Bah, crazy snow! I am glad you are not in the street getting run over by cars and I will send good thoughts that you do not get lost in the maze of snowpiles. Good gracious.
We do not have that much snow, but it's cold cold cold. I started this morning in a itty bitty town in Northern Minnesota where it was -10 F. It took ten minutes to warm up the plane enough to get the lights even to power on. And then when we went to start the other engine, that wouldn't come on either. Stupid cold. We got it going and left and now I'm back home where it is a balmy 18 degrees ABOVE zero. \o\ |o| /o/ \o/ (that's my excited arm dance. I thought it needed explanation.)
It is 9:39am. The temperature outside where I am is 29.4'C, or 84.92'F. The predicted top today is 40'C (104'F) and the trains are running on a vastly reduced schedule because previously on days like today the tracks have melted.
That is one of the nice things about there being two hemispheres, in that we can always commiserate with our counterparts. Stay cool! And it will be our turn for track-melting heat in July.
It frustrates and angers me that the local governments do not apply some fraction of the energy and technology to clearing pedestrian routes and bus stops that they do to clearing motor vehicle routes. Yeah, yeah, individual property owners are supposed to be responsible for shoveling the sidewalk, but even when they *do*, and even when they clear the whole sidewalk or most of it, rather than a single shovel-width, who's responsible for cutting through the plow berm at the curb cuts and at the bus stops, and keeping those clear? No one, apparently -- if you're *lucky* someone has chiseled a narrow stile through the wall so that you just have to maneuver your foot into the designated footprint rather than take up mountaineering. (And I find it hard to blame the owners of the corner properties for that, those berms are hefty constructions and regularly reinforced and biting into them is hard freaking work.) My granny-cart for groceries will be mostly on the street, not the sidewalk, until the next major thaw, and switching between the two is so much easier with that than with most wheelchairs. Wheelchair users in my area are almost certainly getting no use out of the sidewalks until spring.
... I'd better edit this into a letter to the medford city council, rather than waste the energy of this rant, huh?
It's been about 110f here today - but trust me I'm not laughing my arse off at you. I'm sitting inside in the a/c. Pics would have been cool - could have made me feel cooler;)
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Date: 2013-12-18 03:57 pm (UTC)We do not have that much snow, but it's cold cold cold. I started this morning in a itty bitty town in Northern Minnesota where it was -10 F. It took ten minutes to warm up the plane enough to get the lights even to power on. And then when we went to start the other engine, that wouldn't come on either. Stupid cold. We got it going and left and now I'm back home where it is a balmy 18 degrees ABOVE zero. \o\ |o| /o/ \o/ (that's my excited arm dance. I thought it needed explanation.)
Stay warm, bb! Hope you're bundled up tight!
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Date: 2013-12-21 02:08 am (UTC)Ah, winter. Why does it have to winter?
*hugs you warmingly with extra to pass onto Mr. Captain*
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Date: 2013-12-18 10:43 pm (UTC)I'll laugh at you if you laugh at me.
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Date: 2013-12-19 12:02 am (UTC)... I'd better edit this into a letter to the medford city council, rather than waste the energy of this rant, huh?
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Date: 2013-12-19 07:04 am (UTC)Pics would have been cool - could have made me feel cooler;)
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Date: 2013-12-21 02:11 am (UTC)My friend
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Date: 2013-12-21 02:53 am (UTC)Thanks for the cool breezes they're working. We had a blustery storm last night.
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