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1 hour ago, canderson said:

I hope you all like wind - it’s gonna blow hard all day. 

1 hour ago, maytownpawx said:

I saw the high wind warning this morning and immediately thought of you.

The wind hasn't stopped blowing in like 5 months, or so it seems. 

I'm at the point i need sun. All this dampness, my arthritis is killing me. And my yard is so saturated when the dog runs he just rips the grass up. Its fricking pouring in Harrisburg 

Its like shoveling concrete. I need a beer after the shoveling, not to early for a beer is it? Asking for a friend

18 hours ago, maytownpawx said:

Surprised you don't remember it...it was a cold powder bomb. I want to say temps were in the mid 20s during the event...admittedly, it was a few years ago and the memory vault isn't quite as sharp as it used to be.  We had significant drifting with the event, too. 

Yeah, i don't remember. I even ask my brother as we both played on several softball teams back then and he didn't recall it either. He was pretty nutty and would have been pissed missing games. 

Thats fantastic, thank you. Though i was 19, i don't really remember April 1982, but i bet people were pissed off with almost 10" snow in a couple days

I can remember a few times over the years we had snow in April, but i can't remember specifics. Other then maybe a squall. 

1 hour ago, pasnownut said:

@sauss its an Allieum

 

10-4

46 minutes ago, maytownpawx said:

I was a freshman in high school who lived JUST outside of the 15 mile radius evacuation zone. Being extremely naive at the time, i was stoked because we were dismissed from school pretty much as soon as the buses could get their to pick us up. I didn't understand the significance until dinner that night when my parents were talking in hushed tone about possibly leaving the area. (we never did but we knew quite a few that did)

We packed up and left. Half my family went to my uncles in Tennessee and the other half went to my grandparents in SC. You remember nobody, especially the media didn't really have a grasp on what was going on. I remember watching the news at my uncles place and they made it sound like it was total devastation. I was young too, a soph. and totally didn't get it. My dad was the toughest guy i ever knew and i still recall watching the tears run down his face and said we'll never go home. I only ever saw tears in his eyes 2 times, that was one of them. It was scary times.

Anyone remember this? 

1 hour ago, pasnownut said:

lol.  Duely noted.  

I think we lost 1 kind of flower last spring, but I do NOT have the green thumb, so dont ask what they were.  BIG tall and single 3" roundish flower.  They shot up....n went poof.  Look like they belong in Dr. Suess flick.

LOL

 

sounds like a red hot poker

https://www.highcountrygardens.com/perennial-plants/kniphofia/kniphofia-uvaria-hybrid-mix?adpos=1o9&scid=scplp3840&sc_intid=3840&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIi_KLkpON2gIVmYuzCh1NoQH4EAYYCSABEgKjMvD_BwE

3 hours ago, pasnownut said:

I'd be more concerned w/ fruit tree buds.  Down here weve seen the damage of late season cold.  Fruit trees - Peach/cherry trees were devastated a couple years back.

Remember, snow is an insulator and helps ground plants/shrubs.  

Blizz that is some crazy stuff were it to verify.  Just peeked at overnights, and yeah, while progressive in nature, there is plenty of cold close enough for a well timed event to break for some late season love from above, and a few decent chances are showing. 

 

i have found when we gradually go into spring, my Lilacs do better. When we have that brief warm up they started to wake up. don't mess with my lilacs  

2 hours ago, djr5001 said:

I have only lost two trees and surprisingly not many branches but these last few months have had the most trees go down around me that I have seen since moving here.  Had a willow tree go down the end of October and had a tree fall in January at the top of my property but that one was with winds coming straight down the ridge and my neighbor up behind me has almost all of the trees cleared for some reason on his property.  It has seemed much windier than normal recently and most of these wind events have not been from severe thunderstorms but deep low pressure systems passing nearby.

I agree, it seems like mother nature turned her fans on and never turned them off. I have more clean up of branches and especially freaking pine cones then i can ever remember. 

Glad you didn't lose more.  

My only fear of snow this late, is what it does to the plants and shrubs. I would think right now we should have a pretty spectacular spring as wet as everything is. 

DJR- how are you making out up there on the ridge with this wind, do you have a bunch of limbs and branches to clean up? It seems much windier then normal

you shut your whore mouth -- the ice storm the northern MD areas got in Feb 2014 was terrible. No power for a day, couldn't leave the house until later in the day due to trees down, a one-year old at home. F-that. 

there is not 1 person i know who has ever experienced power loss for 24 hours or longer that makes a wish for a crippiling ice storm, NOBODY!

I would love to see a crippling ice storm. Unscheduled vacation without electricity for all!

i hope you're kidding, its really not as fun as you think.