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I guess I'm in the banana belt compared to much of the US. Today, it's 25 deg and clear. It got down to 20 deg yesterday morning.
We don't get much snow here in the lowlands by the water. The white stuff generally stays in the mountains where it belongs.
Cold weather comes from the Eastern side of the state and typically carries little moisture, so it doesn't snow. Called on offshore flow, it also results in hot summer weather. The other frequent weather pattern is called an onshore flow. It's moist air coming in off the Pacific. Warmer, moist air means rain but no snow and moderate summer temperatures.
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01-21-2025, 10:57 AM
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Are you kidding or do you really have that many problems with pipes?
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I would guess that older homes down there were not built with the thought of freezing weather.
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Old house raised about 2 feet on piers. That's how they were built way back when. One day I'm gonna get the envie to replace all the pipes with pex when it's not snowing and below freezing-but generally that feeling passes when the weather gets nice enough to actually do the work. Kinda like fixing the roof. It inly leaks when it rains 
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01-21-2025, 11:52 AM
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01-21-2025, 12:08 PM
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Bless you and all the first responders for all that you do! I grew up in New York and clearly remember blizzards. My dad and I
would get up early and dig out his car to go to work. Then the snow plow came through and buried it again. That's when I learned new words..
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Most I've seen just outside Houston since we moved here in '74.
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01-21-2025, 05:54 PM
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Woke up this morning to about 3inches on the ground with more falling. Also have 'drifts' of 6inches . Like a ghost town outside, quiet and nobody heading out to work. Should be ice under the snow because I heard sleet and rain last night when I went to bed. |
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01-21-2025, 05:56 PM
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01-21-2025, 06:55 PM
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Time to consider staying home. I rarely need to leave the house if it is actually that bad out. I also hate chains for driving. Our Super C platform has 2 axles (it is a tandem) worth of switch controlled chains.
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There is a picture of him on FB. It looks like he could be standing near the Kremlin.
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01-21-2025, 10:20 PM
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Not the most I've ever seen but close. I'm guessing we got between three and five inches. I'm not sure because I didn't go outside and won't until it's gone, probably tomorrow. I normally feed the deer but got Jr. to do it today. I don't own any cold weather clothes or boots and at 77 years old I probably won't buy any, unless I run into something cheap at a thrift store. Then I gotta figure out where I'm going to keep it. Most of the places south of here, including my brother Louisiana Joe and Cajun Lawyer got more than we did.
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01-21-2025, 11:05 PM
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I lived in NYC for a dozen years in the 70s and 80s. I recall one big snow storm, pretty much shut the city down, and looking out my third floor apartment window at Broadway and 112th, no traffic, and seeing a guy cross-country skiing down Broadway, an unusual sight, to be sure.
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