Morning Cup Of Coffee And Weather

Most of the vegetation is really starting to pop down here about now. I got most of the pruning done about a month ago, so new growth is showing up on those shrubs. Mid 70s today, but into the 90's later this week, and supposed to break 100 mid next week. Will have to start thinking about heading north pretty soon.
 
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TheSongDogHouse said:
Wut! Did you jeep in or hike?
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Wait nvm you said FL...duh.
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Did you wash? Is it a hot spring?
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No spring. Just a vast depression in the area. We hiked in on one of the trails at Mike Roess Goldhead State Park near Keystone Heights. Many of the lake levels in the area are at record lows. There are a couple of large mines in the area which locals believe is the reason for the low lake levels.
 
Tour 931 said:
We received 8” of snow last night. I thought the roads would be bad this morning but the trip into town proved to be uneventful.
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Its interesting -- same vehicles, different climates, different drivers --- Drop a Texan into that and not only would they open the door, they may even close the shades - but us northerners are like "When I was a kid, we got this every week..."

I KNOW my grade school (parochial) closed only when the Sisters who ran it couln't make the trip. They lived next door, and had a tunnel between the convent and the school...so we RARELY were given the favor of a snow day.
 
Sweeney said:
Its interesting -- same vehicles, different climates, different drivers --- Drop a Texan into that and not only would they open the door, they may even close the shades - but us northerners are like "When I was a kid, we got this every week..."

I KNOW my grade school (parochial) closed only when the Sisters who ran it couln't make the trip. They lived next door, and had a tunnel between the convent and the school...so we RARELY were given the favor of a snow day.
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That reminds me of when we were still spending a majority of the winter in MN and our neighbor was renting out his seasonal home in the winter for people who might want to ice fish. Well a group of Texans rented it for a weekend retreat. Now we normally let the first few snows get packed down on our quarter mile long driveway/road that passes by three other neighbors before ending at our place. That way we aren't blowing our gravel into the woods when clearing subsequent snowfalls, but that eventually turns into kind of an icepack. The morning this group arrived it snowed about an inch or so, and they had three cars, all of which were stuck within the first fifty feet of turning down the driveway. Since the lead one was sideways, I had to get my Jeep out, put it in low range and pull it straight on the drive. Then drive it and the other two vehicles to the house for them. The next morning when I was heading into town, I found all three vehicles stuck again where the neighbors drive and mine intersect. Fortunately I was able to get into each vehicle and drive it out for them without hooking up to them. Then they left and didn't come back. I think they were a little embarrassed, and weren't going to chance going out on the lake. ... and our neighbor quit renting out his place.
As far as school closings go, when I was a kid they would often close the school if there was more than eight inches of new snow because about half of the students were bussed in from farms in about a 20 mile radius of town. If the wind picked up during the school day it would drift those roads closed pretty quickly, so they would let school out early in those cases.
But I never saw school closed because of low temperatures, even when we would get some -40+ F days, sometimes for a week or more stretch. We would just use a face mask or scarf covering all but our eyes, and walk to school as usual.
So in the mid 90's when it was going to be 30+ below in the Twin cities and the governor decided to close schools state wide...oh was there an uproar. He didn't do that again during his term, and the schools were allowed to decide what weather they could handle or not.
Ah yes, the good ole days.;)
 
We only received 4 of the expected 22” of snow although it’s still snowing and will be for the next 12 hours. I have bare spots and three foot drifts from the blowing. I parked the van at the bottom of the hill last night and if I go anywhere I’ll have to snowshoe the 300 yards to it.
 
Tour 931 said:
We only received 4 of the expected 22” of snow although it’s still snowing and will be for the next 12 hours. I have bare spots and three foot drifts from the blowing. I parked the van at the bottom of the hill last night and if I go anywhere I’ll have to snowshoe the 300 yards to it.
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I'll help celebrate that small victory!
 

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