It looks a lot like early fall here, not winter.... The grass is green, and needs mowing..... Which I outright REFUSE to do in friggin' december. The last couple days has gotten downright frigid though.... but, I hear rumors of 65 on christmas day.

 

Well the last two days its been feeling a little like Christmas. Its been below freezing here. Finally started a fire in the basement. I dont think Ill be using as much firewood this season. Wait till the end of the week. It will feel like your in the south again. Santa is gonna need a rain coat to stop at my house this year.

 

Shortly before Thanksgiving day we got a lump of very heavy wet snow dropped on us, around 8" in the one event, followed by several days of very cold weather. I thought it was a return of the winter of '75 when the area got buried badly.

I lived in northwest Wisconsin back then but saw it on TV, the initial storm dropped a foot or more then as the days went on more heavy snow falls occurred the Midwest and eastern states were just stopped up with snow.

I was certain that it was gonna do it again and not let up just like back then. I was wrong and couldn't be more happy.

Looks like we are gonna have a California Christmas here this year. I actually did run the riding mower over the yard last Saturday. The grass wasn't really that long but there were a lot of leaves that needed to be mulched.

 

We've got snow on the ground and more coming. The weather gods say another four to eight inches between now and xmas, one to three xmas day and another inch that night, then more the next day.

I've got a nice collection of tiny frosted trees so it can snow all it wants.

 

I just read an article the other day about a 50 car pileup due to ice in Michigan the other day...

 

They're calling for 85 here in Florida (record is 88)... I'm use to these temps in Oz at Xmas, not the US.

 

 

I'd give the old sumbatch a Chimfex diaper rash and launch his @$$ to the moon.

 

It was 78 for us. Four feet of snow in two days...... There was a drift that went completely over the house...... Schools were closed for two weeks. City of Adrian shut down completely for about 10 days. 'Cept for the Road commission guys. They were working serious overtime trying to get the roads cleared.

 

It probably was '76/7 I was thinking of been a long time and if it happened before yesterday I just don't remember it right these days. I had it in my mind it was before the bicentennial.

We normally got lots of snow in the Great White North so the blizzard did not seem to be all that big of a deal to me but,... to the folks that got buried it was not normal at all.

I remember watching the state crews and the national guard flipping cars off the interstate with really big snowplows. Whole cities and states just shut down because of the snow.

Lots of stories about common folk getting together and helping each other, and some of not so happy events. Robbing and looting in a few other places. With the roads shut down stores got empty and stayed that way for weeks on end.

In our small northwest Wisconsin town things went on like normal we did get some snow out of the deal. The school was offering meals for anyone that could get there. Our cafeteria was well stocked with government surplus food and they baked bread everyday anyway.

Mrs. Buttons, the school cook, set up a cot and stayed there keeping the place going the whole time. There were other cots in the fallout shelter that could have been setup if need be.

Ah the good old days.

Sometimes I dig out the old pictures and show folks how the drifts actually did go up to the roof on the windward side of our two story house. The village crew had done pretty good job of keeping the main streets clear but the alleys were all pretty much blocked.

My neighbors and I dug the end of the alley between Hemphill's garage and the Lamperts building out by hand. Both of those building were two story high so that was a lot of snow.

There was a open lot behind the Lamperts building that we put the snow in, made quite a pile. The village had an end loader that they used to dig the snow out of main street. They dug it out and put it in dump trucks but soon ran out of places to put the stuff.

A field just north of town was plowed and a lot of it was piled there. It didn't melt till almost July. I wondered what the bigger towns did with their snow.