Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts

Sunday, December 21, 2008

DEC, 2008

Hi everyone. I know that it has been a very long time since I have added anything to this, so here goes.

It is Sunday afternoon and church was cancelled for the second week in a row. Because of weather. It was cancelled last week because of a lot of ice and cold weather that made travel for most people very tough.

I did work all week though, because by Monday morning, the roads were pretty good. Thursday night, Stephen was due to fly in, so I stayed at work so I could pick him up at the airport. It had started snowing on Wednesday, so by Thursday, there was at least six inches of snow on the ground at work, but luckily, most of my runs were on pretty much flat ground. What made it really weird was that in the yard, there was six inches of snow on the ground and three miles south, there wasn't any. The roads were pretty much bare and wet.

Anyway, Stephen was due to fly in about 11:30 pm, so I just stayed at work. About 8 or so, Stephen called and said that his flight from OKC was delayed and he was booked on another flight from DEN to SEA that was supposed to arrive about 12:30 am. Ok, just another hour to wait. Then he called from DEN and said that the plane was late arriving and he missed his connection to SEA. They rebooked him on a flight the next morning, due to arrive about 10:30 am on Friday. So I went home. And then went back in the morning, but he did make it to Seattle before the major storm hit again Sat. night.

On Thursday, while I was working, Kevin decided to have a little fun.






Actually, what he was trying to do was to run down the driveway with a wakeboard as a snowboard. He said it wasn't too bad. but there was really no place to put his feet.



What you see above is a measuring stick stuck in the snow on our back deck. This was taken Sunday morning. As you should be able to see, we have nine inches of snow on the back deck.

These are a couple of planters that we have on the back deck and you can see that there is quite a bit of snow piled on them.


Here is another picture taken from the back door towards our camper. There was so much snow that the cover was sagging down quite a bit. I did go out there and knock most of the snow off, because we started getting more snow and I didn't want the cover to collapse.


And this final picture was taken out the front window down the street in front of our place. If you look real close, you should be able to see the little stub on an antennae sticking up out of the snow on the back of the car in the bottom right of the picture.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Snow in April

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, take a look at this picture and make up your own words for it.


This picture was taken from our back patio door about 6:45am this morning (Sat., April 19, 2008) There is about 3 to 4 inches of snow on the railing. The temperature is just under freezing. It is supposed to warm up a little bit today, but there is more snow in the forecast. All together now...........let's sing "Winter Wonderland".

Now, compare this picture with the ones a little lower down, that were taken last Saturday, when the temperatures around here were in the high 70's, and I went fishing with my friend Mike. What is the biggest difference between these pictures? I will give you three guesses, and the first two don't count.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Ok, I would like to address this to Al Gore and all his "Global Warming" henchmen. Here it is, the 18th of April, 2008, midway through the month of April, about one month after the official start of Spring, and we are getting snow in Seattle. Well, actually, Bothell.




It is being prognosticated that there could be up to an inch of snow around here by tomorrow morning, and there is supposed to be one to two feet of new snow up on the mountain passes. Now...........is this Global Warming? or is this being caused by Global Warming? I want to know, so I can start preparing for.....................something.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Need I say more?

Well, here it is, the end of March. I took this picture on the 28th of March, shortly after coming home from work.


Snow? In Seattle? At the end of March? Whatever happened to "Global Warming"? Just because Al Gore says it is so, doesn't make it so.