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Post by beeyotch on Mar 8, 2023 4:18:31 GMT
It's hot here for me and Shelley. I just hide inside my house unless I'm picking up my kid or groceries. I hate that it was like this for most of "winter" here. I'm slowly getting better at not letting that ruin my mood but yeah, I want a break from the heat, it just feels constant.
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Post by no1novice on Mar 9, 2023 1:48:38 GMT
We have snow.
Not much & it could be gone in the morning, but snow nonetheless.
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Post by shellee on Mar 9, 2023 1:58:43 GMT
^^I'm jealous!!
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Post by no1novice on Mar 9, 2023 3:53:19 GMT
Bless you!
It was very picturesque earlier/yesterday
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Post by kittylady on Mar 9, 2023 4:15:10 GMT
We have snow. Not much & it could be gone in the morning, but snow nonetheless. We had about half an hour of teensy little talcum powder flakes but it didn't stick. It's supposed to be having another go later on today. |
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Post by palta on Mar 10, 2023 20:14:56 GMT
they are forecasting another week of high temperatures. it's march already, i can't take this anymore.
greta do something!
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Post by kittylady on Mar 11, 2023 0:45:45 GMT
they are forecasting another week of high temperatures. it's march already, i can't take this anymore. greta do something! We're getting the opposite - snow and wind warnings with a risk of flooding when it all starts to melt. So far we've dodged the worst of it. There was a couple of inches this morning from overnight snowfall but it was gone by mid afternoon. It's bloody freezing cold though. |
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Post by tulip on Mar 12, 2023 15:25:03 GMT
We've had snow on and off since Thursday evening. It's more consecutive days of snow than we've had all winter. The robins are back and I'm sure mad as hell. No pulling worms out of snowy ground.
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Post by no1novice on Mar 14, 2023 19:18:37 GMT
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Post by MsDark on Mar 31, 2023 22:48:56 GMT
Last friday we had severe weather, tornado warnings from the time I left work til early into Saturday. Exactly one week later, we're going through the same shit. Our local home health branch office closed at 3. Our boss sent us home early. Luckily I was already packed up because I'd been mobile all day (all over the hospital today seeing patients) and thus already had all my stuff in a bag with me. I'm home now but it's kind of scary. Tornado has already hit AR on the other side of the river. The hospital is on disater standby. Last week the tornadoes went craycray on a small town about 2-2.5 hrs south of me called Rolling Fork, MS. Lives lost. Property lost. If you watch the national news you might have seen where President Biden approved disaster funding and is visiting the area. A lady who work for one of our offices lost two family members. Basically, a semi truck was picked up by a tornado and thrown onto the house of the two people killed.  When I got home and let Elvira out the weather was already weirdly muggy and warm but with cool winds picking up. It seems like this shit has gotten worse in the last few years. Warmer winters and weather getting warmer earlier than average, then a cold front comes through and blows up against the heat and BAM. Tornadoes.  Fuck everything about this. |
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Post by tulip on Apr 1, 2023 13:44:11 GMT
Ms. Dark -- everything OK?
A week ago we had snow and this week tornado watches. It is so bizarre. My sister owns a vacation home in northern Wisconsin. Her family went to it for spring break. Cabin was snowed in with about 4 feet of snow. Never has happened in March before.
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Post by daphodil on Apr 1, 2023 16:15:40 GMT
I was in Moline, IL yesterday and it was almost 70 degrees. Came back to Milwaukee and it was high 40s and dropped to almost freezing last night. Heading to Chicago today and am unsure that any of my clothes will be suitably warm.
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Post by MsDark on Apr 1, 2023 16:37:25 GMT
We are fine. But it was a long night. My nerves were shot by the end of it. I am impressed with today's ability to track the paths of these things, which did not exist when I was a kid or even a younger adult. Jr and I were watching the live news and sky intermittently, with a twin mattress from the spare room propped up in the hallway by the bathroom (the innermost room in our house without windows). We were in the projected path of two tornadoes at separate times in the evening, the first being the scariest. At the projected time we were sitting in the tub under the angled mattress, with Elvira.
The first tornado (so I was hearing, have not investigated further yet) was like an F4-5? and about a mile or more wide, but it went south of where we were. It caused the most damage that I know about right now in a town called Wynne, AR which is about an hour and 20 min west (and a tad north) of us on the other side of the river. Kind of a similar situation there as was last week in Rolling Fork, MS. But so far less people dead.
I told Dark Jr that if we started hearing something that sounded like a freight train that was a sign. One that is usually followed by hearing debris smashing around...or worse, caving in on top of you, hence the mattress for protection.
I've heard that sound before in my life, when I was younger and living at home where we had a close call, but luckily in that instance the tornado in question "jumped" back up into the sky just enough to not destroy the house I was in (or any others in the neightborhood) and mostly blew shingles off roofs, blew less secure fences down and threw shit around in the yards.
So anyway, we were lucky. Others were not. The second tornado lost some strength after it crossed the river (when I say "the river" I mean the MS river) and it missed us too. But went very far distance overall: AR, through MS and into TN.
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Post by tulip on Apr 1, 2023 17:29:51 GMT
Glad you are OK. I've been through tornado warnings, but never anything close enough to do much damage (knock on wood).
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Post by MsDark on Apr 2, 2023 19:23:27 GMT
We are 5 hours north of the coast (New Orleans, Biloxi) and yet there are tropical storms and hurricanes that are so strong when they make landfall that they will still end up being significant and strong storms for us when they if they push north into our area. Sometimes these can end up causing tornados. But usually its a cool air blowing in over warm moist air, which is what we have a lot of here.
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Fuck everything about this.