Winter wonderland!!

[PP Mguire]

Check out what we got today!
Heres my yard just as it was starting
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My porch is supposed to be black where i was standing
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Heres the front of the truck hehe
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And heres the back with my lame $50 bike i got for free lol
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And heres me in my Canada jacket.
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And just to think it was 82F just yesterday before the Canadian artic air hit us. CANADA ROCKS!!! I love snow and cold!

[Bio-Hazard]

We're getting the samething here in Missouri right now (mainly Ice for now), it's really kind of hard keeping a connection via my satellite in crap weather like this. we're supposed to get up to a foot of snow by the time this is over, that combined with the ice we all ready have is going to make for some fun times.......not.......now if the power just stays on everything will be great.
And like you folks down in Texas, we had near record highs yeasterday here. Just think, I was out mowing my backyard in shorts and a "T" shirt yesterday evening...............:jawdrop:

[Schwarz]

You will be surprised but we don't have snow yet here in Montreal (Quebec)
Actualy even more surprising this is how hot it is for the first of December (well it is still the 30th but whatever)
57 °F / 14 °C
We are like 2 weeks late for snow and its pretty hot.
Looks like a Spring day.

[werty316]

You gotta love the snow eh? :lol:

Kinda surprising you got snow since you live in Texas :shock:

The planet must finally be feeling the effect of pollution.

[Gray]

well It was -16.6F yesterday. Man o Man is it cold here!
Thats -27 Celsius.

I would love to show pics and I will soon but someone stole my charger so I have one on ebay and I will be back in action and posting on here soon.

[Bio-Hazard]

You gotta love the snow eh? :lol:

Kinda surprising you got snow since you live in Texas :shock:

The planet must finally be feeling the effect of pollution.
Texas gets snow all the time, just not as muc as other parts of the US...............:grin:

As for us here in Missouri, we've been having ice rain pretty much all afternoon into the evening and for the last 2 hours or so we have been without power, the south east side of the front anyway. Things are predicted to get worse through the night with the ice rain turning to snow with up to 6 to 8 inches by morning. That along with the 3 to 4 inches of ice on the ground should make for some interesting times.............:ahhhhh: Good thing I'm ready for crap like this with a home generator and wood burning stove for heat, not to mention it's about the only time when my satellite link comes in handy to talk to folks.

[Null]

The weather was partly cloudy and in the mid-seventies here in Central Florida today. :na::snoopy::snoopy::snoopy::na:

[PP Mguire]

Yea yesterday the record high was 83 and we hit 82 lol. Usualy by now when i was in school and had to walk to the bus stop it would be freezing ass cold. But NOOO now that im outa school and want the cold it stays warm all the way till it HAS to get cold. After today (friday) the temps are gonna go back up unfortunately. And Texas does get snow all the time just not the DFW area. The panhandle gets alot and the all the time below freezing temps for winter. Were lucky to see ice every year. What kinda SAT you have? I have Direcway that i have to use as main interwebz here and it SUCKS. Everytime you have clouds go over you lose signal. What kinda crap is that? I want Aircanopy.

*Aircanopy here is the "Out in BFE" Cable connection. You order something like SAT (cept cheaper by $40) and your connection is through a radio tower. Heavy storms with lightning dont even affect it. *

[Bio-Hazard]

We've got Driecway as well, and it does suck, but we only get dropped during heavy storms. It stayed on pretty much all day yesterday through the storms, just slow as hell.

Right now in our area everything is iced over and trees and powerlines are down all over the entire area. The power company says that there are something like 500,000 people without power again (second time this year) and it could take 2 to 3 days to get power restored. I don't have enough gas to last that long, so I may have to venture out on the roads if it takes to long to restore power...........:(

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[Bio-Hazard]

Here's a small map of some of the areas where the power is out. I live down towards the bottom of the map about halfway between the towns of De Soto and Potosi............:jawdrop:

[Bio-Hazard]

Now that the sun has come out, it's looking real pretty out now with the sun shining through the ice on the trees...............:)

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[PP Mguire]

Wow dude its so beautiful up there. I wish i could live up north. My dad freezes at 73F though so no luck for me. And yea i had to load these pictures with dial up. My SAT is out of signal again cause we have a light covering over our area. Ive called Direcway about it MANY times and they never do anything about it.

[Kougar]

Those are some nice pics!

While the Texas panhandle does tend to get some snow... most of Texas doesn't. It has not "snowed" locally since the year I was born I think, and that was over 20 years ago :lol: Sleeted, yes, but not a coating of snow AFAIK.

It did actually drop to below freezing though two days ago, which was nice. Never made it below freezing last night though. :-P

[Enigmachine]

You will be surprised but we don't have snow yet here in Montreal (Quebec)
Actualy even more surprising this is how hot it is for the first of December (well it is still the 30th but whatever)
57 °F / 14 °C
We are like 2 weeks late for snow and its pretty hot.
Looks like a Spring day.

Yeah, we actually broke a heat record in Sherbrooke... 19-20 c or so. People were walking around in shorts. Highest temperature ever recorded for that date.

That was 2 days ago, now we're enjoying the snow and ice. :) I better start the heating. Or get more machines folding.

[PP Mguire]

Yea i dont think ive ever seen San Antonio ever get snow before. The DFW area does sometimes though.

[Bio-Hazard]

I remember back in the late '70's I went to Dallas (Love Field) to pick-up some modified UH-1H's for the Army, it was supposed to be a 2 day turn around and head back home. But then came the ice and snow, and we ended up staying there for a week till the weather cleared enough to fly aircraft back to home station. All in all a great trip, ate, slept and drank at a top hotel at the governments expence........;) Your tax dollars at work.

By the way, we're on our 3rd night without power or phone service. High temps during the day around 32F and lows around 5-10F.

[PP Mguire]

Why does it take so long for yall to get power back?

[Bio-Hazard]

Our local power company totally sucks. Every time a storm blow through here, doesn't matter what time of year, you can pretty much count on the power going out for a few days. Even in St Louis it takes days to restore power , the management really needs to pull their heads out and bring the grid they own up to some sort of standard. This is the reason I spent $1000 for my generator and wired it directly into the house, you can pretty much count on using it at least once a month or more for at least a day.

Still no power here this morning, but at least the phones are working now, they came on late last night.

[PP Mguire]

We have a generator in our RV that my dad rigs to the house. Idk how he does it but it does work. We just cant use much on it. At least our power company dosent suck that bad.

[ELIK18]

Nice pic, loves the snowy weather:grin:

Low temp with OC :smile:

But here, never will be snowy. :frown:

Only rain.

[DragonMaster]

Well, we had 17°C/63°F IIRC a few days ago in Montreal, then Friday, freezing rain(Which melted during the night), Saturday, nothing but c0lD heavy winds(Some lost power as well), and today, well, 4cms of snow and nice temps.

[Bio-Hazard]

Well, we're still without power, I'm getting real tired of listening to this generator 24/7..........:( Temps as of right now are 25f/-4c, with a windchill of 13f/-10c, so it's a little on the chilly side for this part of the country, and without heat and power, it makes things all that much worse.

[DragonMaster]

It sucks you have a powerco that bad, power outages are extremely rare where I live since the 1998 ice storm, even with outdoor power lines, Hydro-Québec improved things a lot since, just in case it happened again. I don't recall of any power outages since. IMO, it's not really necessary to have a generator running 24/7, stuff in the fridge can go outside and you wear coats in the house.

http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-70-258/disasters_tragedies/ice_storm/

[Bio-Hazard]

LOL........you have never met my wife, she HAS to have all the easy things in life or there's hell to pay...............she can't even go a single day wothout at least one shower.

[Enigmachine]

Sheesh. :) It's -2 c outside and I haven't even started the heating yet.

On the other hand I have 3 computers running so it's not freezing in here, but I'm fine with good socks on. It's probably around 16-17 c in here, t-shirt temperature. :)

[PP Mguire]

Yea we dont have central heat cause the blowers out but its 80 in my room cause of my water bed and PC. We have pwer outages when its really windy outside. Other than that somebody has to run into a pole on the main road to run outa power. Last night it was 27F and i pumped my gf home on my bike cause we cant afford extra trips right now (Sister lost her job) and her parents where being dicks. I didnt really feel the cold though cause i love it. Right now id say its at least 30F outside and its still farily warm in my house. Its nice to have a manufactored home. (Clayton double wide)

[Enigmachine]

Last night it was 27F and i pumped my gf home on my bike

That is waaaay too much information. :jawdrop:

Last night I watched a talk show, one of the guests had just come back from a scientific expedition to study the Antarctic ice shelf... and could not find any ice. (I said it as if he meant litterally, but I think he meant they did not find the "fresh" winter ice banks they expected, because the temperature was 5 c above what they normally are in winter). Also he had a pretty good tan - apparently you can get sunburnt in winter in the Antarctic if there's a huge hole in the ozone layer - ozone litterally soaks up radiation and is something we'd have to manufacture if we want to terraform Mars.)

So anyway, my point is that apparently the weather's messed up and it's getting worse. We're in a surprisingly mild and stable period in Earth's weather history, we're overdue for an ice age, but weather scientists can't agree on what's going to happen next, so I suppose all we can do for now is exercise our political power and build flood-hurricane-asteroid-proof homes.

I want one that's a big ball of cement. It would float and resist pretty much everything. :)

Sorry for the rant - I think talking about the weather is one of Canada's biggest pastime. :)

[Bio-Hazard]

Talking about the weather around here is quickly becoming a regular passtime as well, all we're getting is cold cold weather right now. A lot colder here for this time of year, that's for sure.

[PP Mguire]

Its warmer here than usual. Like i said, the other day it was 82 then it dropped. Usualy the highs once November come around are at max 50F. Kinda suprising actualy.
That is waaaay too much information. Pumping is where she gets on the pegs of my bike and i give her a ride home that way. Did you not know that?

[Bio-Hazard]

Sounds like he kind of took it the wrong (or rightway, Depending) way....;)

[PP Mguire]

Lol yea i know, thats why i explained. And no, i just took her home on my bike, thats it haha. To many problems with her (down there) for that right now.

[Bio-Hazard]

We have power and phone as of 10 last nite, now the wife can stop complaining and take a long hot shower.........;)

[PP Mguire]

Lol, put a 10 gallon how water heater in there and she wont anymore :eek:

[slugbug]

No snow to speak of in Montreal so far. We had a few flakes yesterday, but no accumulation. I remember one winter in the mid 80's with almost no snow, but we had temperatures in the - 40F range. I also remember that winter because I was driving a '72 VW bug with no heater. I swear it was colder in the car than it was outside.

[tomato]

We are now covered in the white stuff for the duration of the winter season... it hit -30-35 degrees celcius last night... BRRRRRRR :?

[Bio-Hazard]

Now that's what I call chilly..........;)

[PP Mguire]

We are now covered in the white stuff Might wanna refrase that ;) And MAN thats cold!

[werty316]

I don't mind the cold weather, its the windchill that sucks.

[Bio-Hazard]

Just watched the weather on TV, we're supposed to have the coldest temps of the year tonight, getting down to around 0 degrees F, that rarely happens around here and for this time of year it's almost unheard of.

[PP Mguire]

THats pretty crazy stuff. Within an hour last night we went down 16 degrees. I couldnt believe i was riding a bike in 22F degree wheather.

[Santa]

Hey Santa loves the snow as well.

Living in Alabama, makes it tough unless you make your own. Was up all night making snow.. Built my own snow making machine two years ago. all the children in the neighborhood came out to play in the snow and see Santa as well. :grin: See attachment for picture from this morning.

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[Bio-Hazard]

Pardon the pun, but that's pretty cool.........:)

[PP Mguire]

Sorry if this is a dumb question but did you really make a machine that makes snow or did it really snow in Alabama?

[Santa]

Yup I got a machine for makine snow. :jawdrop: . I few years back, I decided I want to be able to make snow. so I searched on the net until I came a cross a sight, that had plans for how to build your own snow machine, I bot a basic kit of nossels from them, followed there plans and then with God's help ( I still need it to be cold enough). SNOW SNOW SNOW. Snowathome.com is the site but over the last few years, the have turned it into a business, they sell snow machines now but they are not cheap. they still have the basic plans on the site though for free.

If Santa can make snow in Alabama you got to Believe

[darkorb]

haha thats awesom!
the only place i have seen those are ski/snowboarding mountains

[PP Mguire]

Wow dude thats awesome. I want one now hahha.

[DragonMaster]

It's raining here...
We got two days of snow, 2-3 other cold days, and since last week-end, it's around 10°C...

[Bio-Hazard]

We're way up above the norm here now, mid 60's, I've been out cutting fire wood in a "T" shirt the past few days (cleaning up all the trees fom the ice storm), I'd much rather have temps like these..............;)

[darkorb]

same here, should be filled with snow, and in the negatives, i think its around 10 degrees here?

can def see the global warming effects. i hope it changes, i wana snowboard!

[Santa]

I love cold and winter, of course what would you expect from Santa. But I am in Alabama and its in the upper 70's... ugh. Darn that Heatmiser, he's always keeping it green her in the south.

[Enigmachine]

Considering "St. Nick" lived in the south of Turkey close to the shores of the Meditteranean, I don't think he actually cares so much for the snow. :)

I actually visited a museum where a great part of the exhibit was dedicated to him and thank god for air conditioning!

[PP Mguire]

Dude it was the 17th of freakin December yesterday and i was hot as hell. I had on shorts and a t-shirt too! I cant believe how much different this year is from last year.

[darkorb]

Global Warming Man!!

[PP Mguire]

But how can it really really affect this year when last year all December was cold as hell?

[DragonMaster]

But how can it really really affect this year when last year all December was cold as hell?
It was pretty hot here.

But, guess what, there's snow today! It's supposed to melt tho.

[PP Mguire]

Last year we got snow once and this year weve already had snow. Last year the snow was like on the 27th or something but ALL of December was in the 20s. This year its been 80s, 20s, 60s, 80s, teens, ect. Its been a freakin roller coaster and now they are saying a possible snow for Christmas. WTH. If its gonna be warm, then be warm, if its gonna be cold then by damn it should be cold. I cant stand this "Hmm it was warm yesterday, i think ill wear shorts and a t-shirt" *ready to leave, walks outside* "Holy **** its ****ing cold out here!!" *runs inside and changes everything im wearing*. I hate that.

[slugbug]

we had a few flakes today, but no accumulation. It looks like we'll be having a green christmas this year.:frown:

[darkorb]

ya i no slug, its been so warm her, in celsius, were averaging 3-5 degrees, when were supposed to be -5 and below, global warming i think :S

snowboarding season is melting!!!

[PP Mguire]

Like i was saying before. News is promising a white Christmas for us in North Texas. Last night i turned my server off and my PC off cause it was 90 in my room and i had my blanket half way on one leg so i could reach it if needed. I woke up this morning at 8 (after going to bed at 5) running for PJs, my large eVGA shirt, and my Spongebob slippers. It had dropped to 52 in 3 hours in my room alone. When i finaly woke up at 11 i looked outside and it was completely fogged up and cloudy as hell. Now its just really windy with wind gusts up to 45mph. Crazy Texas weather i tell ya.

[Bio-Hazard]

We've got a weather change on the way as well, it cooler and raining today and it's supposed to change to snow tonight, maybe we'll have a good ole fashioned white Christmas.

[Frost_Warlock]

Nice! :-)
Have fun during the winter... it's a great season!
The best thing of the winter is SKI !!!
I love skiing! you've gotta go skiing with that snow over there! :-)

[DragonMaster]

We got snow and it melted again later in the day with the temps going over 0°C.

[Santa]

Saint Nicholas was a Bishop, in Turkey, but among his many miracles and things he is revered for, He is the Patron Saint of Moscow- also consider patron Saint of Norway with St. Olaf, Germany, Austria, Switzerland. just to name a few snowy places. There are churches and cathederals dedicated to him in many Northern locations, including some above the Artic Circle. So I think, St. Nicholas and snow are not complete strangers. :icon_tiphat: . And as far as Santa.. goes I am he or he is me, and I do love the Snow. :-D

[PP Mguire]

Lol that was OT but thats ok. They are saying we havent had a white Christmas since like 1986 but we had one last year. News people are so dumb lol.