first time I can remember have been cancelled, the trains and tubes can't cope. All schools in the borough were closed yesterday, and most are closed (all I think but did see some kids in uniform walking towards a school - 2 of them - so not sure).
We're not geared up for this. Rain, yes... we can cope with rain. Drought, yes we can if we have to cope with drought. Snow? Errrr. Last time we had significant snow that I remember was in 1986?1987? I think I was 14 at the time, anyhow. And that had melted by the end of the day. Into that I am factoring in that it has snowed in London since then maybe 4 times.... no, not 4 winters... 4 times. OK, maybe 5... but that would be a very very thin layer of snow on the ground or snow that vanishes as it meets the ground... and causes no problems at all...
Today in London it is snowy (where unsquashed) and icy slippy (where squashed). Although it is now sunny and the sun is melting the snow.
Bibliovorous.
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| Re: Snow [message #10940 is a reply to message #10901 ] |
Tue, 03 February 2009 08:58 |
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Mrs Redboots
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The thing is the combination of big city and global warming and our basically mild and moist climate (one American author describes it as like living in a vat of moisturiser, but my skin gets so dry I can't imagine what it would be like in a drier climate!), snow here is rare. We had about 8 inches here in South London - and it's still here today, which is even rarer! Beginning to thaw now, thankfully, and that is the most we've had since the day my daughter was taking a scholarship exam to her secondary school. She remembers it vividly, but not as vividly as I do - I was standing out in it! British blog people will undoubtedly remember that it was the infamous "wrong kind of snow".
Oh well, we've got it now, and won't have to have it again for another ten or fifteen years!
Robin, the reason why people don't shovel snow in this country is very simple: if you shovel the snow off your pavement (sidewalk) and someone slips in it, they could sue you. If you haven't touched it, they can't - they can only sue the local council.
Mrs Redboots
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| Re: Snow [message #10941 is a reply to message #10926 ] |
Tue, 03 February 2009 09:24 |
celticengineer
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"Frails" shovelling snow......Yes, I spent Sunday levering 3" thick layers of packed ice off our Midwest drive - with bronchitis - vigorously assisted by small daughter - while the menfolk recovered from life indoors. (My husband's got a back injury, fair enough, but the teenage son was a bit tired from his ski-trip and just didn't feel able to contribute.....). Who were the noir narrators thinking of when they came up with that term? Or were they, indeed, completely tongue in cheek ( "Let's annoy Bette Davis", they conspired together)
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| Re: Snow [message #10944 is a reply to message #10901 ] |
Tue, 03 February 2009 13:39 |
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Creek
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But the number of people strolling down the middle of the glass-slick road to avoid, I guess, getting their nice clean boots snowy by wading along the pavement is phenomenal.
They do that here in Indiana too! And even though they hear and see a car coming towards them, they do not move out of the center of the road. It boggles my mind.
"remember, it's called a play... that means you should PLAY"
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| Re: Snow [message #10945 is a reply to message #10901 ] |
Tue, 03 February 2009 14:41 |
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I'm in Idaho. We have a ski resort about 25 miles SOUTH of us. So you would expect the city to be prepared for snow. Yeah right. I have no idea what the rules are that are used to determine when they send the plows out. Driving is another story. I usually worry more about accidents when it rains. For some reason, people in Idaho can drive just fine in snow but have a heck of a time in rain. Go figure.
Computers are just like air-conditioning. Both work great until you open Windows. :)
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| Re: Snow [message #10946 is a reply to message #10940 ] |
Tue, 03 February 2009 15:41 |
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Erika in Colorado
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| Mrs Redboots wrote on Tue, 03 February 2009 06:58 |
Robin, the reason why people don't shovel snow in this country is very simple: if you shovel the snow off your pavement (sidewalk) and someone slips in it, they could sue you. If you haven't touched it, they can't - they can only sue the local council.
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I don't know about Robin's experience in Maine, but here in Colorado, you are required to have the sidewalk along your property shoveled within 24 hours of the end of a snow storm, or you can be fined. The snow stays around for a while here and then does the thaw a little and then freeze over to ice thing; so if the walk is shoveled, it can't turn to ice. I guess in England, snow provides the traction and never has the chance to refreeze to ice.
Erika in Colorado
"A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!" -Anne Frank
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| Re: Snow [message #10961 is a reply to message #10942 ] |
Tue, 03 February 2009 18:32 |
kfoster2047
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Oh, yes. We get the milk/bread thing for hurricanes, 1 inch snowstorms, comets passing by...
Karen
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| Re: Snow [message #10963 is a reply to message #10901 ] |
Tue, 03 February 2009 18:46 |
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Julia
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Oh! The Machine Stops!!!
JUST read that for my Digital Narratives class. Really just wrote a paper about it. [like yesterday]
Life is fun[ny], when things all come together like this, reading the story and talking about narrative and new media and old media and story and narrative discourse and all sorts of thing, only to have you reference it. ON YOUR BLOG.
I think I can write an entry about this, somehow. [We have to keep lj accounts and update them and comment on those of the rest of the class and so on as well as turning in papers. Old and new media. Sigh.]
Thank you, Robin!
:)
p.s. we've got your snow now... I just had to walk across campus to get dinner, and it was very beautiful, but very slippery and snowy and not so much fun after five or ten minutes of walking...
It was nearly fifty degrees yesterday! Over the past few days, it has gone from like 12 to 20 to 47 and now it is 30s [probably colder now, though] and snowing. Crazy.
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| Re: Snow [message #10966 is a reply to message #10954 ] |
Tue, 03 February 2009 19:46 |
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| Robin wrote on Tue, 03 February 2009 23:06 |
Our bin men are coping just fine. By not showing up. Sigh.
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Looks like there's a standard bin men response - none sighted here either... although all the bin bags mysteriously gathered in large clumps, many moving across the road in the process... Hmmm. Wonder whether there are multiple black bag mysteries occurring at this time? (Cue Twilight zone theme...)
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Snow [message #10974 is a reply to message #10965 ] |
Wed, 04 February 2009 10:12 |
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Mrs Redboots
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| southdowner wrote on Wed, 04 February 2009 00:43 |
I don't feel half as feeble (should that be frail?!) now
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"Frail children of dust/and feeble as frail" only I think it should be "frail children of snow!"
Hey, I am so proud of myself, I actually drove home from the ice-rink this morning, and London's side-streets are still icy (the main roads are fine). I had a meeting last night that I was going to drive to, but the person I was giving a lift to cancelled, and I frankly bottled it - I have only been driving a little over three years, and this is the first time I've had to drive in anything worse than rain. So I got the bus instead, and was very glad I had when I saw the state of the road!
Mrs Redboots
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| Re: Snow [message #10999 is a reply to message #10988 ] |
Wed, 04 February 2009 18:23 |
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| Robin wrote on Wed, 04 February 2009 18:08 |
I have driven in LOTS AND LOTS of snow. NOT WANTING TO is a PERFECTLY VALID position.
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*decides that hot weather has unexpected advantages*
(of course OUR trains aren't working well either. Because the heat has warped the tracks! LOL)
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Snow [message #11017 is a reply to message #10974 ] |
Thu, 05 February 2009 06:29 |
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| Mrs Redboots wrote on Wed, 04 February 2009 15:12 |
| southdowner wrote on Wed, 04 February 2009 00:43 |
I don't feel half as feeble (should that be frail?!) now
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"Frail children of dust/and feeble as frail" only I think it should be "frail children of snow!"
Hey, I am so proud of myself, I actually drove home from the ice-rink this morning, and London's side-streets are still icy (the main roads are fine). I had a meeting last night that I was going to drive to, but the person I was giving a lift to cancelled, and I frankly bottled it - I have only been driving a little over three years, and this is the first time I've had to drive in anything worse than rain. So I got the bus instead, and was very glad I had when I saw the state of the road!
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Very very wise choice! I had to drive to work at 7 am and the roads were vile! Got to just before the start of the driveway into work and felt the car going and ended up stuck on the grass verge (well, there's grass somewhere under the snow....)
I had to get the greenkeepers to rescue me. Bless them, they towed me all the way up the drive and into the carpark. But yes, twas a rather scary experience, and I was extremely glad to be able to lock up early and come home!!
Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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