gravitylover

A bird hit by a car in NY? I'm so surprised I know that I've seen some great birds along the barrier beaches and on Long Island golf courses over the years.

That's fantastic. I can't imagine it ever having been like that back when I was growing up down there.

That's really cool.

I had to make another quick round trip to the NEK yesterday and it sure was nice to see winter and drive while snow was falling during the day. The roads were pretty much dry but I'm glad I swapped to the winter wheels/tires on Thursday because with temps in the 20's my summer tires would have been like hockey pucks on the cold pavement. Looks like some snow potential around here in the fairly near future

Yeah just as I was about to get a fire going and pull out some lights, about 3 hours into the outage, the power came back on.

It sux when it's ~40* and the power goes out. The house cools down pretty quickly

I took it as a statement that the Arctic Ocean at Barrow isn't frozen yet. Looks like the sea ice is getting a slow start (again) this year.

Hovering between 35<>38. From the webcams I can find active this morning it looks like the wet/white line is around Wingdale/Dover Plains. I'd be curious to see what it's like over the higher terrain but there aren't any cams over about 700 feet that I can find.

Cold rain

Earlier I thought I saw 14 but it looks like it was 16. The local mesonet sites don't get as cold as some of the private stations but they're also much more wind exposed and out in the open on hillsides rather than in neighborhoods with denser tree cover where the wind falls off sooner and for longer.

yeah but we forget what you say a few minutes after you post

Huge flakes. Huge.

^^ Hobbyist not met but a very knowledgeable one and always respectful, well spoken and gracious. A true asset to the community.

Welcome to winter

Feet on the ground there girl, get with it Where you're at now you need to be more in touch with this stuff. I'm surprised you didn't realize that there isn't a very large propane tank somewhere outside the house that's accessible to the street. There should be a meter where the gas line comes into the house.

I hope Sunday morning is a bit warmer. I'm leading a group ride at Cranberry Mt and if it's too cold nobody will show up. Wussies

Boy is it gross out there now. Pea soup fog and dark. #bringbackthedrought

In most circumstances I'd agree with you and I would do all I could to slow down and reduce the impact but unless I could guarantee being able to maintain control (grassy median or similar) or at least have a fair chance at it I would still choose to hit it rather than point the car off the road. The elk I hit was at around midnight 30 miles from the nearest town and it was 15* and snowing. Thankfully it slipped and fell so I didn't take it out full on and I was in a nearly 6,000 pound Landcruiser wagon so I pretty much went over it but did get a piece of antler through the radiator and made a general mess but I survived to be able to tell a great story rather than some other folks I know that chose to try and miss them and lost to immovable objects or launched off and rolled.

Places like that taught me to never make a radical maneuver to avoid a critter in the road. I've watched cars fly off the road to miss things that they would have plowed right through and been able to continue on their way instead of having a wrecked car and being stuck out in the middle of nowhere freezing their patooties off waiting for help. A couple of times I've given people rides into the next town because I wasn't going to sit and burn a tank of gas waiting for a tow in the morning. I've creamed deer and once an elk rather than risking my safety to miss it. Thankfully none of the things I've hit disabled my vehicle but I'd rather be disabled on the road than upside down in a ditch or possibly worse, at least if you're on the road you have a chance at maintaining control but once you're off the road it's out of your hands entirely.

No please ^ I need Wednesday to be nice or at least not wet. Kinda dingy day out there today. Blah.

I had one

That's why my world is so fkd up... Math and I have never played well together

Mowed in shorts and got most of the leaves cleaned up in the front yard now on the the back Not looking forward to that at all so hopefully it's the last one for the year. Looks like a line of showers for this afternoon, what do you think the chances are it reaches as far south as the Westchester line? I'm trying to decide where to go ride.

...and back to humid and stuffy outside in November This climate change transition thing sux. Lets just get it over with and go warm until we get a devastating volcanic eruption somewhere to change it back to the old normal.

You need to get a fat bike and some good active outdoor winter clothing. There's nothing like getting out in the woods during the winter when everything is in a state of hibernation and the snow is just right. You don't even notice the cold if you're dressed right. There are some great places around the metro area for winter riding and just over the line in PA there are groomed trail networks where fat bikes are allowed and you can go for miles and miles in the quiet solitude of winter. There's no such thing as being cooped up, it's what you make of it