Be careful, it’s devastating what strong winds can do!!! WHAT A LOSS!!
Thanks to K for the photo of their back porch.
Archive for Weather
Snow?
Jenn: “Hey Evren, come over here and look! Look outside! Look at Ms. Ollie’s house across the street - what do you see on her roof there?! Look at her roof! What is that?!”
Evren: (looking) “Paint?”
Jenn: (??) “Um, no. What color is it?”
Evren: “White.”
Jenn: “Right! So what do you think it is?”
Evren: “White paint?”
Jenn: “No…. look at all the roofs, it’s on every roof!”
Evren: (done with this game) “What is it?”
Jenn: “It’s Snow!”
Evren: “It’s not snowing! It’s raining!”
Jenn: “Alright, yes, I know it looks like it’s raining, but I promise you it’s snow.”
Evren: (not convinced he just walks away)
Last Warm Day
It’s getting cold now so the kids took advantage of what might be the last warm day of the year to mess around in the backyard yesterday afternoon. Then I made them pack up everything and store it in the garage for next year. (Not without grumbling.) The photo here was not staged (well, ok, I placed the stuffed snake so that you could tell what it was instead of wrapped 3 times around his torso) … pink fuzzy hats and bizarre, not found in nature, stuffed animals regularly complement our attire around here. This, for example, would be an entirely acceptable outfit for, say, an outing to Target.
If You Think Your Commute Is Bad…
Last night my brother Dave (Unkle Dave around here) had THE WORST COMMUTE EVER on his way home from work. He left work at 5:10pm and arrived home at 2:10am. NINE HOURS. His average commute during rush hour is one hour and without traffic it takes him 30 minutes. He didn’t go into work today, needless to say. Here are some excerpts from his e-mails about the ordeal…
“…People were slipping, sliding and getting stuck like crazy on the freeway last night. It was kind of like scenes from an apocalyptic movie or something - people abandoning their cars, both on the side of the road and right in the middle of the freeway, walking who knows where because there’s nothing along the sides of that stretch of freeway - tow trucks everywhere (didn’t see many troopers, just a couple) - everyone else having to drive around the abandoned cars. It is completely ridiculous that the freeway backups were that bad - yeah there was snow, and eventually ice, and accidents, but 9 hours to go 21 miles? Actually, more like 8.5 hours to go all of 5 miles. There were other backups around the area that were almost as bad. Shouldn’t there be better plans in place for times like this? After about Hour 5 I kind of zoned out, went on autopilot. Tara stayed up, we called each other several times. When I got home, Tara met me halfway up the hill with a peanut butter sandwich, since I hadn’t had anything to eat. Before I left work I grabbed a couple little packages of snack cookies and a bottle of water - and also filled up my gas tank since it was just below a quarter tank - I’m glad [I did]. …”
Obviously he lives in an area that isn’t used to this kind of weather, but COME ON.
We’re glad you’re safe Unkle Dave.
