8:00 pm 48 Degrees and still raining. Skokomish river still holding at flood stage but not quite over the roads . My white dog looks like she has been mud boggin, all the way up to her sholders she is solid mud, gotta give her a shower twice a day when I bring her in, she loves running in the mud, creates her own rooster tail of mud. my convertable is leaking when the cover blew off gotta get a garage built this summer. My truck needs the windsheild taken out and a new seal it leaks like a seive. Day 23 no sunshine just rain. Need to take the quad out for some muddin. We do not get snow so mud is the next best thing to go play in. Hope you guys down south get some rain soon.
Hard rain, forty five mile an hour winds. We are warm and dry and enjoying the sounds of the storm. This is the desert, we don�t get many storms like this.
round here it's been to warm, I love to ice fish but don't feel safe most of the Ice has either melted off or blown off.
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I'm getting tired of the rain, I had to set the pipe machine up outside to thread some gas pipe today and to oil in the bucket was shot befor halfe the threading was done. A little mud slide on north bound I-5 made the morning drive to work slow today.
"Scarey warm and dry in Northwestern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Matter of fact, it's so dry the trees are chasing the dog's!! "
Ditto's, for S.E. Arizona........No snow on the Huachuca eange, whatsoever.
GTC
Member, Clan of the Border Rats -- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain
Up at 0330 hrs as usual this AM.. Sitting on the back deck with a cup of coffee listening and watching the wind and rain. The spring frogs are singing in the rhodies, the crocuses are up four inches already and the trees are budding. False spring or an early spring??
Saw the near full moon as it was almost setting west for about ten minutes in a brief break in the fast moving rain squalls. I don't mind the rain at all..Those of us who live here just dress properly and go do our work anyhow...24 days of wind and rain.. I do feel bad for the many homeless street folks around Portland tho..jim
It's a small part of the reason I moved to Oregon.
There are some great puddles to drive through! I found that at 6-7 mph I will create a wave out infront of the truck which creates a depression in the water behind the bumper - keeping more water out of the engine compartment as I drive. It's hard to keep going that slowly though. I want to send water splashing as high as possible!
The other bonus is my car and truck both look clean all the time now. I splash thru the mud and get the truck all muddy... it only takes a couple puddles to rinse it off.
pdxkevin, On the positive note: the forest fire danger is very low... the drought is officially over.. running gives a nice dual stripe up the back( single stripe for bike riding) You can now take a whitewater canoe over Willamette falls..:)jim
Temp is down to 39 not raining at the moment, sky is clear over us but dence clouds surrounding all round. the drive in to Olympia this AM was not bad lots of water on the roads and some pretty good gusts of wind moved the little car about some but not as much as it did yesterday. with my Ford Diesel. No mud slides out here on the Canal but I expect some all around us except the way to town, no place to have any.
Dry as a bone in South Texas this year, and unseasonably warm this season. We even have a few scissortail flycatchers overwintering locally instead of hightailing it to Mexico.
Winter sparrow numbers are down (poor seed crop), winter hawk numbers are down (poor seed crop, hence few rodents). This lack of plant productivity has got to be hammering everything up the food chain.
Maybe one or two nights of light freeze back in December, not even close since then, seems like winter has decided not to come at all this year.
Birdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
High of 40 today, low in the 20's. Snow is gone from my yard, though there's still four or five inches anywhere there's shade. Ice on the lake behind the house looks awful thin. Sucks! I was looking forward to some ice fishing. On a good note the last couple of days brought the first sunshine in three weeks. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> -Shaun P.S. Here's a pic of the backyard lakeshore this summer with yours truly. (attachment)
Bullwinkle, I'm gonna be up Hood Canal way next week for business conferences at the Alderbrook resort in Union..(I didn't pick the spot) Any advice on places to eat and things to see? jim
Jim I am a mile away from Alderbrook, currently my place is a mess as i am in the process of doing some rearranging of space in the yard and in the house. But give me a PM and I'll give you my number and perhaps we can get together for a chew of the fat. things to see....well since I see them every day there is just the canal itself and if weather cooperates the Olympic mountains some local streams and what we here call a river. Today it's just lots more of the same rain and 41 degrees. What part of Oregon you from? There are a couple pretty fair resturants locally including Alderbrook....kinda pricy. My daughter works there and at the local deli, real good pizza. Nothing special otherwise. Give me a PM and we'll talk later.
37degrees, the gods have smiled on us today, no rain in the daylight hours. Seahawks kicked a little Washington Redskins butt today even with out the services for most of the game of Shawn Alexander. Met the odds makers call pretty close Vegas said 9 points it was a 10 point win. And to top it off our local cub scout pack held it's annual Pine Wood Derby today....my entry my sons last years car won 9 races in a row against nine other cars at a time. We are Pack champions...plus it dont hurt that this is our fourth year and we have learned a bit.The high tech odds on favorite, by looking at it didn't even place.....that was a good laugh as our car is real ugly...but fast. Great day here in the Pac NW
...............Lenticular clouds, and a strong prevailing Southwesterly............15-20 MPH, doing it's best to disburse the smoke, from the annual burning, in Mexico.
Let them beat their modern drum....loud and long, the fact is they still burn the fields..stubble, this is bush league primitive soil bank management............
Not the point here, .........the good news, is that the weather guessers are calling out a 30% chance of rain , for tomorrow....That would be a real blessing.
God bless, GTC
Member, Clan of the Border Rats -- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain
Cold enough here in south central Pa. that I wish I had heat out in the garage.Gonna run a gas line next week so for the first time I'll have a heated shop.Heat,phone,cable TV,beer in the fridge,some Bluegrass and an easy chair..Work? Nawwwwwwww!Although I do have to return my friends' mag drill.We made a dandy work bench from 1 1/2 inch thick plate 2'X6' and a nice vise.Got to do some work on the race bike.Goin' fast is only 10 weeks away. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
