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on the plus side, i only had once class because of it...

So TJ from the LOGO series "Transgeneration" was going to be at my university this week and I was going to have lunch with him Tuesday except this happened:
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You have snow too?  We only had school on Monday this week, the rest has been snow days so far.

Evidence of global warming  :D

Quite beautiful.

Oh I'd take that over meeting anyone any day. How gorgeous!

In San Francisco no one ever asks you why you left the Midwest for here.

tekla, who is freezing as it got into the 30s last night.  Burrrr.

Boston had 28 inches of the white stuff fall this season, not including yesterday's total. Probably more here--and up where Z is gazing at winter's beauty. Schools just west of here have had so many snow days they will hold classes on Saturdays and holidays so they can close for the summer before July.

At 4am this morning, as I was preparing to drive to UPS, my car was blocked by a squad car, fire engine, and ambulance. My neighbor, who also starts work early had slipped on the ice. As the emts loaded her in the ambulance, I could see her arm was in a sling. UPS doesn't close unless the Governor so orders, but the air packages coming from Jaimey's area have been held up a couple days because of the weather.

My wife has arranged for us to jet to Orlando this weekend to celebrate her birthday. Good timing.

With a wave of my gloved hand,
S

Has winter got worse?  Or are schools just way too quick to close these days?  I remember it as being rare, now it seems common.

Those pictures are beautiful. :)

Quote from: tekla on January 29, 2009, 03:40:04 PM
Has winter got worse?  Or are schools just way too quick to close these days?  I remember it as being rare, now it seems common.

Modern people and schools depend on electrical power, and many around here had none for long periods.

S

Look, I'm old, but the school I went to had electrical power.  I went to grade school in Illinois, and college in Iowa, so they have winter and all that. 

At dinner, my wife told me Chicago schools haven't closed since 1996, so Obama's girls just had their first snow day ever.

S

Obama's girls just had their first snow day ever.

Which is kind of funny considering that almost every kid at Sidwell-Friends School could have a personal snow plow going ahead of the limo to get there.

Glad you guys liked the photos!

It wouldn't have been as bad if it were just snow, but it was 1/2" of sleet, 3" of snow, 1/2" of freezing rain/ice, and 3" more snow.  Nasty, nasty.  Schools closed up here because several of them don't have power.  The ice pulled the lines themselves down, as well as limbs landing on them.  I'm not sure about the university having power, but there are lots of trees with ice covered limbs falling and icy roads and stuff. 

I dug my car out today and it took a long time.  I didn't think I was going to be able to get the door open to get in it.  I finally got the back door open and pushed the others open from inside.  I broke my ice scraper using the handle to break ice off the windows.  :icon_tears:

Where my mom lives, there's no power or phone service.  Yesterday, there were 473,000 people without power in KY. 

But it totally looks like a winter wonderland outside!!!  I LOVE IT!   :icon_weee:

Here are the rest of the pics. http://s269.photobucket.com/albums/jj48/jaimey_1982/January%20Ice%20Storm/ (http://s269.photobucket.com/albums/jj48/jaimey_1982/January%20Ice%20Storm/)

Oh, that's beautiful!

I miss ice storms. Too bad it snowed too -- when you get a good ice storm followed by a cold sunny day, it's just one of the most beautiful things you'll ever see.

But bottomless powder and epic skiing until late June is a nice consolation prize  ;D

Quote from: Nero on January 29, 2009, 10:43:51 AM
Oh I'd take that over meeting anyone any day. How gorgeous!

I'll second Nero, but I'll use a more macho word than gorgeous :P

Can't think of one atm. But I love the peace of snow and the beauty of it. I don't care what inconvenience it causes me, walking in the snow is the best feeling in the world. Watching my dog play in the snow as I walk is unsurpassed.

Dennis

The pictures are great.  They are good enough to give me the feeling I'm right there. 

Part of my driveway is still ice.  I got lazy expecting it to melt the next day like it has been for the past few years.

what do you use to clear your ice?  Kentucky bourbon?   ;)

Quote from: Rebis on January 30, 2009, 12:12:49 AM

The pictures are great.  They are good enough to give me the feeling I'm right there.

:icon_redface:  Aw.  That's an AWESOME compliment!

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what do you use to clear your ice?  Kentucky bourbon?   ;)

Now how would drinking bourbon clear my ice?   :icon_drunk:

Beautiful Pictures.

I could almost swap its been 45C all week - about 115F. We have had school closures because of the heat! Not the snow. And of course we have power failures that kill the air conditioners. And bushfires. MM Maybe I will swap

Cindy James :-*

Quote from: CindyJames on January 30, 2009, 01:27:35 AM
Beautiful Pictures.

I could almost swap its been 45C all week - about 115F. We have had school closures because of the heat! Not the snow. And of course we have power failures that kill the air conditioners. And bushfires. MM Maybe I will swap

Cindy James :-*

YIKES.  I'll keep the snow, thanks.  Where do you live?

Adelaide
South Australia

It's the hottest for over 70yrs. Not that I remember ;).

No sign of a cool change in the next seven days.
Through me a snow ball

LoL
Cindy James
ps really good photos. I really enjoyed them Thanks :-*

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WoW
The heat got me. I meant throw!!

OOps
CJ

Quote from: Jaimey on January 29, 2009, 11:41:17 PM
Glad you guys liked the photos!

It wouldn't have been as bad if it were just snow, but it was 1/2" of sleet, 3" of snow, 1/2" of freezing rain/ice, and 3" more snow.  Nasty, nasty.  Schools closed up here because several of them don't have power.  The ice pulled the lines themselves down, as well as limbs landing on them. 

Nice pics. I hate sleet/freezing rain on top of snow. We had an ice storm in Dec that resulted in over a million power outages across the state.

We got about 16 inches of snow on Wed. Pretty to look at, but not fun to shovel  ;)

Z

@CindyJ:  If I could through or throw a snowball to Australia, I would!  You definitely need it!

@Z: 16 inches!!!  I have never seen that amount of snow.  The most I've ever seen is 10-12" and I was in 6th grade then, so I don't really remember. 

We've gotten more snow/ice the past couple years than we had, though, so I'm happy.  There were a few years where we didn't get much of anything.  Maybe a few light dustings if we were lucky.

Quote from: Jaimey on January 30, 2009, 01:32:42 PM

@Z: 16 inches!!!  I have never seen that amount of snow.  The most I've ever seen is 10-12" and I was in 6th grade then, so I don't really remember. 

And that was on top of a couple of feet that was still on the ground... or at least I think there's still ground underneath all that snow  :laugh:

Z

oh wow that looks so beautiful!

What kind of camera do you have? I think I want one  :P

Quote from: Jaimey on January 30, 2009, 01:32:42 PM
@CindyJ:  If I could through or throw a snowball to Australia, I would!  You definitely need it!

@Z: 16 inches!!!  I have never seen that amount of snow.  The most I've ever seen is 10-12" and I was in 6th grade then, so I don't really remember. 

We've gotten more snow/ice the past couple years than we had, though, so I'm happy.  There were a few years where we didn't get much of anything.  Maybe a few light dustings if we were lucky.

16 inches is nothing. Once when I was living in the mountains, it snowed seven feet in one storm. I bailed early in the storm and drove down to the city (where it snowed only about three feet) so that I wouldn't be stranded. I couldn't get back to the mountain house for four days, and there was still a foot of snow on the road they couldn't plow. Even the highway was barely passable.

Quote from: Jeatyn on January 30, 2009, 04:49:20 PM
oh wow that looks so beautiful!

What kind of camera do you have? I think I want one  :P

It's a Canon!  :D  Exciting, no?  :P  This is one of the few times that the pics have come out really well. <--says more about operator than camera...hah!

I wouldn't have any idea what to do with the amounts of snow you all are describing.  I just can't wrap my head around it.  It doesn't snow that much in KY.  That's probably a good thing, seeing how we don't really know what to do when we just get a few inches!

today has had the heaviest snow in south east england for 18 years. All public transport in London is at a standstill, I am at my parents in Coventry - hoping the train to London runs tomorrow.

don't most trains roll on wheels?

snow snow and more snow.

Somebody is going to answer for this.

snow snow and more snow.


I'm blaming global warming

I was thinking the same.

Plus I was going to blame the government (all governments that have ever, do, or will, exist)

You can pretty much blame the government for just about everything.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers


I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers


Thank goodness we've progressed in this country where 80 year old jokes about the government no longer apply....what?  they still do?  awww dammit!

Never mind


P.S.  Great pictures!

Quote from: Laurry on February 03, 2009, 12:04:02 PM
P.S.  Great pictures!

Thanks!  It's snowing a bit today too.  It was (relatively) warm yesterday, so I wasn't happy when I went out this morning.

It's snowing here too.  I'm not going to shovel until tomorrow since I don't have to go to work anymore.

It's summer where I am. You would not know it for all the rain though  ::)

On my way home, the thermometer said 13.  Ridiculous.

Quote from: Jaimey on February 04, 2009, 01:07:54 AM
On my way home, the thermometer said 13.  Ridiculous.

Is that cold? I assume you mean degrees faren... rather than celcius. Cause
13 C is only a little chilly but comfortable.

I think the USA is the only place to use miles/hr and pounds. Why?

I've never seen real snow (except on tv) does everything stop (schools, services, governments (not that they do much anyway) )

it does in the uk. our temperate/drizzly climate leads us to shut down during any extreme weather conditions.

I think the USA is the only place to use miles/hr and pounds. Why?

Some combination of exceptionalism and habit.  The metric system is taught and used in a lot of stuff, but miles still hold out over klicks, and the temp system has stayed in the English model, which is a bit more refined in a weird way.

Quote from: tekla on February 04, 2009, 02:53:03 PM
I think the USA is the only place to use miles/hr and pounds. Why?

Some combination of exceptionalism and habit.  The metric system is taught and used in a lot of stuff, but miles still hold out over klicks, and the temp system has stayed in the English model, which is a bit more refined in a weird way.

Actually, here in New England, snow and ice are measured in inches and cold in degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature predicted here for tomorrow when I'll be unloading trucks is 4 degrees, cold enough for fingers to turn gray even while wearing gloves.

It is so cold here a squirrel came inside while we were in Florida. She couldn't figure how to get back out, but in trying chewed a hole in the basement door and in the woodwork on every first floor window. She cleared most of the glassware and ceramics off the mantel, cut her left rear paw on the broken glass, and left bloody prints on windows and furniture. My wife declared only a male could cause so much damage, but further inspection showed this squirrel was female-bodied.

Today's paper says we need to prepare for the effects of global warming. By century's end Boston will have flooding such as Venice, Italy, has now.

Beware the attack squirrel,
S

OK, 'distance and temps' then.  But most soda, or pop, or whatever is sold in metric amounts now.  Pounds still are used a lot too, but most mechanical and all scientific stuff is metric.

Americans don't like it because the french invented it and it is logical.

Well like I said, in almost every technical app its used. 

Well, now the french don't like it cause the americans have started to use it....

Well there is the DIN stuff, its German, everyone hates the Germans.

Tekla, are you referring to ski bindings?

I don't get why so many people like the metric system so much. Decimals are nice if you're multiplying by 10 a lot, but, say, for cooking, I like ounces and cups and pints a lot more -- everything is powers of two, much simpler. For temperatures, zero is really cold and 100 is really hot -- what could be simpler? As to distances, well, I have a foot. It's about a foot long. I don't have a meter. It's not often I have to convert between linear and volumetric measurements, but in the westward explansion of the United States the conversion between linear and area measurements was very useful. One square mile is split into an 8x8 grid of 10 acre plots. Or a 4x4 grid of 40 acre plots. 40 acres and a mule makes a nice family plot. Fly over the Midwest on a clear day, and the impact is unmistakable. As for speed -- well, km/h messes it up with the annoying factor of 3.6 compared to m/s anyway. Why not invent a system in which a day is 100,000 ticks or something?

I hate using the metric system. It's so inconventient. The speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s. Planck's constant is 6.62606896 x 10^-34 Joule-seconds. How ridiculous. Why not just make them both 1? Then I could say I'm about 6 nanoseconds tall, and the speed limit on the highway is 10^-7.

As an American, which makes me think I'm important even though we all know I ain't, and as a Texan, which makes me an expert on every damn thing anyone has ever even thought about, let me state, for the record, that the reason America does not convert to the metric system is because "math is hard".  We might have to actually think, and we have been conditioned to let everyone else think for us.  Our heads might explode!  We wouldn't know how to read "that other line" on our speedometers to figure out how fast we were going.  And all the worry that this may impact my phone number and how can my friends text my new metric number?

Yeah, we're idiots

..Laurry

DIN stands for DIN - Deutsches Institut fur Normung a non-governmental organization established to promote the development of standardization and related activities in Germany and related markets.  Skis might use them, but a lot of electronic connections are based on these standards also.

And if math is hard the decimal and metric system is math for dummies, the English system is much harder.

I think that might be it, Tekla. I never could figure out the right search string to figure it out, but it looks like that's exactly where the binding release standard comes from. It's pretty much the only place DIN comes up in skiing, so DIN just means "ski binding release stiffness rating" to me.

Now that we've gotten off topic, I'd like to say -- 13F in Kentucky is COLD. Out here, it's pretty comfortable -- but the sun is brighter and the air is thinner and, most of all, it's a dry cold. Eastern cold cuts you to the bone. I guess below 0 it stops mattering, since the air stops holding any water anyway.

Hi
I seemed to open a can of worms here. Not sure if you get ten worms to a can or twelve.
However, I notice that the USA has always had a metric money system, even if you make all the notes identical - never seemed to be a clever idea!
I have given a cab driver a $50 instead of a $20 and no way to get it back! In LA -lose a hand!

Find the same with clothes and shoes sizes!

I know I'm right and everyone else is wrong, that's the problem of being empress of the universe. ;)

LoL
Cindy James

Quote from: Kinkly on February 04, 2009, 07:27:53 AM
I've never seen real snow (except on tv) does everything stop (schools, services, governments (not that they do much anyway) )

Next time it snows, I'll put a giant box in my driveway. When it's filled, I'll ship it to you.

around here the schools and everything close only if the stuff is falling or if it finished falling but the roads aren't clean.  Or if electrical outages happen.

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Quote from: tekla on February 04, 2009, 04:24:14 PM
Well there is the DIN stuff, its German, everyone hates the Germans.

I don't.

But, the French? Yes.

Quote from: CindyJames on February 04, 2009, 03:41:22 AM
I think the USA is the only place to use miles/hr and pounds. Why?

Because we can, and to piss off the Europeans  :D

But seriously, the US IS slowly going toward the metric system. I have a late 70's US car and half of the fasteners are metric, and half are english. My newest US car is all metric. My kids speak of litres and metres and other nonsense. So the change is occurring, albeit slowly.

13F in KY is definitely cold!  Thanks, Alyssa!  Where do you live?  I've never experienced anything but eastern cold, so now I'm curious!  And if humidity makes 13F cold, you should be here when it's 85F and 98% humidity.  You'll swear it's 100F.  :D  KY is so humid...

Quote from: riven_one on February 05, 2009, 10:23:55 PM

Quote from: CindyJames on February 04, 2009, 03:41:22 AM
I think the USA is the only place to use miles/hr and pounds. Why?

Because we can, and to piss off the Europeans  :D

But seriously, the US IS slowly going toward the metric system. I have a late 70's US car and half of the fasteners are metric, and half are english. My newest US car is all metric. My kids speak of litres and metres and other nonsense. So the change is occurring, albeit slowly.

There's one road sign in Louisville that has km on it.  It's a 1 mile/1.6 km sign.  And it's in a strange place, way out in the 'burbs.  Weird.

Jaimey, I know, I grew up in Massachusetts. Summers, even that far north, when it got into the high 90's in August, were unbearable, along with the sleepless nights when it never got below 75, and the fan was humming away, and you'd just sweat in your sheets. Luckily, the really hot weather would never last as long as it does in the South. (And I like winter, so that was fine.)

Now I live in Colorado, where it's hotter in the summer (it's not unusual for the temperature to break 100) and colder in the winter (sometimes it never breaks zero during the day). But 100 isn't too bad, really; I've played soccer for 90 minutes and was fine. And when it's 13 in the daytime, a decent parka is all you really need. 20F is pretty comfortable. The snow is much less of a hassle too. It melts quickly in the sun. One October about 10 years ago it snowed three feet on Saturday, and it was all gone by the next weekend! It's so much lighter than in the East. Shovelling a foot of snow off the sidewalk is a piece of cake most of the time.

That's very interesting.  Makes me want to travel the US more.  I'm mostly interested in the rest of the world more than the US, but now I'm curious.  Hmm...

You almost don't have to go the the rest of the world, the rest of the world came here.  Largest polish speaking population in the world - Warsaw Poland, number two?  Chicago Illinois.

More Jews in the Greater New York area than in Israel, more Purto Ricans in NCY then in Purto Rico.  The two largest Spanish speaking populations?  Neither are in Spain, it's Mexico City, followed by LA.  Biggest Chinese New Year celebration not in China?  It's San Francisco.  There is a Chinatown - not tourist, but a total immersion in traditional Chinese culture in several places.  Several 'little Saigons' in Cali/Texas and Louisiana, huge populations of Indian and Pakistan refugees in Chicago.

There are several unique cultures within the USA, from the various - and extremely different Native Cultures, the Creole outside of New Orleans, and the descendants of slaves on the sea island off of Georgia and Carolina.

Not that I would discourage overseas trips, they will change your life, the world is a huge place to go and all.  But at 1K X3K miles, its not like the US is tiny.

 

True.  Not that I ever go anywhere anyway...requires money.  bleah.