Yesterday and on into today we have The Monster Snowfall on the East Coast of the US. Everywhere flights are cancelled, as are many trains, and cities are going to be paralyzed. That’s a good thing for the type A’s, as they will have to relax at home. Here’s the predicted snowfall at various places as of 3 pm today. That’s enough to paralyze areas like Washington, D.C., which cancelled schools yesterday on the basis of a single inch of snow:
Fortunately, in Chicago we have a snow-free week ahead. For once we’re in the clear! On this day in history, Elizabeth Blackwell became America’s first female doctor in 1849, and, in 1986, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley became the first musicians inducted into Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Manet was born on January 23, 1832, and David Hilbert in 1862. In 2011, Jack LaLanne, who was supposed to be immortal, died on this day. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili is being her usual parasitic self. I call this dialogue “Oh, the humanity”:
Cyrus: What do you think about humanity?
Hili: Useful.
Cyrus: Co sądzisz o ludzkości?
Hili: Przydatna.
That should be, “Occasionally useful.”
Useful. And edible.
Or likely to become too useful, create something that finds us less useful than we think we are.
Excellent photo. For those who don’t care, the Everly Brothers got started right over here in a small town, Shenadoah, Iowa, about 18 miles from here. Did some singing as small kids on KMA radio.
We’re just outside the 1″ to 5″ zone, so not to worry. Growing up in Michigan, we hardly missed a day of school all winter. As I remember it there was always 1 or 2 feet of fresh snow every week. I’m always amazed at how just an inch or two of snow can bring civilization grinding to a halt on the East Coast. How do they get anything done?
Or those of the South:
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Being familiar with the low density living, you know we can have 10 or 12 inches of white stuff and it is just another day. But in the cities it is a different experience and generally not pleasant. In the south where they hardly know what a snow shovel looks like, it is also not good.
I’m in the 20″ and above zone. The wind is causing a lot of drifting so judging the depth is hard. But I’d say we are approaching 20″ right now and it is snowing hard. I had 4-5 inches piled against the sliding glass door 8 hours ago. 18″ there now.
They are saying we might get 30″.
Hope you have plenty of food and the power does not go out…
Thanks for your well wishes. We are well stocked and the power has stayed on. We officially passed 30″ a few hours ago. It is still coming down. I shoveled for an couple hours. Each linear foot of the sidewalk required 15 shovelfuls. 3 across, 5 down.
Unbelievably, someone stole one of my shovels last night from my carport. I guess they really needed one.
I’m in Richmond, Va., and while we may about 12″ on the ground, the sleet from last night and the blowing of it off the roof has created an impassable icy mound in front of my front door. Getting out the back door tomorrow to do some shoveling _may_ be possible. Otherwise, it’s out the window. Seriously.
At my high school in Gisborne, NZ, school wasn’t compulsory if the temperature went below 10 degrees C (50 F). Our heating system wasn’t very good, and it was considered too cold to expect girls (all girls school) to be in. The boys’ high school down the road didn’t have the same rule.
However, the temperature almost never got that cold during the day, and if I’d tried to use it as an excuse not to go to school I’d’ve got extensive lectures from Mum about having to catch her horse to get to school, etc etc ad infinitum.
“Yesterday and on into today we have The Monster Snowfall on the East Coast of the US.”
Meanwhile, in upside-down-land*, it’s 80 in the shade, 90 in the sun (reading off the grass), the lightest of breezes, a perfect blue sky at 21 degrees F (yep, 11 below zero**), with just a few high clouds at a balmy 28 degrees.
It’s 80 indoors too, my brain won’t work, I’ll just have to go to the beach*** again where the waves will be (if the last few days are any guide) big and nicely-spaced, the water will be warm, like a giant Jacuzzi. For the fifth day in a row, I don’t know how long I can keep it up. Life’s tough with this unrelenting good weather.
* Auckland, NZ
** Yes, really. What a infrared thermometer reads if you point it at space, much modified by the passage of the waves through the atmosphere.
*** Piha
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