OT: Weather report and Calvin

[jo4hn]

If there is anybody still out there, hello. Just wondering how youse folks are doing with the weather and all. Here in So. Cal., we have about three feet on the ground (try to picture that) with more on the way. I can see the top of the deck railing, if only just. Today I will try to dig out the 4wd truck so we can get to the post office and grocery store tomorrow. About the only service left here is the LA Times newspaper fairy who, somehow, still plunks a bright orange package on the driveway every morning before 5:30. The guy is a wizard.

Otherwise, we are in good shape (figuratively). We have lost power four times in the last week, but it has come back on within 15 minutes each time. Then go to

for a selection of Calvin and Hobbes' best snowman cartoons. Enjoy. mahalo, jo4hn

[Mike in Arkansas]

Sigh. I truly miss Calvin and Hobbs. Have for years.

[Duane Bozarth]

Well, I'd gladly trade...we're under freezing rain which is expected to last the rest of today, tonight and tomorrow morning before it (eventually) is to turn over to snow...the rumbles of thunder are certainly indicative there's enough warm air and moisture aloft to make it a fairly high likelihood they're not far off... :(

So far, no wind, but that rarely holds for long here...

[Mark Jerde]

Where is here?

-- Mark in Maryland

[Clint]

Of course, here (in Edmonton AB), it's been between -20 and -30 degrees Celcius for the last week. This week, it's suppposed to warm up to close to freezing tomorrow, but then drop down again to -15/-30. And to think I left Miami, FL for this...

BTW, you've got more snow than us. Too damn cold to snow here!

Clint

[George]

Other than seeing Calvin in the classic pose urinating on Ford/Chevy/Dodge logos on the windows of pickups, that is.

[Mike in Arkansas]

Other than seeing Calvin in the classic pose urinating on Ford/Chevy/Dodge logos on the windows of pickups, that is. Well this is a case of ignorance is bliss. I always thought that was Bart Simpson. :) Thanks for the heads up though.

[jo4hn]

Just got an email from a cousin in Regina. She says they have had a fair amount of snow there and temps at around -30dC. Here it rarely gets below -10dC. j4

[Mark and Kim Smith]

That's not classic. That's theft!

[Nova]

We got about 2' on Christmas eve but the temperature went up into the mid 50 a few days later. There is no snow on the ground...

IN BUFFALO, NY

IN JANUARY?

(not complaining though) :-).

-- Jack Novak Buffalo, NY - USA (Remove "SPAM" from email address to reply)

[Duane Bozarth]

Specifically, far SW KS, but this is a pretty large area...

[WD]

I posted twice earlier and it did not show up so, I am reposting again using a difference news server.

We are bracing for Old Man Winter, it is raining and expecting 1" of ice follow by snow later. This morning I refilled my propane tank, buy 5 gal kerosene to prepare for expected power outages. The icy-mix will be more severed than the one experienced two years ago. The last power outage lasted for more than three weeks in some areas.

My wife came back early, and everyone at her office has taken leave for tomorrow. Schools within the metropolitan close early for this "Big" one.

We are bracing for this BIG ONE! Anyone need free lumbers? :-)

[WD]

Need free lumbers? Drive your truck to KC? We are expecting the BIG one.

[Dave Balderstone]

Yup. Watterson never licensed any of his work to anyone. The pressure to do so was one of the reasons he decided to pack it in, IIRC.

[J T]

Tue, Jan 4, 2005, 4:30pm (EST+5) [e-mail] (jo4hn) waves and calls out: If there is anybody still out there, hello. Just wondering how youse folks are doing with the weather

Hello. Yep, we have weather too, 77 degees today. Now, you know one of the many reasons I don't live in Californery. Hehehe Go out in the shop and make a sled, then use it. Snow sled, not saw sled. That is the ONLY thing I miss about lots of snow winters, sledding.

JOAT EVERY THING THAT HAPPENS STAYS HAPPENED.

- Death

[Norman D. Crow]

Good ol' lake effect! Down here in Jamestown we got *maybe* 2". Dodged the bullet this time, but Winter is still here, lots of time for the arctic express to hit us again.

[Mike Marlow]

...and here in Syracuse where we normally get a lot more snow than Buffalo (though they get more press for their snow), we've had diddly for snow this year. We've had a couple of dustings, one front that dumped a foot, and that's it. Now - not a flake of snow on the ground. Hopefully that will change before too long.

[phildcrowNOSPAM]

I came back from a vacation in my hometown in southern LA on 12-26 to find the snow plowed in up to the hood of the car in the long-term parking lot at the airport in Toledo. Got back to the house--we had to park in the neighbor's driveway that Sunday night. I spent about an hour and a half that Sunday night clearing a car-sized spot in our driveway--snow between knee and waist deep in the driveway. My favorite part of this anecdote is that our neighbor on the other side pulled into his driveway about 15 minutes into shoveling. I know he has a snowblower, and he knows I know he has a snowblower. So he pulls in and looks at me, and I look at him looking at me, and he looks at me looking at him, and he goes right inside and does whatever he does. Bastard. See if I weedwack his fence THIS friggin spring.

-Phil Crow

[Dave Balderstone]

We've got about 8" on the ground (got about 3" over Christmas and NY), and are currently at -40 with wind chill. It'll be colder overnight as the wind picks up.

Pretty tough on the dog, who's a wiener dog/terrier cross and has no undercoat to speak of. It's pretty much a 20 foot dash 'n pee.

[Mark and Kim Smith]

(Sigh!) I miss fresh Calvin and Hobbes, Farside and Bloom County!!