A tad chilly

A little ice in the mix and we're helpless:

more like white water rafting ! lol

Here's a typical trip to the grocery store in the U.P.  I like the slides and their reactions at about 2:35 and 2:50.

But snowmobile is the fastest way to get to the store.  120+ mph on the straights.

Good gracious.

Reminds me of crazy stories my dad told about growing up in Michigan.

This blog started December 9, 2010, it's now January 18, 2012. It's over ONE year old.

All you people that live in east coast where it always snows and the temperatures are close to zero, should be used to it. You probably drink hot chocolate after you build snowmen.

I have never built a snowman in my life.

I live 60 north of San Francisco and the temperature this morning at 7 a.m. in my home was 25 degrees. Normal should be around 45 at that time.

Thank god the weather man said it's going to rain for six days. Maybe it will warm up some, But if it stays cold and it rains, I might be able to build a snowman.

Whatever happen to the song it never rains in California?  Where are the Beach Boys?

                              DENVER

what a grumpy snowman.

Any one would be grumpy without have arms or legs. 

I never built a snow man. How can I put the arms and legs?

Better check your math on that one.

I've got an uncle who lives sort of in your region-- he's in Eureka, but I've never been to his house.  I'll have to ask him if he also considers Michigan to be the east coast.

I checked and thanks for your keen math skills. I guess at my age I am loosing some.

Those Seattle drivers aren't so bad.  I was going through D.C. last year when they got a little dusting of snow.

I guess everybody in D.C. really is worthless.

Well, now we officially have a state of emergency declared. They say about 220,000 people have power out near Seattle.

It's 22 degrees right now.

Here in Southern California We are suffering through another miserable winter. At 6pm it's down to 67 degrees. We might be forced to put on Our "hoodie, footies." :D

Even here in the summer (W.Australia)  9,000 homes were without power last night due to heavy rains and lightings.

High wind and rain are usually what causes our power outages, too. (Though not lightning. It's very rare here. I ordinarily hear thunder maybe one or two times a year.) We have such big trees here. Anything that knocks them down causes problems.

Big trees are hard to knock down.

Washington has awesome trees.  For real.  I'm using the word awesome in it's strict use rather than the parlance of our times.

-hic-

When I go hiking here, I always feel certain that I'm about to see a dragonfly with a meter wingspan or a giant centipede. The forests seem so primordial.

That's like awesome dude.

Any forest that lacks in undergrowth gives me that primordial feeling.  Unless you can see rows of man-handled trees.