The Weather Is Here. Wishing You Were FIne.

[jetcone]

WE hit 57 here today

The basement is flooded again 3 inches, no where near the Combos.

It is melting all the ICESNOW we got last weekend thank god! That was the heaviest snow I have ever seen and I am from upstate ny!!! Note the location!

Go snow gooooooooooooooooo!

Its 55 now at 8:17pm and I have all the doors open airing out the house, fresh air ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[toggleswitch2]

ooh Jon is so much floodng the usual case in your home?
In my area heatng is required by law this time of year when the temperature is below 50*F outdoors. I'm roasting in my apt (the landlord supplieds heat-- and we can't regulate it-)at 75*F with all the convectors ("Radiators") OFF!

Strangely, after all that rain, the sun came out for half an hour, it then became ominously dark again very easly in the afternoon, then dusk and sunset settled it.

Mother nature must be going through "the change"!

 

[toploader55]

Very Windy Here on the Cape

I thought we were going to get hammered with rain. Well... not that much but WIND Yikes... But all the snow is gone. Whewwwww...... Thank the Lord. 57 degreesF at 8:30 PM.

 

[mixfinder]

Snow and Sleet

I drove home over I-90 just before they closed it last night. One of the worst drives ever because the snow was very wet, heavy and heard to steer. The pass was bumper to bumper the whole way. We saw about 20 cars off the road in the 53 miles from om and dad's to the summit of Snoqualamie Pass. It's on those kind of roads I am so grateful to have a heavy car that I know so well.

 

[toggleswitch2]

4wd, AWD.

Do four-wheel drive and all-wheel-drive make a difference?

 

[mysteryclock]

A good AWD system (like the one in my Subaru and unlike a lot of SUVs) can help you out and increase your safety margins as long as you drive responsibly and reasonably in the first place! However if you, like most folks here in the south, think that four powered wheels make you invincible you'll still end up flipped upside down in a ditch.

 

[toggleswitch2]

For sure!

I personally love mocking the testosterone cases that think their huge vehicle allows them to do anything at any time.

WRONG! No traction means you need to be driving like the Virgin Mary!

 

[mixfinder]

Its all about stopping

Whether or not you're front wheel, rear wheel, all wheel or 4 wheel, none has a stopping advantage over another. Because I am old and stubborn and set in my ways I am most comfortable on bad road in a heavy rear wheel drive car.

 

[appnut]

It's currently 48 outside, a high of 61 today and a low of 30 this morning at 6:00 am. Cear and sunny to partly sunny all day today.

 

[appnut]

Yep Lee I jsut noticed y'all could have snow Thurs. night. Amazing what 115 miles south does!! Whew!! christmas was more than enough for me up there!!!

 

[gizmo]

warm, blue skies, 23°C outside.

 

[laundromat]

vog

When the winds are traveling east,the vvolcano steam gets real dence and causes vog.Today was great but this past weekend in Hilo,you couldn't see your hand in front of your face and it smelled horrible.You can compare the stench to the steam comming up from the underground sewers in cities like New York and Baltimore in the mid Winter months.I had to where a bandana mask to be able to filter the air.It has averaged 82F daily and 65F nightly.Went paddle surfing this past weekend too.

 

[sudsmaster]

55/43 here, and still raining after about a week of same. It's supposed to clear up tomorrow and reach 60/45 by Thursday.

The magnolia in the front yard is blooming. The daffodils are showing their heads.

 

[panthera]

We've had several interstate closures

over the last month and I had the great good luck to be on the road after my folks' city was closed twice.

Both times, I saw over 50 cars off the road in a 37 mile stretch.

With one exception. One. ALL were four-wheel drives/all-wheel drives.

Mother Nature does not care the least little bit about ABS, traction-control, stability control, 4-wheel drive and winter tires. Nothing will keep a vehicle on the road when the weather conditions are bad. A great deal will take a vehicle off the road when the driver is foolish enough to believe that all these wonderful technological breakthroughs trump Mother Nature.

Red in tooth and claw, she never loses. Ever.

What puzzles me most is that driver's ed was struck from the curriculum in the 1990s. We're over 6,000' here and kids of 15.5 years are out driving with no experience and no way to get it except what Mother Nature chooses to punish them with.