Northern weather

[healey36]

First dose today:



Good day to lay around the house and take care of paperwork.

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yes it is a good day to stay home. I had a meeting in Rockville today. I got up and drove over to the gas station and filled the tank - $40 and it was sleeting hard on the way over. By the time I was done, it was 100% snow. Started to go onto the DC Beltway and listening to the traffic report and all the accidents while driving in the snow I decided it was a good day for this pensioner to go back home.

Well over an inch on roads now - no accumulation on paved areas -- and still snowing here in No. Va. Looks like 4-6" at least at my place in PA being forecast right now and I was going there tomorrow. Doubt I'd be able to get up the slate road through 6".....

[healey36]

Yeah, we heard that too - "Roadways will remain wet." What a bunch of knuckleheads. Irks me because I hadn't finished raking up the leaves...ugh.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yeah, we heard that too - "Roadways will remain wet." What a bunch of knuckleheads. Irks me because I hadn't finished raking up the leaves...ugh.

I went out and raked the front yard later yesterday just because...........still have to dig up the canna and elephant ear bulbs,

[E7]

Yesterday it was half decent, so I pulled the deck off my lawn tractor since it (the tractor) needs to go in for repairs. The deck I will mess with myself. Just got that done in the nick of time! Global warming my *SS!

[HONDO74]

Yesterday it was half decent, so I pulled the deck off my lawn tractor since it (the tractor) needs to go in for repairs. The deck I will mess with myself. Just got that done in the nick of time! Global warming my *SS!

It's called climate change. Happens every year.

A few weeks ago I was still using the Air. Seems like I went from using the Air To the Heater in a 2 day period....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yesterday it was half decent, so I pulled the deck off my lawn tractor since it (the tractor) needs to go in for repairs. The deck I will mess with myself. Just got that done in the nick of time! Global warming my *SS!

It's called climate change. Happens every year.

Actually, this year has been unlike any other in over 30+ years of my living here - we are way over on rain and today's snow and now rain just pushes that further. Up at my place in Pa it seems that they passed the records on rain accumulation a couple of months ago - not seen this amount since early 50's. Meanwhile CA burns to the ground.

A few weeks ago I was still using the Air. Seems like I went from using the Air To the Heater in a 2 day period....

Had the air on this past weekend, but then I was in Sarasota,

[chuck]

Picked up 100 lb's of Calcium Chloride and about 40 lbs of Magnesium Chloride yesterday. It was "nice" in that the sun was shining but cold enough to require gloves. I did transfer the contents of the bags to the former cat litter buckets I store it in before the sun went down (barely).

Love the new package labeling, Ice Melt. You have to find the product breakdown or remember the melting points. It used to be Rock Salt which I've never used or it was labeled as Calcium or Magnesium Chloride, period. Now it's "EnViro Friendly or Pet Friendly" or "Pavement Friendly/Safe" (whatever that means) when used "correctly"? Huh? I consider the pavement friendly when it's not slippery. Use correctly? Take stuff in bag/bucket and apply to slippery ice covered sidewalk/driveway? What were people doing with the stuff, eating it? rubbing it on their body?

I'm glad I did go "shopping" because I used about 10 lbs of it this morning. It started out as nice fluffy stuff and got wetter and heavier as the morning wore on. It's now a mixture of freezing rain and snow. Whoops, it's back to all snow.

I don't care what the calendar says, if I have to shovel snow and put down ice melt, it's winter!

[healey36]

Plow went through a few of hours ago. His spreader jammed and he managed to dump a hundred pounds or so of sand/salt mix in front of my house. Just spent ninety minutes with a shovel spreading that up and down the street. Only bare pavement in town

[robert.]

Roads are horrible in Pottstown pa. 3 inches of wet stuff. Hitting back roads on the way home.

[chuck]

Be safe!

[up148]

Yeah, we heard that too - "Roadways will remain wet." What a bunch of knuckleheads. Irks me because I hadn't finished raking up the leaves...ugh.

I went out and raked the front yard later yesterday just because...........still have to dig up the canna and elephant ear bulbs,

Have you ever tried to mulch the elephant ear bulbs instead of lifting? I have he same to do this weekend and was thinking of mulching, but not if they won't survive.

BH

[robert.]

Mice will eat them if you mulch them.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yeah, we heard that too - "Roadways will remain wet." What a bunch of knuckleheads. Irks me because I hadn't finished raking up the leaves...ugh.

I went out and raked the front yard later yesterday just because...........still have to dig up the canna and elephant ear bulbs,

Have you ever tried to mulch the elephant ear bulbs instead of lifting? I have he same to do this weekend and was thinking of mulching, but not if they won't survive.

They generally will not survive a hard freeze. I'm probably pushing the envelope on this already. I had plans for the weekend, but the snow pretty much trashed them, and since I'll be home, I'll be outside digging these and the cannas up - that's the easy part. The hard part is lugging the boxes - 8-10 of them 18" cubed - down into the basement and up onto the storage shelves.

Might be the about time to just plant veggies......or just let the irises and peonies run wild.

[rogruth]

Our temperature is supposed to be @ 33 tonight. No snow or rain.
We are 10" below rainfall average so far this year.