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Post by seat6 on Dec 23, 2022 13:33:12 GMT -4
We have rolling 10 min electric blackouts every 90 min to try to reduce the stress on the grid. I turned off my Christmas lights. Probably not a huge help but…
Our airport (an international one) has closed because the doors are frozen shut and there’s no heat. Employees were sent home.
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Post by Malle Babbe on Dec 23, 2022 17:21:27 GMT -4
Well, me and the folks were going to go up to Erie yesterday but 5 inches of snow got dumped on us and the forecast for storm Elliott (per The Weather channel) was getting dire. My sister basically said, "stay home; I fear you guys getting in a wreck in this esp with Xmas at hand".
So we stayed home, and since we are doing xmas here, I got the tree and decorations down for Mom. It is in the single digits here in South central PA.
My aunt who also lives in Erie has an apartment that looks out onto the lake, and it is churning big time. Everyone is staying put.
It is moments like this that I am grateful I can live with my folks; mom is going to be 75 next year, and keeping them safe means a lot to me and my siblings.
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Post by divasahm on Dec 24, 2022 0:01:11 GMT -4
We're dripping faucets and bringing the pets indoors here in Austin--little to no chance of precipitation, but DAMN! it's cold...
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Post by divasahm on Dec 24, 2022 15:03:51 GMT -4
We're dripping faucets and bringing the pets indoors here in Austin--little to no chance of precipitation, but DAMN! it's cold... Update: We're up to 33 degrees now, but we'll drop back down the minute we leave the house, I'm sure. (That's assuming that our ridiculously entitled neighbors and their guests move their cars from their parking spots directly blocking our driveway. Bah, humbug...) |
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Post by chiqui on Dec 24, 2022 16:14:27 GMT -4
There was an ice storm yesterday in Seattle (well, ice) and everything was coated. I live on a hill so we wound up watching cars and trucks get stuck as they attempted to go up or down. The hill didn't cause the spectacular crashes like the Queen Anne Avenue did, but there was plenty of slipping, sliding, and getting stuck. Now it's all melted.
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Post by mojogirl on Dec 24, 2022 17:30:05 GMT -4
There was an ice storm yesterday in Seattle (well, ice) and everything was coated. I live on a hill so we wound up watching cars and trucks get stuck as they attempted to go up or down. The hill didn't cause the spectacular crashes like the Queen Anne Avenue did, but there was plenty of slipping, sliding, and getting stuck. Now it's all melted. Yes, thank goodness we didn't get the freezing rain they were predicting! It still made for a bunch of amazing videos on the local subreddit. (Technically that's Tacoma, I think they did get some of the freezing rain. We just got all the slush from the snow earlier in the week frozen into a solid layer of ice.) My son works at the Ballard Locks over his college holiday break, yesterday they had a large commercial fishing trawler try to go out to the Sound. They radioed the railway bridge operator to lift the bridge, and he said it was frozen shut! The ship had to reverse back out and anchor on the wall until it warmed up. ( Here's a photo, you can see the locks with the railway bridge lifted.) |
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Post by alpierce on Dec 25, 2022 15:19:37 GMT -4
We're dripping faucets and bringing the pets indoors here in Austin--little to no chance of precipitation, but DAMN! it's cold... Update: We're up to 33 degrees now, but we'll drop back down the minute we leave the house, I'm sure. (That's assuming that our ridiculously entitled neighbors and their guests move their cars from their parking spots directly blocking our driveway. Bah, humbug...) On Friday and Saturday where I live, My face hurt. All of it. We had 18 degree temps with about 20mph to 40mph winds. Temp is a little higher today, but not planning on going out. |
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Post by tabby on Oct 1, 2023 20:47:22 GMT -4
In case you're wondering about the status of the climate:
It hit 92F in Minneapolis today, with high humidity. The Twin Cities Marathon, scheduled for today, was canceled because the organizers decided it wouldn't be safe, either for the runners or the support people. This is the hottest October day in Minnesota since they started keeping records. The normal high temperature for this time of year is over 30 degrees cooler.
This is after a sweltering summer - more than twice the normal number of over-90 days - with drought. We at least got some rain last week that took the drought status out of the worse range.
I tell ya, those Chinese climate hoaxters are good.
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Post by Carolinian on Sept 27, 2024 23:54:04 GMT -4
Western NC got walloped hard by hurricane Helene. Asheville, a city of 95K people in the SW of the state, is completely cut off due to flooding. The airport is closed- no power. Big chunks of I-40 have been washed out. Further north small communities that were built along rivers have been washed away. Boone (pop 19K), in the NW of the state, suffered major flooding, has no power, and is under curfew. People with generators and sat phone connections have been communicating via FB. I'm really surprised the governor hasn't called out the National Guard.
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Post by tazmin on Sept 28, 2024 0:58:40 GMT -4
Are you all right, Carolinian? I hope so. Do you have a lot of damage?
And is Luna and crew okay inside?
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