Show us what you see!!!

[suke]

We're supposed to get that mess in NC. I used to LOVE to go out and drive around in the peak of that stuff. Now I'm like eff that I don't want that mess on my truck. We went grocery shopping earlier in the week for our next weeks groceries, and I went to the gym as usual first thing this morning. So my truck is in the garage and won't leave until this mess melts and then dries out. Hopefully by Monday it'll all be gone.

 

[kgower]

Atlanta this morning.

 

[F.M.]

Looks like about 4-5” thus far in North AL, and it’s still coming down. Our area officials have deemed roads impassable. But we didn’t plan on leaving anyway. Stocked up on meat and veggies for the freezer last week, currently baking cornbread, and we’ll be baking a couple loaves of fresh sourdough this afternoon. I’m set and ready for the area to overreact to scope as usual.

 

[2kwik4u]

Looks like about 4-5” thus far in North AL, and it’s still coming down. Our area officials have deemed roads impassable. But we didn’t plan on leaving anyway. Stocked up on meat and veggies for the freezer last week, currently baking cornbread, and we’ll be baking a couple loaves of fresh sourdough this afternoon. I’m set and ready for the area to overreact to scope as usual.

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I don't know if I love or hate that Buffalo has already beaten the snow fear out of me. I think I drove to work with more than this on the ground Tuesday morning .



With that said, we closed schools in May because of heat. It was 83deg and high humidity (65%) that day. All in what you get used to I suppose

 

[F.M.]

I don't know if I love or hate that Buffalo has already beaten the snow fear out of me. I think I drove to work with more than this on the ground Tuesday morning .

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With that said, we closed schools in May because of heat. It was 83deg and high humidity (65%) that day. All in what you get used to I suppose

83 & 65% humidity is just an average Tuesday in May here. I wish they closed things in AL for heat.

 

[zpaul]

 

[AZMark]

Took our live tree for donation on Saturday. First time we've had a live tree in a decade. Forgot how much they shed. This one was on it's last leg coming out of the building!

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Also, we swapped some beds around for the kids, and disposed of the youngest kids twin bunk bed thing. It's nice having a bed again, but the 4ft bed on the Rivian leaves a little bit to be desired in terms of volume.

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Donating a dead tree for what?
Here they throw them in the lake by the hundreds for bass habitat. I assume your water is all frozen.

 

[2kwik4u]

Donating a dead tree for what?
Here they throw them in the lake by the hundreds for bass habitat. I assume your water is all frozen.

Water isn't ALL frozen yet. Although I did read that Erie is about 25% frozen over at this point. With a giant ice-berg out in the middle.....I mean, I think that's what they call it. Maybe not a berg, but a float maybe?!?!

ANYWAY......We donated it to a local goat farm. Apparently the needles and sap generate some important nutrients that the goats need. So the farm takes them, shreds them, and mix them in with regular goat feed. I'm not 100% certain how that works, we just dropped the tree at the gate with the other 37 of them sitting there. Wife found this place on Facebook when we were looking for places to dispose of the tree.

Western New York Goat Farm Needs Your Christmas Trees - Place is called "Lets Goat Buffalo", which we thought was hilarious!

*edit* I was wrong about what they do with them. My wife has proceeded to correct me quickly.

 

[Coult45]

I don't know if I love or hate that Buffalo has already beaten the snow fear out of me. I think I drove to work with more than this on the ground Tuesday morning .

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With that said, we closed schools in May because of heat. It was 83deg and high humidity (65%) that day. All in what you get used to I suppose

That's love you're feeling. By this time next year, you'll be memorizing all the straight stretches that are long enough for you to pass the plows because they go too GD slow and you're pretty sure you remember where the road is whether you can see it or not.

 

[Babin Farms]

We are not venturing out. We moved to Texas to get away from this stuff.

We had a cold weather safety meeting at work the other day & I had to laugh. Lows have been about 30 and highs averaged 45. I show up in pants & a hoodie, coworkers show up in full on insulated carhartts, beanies & gloves and look at me like I’m crazy.

 

[Thermobrett]

We had a cold weather safety meeting at work the other day & I had to laugh. Lows have been about 30 and highs averaged 45. I show up in pants & a hoodie, coworkers show up in full on insulated carhartts, beanies & gloves and look at me like I’m crazy.

Exact same thing when we moved down here in 2010 from Cleveland. In the local’s defense, it was during the 2009/2010 cold snap that killed all the snook and fruit trees. In Ohio, I never saw ladies who work indoors in a 72 degree year round temp controlled building wearing mittens, parkas, pants and boots with knitted hats and its mid 30s outside like they do down here. Fast forward 14 years, and now anything under 70 feels cold to me. I’m only 38, but man it’s a b!tch getting old, the rumors are true

 

[drewkaree]

We had a cold weather safety meeting at work the other day & I had to laugh. Lows have been about 30 and highs averaged 45. I show up in pants & a hoodie, coworkers show up in full on insulated carhartts, beanies & gloves and look at me like I’m crazy.

I'll go to my grave with a similar situation and memory

Went to Orlando & the Bahamas in January with some buddies. We drive down, and get there late in the evening, unload, and find some boogie boards. It was in the 20's when we left, and we arrive to mid-60's, and we're going into the ocean, dammit!

We gotta cross the road to the beach, and there's a lady looking at us like we have 3 heads, because we're in shorts, and shirtless, clearly heading into the water. I assume she was local, because she had on A DOWN JACKET, and had her dog in one of those winter pull on things.

I don't know if she thought we were gonna sacrifice her dog to the gods in exchange for a gaggle of virgins or what, but she picked her dog up and carried it across the street to avoid us, like we were tweakers or something, and she was clearly in shock seeing us like that.

We couldn't stop laughing at the situation, and all of us still tell the story to this day.

I think by this point, my blood is the consistency of gear lube, and that's probably why WI is the drinkingest state in the union - it's antifreeze for the body to fight off the heart attacks

 

[rkluck]

We got 3" to 4". The lakes were just getting some ice on them. Last year they wee frozen solid when we had -5. Played with the ATV and UTV outside and played games inside! Being on top of the mountain nobody was going anywhere.

 

[buckbuck]

I hope my landscape snaps back.

 

[kgower]

We had a cold weather safety meeting at work the other day & I had to laugh. Lows have been about 30 and highs averaged 45. I show up in pants & a hoodie, coworkers show up in full on insulated carhartts, beanies & gloves and look at me like I’m crazy.

You just haven't had enough southern living yet. Another year or two and you'll be like the rest of us.

 

[zpaul]

 

[Thermobrett]

Seemed fitting

 

[F.M.]

Well, this was my view in our living room last night.




Don’t know how it happened, but somehow an ember got in a tiny crack in the mortar and caused a floor joist to start smoldering. Burned a couple of inches off the top of the joist and the subfloor under the firebox. Luckily my wife noticed an ever so small amount of smoke coming from between the brick on the sides of the fireplace and the hearth. No signs of fire anywhere or smoke in the crawlspace though. We almost let it go as a fluke since we couldn’t find anything. But we called the non-emergency line for the FD just to be safe. They crawled under the house and found the joist smoldering. Had to take out the bottom of the firebox to get to it to put it out.



So looks like some major home repairs coming to fix that joist since it’s load bearing on an exterior wall. But we’re praising the Lord that we didn’t put off calling and we still have a home.

 

[Thermobrett]

Well, this was my view in our living room last night.

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Don’t know how it happened, but somehow an ember got in a tiny crack in the mortar and caused a floor joist to start smoldering. Burned a couple of inches off the top of the joist and the subfloor under the firebox. Luckily my wife noticed an ever so small amount of smoke coming from between the brick on the sides of the fireplace and the hearth. No signs of fire anywhere or smoke in the crawlspace though. We almost let it go as a fluke since we couldn’t find anything. But we called the non-emergency line for the FD just to be safe. They crawled under the house and found the joist smoldering. Had to take out the bottom of the firebox to get to it to put it out.

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So looks like some major home repairs coming to fix that joist since it’s load bearing on an exterior wall. But we’re praising the Lord that we didn’t put off calling and we still have a home.

Glad you noticed it in time and nothing “major” happened. Bring some cookies next year to the FD!

 

[zipper]

Malletts Bay is locking up. Shanties are soon to follow.