Talk About The Weather

[spike]

30s here, but temps start dropping tomorrow night and into the week. They better not cancel more school.

you better get used to this nonsense. you still have a long road ahead of you for the next 15 or so winters.

I thought private school would be more gung ho, but seems to be proving the opposite.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[96583UP]

big waves out there today

[spike]

big waves out there today

When’s the single dropping, Ed?

[daft twat]

Sup from MN, pussies?

[spike]

Chicago about to be consumed by The Nothing.

[wease]

We’re right on the line between getting 3-7” or 7-12” of snow tonight. Honestly, I hope we get the 12”. That way I can make all my closure texts/calls/emails then go back to bed.

[doug rr]

finally above 32 today...supposed to get a rain snow mix tonight and then just rain the next 7 days with warmer temps

[spike]

Goes up into the teens tomorrow and I can’t wait.

[Monkey_Driven]

It's 13 degrees today and it feels wonderful compared to the last 5 days. I hate this. Winter is the worst.

[Anders]

Chaos here today. All buses and trains cancelled, now the airport is closed. Just a ton of snow and wind. Unusual that the winter has such an effect in a country like Norway, that is used to heavy winters.

[spike]

That is strange, but it happens here in #chiberia too if the snow’s coming down faster than the plows can keep up. And yeah, if windy and drifting.

[pepperwhiteMFC]

Sending thoughts and prayers from Cozumel.

[wease]

We got 6” of snow Sunday-Monday night. It’s been a constant challenge of seeing who will actually come to work. I’ve slowly been able to open. Monday, all were closed, yesterday two were open for partial day and today all are open for partial day. Temp was -7 when I got up this morning, tho it’s supposed to get up to 30 later today.

[doug rr]

had a dusting of snow this morning

[Higgs]

We have had a run of ridiculous heat here the past 2 weeks. And just before it started our bebroom AC crapped itself completely. Such fun.

Wed 3/1 - 32c (90f)
Thu 4/1 - 31c (88f)
Fri 5/1 - 31c (88f)
Sat 6/1 - 33c (92f)
Sun 7/1 - 36c (97f)
Mon 8/1 - 37c (99f)
Tue 9/1 - 31c (88f)
Wed 10/1 - 31c (88f)
Thu 11/1 - 32c (90f)
Fri 12/1 - 37c (99f)
Sat 13/1 - 41c (106f)
Sun 14/1 - 37c (99f)
Mon 15/1 - 35c (95f)
Tue 16/1 - 39c (102f)
Wed 17/1 - 31c (88f)

But I'd still take this heat without an aircon in my bedroom than having to deal with snow.

[spike]

Got a half inch or so overnight, which our shoveling service won’t touch, so jumped at taking my turn clearing the sidewalk and interior walks. Someone else is up tomorrow to handle the 1-2” we’re getting tonight.

[doug rr]

local weather app says its raining...its snowing with tons of fog..cant see the water

[doug rr]

looking like I might have to shovel...I dont want to shovel

[wease]

Don’t you have a yard boy or something you can make do this?