Mark D Posted January 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 27" on the ground at the moment, and no signs of it stopping. Governor has prevented us from driving on public streets, so no heading out to help the inlaws. So I sit, enjoy the rare snow day, cracked a beer, and recuperate from round one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1940plymouth Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Wow Mark, you guys are surely getting hammered, if we got a couple of inches we got a lot, sun is shining here right now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Coatney Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Plymouthy Adams, on 27 Jan 2015 - 11:19 AM, said:nothing worse than a soggy popcorn ball.......how many here remember popcorn balls? How many remember using thread and a sewing needle to sew popcorn together as a Christmas tree decoration? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pflaming Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 I certainly do, and if we had a good crop, mom would color the pop corn. Different times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Coatney Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 pflaming, on 27 Jan 2015 - 3:15 PM, said:I certainly do, and if we had a good crop, mom would color the pop corn. Different times. How did the colored pop corn taste? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pflaming Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Same as the non-colored. When we took the tree down, then we made pop corn balls. Mom threw NOTHING away. Remember the Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs? Dream time during blizzards. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Coatney Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 pflaming, on 27 Jan 2015 - 3:31 PM, said:Same as the non-colored. When we took the tree down, then we made pop corn balls. Mom threw NOTHING away. Remember the Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs? Dream time during blizzards. Used many Wards and Roebuck catalogues in the out house to remove the colored remains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pflaming Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) In hard times we used two or three cobs. First a red cob, then a white to see if we needed to use another red one. Sweet corn cobs were better than field corn but never had enough inventory to last all winter. edit: the yellow pages went first [telephone book] . Edited January 27, 2015 by pflaming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulu Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 In '67 there was a good one. Dad was just back from Vietnam. We were crossing Iowa and got stuck there when the roads closed. We were coming from Phoenix, and going to Duluth, so it was quite a thrill. Traveler's Aid found some nice folks to put us up 'til it cleared. There was 2' of snowfall in a matter of hours in mid-Iowa, and the same in Chicago. Anyhow, that's one of the many reasons I live in the desert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark D Posted January 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Im hoping this is my last big northeast storm to endure, but I've got seven more years of working to get by me before I can move south. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobT-47P15 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Weather here in southwest Missouri is fine. Hit around 61 Tuesday........for today (Wed) is supposed to be maybe up to 72.......then drop into the 40s for the rest of the week. Looks like a bit of a mess where the big snows did nit. Hope it doesn't produce too many problems for our eastern members. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulu Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 I saw some drone videos of NYC this AM & they got pummeled. Brrrrr! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark D Posted February 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 Spent my day removing snow from my garage roof... 12 laborers, 8 bagsters, and one Liebherr later.... 49" of accumulated snow removed from a 22,000 sf flats roof. Actually my wallet did all the work. But at least my plymouth is safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulu Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 We're getting zip here. They expect this to be the worst drought here in 100 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plymouthy Adams Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 no rain..no snow...but wind blew all day long..it about whipped my butt not only in the very fact it was not pleasant on my ears..but I was working sheet tin out in the elements today. it would have been a challenge for an octopus to keep control let alone one person.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TodFitch Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 We're getting zip here. They expect this to be the worst drought here in 100 years. I’ve been reading that its the lowest rain fall for many areas since they started recording in this area (around 1850) so that would be the worst in more like 165 years. No rain in San Francisco in February, the first time that has been recorded. For the year we are at about 2% of “normal”. There is some hope for a storm or two at the beginning of March if the longer range forecasts pan out. We need it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plymouthy Adams Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 we had a drought a few years back..feel your pain...all the lakes and ponds became nothing but depressions in the dirt...even after rains started coming in steady again..it took a couple years to get the ponds back up to their level.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pflaming Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 We only had 2" of recorded rain in Fresno, jan 1 -- dec 31 , 2014, normal is 15". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikec4193 Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 So I had this thought.... with all the snow coming down on the East coast...cant we just just put it in a huge pipeline and ship it out West where you guys need it so bad??? We can move oil from Alaska to the lower 48 states...maybe we could do a waterline too??? Just my smelly old 2 cents... MikeC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonaldSmith Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 (edited) We on the Great Lakes fight off occasional schemes to siphon away our water. For more than a hundred years, the Chicago River has flowed the other way, to flush Chicago's waste toward the Mississippi. OK, they got away with that one, and we don't want their waste. Now the Asian carp are threatening to enter the Great Lakes via the same Chicago River. Stop them! Asian carp are big fish with such an attitude that they leap out of the water and slap you up the side of the head. (Edit: By the way the weather here today is bright and sunny, but my computer says minus 4 F, and the car this morning said minus 9. That's about minus 26 on the Celsius scale. If it gets down to minus 40, hypotheticallyI hope, it won't matter which scale is used.) Edited February 19, 2015 by DonaldSmith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDaddyO Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Most of our water already goes to NYC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desotodav Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 We may have ground water to spare in the next 48 hours as the weather bureau says that we may get around 20 inches of rain and wind gusts up to 161mph from (category 4 or 5) tropical cyclone 'Marcia'. The east coast of Queensland (Australia) here is set to cop a pounding! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TodFitch Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 We may have ground water to spare in the next 48 hours as the weather bureau says that we may get around 20 inches of rain and wind gusts up to 161mph from (category 4 or 5) tropical cyclone 'Marcia'. The east coast of Queensland (Australia) here is set to cop a pounding! Wow! Glad I am not there, hope you come through it okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ194950 Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 We may have ground water to spare in the next 48 hours as the weather bureau says that we may get around 20 inches of rain and wind gusts up to 161mph from (category 4 or 5) tropical cyclone 'Marcia'. The east coast of Queensland (Australia) here is set to cop a pounding! Hope you live on some of the higher ground there. Hope the reef gives some wave relief. Best of wishes. DJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desotodav Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Hope you live on some of the higher ground there. Hope the reef gives some wave relief. Best of wishes. DJ My properties are all high and dry. The cyclone crossed the east coast about 8 hours north of our place and has just gone through the township of Rockhampton. There is plenty of rain and wind damage up there and about 70,000 houses presently without power (possibly for the next 3 days). It has been downgraded to a 'category 2' now and is still heading south down the coast at about 12mph. They are expecting that it will turn to a rain depression by the time that it gets to us - moderate wind gusts and plenty more rain. Our east coast is somewhat protected by the reef and islands offshore. Waves have only been increased by around 10 feet, but that hasn't been helped by the very high tides. They haven't reported any loss of life yet, so I guess we can be thankful for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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