Weather where you are

[winger]

When I got home I tried to blast in the drive (with a running start) but got stuck; and it's a full-sized car. At least I was out of the street. Got out the snow blower, and then pulled the rest of the way in.

I did that once in a Ford Probe GT - it was so cool seeing the snow flying over the hood. Yeah, got stuck, but I got more than two car lengths into the driveway in about 20" of light powdery stuff. There was room for my then husband to drive in (he had 4WD, too) after me and then get out the snowblower.

Here, this afternoon I needed to get to the store. We didn't get much snow, just a lot of drifting. The roads were fine, but it took me over half an hour to get through my driveway. Ken had made a path when he left this morning, but it had drifted the worst in the driveway (could see grass in the yard). I almost made it through the worst patch (about two car lengths long), but couldn't cut to the right where I'd planned because I have no power steering in the Escape right now. So the FWD 4 cyl got stuck - mostly on the stuff it packed down under the center of the car. Took some shoveling and rocking, but it got through. And Nate fell asleep in the car while I was unsticking it, so I had to keep going. Then, after I got home, our neighbor had left a note on our door while we were out asking if we wanted him to plow it. My timing stinks.

 

[hoffy]

No, it's the EU and US that are on the wrong side.

Exactly!

Meanwhile, if you want a great touristy movie to encourage you to visit, I'd suggest finding the movie Snowtown. Then realise it's a true story. Then realise that I work with the son of the Detective in charge of the operation, who's said that the movie just scratches the surface of what actually happened...

That one still sends a shiver down my spine - a very frightening movie and a very very disturbing set of circumstances.

There is another movie masterpiece they could watch, which was made in our fine city - Bad Boy Bubby. Such a classic!

 

[bobwysiwyg]

I managed to blast out of the driveway, and on the freeway hit 50mph until I caught up with the people who were to afraid to be on the road. Took two hours to make a 24 minute drive... because of the idiots on the road.

At the risk of sounding preachy, if your weather was anything like ours yesterday, it's not how fast you can go, but how fast your can stop. Perhaps those idiots knew something.

 

[Truzi]

At the risk of sounding preachy, if your weather was anything like ours yesterday, it's not how fast you can go, but how fast your can stop. Perhaps those idiots knew something.

Well, I was born and raised here, driven in worse winter snows, and haven't wrecked yet. Never had a problem stopping either.

The question of stopping is assured clear distance, not crawling at slower speeds than on city streets. Yes, I exited at the same place some of these people did, on city streets in worse shape, yet they went faster there.

 

[smithdoor]

We have rain
The photo is real rain in Clovis CA and Fresno CA :wizard:

Dave

 

[PKM-25]

We got 36" in a 48 hour period last week, seems like another 12-24" could be on tap before Saturday, bring it on!

These cars are hibernating....

 

[DREW WILEY]

Dave - I've seen significant areas of Fresno under water from flooding, more than once. It will happen again. Not far outside of Clovis there
are places underlain with vast deposits of fossil megafauna bones from sudden flashfloods hitting the flood plains, probably from ice dams way
up the San Joaquin canyon bursting during the Pleistocene. The museum between Chowchilla and Madera has a nice exhibition of some of these
critters. I sure wouldn't want to tease a shortfaced bear or kick a Harlan's ground sloth in the butt - bigger than a backhoe, with a walnut sized
brain, and claws about a foot long! Reminds me of a few people back in High School.

 

[lxdude]

These cars are hibernating....

 

[cliveh]

Flooding in the UK

Today I went out on my bicycle to buy a newspaper and on route I encountered a flood. I have cycled this route many times before and at this point on the road there is often a large puddle. However, although I could see where the road surfaced, as I got further into it I realised it was getting deeper. The water came up to pedal height and I as I had committed myself, to stop would make me even wetter. I think I will give that journey a miss for the next few days until it stops raining.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Today I went out on my bicycle to buy a newspaper and on route I encountered a flood. I have cycled this route many times before and at this point on the road there is often a large puddle. However, although I could see where the road surfaced, as I got further into it I realised it was getting deeper. The water came up to pedal height and I as I had committed myself, to stop would make me even wetter. I think I will give that journey a miss for the next few days until it stops raining.

Send the excess to California!

 

[Black Dog]

Shock horror we actually got some sunshine today.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6VaeFCxta8

 

[Dr Croubie]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-11/adelaide-sets-summer-record-for-extreme-heat/5252482.
Breaking more extreme heat records, sigh.
(and again, very very very glad I got solar panels in before this summer)

 

[BradleyK]

Snow forecast for last night failed to materialize; instead a steady of light rain that began overnight continues to fall. A nice fog enshrouded the mountain most of the day...so, took the F4e w/80-200mm (loaded with HP5+) and the F2 w/35mm (loaded with Tri-X) and hoofed around the neighborhood and campus to shoot some "weather pictures." A productive little jaunt; came back cold (temperature was 4C) and wet but satisfied. Weather is forecast to break tomorrow...but if it doesn't...who cares: every day is a good day to shoot!

 

[Xmas]

"Raining" sandbags
tidal barrier on max

not warm either

 

[smithdoor]

Try this side of the word in CA it is so bad even the Congress and the President is checking out the weather here.
It so bad it only was up to 70's F and no rain or snow and for the year only 1" of rain. AKA drought

Dave

 

[lxdude]

Try this side of the word in CA it is so bad even the Congress and the President is checking out the weather here.
It so bad it only was up to 70's F and no rain or snow and for the year only 1" of rain. AKA drought

Dave

And once again it is proven by the heavy rains in the north that Northern and Southern California are in reality different states.

 

[lxdude]

Try this side of the word in CA it is so bad even the Congress and the President is checking out the weather here.
It so bad it only was up to 70's F and no rain or snow and for the year only 1" of rain. AKA drought

Dave

Yeah, I heard the president went to the Central Valley to see for himself. What-- like pictures of near-empty reservoirs and bare farmland don't cut it?

 

[winger]

Here in SW Iowa, we've only gotten about 3 inches of snow all winter and no rain. We were in drought already, too, and this isn't helping. I wasn't here, yet, but last spring they got lots of rain and then very little from July through fall.
Temp-wise, it looks like we'll finally be above freezing later this week. Still single digits now, though.

 

[Trail Images]

Went to Joshua Tree NP this morning for a sunrise shoot. It was sunny and in the 50's when I left at about 0900.......

 

[cliveh]

Here in SW Iowa, we've only gotten about 3 inches of snow all winter and no rain. We were in drought already, too, and this isn't helping. I wasn't here, yet, but last spring they got lots of rain and then very little from July through fall.
Temp-wise, it looks like we'll finally be above freezing later this week. Still single digits now, though.

As a resident of Iowa, are you a fan of Bill Bryson? I enjoy his travel books.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Thursday night I might not be able to fly out of the DC area to Los Angeles

 

[jovo]

My wife is on the only train on the east coast that's running. All others have been cancelled in anticipation of the ice and snow to come tonight, tomorrow and Thursday. Happily, she has a sleeping car to herself, and that will be a great boon if, as the conductor has announced, the train may be up to 8 hours late or possibly stopped indefinitely. When and if she gets to NY, the local trains to her destination may also be shut down. Here in Jacksonville Fla, we're just south of the ice storm that is closing Georgia tonight and tomorrow. After last week's debacle, they are sparing nothing in anticipation of the storm of the century. Yikes!!! I have long felt that the only place for ice is in a glass of whiskey and only that in small quantities (the ice, not the whiskey).

 

[Xmas]

Do hope she is ok.
Looks like we will have the wettest three months on record by end of week.
And we have built lots of our housing on flood plains.

 

[Dr Croubie]

So between South Australia, the UK, and the US, we've got the warmest january on record, the UK has the wettest, and the US simultaneously has coldest and driest between northeast and southwest?

 

[winger]

As a resident of Iowa, are you a fan of Bill Bryson? I enjoy his travel books.

Well, I've only lived here for about 6 months (and my car is still wearing a PA license plate), so I can't say I've got any knowledge of him or his books. I've always stuck to fiction except for photography books.