I saw that photo in the NY Times the other day. There was one either in that or the Washington Post that was taken from further away that was even more impressive of that house with respect to the snow covered wind blown icicles. Hope it doesn’t pull down their gutters or break windows or put holes in the roof when they melt enough they fall off the roof in sheets.
I think that’s a pic of a lakeside restaurant in Buffalo. It seems that Lake Erie helps the winter be more intense in various and complex ways.
I’ve read that the Buffalo Bills have used the winter in various sneaky and amusing ways during NFL games
(for instance, which ground-level stadium portals were open or shut at various times).
During the recent hard freeze, Houstonians were advised not to drip their faucets due to fear of low pressure.
Somehow, that seems potentially counterproductive.
People have been advised to drip their faucets during hard freezes for decades. Maybe for centuries.
So, why don’t modern faucets come with settings that allow for v low water usage dripping (when advised)?
According to an article about her in Texas Monthly, she was so beautiful, even as a toddler, that she stopped traffic when she was out with her parents.
When she was a student at UT-Austin, a notable number of people on campus planned their travels around campus each day just in order to catch a glimpse of her.
She was clean, sweet-sexy, fresh, and girl-next-door safe. No one had to keep their young kids away from the show.
Altho she had some acting range, her incredible “1 name” level public fame rests on 1 poster and 1 season, cast in a silly role, on a ridiculous TV show.
But, maybe, sometimes, that’s enough.
@Kidsandliz The mountains have plenty of snow, and the week of rain will bring loads more up there. But it’s a heatwave (at least for December) down here on the valley floor.
It’s very weird, especially when the rest of the country is getting hammered.
It’s been quite the rollercoaster in NH. Started out pretty mild, had a cold snap, followed by a heavy, wet snowstorm, then it warmed up a bit, & when that monster, nationwide storm blew through, at one point with winds gusting to over 70 mph, the temp shot up to the 50s with buckets of rain coming down, followed by a flash freeze with temps plummeting to below freezing within a few hours. By the next day, it was in the teens & single digits, with windchills on either side of zero. Now, they’re expecting temps back in the 50s & more rain by the weekend. It’s crazy.
@f00l I believe you’re thinking of the record set in the spring of 1934, at the Mount Washington observatory. It was the highest wind gust ever recorded on the Earth’s surface, 231 mph, until the 1990s, when a tropical cyclone beat it by 22 mph. I think it still holds the record for the highest reading not associated with a cyclone & the highest observed reading, since the other one was recorded at an unmanned station. But Mount Washington isn’t typical of NH, it’s like a whole different world. It’s about 2.5 hours north of my town & is the tallest peak in the northeast. It’s known for having the world’s worst weather, so thankfully it’s not like that all over the state! I have a hard enough time dealing with the usual nor’easters, blizzards, bomb cyclones, Snowmageddons, polar vortex patterns, etc, i couldn’t handle what happens up there!
@narfcake It was so cold & windy here in NH over the weekend that today, at 32 degrees with a light breeze, it feels downright balmy! Way to deflate my sails!
Fine until a few days ago, (much like the rest of the country), when Ohio suddenly turned into the Frozen shit hole of Hoth.
Thursday(12/22) was supposed to be my first day off since the Friday before, but weds night, we knew the roads were gonna be shit thursday morn.
My GF(36F) and I(43M) work together, and both live with our respective parents.
I’m about 4.5 mi from work, mostly on well maintained flat straight roads.
She lives 24-ish mi away, mostly well maintained hilly curvy roads.
She has to be in @ 4am.
she stayed in our Guest BR Thursday night. (left her car at the store)
Thursday night started raining after dark, then the front came through, flash froze everything, and switched to cold, strong winds and snow.
I took her to work in the morning(12/23 single digit to sub zero air temps, 50mph winds, 3-5" of snow), worked about 4 hrs myself, came home, fought with the snow blower for a couple hours, went back to pick her up, and she stayed another night. ( all the counties surrounding mine, including the one she lives in, were on a “level 3 roadway emergency”, which basically closes the roads to non emergence personnel, you can, and likely will be ticketed/arrested if you are out.)
Next morning(12/24 ), head out side @ 3 am with a shovel, nope… have to fire the snowblower up @ 3am…
there was a 2 foot drift behind my car that supported my 300lb+ weight…
plowed out enough that I could get the car out of the drive again, got her to work just 8 min late.
later that morning I went out again, shoveled/snowblower-ed some more clean, so dad could get in/out of his parking spot, and go to church the next morning.
By that time the surrounding counties had lessened their road emergencies, and she was able to drive home.
Christmas Morning, while Mom and Dad were at Church, I spent 2 hrs playing the Final round of “I know there’s a driveway under all this snow” got every thing cleared off (not to bare concrete, but close enough) because we were having our family Christmas on Monday the 26th(delayed from Christmas Eve) and needed room for 6 cars in our drive.
by this Thursday it will be in the 50’s and raining.
It’s been quite a bit chillier and more of a return to normal snowfalls this year. However health-wise, the dictator tot has already gotten RSV twice from school, the eldest got influenza A from school and passed it on to the rest of us, and I managed to throw my back out carrying the middlest one to bed because he’s still sick and passed out on the couch, where he didn’t have a humidifier and it wasn’t feasible to move one to him
I saw that photo in the NY Times the other day. There was one either in that or the Washington Post that was taken from further away that was even more impressive of that house with respect to the snow covered wind blown icicles. Hope it doesn’t pull down their gutters or break windows or put holes in the roof when they melt enough they fall off the roof in sheets.
We had no snow but does it count if this city has ice in patches all over the place from broken water pipes?
@Kidsandliz
it counts.
I’ve read about your hideous local water system.
I think that’s a pic of a lakeside restaurant in Buffalo. It seems that Lake Erie helps the winter be more intense in various and complex ways.
I’ve read that the Buffalo Bills have used the winter in various sneaky and amusing ways during NFL games
(for instance, which ground-level stadium portals were open or shut at various times).
During the recent hard freeze, Houstonians were advised not to drip their faucets due to fear of low pressure.
Somehow, that seems potentially counterproductive.
People have been advised to drip their faucets during hard freezes for decades. Maybe for centuries.
So, why don’t modern faucets come with settings that allow for v low water usage dripping (when advised)?
/image fawcett
@f00l @Kidsandliz Is she your favorite plumber?
@f00l @ircon96 @Kidsandliz As a teen, I often imagined her working on my plumbing.
@ircon96
According to an article about her in Texas Monthly, she was so beautiful, even as a toddler, that she stopped traffic when she was out with her parents.
When she was a student at UT-Austin, a notable number of people on campus planned their travels around campus each day just in order to catch a glimpse of her.
She was clean, sweet-sexy, fresh, and girl-next-door safe. No one had to keep their young kids away from the show.
Altho she had some acting range, her incredible “1 name” level public fame rests on 1 poster and 1 season, cast in a silly role, on a ridiculous TV show.
But, maybe, sometimes, that’s enough.
/image Farrah Fawcett poster
40-50 degrees and all the snow is melting. Forecast is for a week of rain. This is Salt Lake, there should be feet of snow!
@blaineg Water ski down the mountains?
@Kidsandliz The mountains have plenty of snow, and the week of rain will bring loads more up there. But it’s a heatwave (at least for December) down here on the valley floor.
It’s very weird, especially when the rest of the country is getting hammered.
More frozen restaurant pix
It’s been quite the rollercoaster in NH. Started out pretty mild, had a cold snap, followed by a heavy, wet snowstorm, then it warmed up a bit, & when that monster, nationwide storm blew through, at one point with winds gusting to over 70 mph, the temp shot up to the 50s with buckets of rain coming down, followed by a flash freeze with temps plummeting to below freezing within a few hours. By the next day, it was in the teens & single digits, with windchills on either side of zero. Now, they’re expecting temps back in the 50s & more rain by the weekend. It’s crazy.
@ircon96
Isn’t NH a record setting location for winter storm winds?
@f00l I believe you’re thinking of the record set in the spring of 1934, at the Mount Washington observatory. It was the highest wind gust ever recorded on the Earth’s surface, 231 mph, until the 1990s, when a tropical cyclone beat it by 22 mph. I think it still holds the record for the highest reading not associated with a cyclone & the highest observed reading, since the other one was recorded at an unmanned station. But Mount Washington isn’t typical of NH, it’s like a whole different world. It’s about 2.5 hours north of my town & is the tallest peak in the northeast. It’s known for having the world’s worst weather, so thankfully it’s not like that all over the state! I have a hard enough time dealing with the usual nor’easters, blizzards, bomb cyclones, Snowmageddons, polar vortex patterns, etc, i couldn’t handle what happens up there!
Christmas in SoCal:
(On the high side since it was parked in the sun, but it was still over 80°F).
@narfcake
It was so cold & windy here in NH over the weekend that today, at 32 degrees with a light breeze, it feels downright balmy! Way to deflate my sails! 
Not current, but impressive. This is the shoreline of Lake Geneva in 2017. (Not mine, from the net.)
@blaineg
Sometimes, even Freddy’s statue might get a little chilly.
@blaineg
They should have ice skates on
Less than a week ago, down to about -15 at night. Currently, +61.
Fine until a few days ago, (much like the rest of the country), when Ohio suddenly turned into the Frozen shit hole of Hoth.
Thursday(12/22) was supposed to be my first day off since the Friday before, but weds night, we knew the roads were gonna be shit thursday morn.
My GF(36F) and I(43M) work together, and both live with our respective parents.
I’m about 4.5 mi from work, mostly on well maintained flat straight roads.
She lives 24-ish mi away, mostly well maintained hilly curvy roads.
She has to be in @ 4am.
she stayed in our Guest BR Thursday night. (left her car at the store)
Thursday night started raining after dark, then the front came through, flash froze everything, and switched to cold, strong winds and snow.
I took her to work in the morning(12/23 single digit to sub zero air temps, 50mph winds, 3-5" of snow), worked about 4 hrs myself, came home, fought with the snow blower for a couple hours, went back to pick her up, and she stayed another night. ( all the counties surrounding mine, including the one she lives in, were on a “level 3 roadway emergency”, which basically closes the roads to non emergence personnel, you can, and likely will be ticketed/arrested if you are out.)
Next morning(12/24 ), head out side @ 3 am with a shovel, nope… have to fire the snowblower up @ 3am…
there was a 2 foot drift behind my car that supported my 300lb+ weight…
plowed out enough that I could get the car out of the drive again, got her to work just 8 min late.
later that morning I went out again, shoveled/snowblower-ed some more clean, so dad could get in/out of his parking spot, and go to church the next morning.
By that time the surrounding counties had lessened their road emergencies, and she was able to drive home.
Christmas Morning, while Mom and Dad were at Church, I spent 2 hrs playing the Final round of “I know there’s a driveway under all this snow” got every thing cleared off (not to bare concrete, but close enough) because we were having our family Christmas on Monday the 26th(delayed from Christmas Eve) and needed room for 6 cars in our drive.
by this Thursday it will be in the 50’s and raining.
@earlyre Yep, i just LOVE winter. Every time someone wistfully says, “Gee, i hope we have a white Christmas,” I want to punch them in the face.
@ircon96 oh, see I actually DO love winter, and getting out and Driving through the snow…in my low slung FWD cars…
I’m that weirdo.
@earlyre Damn, i wish i were your neighbor, so i could generously let you play in my driveway with your snowblower!
Weather-wise, it’s been pretty standard around here. There were some cold temperatures at the end of last week, the only effect the storm had on us.
It’s been quite a bit chillier and more of a return to normal snowfalls this year. However health-wise, the dictator tot has already gotten RSV twice from school, the eldest got influenza A from school and passed it on to the rest of us, and I managed to throw my back out carrying the middlest one to bed because he’s still sick and passed out on the couch, where he didn’t have a humidifier and it wasn’t feasible to move one to him