Happy solstice, everyone. It's cold here, with a large snowstorm at our doorstep. Snow will start here in a couple hours and go all day tomorrow with wind expected to create blizzard conditions on Friday. Been a few years since we had a bona fide blizzard, so a good time to stay in. The state department of transportation is asking people not to travel unless absolutely necessary, but it's the holidays so people will do what they will and disasters will happen, of course.
My sister was supposed to come up to Mom's, but that won't happen now. And we're still testing positive for Covid even though we feel pretty much back to normal, so not sure if we'll make it. If not, we'll have to try for the next weekend, but surely before she flees south for the winter. She has my cordless drill and I want it back before spring!
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| This is as high as the sun gets here now. I got this pic about noon today before it completely disappeared in the overcast sky. |
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Happy Solstice!
I've gone off snow now, so you are welcome to yours. 12 days of frozen frozen and minus 9 degrees C is more than enough for one year.
An 18 degree C rise in temperature in 12 hours got rid of ours at the weekend, and I don't think we are due any more for a while.
Hope you all get to meet up - and that you get your drill back!
About 5 inches so far today. Just got in from clearing snow, currently around -19 C.
Not sure we'll get down there this weekend, but I have an alternate plan I think Mom will like.
On the BBC News it said temperatures in the US would go down to minus 55 C and that even Florida was expected to go minus C.
I once skied in minus 27 C in Romania and it was bone chillingly cold. Keep warm!
It's about -27 C this morning, a "high" of about -18 later today. A far cry from the end of year fire pits the last couple years!
I saw a weather chart for the USA and Canada yesterday and that looks brutal.
Your plans for staying in, keeping warm and safe and no unnecessary travel is the best one. Take care.
How do your water pipes not freeze when it is that cold?
Supply pipes from the street as well as your own internal house pipes.
The ground only freezes to about 4 feet down, so the water pipes are well below that frost line. Similar for the posts for the back steps, they have to be more than 4 feet deep so they don't move around with the freezing/unfreezing. Inside, we heat the house and though we don't heat the basement it still stays well above freezing in this cold, currently 59ºF, about 15ºC.
Finally tested negative today. Not going to Mom's but I will go down after work on Tuesday and watch the Badgers bowl game with her that night. And I have the next day off so we can spend some time then, too.
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