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I think we got a bit over a foot overnight, but it's not over yet. My poor lilac bushes are laying on the ground. All of their leaves hadn't fallen off yet, so the snow was able to totally weigh them down.
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Yup, still snowing here, too, but I am west of the major dump zone, so here all we are getting is lake effect. Supposed to last most of the day. It's melting, so it's hard to say how much has actually fallen, but there's a good four inches or so still on the ground.
Same here for leaves still on the trees, too. Something must have broken as the power went off at 01:56. I woke up an hour late with no alarm.
I don't know if this is a record for early snow, but it's still rare enough to be disconcerting when it happens. I wouldn't normally expect to see this stuff for another 1.5 - 2 months yet.
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Same here for leaves still on the trees, too. Something must have broken as the power went off at 01:56. I woke up an hour late with no alarm.
I don't know if this is a record for early snow, but it's still rare enough to be disconcerting when it happens. I wouldn't normally expect to see this stuff for another 1.5 - 2 months yet.
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We lost ours last night at about 10:30, and it came back on this morning about about 5:30. I'm not sure how widespread it was, or what caused it. But I do know that Mr Izz still has school this morning, and all of the public schools are only on delay. Yes, I'm surprised over that one.djm wrote: Same here for leaves still on the trees, too. Something must have broken as the power went off at 01:56. I woke up an hour late with no alarm.
I grew up here, for the most part, and I don't remember ever getting this much snow in October. i wouldn't be surprised if we did hit a record with the amount at the very least. My non-scientific measuring came out at about 14 inchesI don't know if this is a record for early snow, but it's still rare enough to be disconcerting when it happens. I wouldn't normally expect to see this stuff for another 1.5 - 2 months yet.
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Re: It's snowing...
izzarina wrote:in October!! SNOW! We're supposed to get around a foot of it through tonight. Even in the North Country that's a big deal, at least this early in the season. Snow, wind, cold...have I mentioned how much I hate winter?
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hahahacowtime wrote:You get no sympathy from me- I drive around in the weather with the window open all day:D , and yes, today it was snowing here too! The snow on the green/red/orange leaves of the trees really looked strange. One tree looked like a giant cotton plant ready for pickin'.djm wrote:It's been slushing (mix of rain and snow falling) here for a few hours. Naturally I was stuck in the line-up at the takeaway window, with my window wide open.
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sounds like neither of you were in a cemetery, in a kilt, waiting for rookie conscripts to fold, realize it's wrong, unfold, then RE fold a flag; THEN do taps +presentation speech, THEN wait while a non-anglophone priest gets lost twice in the readings.
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yeah it was weird, cowtime, what with the splendid colours of autumn & all.
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Re: It's snowing...
Laugh it up, Hamster boy. Your turn will be here soon enoughHampshireWhistler wrote:izzarina wrote:in October!! SNOW! We're supposed to get around a foot of it through tonight. Even in the North Country that's a big deal, at least this early in the season. Snow, wind, cold...have I mentioned how much I hate winter?
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I remember one particular service, middle of summer, blazing hot, not a lick of shade,Innocent Bystander wrote:I've been standing in a cemetery in February with a b******d of a minister giving a eulogy that lasted a clear forty minutes. If I could have moved without shivering I'd have thumped him.
the dec'd was a (insert denom here) missionary and the church felt comitted to go through a whole sunday-morning style service, complete with accompanied hymns, readings, offering, rememberances, sermon (culminating with a call for baptism & repentance), at the gravesite, mind you: casket on the vault top, etc,
had they informed the cemetery, vault company, funeral home, and staff, it wouldve been another story, but this was all breaking news to those involved.
grrrr. all good stuff for my book.
It just happened, less than half an hour ago. After a couple of days of rain and overcast sky, some brightness appeared near the horizon, headed toward me. However, there appeared to be yet one more dark band of cloud, too, and just before the brightness arrived, a brief snow flurry broke loose. It lasted for all of half a minute, and never did whiten the ground, but there it was, the first official flurry of the season. Yay!
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CHasR wrote:hahahacowtime wrote:You get no sympathy from me- I drive around in the weather with the window open all day:D , and yes, today it was snowing here too! The snow on the green/red/orange leaves of the trees really looked strange. One tree looked like a giant cotton plant ready for pickin'.djm wrote:It's been slushing (mix of rain and snow falling) here for a few hours. Naturally I was stuck in the line-up at the takeaway window, with my window wide open.
djm
sounds like neither of you were in a cemetery, in a kilt, waiting for rookie conscripts to fold, realize it's wrong, unfold, then RE fold a flag; THEN do taps +presentation speech, THEN wait while a non-anglophone priest gets lost twice in the readings.
[/gloat] nnyaahhh.
yeah it was weird, cowtime, what with the splendid colours of autumn & all.
Well, I haven't been standing in that exact location, but I have been standing in lower 20 degree weather in a kilt on more than one occasion, waiting, and waiting and waiting... and I agree-NOT FUN.
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