OT: Weather Blues
LeatherGryphon
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We missed the big snows in Buffalo a few weeks ago, they had seven feet but we lucked out with only 7 inches. But tonight I'm almost in the Fahrenheit hole. 1 degree out there at 8:00 PM. 8-o
Only 4 or 5 inches of snow and perhaps another 5 inches before Saturday morning, but it is windy so the wind chill is pretty low.
I hear Washington DC has more snow than we do here south of Buffalo today.
The feral cat that I've been feeding every morning hasn't shown up all day. :-( Hope he got in somewhere.
I must be getting old. The cold's affecting me. Joints ache something terrible, back aches too. I think I need some of Granny's rheumatiz medicine. 8-s
Slathered on some IcyHot ointment. I now smell funny but back is feeling better. :-)
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Don't know where you are, but yes it is very cold where I am (work in NYC, reside in New Jersey). Just put a call to my building's super because there's not much heat coming out of the radiators! I am freezing to death here...granted my bathroom and kitchen window are both cracked open a bit, but still, there should be more heat coming out of these radiators than there currently is. I hear it is going to be like this for the next coupla days. Keep warm out there.
Close your windows, and tape a couple sheets of newspaper over your oven vent. That'll help keep the cold air out.
(Currently -14°F in Ottawa - one learns all the tricks in order to stay warm.)
I have visited up north a few times during winter and even contemplated moving, but I would not do well in that kind of weather having to get up and go to work in the morning, It's 30F here in Dallas and supposed to get to 16F which is like 40 below for Texans, LOL.
It's funny, I have a fireplace in my apt, but never use it. last year we had a cold spell in the teens and my power went out. I really appreciated that fireplace then, LOL.
You guys stay warm and safe!
I'm looking at a second "cold day" at my daughter's school, and wind chills in the -20's. I'm expecting Friday to be the same. Fortunately she's a teenager, so the worst I have to deal with is another day of Anime on the television. (My tastes in Anime are different than hers.)
My cousins in Minnesota are laughing at me, I'm sure. :) Heck, I'm pretty sure *I* went to school in temperatures like this. I just remember Snow Days being few and far between. Not because we didn't get snow (This is Chicago. We get snow.) But because we were expected to be used to it. Then we went and had a bunch of mild, temperature wise, winters for a couple decades, and now everyone's hiding away from the cold.
You all will have to forgive me, but I think north-central Wisconsin has you east-coasters beat (at the moment ;-) )
...Stevens Point or Wausau?
Between Wausau and Chippewa Falls, but a bit closer to Wausau. Six or seven miles west of Abbotsford, if you know where that is.
...yup, used to live in Stevens Point.
A balmy -4 here in Northern Indiana, with about 3 inches of mostly lake-effect snow (I'm at the extreme South-East end of the lake Michigan lake effect). OTOH, the roads were a mess today; the sand/salt mix they use around here now doesn't do much when the temperature is under 20 degrees. I miss the good old days, when the street departments spread clinkers and ash from the local coal-fired power plant. That stuff gave traction no matter what the temperature was. Hard to clean up, though.
A picture tells...
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For college?
...yes at the start, then just stayed there.
Grew up in Milwaukee but liked the more easy lifestyle of a smaller town.
Now in Portland OR which is kind of ionic as it has become the nation's new "Beer Capitol" with all the craft breweries. I swear, brewpubs almost outnumber Starbucks' here.
Checked out Point on Google Earth and there have been a lot of changes since i lived there New expansions on the campus (particularly the Student Union and Fine Arts Centre) as well as downtown looks to be totally different, no more Woolwoth's, Bob's Food King, or my two favoruite hangouts on the "Square", the Upper Wisconsin River Yacht Club and Big Moon Saloon (formerly the Gym Mill). The first rooming house I stayed in as a student has since been raised to expand the parking lot for St Micheal's hospital, however, the Christina Kuhl house (locally dubbed "The Castle") where I lived for the last several years before moving to Seattle in 1980, is still standing (pic below)
Glad that Point Brewing is still independent though. Would love to come back for a visit sometime (in summer though) Unfortunately as I understand, Point is now kind of tough to get to as Running Dog (Greyhound) no longer goes there from Milwaukee or Minneapolis.
During this kind of cold, you might consider putting out boxes with blankets to help the animals get out of the wind, which can significantly increase the chances of the animals getting sick. Mine actually has a heating pad for my feral cat. I put blankets over my two tropical plants, pushing the huge pots apart so there's an opening in-between them, then when the plants are covered, that area becomes a hidden nook. Feral cats like that because it's not obvious. I leave a slight V opening and they scoot inside. :) I've also put a box in between there, which works too, but cats are more skittish about that.
18-20 degrees here in Pensacola, real feel SIX. Sympathies to those of you north of here!
On my small open porch I've got a large enclosed cat litterbox converted with a soft cat-bed inside, with door propped up to act as a snow porch, and a 10 inch long, 14 watt, closet heater attached inside to the box's ceiling to take the chill off the interior. Everybody admires it but the cat never uses it! :-(
Still haven't seen the cat. This is the 3rd day he hasn't come to my door. Haven't seen him since Tuesday afternoon. Snow is now about 6 inches, temperature a steady 10F. Six more inches expected by tomorrow night (Friday).
We have a chicken coop for the chickens and a small pole barn that has space for our beefers on one side, and ducks and geese on the other. Plus we have two ducks in a brooder/pen in the garage that were hatched extremely late in the season.
The dogs and cats are all house pets.
We don't have many feral cats, as we have large open spaces between ourselves and our neighbors, so there isn't a lot of ground cover for protection as they make the circuit from farm to farm. If the eagles, hawks, and Northern Harriers don't get them, these guys will:
Stevens Point is changing demographically as well. Don't worry though, you can still find plenty of "skis." ;-)
...when I was living there, Cardinal Wojtyła celebrated a Mass at the fieldhouse of a local high school (none of the churches there were large enough) and spoke at the University only two years before he was elected Pope John Paul II.
The Polish community in Portage County is one of the largest in the nation with a rich heritage, and had a major influence on the city when I was there. There were ethnic murals on the walls of several buildings and even the local bus system was named "Autobus Miejski".
I never lived there. Marshfiled was more my stomping grounds. Lots of Germans there.
...more irony, a former company I worked for here in Portland had as their primary client, a publisher of medical literature. One of the major customers we did imprinting and order shipping for was Marshfield Clinic.