08 February 2013
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R. Linda:
I had JUST fallen off into a deep sleep when me iPhone started this alert sound I had never heard before. It took me a right two minutes to figure out what it was and where it was coming from. The wife was making disparaging sounds because I was not stopping the annoyance. Once I had discovered it was the mobile, I looked at it and there was a BLIZZARD alert. It was 3:25 a.m.
Now I ask you, do you think at 3:25 A.M. I WILL CARE IF THERE IS A BLIZZARD ALERT? No, not likely. I turned the damn thing off and rolled back over, never giving it a thought that this was a first. I'd never gotten a weather alert like that EVER.
It did not start light snowing until around 5 a.m. when my alarm got me up. There was not much going on, about a dusting I'd say. Heavy fat flakes that weren't sticking were swirling around the yard. Yes, pretty, pretty IF you like that sort of thing, which on a workday I do not.
So I started into work and the farther south I got the more snow there was coming down. I had to laugh. As usual, here we go again, where we are told "historical" amounts of snow (28 to 33") will fall on us, with possible hurricane-force winds, power outages, damage to property and possibly any fool who would venture out in such, either badly injured (or worse) landing in hospital.
Well, as you can imagine a lot was being made of all this -- as usual. The same old same old, about it being weather for sled dogs and snowmobiles. People were worried and complaining they hoped to leave work early and such. Only I sat there relaxed and calm, taking in the "chicken little" population when I knew better.
I looked at the weather maps and yes they looked forbidding, but they did for the hurricane the last storm of the century we were supposed to get and really didn't. I spoke to me brother-in-law in North Jersey who said, "Storm, I have to laugh, they let us out early and are telling us to stay off the roads and nothing seems to be happening."
Only Boston it seemed had "the" weather and not weather like it could be or was predicted to be. So as it happened we were let go early (those of us with nothing pressing and who lived out of state or long distances from work). I got home at 2:00 and there was NOTHING I tell ya, NOTHING. But at 2:21 there was now THIS:
It was starting to come down at a good clip it was. So I got myself some peppermint Schnapps and hot cocoa and made a keen drink to sip while I sat back thinking it wouldn't last long. Yup, I did think that. At the time, I did.
An hour later, I was making another cup of brew but thought to snap another shot of the "blizzard."
So I went back to sipping and lazing around. I even caught a nap and around 4:30 it had got a bit messy out there.
So the wind had picked up and was gusting about, it's getting hard to see out by the edge of the woods. But it's early. But not that early apparently. New Hampshire's governor has declared a state of emergency at 5:15. Winds arrive at 55 mph with an increase of snow intensity coming within the next few hours, a four to five-inch per-hour rate of white stuff (so they say). Seems it is in the teens right now, and as it rises the thunder-snow is expected. Now that is a strange phenomenon, it usually happens in the dead of night and can be very disconcerting.
If I'm not back later -- I am either: 1. sitting in the dark with no power, OR 2. watching the telly.
Gabe
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R. Linda:
I had JUST fallen off into a deep sleep when me iPhone started this alert sound I had never heard before. It took me a right two minutes to figure out what it was and where it was coming from. The wife was making disparaging sounds because I was not stopping the annoyance. Once I had discovered it was the mobile, I looked at it and there was a BLIZZARD alert. It was 3:25 a.m.
Now I ask you, do you think at 3:25 A.M. I WILL CARE IF THERE IS A BLIZZARD ALERT? No, not likely. I turned the damn thing off and rolled back over, never giving it a thought that this was a first. I'd never gotten a weather alert like that EVER.
It did not start light snowing until around 5 a.m. when my alarm got me up. There was not much going on, about a dusting I'd say. Heavy fat flakes that weren't sticking were swirling around the yard. Yes, pretty, pretty IF you like that sort of thing, which on a workday I do not.
So I started into work and the farther south I got the more snow there was coming down. I had to laugh. As usual, here we go again, where we are told "historical" amounts of snow (28 to 33") will fall on us, with possible hurricane-force winds, power outages, damage to property and possibly any fool who would venture out in such, either badly injured (or worse) landing in hospital.
Well, as you can imagine a lot was being made of all this -- as usual. The same old same old, about it being weather for sled dogs and snowmobiles. People were worried and complaining they hoped to leave work early and such. Only I sat there relaxed and calm, taking in the "chicken little" population when I knew better.
I looked at the weather maps and yes they looked forbidding, but they did for the hurricane the last storm of the century we were supposed to get and really didn't. I spoke to me brother-in-law in North Jersey who said, "Storm, I have to laugh, they let us out early and are telling us to stay off the roads and nothing seems to be happening."
Only Boston it seemed had "the" weather and not weather like it could be or was predicted to be. So as it happened we were let go early (those of us with nothing pressing and who lived out of state or long distances from work). I got home at 2:00 and there was NOTHING I tell ya, NOTHING. But at 2:21 there was now THIS:
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| 2:21 p.m. Did the snow follow me home? |
An hour later, I was making another cup of brew but thought to snap another shot of the "blizzard."
| 3:10 p.m. Agh a little more, it be fine stuff coming down but blizzard? |
So I went back to sipping and lazing around. I even caught a nap and around 4:30 it had got a bit messy out there.
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| OK OK, it's picking up. 4:30 p.m. Getting snowy out there as the "weather people" say. |
So the wind had picked up and was gusting about, it's getting hard to see out by the edge of the woods. But it's early. But not that early apparently. New Hampshire's governor has declared a state of emergency at 5:15. Winds arrive at 55 mph with an increase of snow intensity coming within the next few hours, a four to five-inch per-hour rate of white stuff (so they say). Seems it is in the teens right now, and as it rises the thunder-snow is expected. Now that is a strange phenomenon, it usually happens in the dead of night and can be very disconcerting.
If I'm not back later -- I am either: 1. sitting in the dark with no power, OR 2. watching the telly.
Gabe
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3 comments:
LOL
OK what's the weather like RIGHT NOW?
Hang in there Gabe. Getting quite a bit here too. But not like up there.
Unfortunately . . . snowing!
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