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     Sharon2 Senior Member Username: sharon2468 Post Number: 1726 Registered: 8-2004 |
Anna, I did a lot of preparing before y2k. I tend to worry about things so the peace of mind was invaluable. We looked into solar but were told Ohio did not have enough sun to be able to depend on that option. We also looked into a hand pump but the well was too deep. Second Wind, We bought our generator the end of '99'. We had an electrician install it to our power box so all we had to do was click over to the pre-planned switches we needed. THIS was the first time we have ever had to use it. It worked great but it was REALLY NOISY! We parked it outside our attached garage. We ran it four hours in the morning and four hours in the evening. The milk that was in the frige is still OK. My husband had to find a gas station that was still open. We never thought of that. A generator wouldn't do much good without gas. Animalspirits, tell your friend hello for me. We'll never forget this one! The day seemed so long without electricity. No computer! Our land line was out as well but the cell phones worked fine. We used our 'crank' radio and our stockpile of votive candles. Very glad for those! Yesterday our daughter and her husband helped us clean up the yard. Their work places were still without power. Only two days without power but it seemed a lot longer! | ||
| animalspirits Senior Member Username: animalspiritstalstarcom Post Number: 3780 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sharon, She said the same thing. I just got an email from her telling me her landline phone was working, but they still have no power. They have to have a generator as they are on well water. Yep...you have to have gas. We have about 10 or so cans to fill before the storm hits. If we don't need the gas, we use it in the cars. You can also add a stabilizer to the cans that allows you to keep the gas for months. They are noisy. Just make sure you don't use it in a garage/enclosed space or you can get carbon monoxide in your house. I am very happy you have your power back. Understand that all things are sacred--yet nothing is sacred. ~Yotee Coyote | ||
| Lassen Sage Advanced Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 278 Registered: 5-2008 |
Strange thunder storm,all rolling booms and major sheet lightning. I thought it was the nightime chemtrail planes,LOL... Feels like extra electric alright,makes every movement feel bouncy to me.Sounds like fun,but it's NOT.. Extra loud buzz in my head,kinda eeeee sound.. Guess everyone went to bed.. | ||
| Second Wind Senior Member Username: second_wind Post Number: 1993 Registered: 4-2007 |
LS.....yeppers, got the "eeeeee" sound really bad in my head tonight.  About the weird and extremely loud thunder/explosions..... This has been happening here is West Texas, for about the past couple of years. Even neighbors and local news people have remarked about it being the loudest, and strangest, thunder and lightning they have ever experienced. It really freaks me out, because it reminds me of something....but I don't know what. All I can say is....and please don't laugh..... When I saw Spielberg's "War Of The Worlds", the thing that scared me the most - and, in fact, sent me into a ridiculous, out-of-proportion anxiety reaction so bad I had to call my sister - was the lightning and thunder during the beginning of the "invasion". I do not know why I had such a reaction. And I don't know what it "reminds" me of. I try to tell myself that it just reminds me of being scared by thunderstorms when I was little.....but it's more than that. But what? "In the end, only kindness matters." | ||
| blue Advanced Member Username: jennyblue Post Number: 368 Registered: 3-2007 |
it makes sense, second wind. you cld be remembering the storm that is to come -- the edge of the "changes" in my visions involves a storm of earth changing proportions. it is the time that "halloween" remembers -- when all the doors between worlds shake loose (lots of lightning and thunder -- even w/out the rain) and all kinds of beings and things flying in/out/thru our world It was so eerie in that movie -- almost like the atmosphere was not quite right, like it was altered. I still find it quite frightening as well ... also, i love storms but the wind and lightening are frighten me more often during the past decade or so than in the previous four-- or so it seems to me. mary, jesus' mother, when she has appeared to others to speak of this event, has advised people to go inside with plenty of candles, water, and blankets. It sounds as tho the whole thing starts with the sun. she has said an enormous storm will be followed by a darkness that will last three days and three nights. demons and all kinds of "other worldly" creatures will roam the world oustide one's doors. My guess is that many of us carry a genetic memory of the event. One's soul may also carry memories of such events on earth. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Hopi Elders 2001. | ||
| Second Wind Senior Member Username: second_wind Post Number: 2021 Registered: 4-2007 |
Those are very good observations, blue. You could be right on the money. "you cld be remembering the storm that is to come -- the edge of the "changes" in my visions involves a storm of earth changing proportions." WOW! That's exactly how it feels, now that I actually think about what you just said!! It is more like a premonition, than a memory of something past. Dear Lord..... "It was so eerie in that movie -- almost like the atmosphere was not quite right, like it was altered." BINGO! Once again, one understands the simplistic truth of the expression, "Ignorance is bliss"!! "In the end, only kindness matters." | ||
| Lassen Sage Advanced Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 385 Registered: 5-2008 |
Brrr,30 here this morning with high winds all night. Our light snow flurries consisted of 3 snow flakes!!! | ||
| anna Senior Member Username: anna Post Number: 1782 Registered: 9-2002 |
Snow here too! Really early! Be the wave.... | ||
| anna Senior Member Username: anna Post Number: 1784 Registered: 9-2002 |
29 tonite with 30 mile per hour winds. Brrrr.... Be the wave.... | ||
| gridghost Intermediate Member Username: gridghost Post Number: 130 Registered: 9-2006 |
Yesterday was weird here in sweden. Its autumn here and usually this time of year its cold, rain and wind... cold winds, i might add. Yesterday, though, it was nearly 20 degrees celsius, clear, and almost summery weather with warm winds... not that i complain, but its strange nonetheless. "Life is like a golfball. A series of hard blows, just to end up in a hole in the ground" | ||
| buddie Senior Member Username: buddie Post Number: 1100 Registered: 3-2008 |
We are having the same type of weather here in my part of Canada.. S/B 14c and its 25c but out west its snowing..better them than me  | ||
| anna Senior Member Username: anna Post Number: 1785 Registered: 9-2002 |
Supposed to be 70 by end of the week Be the wave.... | ||
| Kokopelli Advanced Member Username: auriga560 Post Number: 347 Registered: 7-2006 |
Bad news on AOL today ... http://news.aol.com/article/arctic-temperatures-hit-record-highs/214670 Knowing is arrogant; not knowing is stupidity; the way is far beyond both of these. | ||
| Lassen Sage Advanced Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 426 Registered: 5-2008 |
It's too warm here during the day for this time of year. High 70's during the day and almost freezing most nights. Normal would be 42 to 52 during the day and freezing at night. I had to get the hoses out and start watering again. And what is with all the twins? We saw more twin fawns this yr then single fawns, so it seemed the normal was twins this year. Whenever I make phone calls to take care of business I always ask about weather conditions. This yr I also asked about deer and found twin fawns being born until very late all the way back to New York. | ||
| graciesmom Senior Member Username: jmb Post Number: 1164 Registered: 7-2003 |
Lassen, really toasty here in central PA during the day, too. Also, it has been balmy and windy, but dark and creepy! At night the moon is so bright, I can walk Gracie, as she's had to get up and pee twice. I love walking in the moonlight. No UFOS lol! No twin fawns here, just singles, but a much bigger deer population, in general. WAY too much road kill, sad. De profundis clamavi ad te Domine Donae nobis pacem (Out of the deep have I cried to you, Lord, Grant us peace.} | ||
| anna Senior Member Username: anna Post Number: 1786 Registered: 9-2002 |
Warmer and indian-summerish. Pretty!  Be the wave.... | ||
| blue Advanced Member Username: jennyblue Post Number: 396 Registered: 3-2007 |
found this on Halloween Celtic sagas tell of many important heroic and prophetic events occurring on Samhain. It was a sacred time, during which warriors were ordered to lay down arms and observe a peace. Great feasting and ritualized drunkenness were the rule: revelers consumed huge quantities of mead and beer. Yet it was a serious event: anyone who missed the festival ran the risk of going mad and dying, according to legend. "In marking the onset of winter, Samhain was closely associated with darkness and the supernatural," adds Nicholas Rogers, a York University history professor and author of Halloween: From Pagan Ritual To Party Night. "The festival was closely related with prophecy and story-telling." It was a time out of time, "charged with a peculiar preternatural energy." sidhe (burial mound) in Ireland Samhain was considered a period "between years," a magical interval during which the spirits of the dead spilled out of the sidhe, the ancient burial mounds of the Celts, and walked among the living. "It was an intensely spiritual time, for it was the one period when the Otherworld became visible to mankind," writes Peter Ellis in The Dictionary Of Celtic Mythology. from http://www.cultureplanet.com/news2.htm i have often wondered where the earth's axis wld be if November 1st was the winter solstice. (Message edited by jennyblue on October 24, 2008) We are the ones we've been waiting for. Hopi Elders 2001. | ||
| buddie Senior Member Username: buddie Post Number: 1163 Registered: 3-2008 |
Well something Did happen in 1972.. something to do with the Sun and Earth wobbles and I think X help.. Maybe we had not reached our full potential here on Earth..and the True Soul Savers stepped in to make us happy ..there is documentation of such a stand off in the research of the Cosmos in some books .. I'm happy because back in 1972 I only had my first  | ||
| lisa Member Username: thunderchicken Post Number: 85 Registered: 7-2005 |
Well, here in southwest florida we broke a 98 year record for the coldest temperature. It was 47 here last night and yesterday didn't get out of the 60's. Our normal overnights should be in the 60's this time of year. England had the earliest snowfall in 74 years and the northeast just got an early nor'easter. "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein | ||
| animalspirits Senior Member Username: animalspiritstalstarcom Post Number: 4097 Registered: 10-2006 |
I'm in the FL panhandle and I have been freezing my na-na off for the last two days...makes these old bones hurt. Understand that all things are sacred--yet nothing is sacred. ~Yotee Coyote | ||
| Angelseeker Junior Member Username: angelseeker Post Number: 58 Registered: 2-2004 |
Here in Vegas, we are experiencing near record warm temperatures for this time of year. We should be in the mid to low 70's, but we are in the mid to high 80's during the day. | ||
| Starcatcher Member Username: starcatcher Post Number: 77 Registered: 10-2004 |
Overnight on 29/30 October 2008, the county of Devon in the UK - and the town of Ottery St. Mary in particular - was hit a by a freak hailstorm which left hail drifts up to six feet deep. This BBC News page includes photographs and video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7700167.stm The south-east of England also experienced up to an inch of snow overnight 28/29 October - the first time snow has settled on the ground in London during October since 1934, and in the greater south-eastern part of England since 1974: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/29/weather-london Brrr! The true and the real are often confused. -------------------------------------------- ¸,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸© StarCatcher ©¸,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸ | ||
| Lassen Sage Advanced Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 452 Registered: 5-2008 |
40 and lots of rain here which we really needed. Maybe snow tonight about 5,000ft elevation expected, so we might get a little here. Cats in, cats out, but not for long. Our doggers prefer snow so they are napping next to the woodstove. Snow boots,wool socks,gloves,hats and thermals, snow shovels at hand, we are almost ready for a winter wonderland. | ||
| blue Advanced Member Username: jennyblue Post Number: 410 Registered: 3-2007 |
not really weather but some strange happenings w/the tides (cause unknown) in May on 10/28/08. http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=95126&catid=2 an excerpt: BOOTHBAY HARBOR (NEWS CENTER) -- Some boats were scratched and docks damaged Tuesday afternoon when low tide became high within a matter of minutes. Locals in the area say it happened about 6 or 7 times throughout the afternoon. They say it surged in within a matter of 5 minutes, then flowed back out just as quickly. The National Weather Service says the cause "remains a mystery and may never be known." p.s. October 28th was a New Moon (7:14 EDT) (Message edited by jennyblue on November 03, 2008) We are the ones we've been waiting for. Hopi Elders 2001. | ||
| anna Senior Member Username: anna Post Number: 1793 Registered: 9-2002 |
Way too mild this month, but finally cooling and getting a tiny bit of rain. Hoping for more! Be the wave.... | ||
| Lassen Sage Senior Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 533 Registered: 5-2008 |
60 degrees F plus days instead of snow here, makes it way too mild here,also. At least we have had some rain. | ||
| Lassen Sage Senior Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 534 Registered: 5-2008 |
Dang, it was so warm today the trees started dripping sap again. 5 sets of little cat paws full of sticky sap and crud all jumping in bed with me. I will be happy to have snow,instead. | ||
| miaree9 Senior Member Username: miaree9 Post Number: 2279 Registered: 5-2005 |
Ah, the wonders of Texas weather! Yesterday, our high temperature was 79 degrees. Today, our expected high is 29 degrees. | ||
| Lassen Sage Senior Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 562 Registered: 5-2008 |
Today we have a good foot and a half of the fluffy white stuff. Just dug out the sidewalks, dog walks and a place for the garbage can. And it's still coming down. Very cold weather predicted, more extreme then normal. | ||
| Angelseeker Junior Member Username: angelseeker Post Number: 62 Registered: 2-2004 |
It's snowing for the second time in a week in Vegas!!! | ||
| animalspirits Senior Member Username: animalspiritstalstarcom Post Number: 4203 Registered: 10-2006 |
It's in the mid 70s here in Tally...and very foggy. Very unusual for this time of year. weather.Understand that all things are sacred--yet nothing is sacred. ~Yotee Coyote | ||
| Mama Shine Senior Member Username: mama_shine Post Number: 9194 Registered: 9-2006 |
Same here AS...the fog is so thick right now I can't see across the canal. I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~William Blake | ||
| Lassen Sage Senior Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 564 Registered: 5-2008 |
Clear and a bone-chilling 13 degrees F. We had about 2 ft from this last storm. Another due late Thurs. with more snow continuing through Tuesday. Oh, joy,,,wish I had a sauna, a good steam and a roll in the snow for those aching muscles. I overdid the shoveling and resorted to a bowl of snow and a hot shower, yeow..it worked... | ||
| erBinn Intermediate Member Username: erbium Post Number: 177 Registered: 6-2008 |
The weather is off its rocker because we never learned how to control it properly. | ||
| susi t Senior Member Username: just_visiting Post Number: 1567 Registered: 8-2008 |
last night the temp was 51. tonight it's supposed to freeze. quite a jump. don't go to bed angry....stay up and plot your revenge. | ||
| allen Senior Member Username: eastsider01 Post Number: 833 Registered: 4-2005 |
snow in vegas???? | ||
| Angelseeker Junior Member Username: angelseeker Post Number: 63 Registered: 2-2004 |
Yep...3 to 5 inches in some places. It was the second time this week. We are expecting snow again on the 27th. It is really cold here right now! | ||
| erBinn Intermediate Member Username: erbium Post Number: 181 Registered: 6-2008 |
O! THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS RANDOM AND IVE GOT SOME CORN FOR POPPIN' | ||
| Lassen Sage Senior Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 571 Registered: 5-2008 |
Angelseeker so you know how the strip is doing? My friend is moving stuff out of a storage unit right on the strip today, and I am wondering if she made it OK in the traffic. Have you been out and about today, if I may ask? | ||
| Angelseeker Junior Member Username: angelseeker Post Number: 64 Registered: 2-2004 |
Sorry it took so long to answer. Our streets have pretty much been clear since Thursday. Snow doesn't last long here. Now it may snow on the 25th instead of the 27th. Our weather is so unstable sometimes! All I know is that my thermometer outside is currently reading 38 degrees! | ||
| dakel Advanced Member Username: dakel Post Number: 371 Registered: 8-2002 |
big storm here in seattle. snow keeps comin! | ||
| anna Senior Member Username: anna Post Number: 1798 Registered: 9-2002 |
Big snow here too, expecting 6-10" tonite/tmorrow morning. This is the 2nd winter we have had snow, on the ground, fro more than a week or 2. A trend here..... And snow in Vegas- now THAT'S strange, like Vegas isn't weird enough... Be the wave.... | ||
| xretsim Senior Member Username: xretsim Post Number: 868 Registered: 2-2001 |
it's unusally warm here in the south east of norway. 46.4 f, and not a grain of snow (what little there was melted away). it's like a sunny day in october. we have definitely been seeing a warming trend here since 1986. my childhood winters were always snowy and cold. | ||
| Sharon2 Senior Member Username: sharon2468 Post Number: 2008 Registered: 8-2004 |
Central Ohio - It went down to four degrees last night with a wind chill of 15 below zero! That's feakin' cold for this time of year. We've had an unusually cold pre-winter. Our bad weather doesn't normally start until mid January or later. There are exceptions to the rule though. Life goes on! | ||
| Edwina! Member Username: mad_queen_edwina Post Number: 88 Registered: 10-2004 |
No snow here, just bone-chilling cold. Liberty or Death! | ||
| Lassen Sage Senior Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 583 Registered: 5-2008 |
Icy heavy rain here, which is weird as it reads 29 degrees F, well below 32 degees F and freezing,,,it should be snow falling...roads are going to be a mess....hope I don't need a pick-axe to clear the snow away from my porch,,,it's piled up to the railings and I am getting an igloo effect....... I should have asked for snowshoes for X-mass,dang.. | ||
| allen Senior Member Username: eastsider01 Post Number: 846 Registered: 4-2005 |
Lassen it can snow at 40 degrees and turn directly to ice from 32 degrees on down. | ||
| bean Senior Member Username: tina Post Number: 687 Registered: 12-2001 |
Mist and cloud on this cool winter day Wet leaves cling to brown Barron branch touches grey. Cool, moist air a hint of breeze the birds singing riot for sleepers, a tease. Grateful greens still damp of rain with bud that can flurish cold, wet...not a bane. Peaceful. quiet this cool winter day light candles, a fire, a book...at home stay. | ||
| Lassen Sage Senior Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 586 Registered: 5-2008 |
Snow is heavy stuff. I just caught a news story about a school roof collapsing from the weight of the snow. I start to get nervous when we get 4 ft overhead and more coming. Last year a lot of metal storage sheds collapsed on this street. It's funny, but we get snow belts. These are also areas that get heavier rain fall. They also have lakes or main streams. And so we tend to get a few inches more snow in my neighborhood. Not enough snow for snow mobiles, too many trees for cross country skies make tractors and over-powered ATVs the favorite take the kids to the bus stop transportation.................... SUV's are handy in the snow, but it takes less digging make an ATV pathway out to the plowed road..... ATV stands for ALL-Terrain -Vehicle. An open cab type fiberglass body and motorcycle engine with 4 small knobby tires. If you love motorcycles, you won't like riding one of these. Most 4wheel drives will go through a couple of feet of wet snow, and soft snow tires grip well enough to get over most icy snow,,,but they handle mushy on our Jimmy,,OK below 40 mph,,....unnerving at higher speeds on our slanted for run-off highway. Chains on a front wheel drive van or car, if you can get out of your driveway, work pretty good. Front wheel drives handle better in the snow, if you have enough clearance. About half the folks around here drive front wheel drive cars all winter..and some drive what they have, no matter what the weather.... I share hope folks are prepared in their travels...chains, blankets, warm clothes, boots and a little food and water. | ||
| Sharon2 Senior Member Username: sharon2468 Post Number: 2016 Registered: 8-2004 |
Another turn around in Central Ohio - Today is supposed to reach an all time high. Right this minute it is 53 degrees and might go up another ten! Normal is in the 30s. Life goes on! | ||
| blue Advanced Member Username: jennyblue Post Number: 437 Registered: 3-2007 |
I think someone/s playing w/the jet stream again -- perhaps those of us so inclined can focus on earth's well being/balance. The current bevy of storm systems are popping up rapid fire along a jet stream that is behaving in a spring/fall manner -- rather than in winter/summer mode. It cld be "natural" but I am doubting that bigtime. The storms that many of us are experiencing are popping up in a fashion not unlike those that were spawning hurricanes (off the coast of Africa) late in August (Galveston). Cold and warm spells are not uncommon in the upper midwest -- but for them to occur up/down over the course of a day or two and then repeat again over several weeks is highly unusual. I think someone/s is yanking our chain/s again. I think they are counting on the more spiritually aware of us to think this is just part of the changes -- but historically in all technologically advanced "changes" times -- there have been forces which have "tipped" the scales thru misuse of technology. I hope most of us have learned by now that the more technologically advanced a system is -- the easier it is to sabotage it thru mind/soul power. (ie., its a lot easier to move electrons around than it is to unlock (with your mind) a huge mechanical lock). Just adding our focus/energy to earth to help earth reach balance shld work best. and I believe Dannion Brinkley is right -- that much of the worst that is happening in our collectively shared world right now is an effort to distract us from the Christ energy (tho he does not use the word Christ) pouring into our world at this time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Hopi Elders 2001. | ||
| Buddie Senior Member Username: buddie Post Number: 1440 Registered: 3-2008 |
My energy's lifting.. today I noticed we still had some daylight when I left work at 5 PM Yeahhhh I'm not making this stuff up.. I'm imagining it.. | ||
| anna Senior Member Username: anna Post Number: 1802 Registered: 9-2002 |
Had quite a bit of snow for a week, almost 2 then 56!!! It was like spring. Next day, 40, then 30. 49 today, supposed to be a high in the 30's tomorrow, then colder. Pick a season already... Be the wave.... | ||
| anna Senior Member Username: anna Post Number: 1804 Registered: 9-2002 |
Fog, freezing, air stagnation for the last 2 weeks. YUCK! I need something- blue skies, rain, snow, just end the fog already  Be the wave.... | ||
| Lassen Sage Senior Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 651 Registered: 5-2008 |
Yawning,ahh..Our sunny Weather for the next wk with high temps has changed in the last 2 hrs to snow at 4,000ft on Thursday. A storm coming in from the w.coast..doesn't make sense as the coast is almost never freezing cold and the systems from Hawaii are warm. Snow storms should come from the North. It is only in the last 3 yrs that our winter storms here in Far Northern CA.(think almost in Oregon) have started coming from the West. | ||
| zendor Senior Member Username: wizardofoz Post Number: 551 Registered: 5-2003 |
On our side of the planet, we have been having a record heat wave, It had been over 40C here for the past week or so (I think this is 105F ). See Record-breaking heat scorches southern Australia Thankfully it is back to 22C (72F) today (it actually feels cold) where I live. In Victoria, it looks like 200 dead in the bushfire tragedy, which is not yet over See Grisly body search continues as death toll rises | ||
| Lassen Sage Senior Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 674 Registered: 5-2008 |
SNOW,a good fluffy 2 feet overnight and more coming down here in the mountain highlands underneath the shadow of a simmering volcano. | ||
| anna Senior Member Username: anna Post Number: 1817 Registered: 9-2002 |
We've had fog, then cold and dry, air inversion (bad air) and now more (minor) snow on the way. I am SO ready for spring!!!! Be the wave.... | ||
| sonorK Senior Member Username: sonork Post Number: 879 Registered: 6-2002 |
Sage, What volcano are you in the vicinity of? Not Redoubt I hope. Just for the official record - The US has been suffering below normal temps for the last year..... not what Dr. Hansen seems to think. Universal Health Care: The DMV with wounds. | ||
| Bob Friedman Senior Member Username: bobufo Post Number: 2886 Registered: 1-2004 |
i'm in the San Fernando Valley (L.A.), and we just had a sudden hail storm for a few minutes! it got realy dark and cold, then poured little pea-sized pellets, then the sun shone down and warmed us up instantly. We in our apartment complex were all rejoicing! so odd! "it's the cracked ones that let the light in" | ||
| Lassen Sage Senior Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 682 Registered: 5-2008 |
sonork, Mount Lassen in Lassen National Park is about 20 miles N.East of my home. It last erupted in 1915. Annual snowfall is 660 to over a 1,000 inches of snow annually. Mount Shasta is less then 75 miles away as the crow flies. | ||
| sonorK Senior Member Username: sonork Post Number: 882 Registered: 6-2002 |
Groovy. I kinda wish I could go back out West to live. I used to live in Laramie, WY for a short time as a kid. I loved the mountains.... I got to spend some time at Ft. Lewis in 1991 and would spend every evening sitting on the steps with a cold beer and a cheap cigar and just look at Mt. Ranier. Absolutely lovely land. Universal Health Care: The DMV with wounds. | ||
| anna Senior Member Username: anna Post Number: 1819 Registered: 9-2002 |
68 on Mon., was a record high. Snowed last night and today, 20 tonite. Brrrrr... Be the wave.... | ||
| Aprylla Senior Member Username: astralgazer Post Number: 2359 Registered: 11-2004 |
Big blizzard just hit my region. Some snow drifts in my yard are almost up to the roof. I'm going to take pics after work and try to get them up soon. Seems like it was a normal winter for us. Last few winters have been pretty mild temps. This one kicked us in the arse. Makes sense though since we are at a solar minimum. "Let apathy police the populace." Flobots | ||
| Lassen Sage Senior Member Username: lassen_sage Post Number: 725 Registered: 5-2008 |
Wish I remembered just where your region is located, Aprylla. Drifts up to the roof,yee Gads!!! What do you do with all that snow? My Dad used to talk of tunneling through the snow to get to the barn and outhouse in the winter. He was raised on a ranch in Montana located on the Snake River outside of Great Falls. Guess he wasn't kidding about the tunnels. | ||
| miaree9 Senior Member Username: miaree9 Post Number: 2524 Registered: 5-2005 |
Geez, Aprylla, stay safe and warm!  Here in central Texas, we have been having lovely spring weather for the last week or so, with temperatures climbing into the 70s and 80s. Today, however, it's cold, dreary, and rainy, with a temperature right now of 35--and a wind chill factor of 27. I came here to complain, but, after seeing Aprylla's post, I've had serious second thoughts!  | ||
| Aprylla Senior Member Username: astralgazer Post Number: 2363 Registered: 11-2004 |
I've heard TX is in a really bad drought. Anyways. Yeah I'm in ND. Whole Eastern half of the state was shut down. Got out of work for a day though. Last chance for me to take a picture of it tonight because tomorrow it's supposed to start warming up. It'll melt then we'll get a huge spring flood, like we do almost every year. My sump pump will be going non-stop. The problem with the flooding is that the farmers dig deeper and deeper ditches every year. So all the water from up in the higher regions is funneling faster down to the valley. Flooding the Red River. The biggest cities are by the river so everyone gets together and sandbags. I've done it a couple years. It's actually kind of fun."Let apathy police the populace." Flobots | ||
| Aprylla Senior Member Username: astralgazer Post Number: 2377 Registered: 11-2004 |
Well massive flooding is supposed to hit my region. Went sandbagging this weekend and my legs are killing me. If they let us out of work I will go again. Pop some Ibuprofen and keep going. That's all you can do in times like these. Heard that it's supposed to dip below freezing on Wednesday. If that happens sandbags will freeze and they will essentially be worthless. People in this area should have learned their lesson after the flood of 1997 but many homes were put up in slough-like areas. Also the city has had over a decade and no new flood walls were put up. Now they are scrambling to build earthen dams. So send good vibes our way. "Let apathy police the populace." Flobots | ||
| Aprylla Senior Member Username: astralgazer Post Number: 2379 Registered: 11-2004 |
We now have a winter storm warning on top of the existing flooding. I wasn't too worried and my spirits were high all this week. Now I'm getting a tad troubled by this latest development. I'm on sandbag dike patrol on Thursday morning. Send me lots of warm thoughts!"Let apathy police the populace." Flobots | ||
| The Watcher Senior Member Username: the_watcher Post Number: 3523 Registered: 2-2005 |
So you live in ND, the land of the Sioux. No amount of sandbagging or Ibuprofen or praying to your God will prevent your gradual but inevitable demise. The Great Mother will return to those souls who lived in harmony with her. Getting out of "work" for a day. What a blessing those who came after the cancer of Western "civilization" could hope for, along with endless growth, cars, flat screen televisions, and all the pollution, carcinogens, and raping and pillaging of the planet which are just now coming back to haunt you. You at first dig your sand bags, then your graves. The continent was doomed in 1492, and no amount of prayers,sand bags, military interventions, and other collective forms of psychosis, hypocrisy, and primitive disrespect for life forms will ever save you from the path you have now chosen. In the meantime, keep digging, keep praying. That Garden of Eden, the fountain of eternal youth, these notions of endless growth, these rather obvious delusions that one race of people are "on God's side" or were meant to be are soon to crash in on those who ascribed to such delusions like a house of glass, like a house of paper cards. Meanwhile, watch the Great Mother whom you were supposed to respect and revere, yet raped and destroyed like it was your littering box, turn against you and your children in the years to come You only have yourselves to blame | ||
| Aprylla Senior Member Username: astralgazer Post Number: 2380 Registered: 11-2004 |
Noted and reported The Watcher. "Let apathy police the populace." Flobots | ||
| Sharon2 Senior Member Username: sharon2468 Post Number: 2249 Registered: 8-2004 |
Aprylla, I admire your spirit! I hope your efforts pay off. Prayers and best wishes! It's always somethin' | ||
| blue Senior Member Username: jennyblue Post Number: 520 Registered: 3-2007 |
yes, Aprylla, i totally concur w/Sharon2. Keep safe and warm and pass the sandbags please . . .We are the ones we've been waiting for. Hopi Elders 2001. | ||
| Sharon2 Senior Member Username: sharon2468 Post Number: 2253 Registered: 8-2004 |
Aprylla, do you know any of these sandbaggers? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26flood.html?_r=1&th&emc=th It's always somethin' | ||
| The Watcher Senior Member Username: the_watcher Post Number: 3526 Registered: 2-2005 |
World wide draughts with simultaneous flooding. We had the coldest winter in decades, and it still hasn't left us yet. Meanwhile, across the globe, Australia, which has its summers while we have our winters, was literally scorched by the hot summer sun. Then you factor in the decline of the bees, mass extinctions of various species in just a relative tick on the earth's geological clock, and I should think that at least someone would begin to feel or sense that the earth itself is turning against the parasites that are making her sick. Look for world wide pandemics and as the global economic melt down continues unabated, an increase in wars and plagues as people are malnutritioned and crowded into make shift unsanitary tent cities and FEMA style camps. I should think that someone out there should come to their senses and realize we are seeing the end times, as the xtians call it. Remember the dates December 21st-22nd 2012, when the constellation of Orion is in the same alignment as it was some 12,000 years ago. The judger of mankind. We have been weighed in the scales and found wanting. Sooner or later, the sheets get balanced. |
