Hey, Canucks, are you okay up there??
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Hey, Canucks, are you okay up there??
All the headlines are full of tales of woe concerning your overwhelming snowosity. Gillian, how's Trana lookin'? Can you get out?? Go enough to eat?
Funny. That's all Canadian news stations have been saying about the States.All the headlines are full of tales of woe concerning your overwhelming snowosity.
Actually, depending where you are it can be spectacularly crappy or not bad at all. We got about six inches so, in the scheme of things ... we fared better than many.
Were there storms in Canada too? I've been so focused on my neck of the woods...We had crazy rain yesterday. Some of the rivers in my state rose 25 feet in under two days. I can't recall where I heard it, but I heard that we got something like 15 inches of rain in one day yesterday...People were kayaking around town(Seattle) and at least 5 people have died so far. It's pretty nuts...I've never seen rain like it was yesterday and I've lived in this town my whole life. It was unbelievable, it looked like snow it was so white from pouring so hard. And it's still raining hard off and on today and into tomorrow as well. No fun...
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Poor little chickens!
We're getting the tail end of Gillian's snow here today. At present, about 2" of fluffy snow, but--as always for us in these circumstances--the temperature is hovering around freezing, meaning that as the day progresses and the temperature drops we are likely to have ice, DAMMIT!!
Foodie, sounds like the weather the British Midlands got this year . . .
We're getting the tail end of Gillian's snow here today. At present, about 2" of fluffy snow, but--as always for us in these circumstances--the temperature is hovering around freezing, meaning that as the day progresses and the temperature drops we are likely to have ice, DAMMIT!!
Foodie, sounds like the weather the British Midlands got this year . . .
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Awww, but they're such "wonderful" pictures...
http://www.nwcn.com/topstories/stories/ ... 10fc4a.jpg
here's one...
http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/weather/ ... rig.ap.jpg
http://i.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/n ... 4973f2.jpg
and a couple more...
The rains have ended, thank goodness, and things are going to dry out for about a week before we're supposed to get hit with some snow...hopefully they're wrong about that, though!
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http://www.nwcn.com/topstories/stories/ ... 10fc4a.jpg
here's one...
http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/weather/ ... rig.ap.jpg
http://i.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/n ... 4973f2.jpg
and a couple more...
The rains have ended, thank goodness, and things are going to dry out for about a week before we're supposed to get hit with some snow...hopefully they're wrong about that, though!
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Fortunately my neighborhood was largely untouched, except for the rain. Those pictures are mostly of the Centralia area, which is south of Seattle by quite a ways. There have already been stories of mudslides in some areas, and the neighborhood north of me, Northgate, had apartments that were flooded out and people kayaking in the standing waters...One of the schools in Seattle is closed until Monday because it was flooded out. There will probably be more mudslides as the waters recede and absorb into the already saturated ground. We do have many hills and cliffs in town, in the Shilshole and Magnolia neighborhoods, as well as along the Aurora Bridge/I-99. Hopefully it'll all clear out and the ground will dry by the time we theoretically get snow next week, or we'll be in real trouble!
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And we're getting Foodie's storm here in SoCal this weekend. Of course, we need the rain: we're in a 5-year drought. But with so many burned-out hillsides from the wildfires, we're hoping for steady rain, not downpours that'll cause mudslides to wipe out those homes that managed to survive the fires. Man, the weather's been hellish all over the country.