-13 and power was out for 2 1/2 hours.
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How well is your house insulated? If I dropped to 13 below, I wouldn't be able to keep my place at 35 above.
Well I think we ended up with 8-10" of snow. My dog stepped out her doggie door and squatted, that was all the farther she went. My neighbor blew out my drive like he always does this year, but I went out and got my blower going and did some touch up and cut a maze in the back yard for my Coco. Now she is a happy camper and her and I played for a couple minutes having her run around in the maze. Temp now is almost 20*. I guess we have another storm coming in on Fri.
Ends up we got (9.5 "at the local airport.
Ends up we got (9.5 "at the local airport.
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Well this is the original farmhouse for the area. The houses popped up around it. Being built in the late 1800s it was a surprise it only got down to 59 in here.
My pool is open. Bring suntan lotion!
Got my first covid shot today. Don't know when the next one is. Tomorrow I get a shot in my back, really hope that helps out. Can't hardly walk anymore.
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2nd covid is supposed to be 4 weeks. They gave us an appt. for it when we got the first one.
They are starting here with the people who work the boarders, health people etc on Saturday not forgetting we didnt have any cases of the virus in the community until last weekend of which they are trying to work out where came from. Heard today two new cases from a school where one of the earlier contacts went to school
Maybe our lock down will carry on past mid night?
Maybe our lock down will carry on past mid night?
Think we are dropping back to level two at midnight with us Aucklanders allowed to travel outside our area again
What bought that on?
I think the 2nd dose depends on the type of medicine it was & what the doctors want to do. Some get 2nd dose in 2 weeks. Mom's was scheduled for 3.
Snow never melted-- first time since I've lived here that it didn't melt within 24 hours. It was still going strong when I was walking around. Ice was pretty solid on the sidewalk.
Pipes froze so we have no running water. I still had some water in buckets for flushing the toilet but we're running low. I may go collect some ice/snow when the sun comes up & get it to melt so I can use it for flushing toilets.
Checked the well shed & nothing was frozen in there, but there seems to be a pretty bad leak. When it warms up enough I may just cave and call the pump guy to come fix it. Although, I might see if I can fix it myself once I get all of the fittings I need.
My cow was standing in the sun completely still for over an hour so I went to check on her. I petted her and it seemed to snap her out of it. She followed me around a bit.
Only one of the cats came out of the house to follow me. Poor thing hated it. She was walking awkwardly with her back arch, fur puffed up on her back, and her tail straight up and puffed like a bottle brush. I picked her up and carried her back inside once I was done taking pictures/videos of the snow/ice.
My truck still has icicles hanging from it. I had to slowly make my way out there and be careful not to slip because my brother forgot to bring the dog food in so I had to get it. I'm now glad we never got rid of the remnants of the chain link gate because I held on to the posts.
It's supposed to get even colder and snow again later this week. My friend may have to reschedule his dental appointment.
I got the heating pad back from my brother but now the cats are hogging it. LOL.
Daris, is it a pain/numbing shot? Have you looked in to RF (radiofrequency ablation) treatment for it? Or is that what you're getting? I remember that really helped my father with his pain. The didn't do it in this crappy state so we had to drive to Houston for it every few weeks for a couple of years.
Snow never melted-- first time since I've lived here that it didn't melt within 24 hours. It was still going strong when I was walking around. Ice was pretty solid on the sidewalk.
Pipes froze so we have no running water. I still had some water in buckets for flushing the toilet but we're running low. I may go collect some ice/snow when the sun comes up & get it to melt so I can use it for flushing toilets.
Checked the well shed & nothing was frozen in there, but there seems to be a pretty bad leak. When it warms up enough I may just cave and call the pump guy to come fix it. Although, I might see if I can fix it myself once I get all of the fittings I need.
My cow was standing in the sun completely still for over an hour so I went to check on her. I petted her and it seemed to snap her out of it. She followed me around a bit.
Only one of the cats came out of the house to follow me. Poor thing hated it. She was walking awkwardly with her back arch, fur puffed up on her back, and her tail straight up and puffed like a bottle brush. I picked her up and carried her back inside once I was done taking pictures/videos of the snow/ice.
My truck still has icicles hanging from it. I had to slowly make my way out there and be careful not to slip because my brother forgot to bring the dog food in so I had to get it. I'm now glad we never got rid of the remnants of the chain link gate because I held on to the posts.
It's supposed to get even colder and snow again later this week. My friend may have to reschedule his dental appointment.
I got the heating pad back from my brother but now the cats are hogging it. LOL.
Daris, is it a pain/numbing shot? Have you looked in to RF (radiofrequency ablation) treatment for it? Or is that what you're getting? I remember that really helped my father with his pain. The didn't do it in this crappy state so we had to drive to Houston for it every few weeks for a couple of years.
We are having a heat wave, the emp has gone up 37* since I got up. It now 25*. You can do the math.
Z I'm not sure what the shots are in my back but thinking cortizone. Whatever it is it will raise my A1C for a bit. I was a 8.4 and they wouldn't do it. Down to 6.9 now so away we go.
Z I'm not sure what the shots are in my back but thinking cortizone. Whatever it is it will raise my A1C for a bit. I was a 8.4 and they wouldn't do it. Down to 6.9 now so away we go.
I heard the sad news today and it hurts.
Then I read this and I don't know how to describe it.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5fe4e082c5b66809cb30ad57Over there many years of listening to Rush, the one thing I discovered about people that don't like him is that they never listened to him.
Bigoted? Racist? I listen to him almost daily since the mid-90s and I've never heard anything bigeted or racist come out of his mouth. He described himself as a lovable little fuzzball. He was just that.
Then I read this and I don't know how to describe it.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5fe4e082c5b66809cb30ad57Over there many years of listening to Rush, the one thing I discovered about people that don't like him is that they never listened to him.
Bigoted? Racist? I listen to him almost daily since the mid-90s and I've never heard anything bigeted or racist come out of his mouth. He described himself as a lovable little fuzzball. He was just that.
I hope all of you is a nasty weather they're holding out okay. Good thingthe president didn't sign an executive order his first day in office and make it fossil fuel illegal and force us to rely on windmills and solar.
I hope this nasty thing ends quick. None of this is affecting me one bit but I can't believe the number of people that have died of a damage that's caused.
I hope this nasty thing ends quick. None of this is affecting me one bit but I can't believe the number of people that have died of a damage that's caused.
Tom Picciani
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Looked outside this morning to find my mailbox on the snowbank. 25 degrees and I have to do carpentry. Plow must’ve thrown snow into it because post and mailbox are both undamaged. Got lucky. Warming toes right now. Still need to use snowblower. In 25 degrees freezing rain!
The snow plow hit your mailbox?
I feel pretty lucky living here on the coast in Oregon. The valley and especially up near Portland got hammered by this storm system. I think in Portland alone there was 5,000 power lines down. also have lots of freezing rain that's probably what caused the power lines to go down. I heard there was a car that went over the i-205 bridge into the Columbia River. Probably over 100 ft drop. Apparently the snow plows blow the snow off to the side of the bridge but not over the bridge into the water. Because of that, when a car slides out of control and hits that bank of snow it acts like a ramp. I bet after that they change the way they do the snow plow procedure, so it blows the snow clear off of the bridge.
I feel pretty lucky living here on the coast in Oregon. The valley and especially up near Portland got hammered by this storm system. I think in Portland alone there was 5,000 power lines down. also have lots of freezing rain that's probably what caused the power lines to go down. I heard there was a car that went over the i-205 bridge into the Columbia River. Probably over 100 ft drop. Apparently the snow plows blow the snow off to the side of the bridge but not over the bridge into the water. Because of that, when a car slides out of control and hits that bank of snow it acts like a ramp. I bet after that they change the way they do the snow plow procedure, so it blows the snow clear off of the bridge.
Tom Picciani
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Didn’t something like that show up in the news a few weeks ago? Someone captured the incident.
This one was last Sunday night.
https://komonews.com/news/local/bod...n-vehicle-in-columbia-river-in-search-for-manIt said he was headed southbound from Vancouver into Portland and the bridge slopes downward a little bit going that direction so that probably didn't help any.
https://komonews.com/news/local/bod...n-vehicle-in-columbia-river-in-search-for-manIt said he was headed southbound from Vancouver into Portland and the bridge slopes downward a little bit going that direction so that probably didn't help any.
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Tom Picciani
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Yea. The one I was thinking about was a hundred foot fall from an overpass onto the road below.
I recall seeing a video recently of just that thing and the guy survived. in the video of the car was traveling from left to right and it was sunny outside.
