Snow pix from last week, church sign stolen from my friend Di. BTW, it looks like this next storm, we might get a break from plain old snow. Check out this map - that magenta stripe that runs right to the end of Long Island? Ice accumulation! BLEAH! Map found via my friend John, who must occasionally be tempted to change his blog's name from Control Geek to Weather Geek. BTW, here's his his time lapse of last week's snowstorm, which is the one the photos above were from.
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Great pictures, and I especially love the church sign. A few years back, the Catholic church in Socorro got sued for holding a special Mass to pray for rain, which was followed by 40 days and nights of rain, massive flooding, and a hailstorm that so severely damaged the under-construction Super Wal-Mart that its opening was delayed by a month.
Of course, maybe those Baptists who are praying for snow can still do so -- just have it sent here to New Mexico where our snowpack is below average, meaning less water in our lakes come spring runoff.
Oh, that is FUNNY.
I would try to have some sent your way if I thought I had any pull in that department!
When I moved to California from back east, one of the things I had to get used to was that here snow is considered entertainment, since it never snows down in the central valley or along the coast, where most people live and work.
After every snow, people drive up into the mountains to play in it, like going to Disneyland or any other amusement park. As in New Mexico, the winter snowpack is the major source of our state's water, since it hardly rains at all for six months out of the year. And the ski industry is a vital part of the economy.
No one could understand why this Philly boy wasn't as ecstatic as they were about snow, wonderful snow.
O-Docker, my family did that a few times when we were living in Vallejo! I have very clear memories of getting up in the wee small hours, getting all bundled up and driving up to the Sierra Nevadas to play in snow that was deeper than my dad was tall!
We would stop at a restaurant called Milk Farm. I LOOOVED Milk Farm. I don't remember what my favorite meal was but I think that was where my lifelong addiction to Crunchie Bars began - they sold a candy that I think they called sea foam candy, it was a sort of whipped molasses or sugar stuff covered with chocolate. Never found the same kind of candy that was quite as good anywhere else but a Crunchie bar is a close approximation.
It was fun, living in that section of California...
That really is the right way to do snow, btw. My sister and I used to sort of think snow at Christmas would be neat. My mom, being from NJ, would explain the true nature of snow over and over again - very beautiful (and fun) when it's fresh-fallen, but then it stays and turns brown and gray and ick (and she was always too polite to mention the yellow part, which is the thing I'm finding the grossest about this long-accumulating snowpack - all that frozen dog pee is just nasty) and you just want it to go away.
I always hate to admit that Mom was right, but I have to admit that Mom was right.
The Milk Farm actually hung on into the mid-80s, when the building was damaged in a wind storm.
By then, it had become such a local institution that the sign was preserved and is still there, the Eiffel Tower of Dixon, California.
Currently snowing in Albuquerque, with predictions of more snow and VERY cold (for us) temperatures -- highs in the teens and maybe even single digits. Meanwhile, we're hoping for LOTS of snow up in the mountains.
Fantastic!
I'm sorry the restaurant's gone, but YES, that was a sign I loved to see. How nice to find out it's still there!
It was one of the prettier snows. Let's see what the next two storms look like...
Oops. My "Fantastic!" was meant to go with O-docker's Milk Farm update, not single-digit temps in Albuquerque. BRRRR!
I do hope you get lots of mountain snowpack, Carol Anne.
For us, today's storm has so far just been rain rain rain. I'm not looking forward to getting home tonight - the entire city is quite likely to turn into an ice rink (and if subway signals get too much ice, I'll be taking a long walk on that ice rink).
The west coast of Japan is getting lots of snow (opposite side of Honshu from us happily). Fukui Prefecture had 32 inches of snow yesterday and commuters ended up having to spend the night in their cars and even on the express trains.
With the forecast for your area, I'd say stay home and be glad you have a full larder and some 'smart wool' socks.
So far, my particular areas (Soho work and Midwood home, and the subway lines connecting the two) seem to have been relatively fortunate. I've got a friend up near Poughkeepsie shovelling ice off his roof, another friend in Manhattan posted some nice ice-glaze pix to his Facebook page. My part of Brooklyn though, there was a light ice glaze on the tree branches outside my window when I woke up, all gone by the time I went to work, still just raining. The trains were slow, but no big huhu. I'm grateful!
High today in Albuquerque: 9F. We were colder than Fairbanks. Predicted low for tonight: -7. Yes, thats MINUS seven. Chama (near Five O'Clock Somewhere) and Angel Fire were both predicted -28 overnight lows, but as of the 10 p.m. television news, Angel Fire was already -31.
It's supposed to warm up tomorrow into the high teens.
Jeeze. Be safe, stay warm, hope the thaw comes SOON.
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