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I got whacked good. I was outside appreciating all the newly planted goodies and what is going in tomorrow when the wind started. The treetops started rustling and it was nice then boom leaning hard and the wind worked down to the ground in a few seconds. The patio chairs started lifting as I threw the grill cover on. I grabbed the chairs from the fence, stacked 'em and ran inside soaked. The first one was hard and short without being terribly wet, the second line is super heavy rain without the strong winds.

^ That would suck.

I don't. I'll try to pay more attention and let you know.

Without it we'd be mired in ankle deep goo.

No we don't. Water levels are high, soil moisture is high, soil temps are cool for the time of year and the flora needs a dry warm(ish) week to really fill in. Many creeks and small rivers are running high and a 3+ incher would flood a lot of vulnerable areas.

Alright I'm calling it after tonight, no more frosts or freezes and the 70 or so seedlings and plants ready to go clogging up my sunroom are going out to the garden tomorrow. The last seed potatoes are going in today though.

Anecdotally, from mt bikers, it's worse than recent years but I've yet to pick one up myself.

Yup that's what I'm thinking too. I forgot to cover one bed the other day and lost my string beans and Hungarian wax hot peppers I'm excited about my potatoes, I built a potato box and all 3 that I planted in there are happening so I built 2 more and will be filling them with soil today. We should end up with more potatoes than we can eat if all goes right. Heh, now I know right where you're at. Was that big storm Floyd in 1999? Most spots east of the river got over 10" and along the higher terrain was 13+. Fahnestock recorded 14.5 and a reliable station that used to be on Quaker Hill in Patterson/ Pawling showed just under 17.

Well almost... The last of the snowshowers moved through around 8pm last night so no 5/10 snowfall record set Hopefully this morning was the last freeze, I really want to get the tomatoes outside, the cold hardy stuff that's out there seems to have come through just fine. My wife's new flowers not so much

1/2" of frozen whitestuff this morning looked great as the sun came up. The deep blue sky against the greens and white was pretty cool to see. The snowball fight my daughter and I had a little while ago was too much fun.

Alright forky we need some flamethrower pics.

It's snowing pretty hard and sticking to cars, railings and even some on bushes and on the grass now.

I don't know is 34 degree white rain any better than 35 degree regular rain? I want to see the snow just to tie the record and I'm going to hope there's still enough moisture around as the whole thing pulls out Saturday night that it flakes after midnight and sets a new record as the temp drops and I "find" a trace on the grill top.

I think HM and Jerry were there too.

LALALALALA I don't see this lalalalala

^ ? It's got that raw mid March feeling out there today. It's kind of like deja vu... Is it over yet?

This wind is drying things out quickly. Yay. Please, no snow or cold this weekend.

At least now with everything leafing out it will draw the surface water down somewhat.

I would too, unfortunately pretty much everything I kept at my parents house for storage when I moved out was ruined or burned in a fire about 20 years ago. Now it's just a big table in the basement with stuff piled 2 feet deep on it

When I was a teenager I had a 5 x 18' table set up with a three layer deep HO train set that went through 2 mountain ranges and three towns. I could run two 5 or 6 car trains at the same time. There was also over 200 feet of slot car tracks that went up to five layers high at points wrapping through the towns and mountains. I used to run two cars and two trains at the same time with a controller in each hand, it was quite a trick to run for any length of time without a major collision. I wish my house now was big enough to do something like that.

Yay for me being the flakey one

No more frost damnit! You stop talking like that... Are you seeing t-storms? It's brightening up down here but still drizzling. 1.5" since yesterday morning. It's soggy.

Ahh but will Sunday be nice too? We're going to need it because it will take the nice day Saturday to dry things out so we can do outside stuff Sunday.

^^ Damn It's not very springy out there today, not even a little bit. Yuck. Again...

Yeah right, even on the nice days there's still a crispness that hints of winter. We've really only had 2 or 3 days where the air was warm and 'soft'.