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Damn! I’ve seen better looking ground photos from the Mars rover. Maybe see if you can rent a couple of elephants and feed each of them10 lbs of ExLax
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Go with the flow and rock and roll with a weed yard. Stays green 9 or 10 months of the year. Drought resistant to the max. And best of all it is free. This is my side yard. I’ve lived here 21 years and have never seeded or fertilized. I do mulch mow. My yard is very interesting. The spring starts with some onion that smells great when I mow. This is followed by some patches of little yellow flowers from wild strawberries. For some reason I don’t seem to have dandelions but as summer gets rolling in June I do have several sections of buttercups. There are some purple wild violets. They and the buttercups bloom on and off until fall when my yard season ends as it began with the smell of wild onions with the last cut or two. It certainly won’t win a prize but it works for me. Oh, almost forgot. Over the course of the 21 years I have had as many as six and as few as four dogs so to say it was never fertilized is a bit of a lie.
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Which even now we have not learned not to do.
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Believe in magic you muggle.
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That’s what she said.
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Lol. I agree. Since we seem to be in a lull right now I can add a few more details that will clearly show the rate of snowfall. The photos I took all have a time stamp in the EXIF of the original. So here are three shots that I took during the fun part of the storm with the time taken. Basically they are 2 hours apart. 9:21 PM. Feb 26, 2004 11:37 PM Feb 26, 2004 1:36 AM Feb 27, 2005
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It was quite the storm. One of the biggest snows I’ve been in as an adult. I didn’t rub it in though. Much.
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Yep. Less than 15 miles to the north the airport got a total of 6”. EDIT: As I remember it. Could be an inch or two either way.
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Feb. 27 eh. Interesting. It can happen. This was my backyard on Feb 27, 2004. I had accumulated around four inches during the day but this is the 20” I ended up with after more than three hours of unbelievably heavy thunder snow. It wasn’t just rumbling thunder in the distance. Some of the flashes lit the yard like daylight. I could stand a repeat.
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I am truly happy with this bust. Had quite a bit of ice on the trees this morning. There was light freezing rain occurring with a temperature of 31.1º on my weather station. My temperature has been very slowly rising all day and now reads 33.4º. That’s all it took. For the past two hours ice has been melting from the trees to the point where the earlier noticeably drooping of the branches has almost returned to normal. Pavement was never an issue as it remained only wet throughout. A good day but I still want snow, damnit.
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While we wait this was 2002 at my house.
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I can handle a few days without power with no problem. What I hate about ice is tree damage. I have a lot of trees. After the 2002 ice storm it took me a week to clean up and I was a lot younger then. Even now I can still see the scars left from that event on many of my large trees. I was lucky that it was just branches and limbs. The trees are a lot older now, the ground is saturated and there is supposed to 20 mph wind with this event. I admit to being concerned about what is about to happen.
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Sounds complicated. I use a much simpler old fashioned method. Lucky for me my wife is a bit too old to get pregnant. Bring on the storm.
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I would be very careful with that. I’m lucky to have ventless gas logs hooked to a just filled 500 gallon propane tank. It gives off more than enough heat to keep much of the house comfortable and the rest livable.
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Another negative aspect this time is with the record cold and storms over much of the country the usual caravans of power trucks coming into the affected area to help restore power will probably not be available. If a large part of the grid does go down it could be a long time before power is fully restored.
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Enjoy. Black and Gold is for?
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Just picking at you a bit. If you want to change your name we can get it done but it really doesn’t matter.
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Feel free to jump in and participate. No one will “jump on you” although I have to say that your display name is the weakest display name I have ever seen displayed.
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Be careful what you wish for. The coldest freezing rain event I have ever been in was 19º at its peak.
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Then there are those of us who just have to walk a few feet to escape winter’s wrath. Since the county line runs right through my house I have a Winter Storm Watch in my garage, dining room and den but the rest of the house is in the non-event zone. I guess I should be thankful that I will only have to worry about the trees on the northern part of my property.
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Raleigh NWS is getting a bit sloppy. December 2020 Central NC Climate Summary By Phillip Badgett and James Danco Number of days with high temperatures at or below 32 °F this month: Greensboro: 19 Raleigh: 18 Fayetteville: 15 Um...no. Maybe that should read low temperatures at or below. I’m not even sure that would be right. It also included this ob. Greensboro tied a daily record snowfall of a trace on December 7. This tied the previous record of a trace of snowfall set in 1995. Now that is just plain sad. Been keeping records for over 100 years and your record snowfall on a December day is a trace. I want to cry.
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Lightning is popping and thunder is roaring. Pretty active for Feb.
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If you wear an insulated wetsuit, some good gloves and shorten the rope to about 20 feet you should barely be able to see the boat and have a good time.
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Indeed.
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Actually I am perfectly happy with today. I awoke to trees with a shiny glaze of ice that reminded me it was still winter. By noon most of it had melted. But just a few miles north trees came crashing down, accidents were numerous and power is out possibly for several days. No, considering all that I am perfectly fine with how today turned out.
