Mrs.J

New Year, new recipe. 
 

Simple Thai Fish Cakes with Sweet Chili Sauce and Sesame Cucumber Salad. 
 

Happy New Year All!

On 12/30/2021 at 7:56 PM, WxWatcher007 said:

My father passed away a few hours ago. Thank you all for your kind words and support the last few weeks.

 So sorry to hear this. I know I have been absent lately and just saw this. 

Sleet over here at my house. 

Anyone else seeing small gnat insects all over their screens?

On 12/15/2021 at 1:00 PM, Stormfly said:

Widespread gusts 80+ some close to 100mph in that area now according to Ventusky maps.  Not sure if that's legit but holy cow!  You can't drive tractors in those conditions at all!

 

Here is the one thing I don't understand. The Bay Bridge gets high wind warnings and can shut down. Roads out can be shut down for snow and hurricanes. When high winds are predicted why is there not a shut down for semi's on highways?

Sorry have not been around. I have fallen back into mom taxi mode with the Miss J’s school and after school schedule. Am planning on stopping in more as I do miss the banter. Hope everyone has been well. 

Hello

7 hours ago, Paleocene said:

I think we're in second summer now, not false fall. Apologies if repost. Went a solid 8-9 days with no AC, but cranked it back on yesterday. Not looking forward to a soupy week.

This is correct right here. Have had soups and chili planned. Said heck with it AC makes it feel cool enough to still make it. Because it is chili eating season. 

3 minutes ago, toolsheds said:

Carroll County has a 2 hour delay with re-evaluation. 

Yea have a friend in Carroll who posted that. Have heard Frederick, Carroll and Howard have on going flooding. 

0.18” yesterday

1.45” so far today

1.66” for the event

FCPS closed due to road closures. Was an easy one for them as it was already a 2 hr early dismissal for MidTerm. 

Soup season! 
 

Curried Chicken Soup 

18 hours ago, 87storms said:

Radar looks juicy along the 270 split. Meanwhile, quite nice in Frederick.

I was not home. Down near Aldie, VA clipping a pony. But got the alert for the Areal Flood Warning on my alerts for home. Checked my weather station and got 1.22". 

What I have been waiting for all year. Went up to bed just to be in the dark and watch the lightning and hear the thunder. Currently sitting under the edge of another training cell. 0.66” from the first round. 

3.07” from last night and after midnight. 

All our phones just went off 

10 minutes ago, 87storms said:

Might have been an inch+ from this band. Been pouring here for the last 15-30 mins.

Here is my station so far 

Pouring here. Sounds like hail also but cannot confirm. 

16 minutes ago, Weather Will said:

Lots of lightning, and wind has picked up.  Looks like the first line will miss me and go North of MD 340.  Was wrong, raining hard now in Brunswick.

Yea I was watching it. I am just south of 340 over in Ballenger Creek. 

Absolutely fantastic lighting going on right now to my West. 

It is fall, it has finally cooled down and the nasty humidity is at bay. 
 

Potato and onion soup! Super easy and oh so yummy. 

15 hours ago, wxtrix said:

since it's been in the 60s now (heavenly), I made some satay sauce from scratch. so tonight's dinner is chicken satay with riced cauliflower and broccoli roasted with sriracha.

Do you do your own cauliflower rice or buy it. I tried one time to make a cauliflower pizza crust and did not get all the liquid out. Did not end well. 

11 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

I do think that it is a bit of a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t situation for the administration.  We all generally had the same forecast.  If they had shut down school in Fairfax County and then we got less than an inch of rain and no wind during the day (which is what happened), parents would be pissed that they canceled school for a bit of rain.  

Yea but you can deal with those parents. This came down to safety. 10 kids and a bus driver had to be rescued from the roof of a bus up in Thurmont. Just a few years back a bad decision about a early dismissal ended in a bus going off the road in snow up in Thurmont. 

Frederick Co has so many different terrains. The area I live in is mostly rolling and flat farm land. With up and down windy roads. Then we have the mountain areas. Several roads have very low dips that are subject to flooding in a normal rain event. And this is known. 

I usually give the benefit of the doubt and understand that while my area in the SW part of the county may be absolutely fine. But that a decision is made based on the safety in a different part of the county. Have had times where there was no snow down here, but up near Emmitsburg snow on the ground will shut down the entire county. Yes I know you are not going to make 100% of the parents happy at any one time. But this situation they really dropped the ball. It had been raining in the Northern part of the county almost all day. And rain was streaming in from the SW back filling. And every single county around, with the exception of Washington which is a flatter county, had call out early. Even MoCo.

Well FCPS made a good call this morning. After starting with a 2 hr late start and a re-assess at 7am and due to ongoing flooding and power outages, school was closed today. 

I have a friend who is a teacher at my daughter's former ES who said that she was there till 6pm last night. Waiting on kids to be picked up when the busses were directed off the roads. She said counselors were swapping car seats to get some kids home. My Barr instructor this morning told me of a friend of hers who's daughter attends Frederick HS, downtown, that to get home she walked through hip high water outside the school. FCPS seems to think only busses were an issue when in fact walkers, car riders, new student drivers and busses were an issue. I have not yet but am planning on sending an email off. The Superintendent sent an "apology" email last night. It did not go far enough.