5 inches of snow!

[loonyhiker]

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Hi all! We had 5 inches of snow that came after 1am today. They cancelled
most schools and businesses here. I felt my camellia bush even shiver as I
walked by her. Tonight it is supposed to get so cold here that the
wind-chill will 10 degrees below zero! brrrrr. Is it warm anywhere? If you
have some warm air, please send some my way! I'm ready to do some gardening.

loony
South Carolina

[Philip Lewis]

"loonyhiker" > writes:
>wind-chill will 10 degrees below zero! brrrrr. Is it warm anywhere? If you
>have some warm air, please send some my way! I'm ready to do some gardening.

I'm sure some would agree that there are members of this newsgroup
with lots of hot air... ;)

--
be safe.
flip
^___^ Just on the border of your waking mind, There lies... Another time
\^.^/ Where darkness & light - are one. And as you tread the halls of sanity,
==u== You feel so glad to be, Unable to go beyond. ELO - Twilight Prologue

[madgardener]

ahhhh you finally got some snow there in South Cackalacky........lol, yeah,
we got 4-5 inches here in Dandridge, west of you just past the I-40 line at
the 81 split. It's been fluctuating between 21o (a heat wave!) to 13o and
we're supposed to get to -2 with the 15-15 mph gusts making the windchill a
dangerous -38 tonight. We have just enough wood to do another night of
frigid temperatures, and I can actually see the perennials pulling tight as
the soil tries to squeeze some of them out of their protective nests. That
would be the newer plantings, as the roots haven't had a year or two to
establish and resist heaving. But at least there is snow cover, Pat, since
the frigid temps would stress your garden worse than no snow and this frigid
temperature you're getting. I keep kavetching about no hellebore buds yet,
but I've been playing with the Paint Shop Pro and the -> button to click
past the pictures on my screen saver program, and since it shows me ALL the
pictures I have now taken since May of last late spring and into summer, as
well as the snow pictures I took last week, various blooming tropicals in
the last month and all, it's been uplifting to cruise thru hot pink zinnia's
and then snow rising on pots of sedums like over proofed white dough with
dried stems poking out. Or the new cat experiencing his first snow, and
then pictures of Keebler fudge striped cookies and caramels and caramel corn
in silver cups making little turkeys that my daughter in law made for
Thanksgiving, back to fire engine red zinnia's mingling in with plum striped
Zebrina sisters showing their skirts again for a late bloom in September
with peripheral visions of the cold blowing snow outside the edges of my
eyes thru the nook window where the icy fingers of the outside slip in thru
the uninsulated cracks.

Good day for reflections, pictures of last years flowers, good music in the
background (WNCW.org) and hot raspberry tea.

Keep warm, Loony, crocus will be poking up soon, even though the snow!
madgardener enjoying a true winter for the first time in years up on the
powdery snow covered ridge, back in fairy holler (the fairies are tucked in
under the leaves and snow adn refuse to come out, let the snow fairy and the
ice elf tromp around with their blue feet and hands, it's nap time for the
others) overlooking a beautifully textural English Mountain in Eastern
Tennessee
"loonyhiker" > wrote in message
...
> Hi all! We had 5 inches of snow that came after 1am today. They cancelled
> most schools and businesses here. I felt my camellia bush even shiver as I
> walked by her. Tonight it is supposed to get so cold here that the
> wind-chill will 10 degrees below zero! brrrrr. Is it warm anywhere? If you
> have some warm air, please send some my way! I'm ready to do some
gardening.
>
> loony
> South Carolina
>
>

[madgard]

hey, I resemble that remark!
madgardener

"Philip Lewis" > wrote in message
. edu...
> "loonyhiker" > writes:
> >wind-chill will 10 degrees below zero! brrrrr. Is it warm anywhere? If
you
> >have some warm air, please send some my way! I'm ready to do some
gardening.
>
> I'm sure some would agree that there are members of this newsgroup
> with lots of hot air... ;)
>
> --
> be safe.
> flip
> ^___^ Just on the border of your waking mind, There lies... Another time
> \^.^/ Where darkness & light - are one. And as you tread the halls of
sanity,
> ==u== You feel so glad to be, Unable to go beyond. ELO - Twilight
Prologue
>

[Sed5555]

I would gladly exchange our warm "Chinook" winds for your 5" of snow. We in
Colorado are desperate for moisture.
sed5555

[Zeuspaul]

loonyhiker wrote:

> Hi all! We had 5 inches of snow that came after 1am today. They cancelled
> most schools and businesses here. I felt my camellia bush even shiver as I
> walked by her. Tonight it is supposed to get so cold here that the
> wind-chill will 10 degrees below zero! brrrrr. Is it warm anywhere? If you
> have some warm air, please send some my way! I'm ready to do some gardening.
>
> loony
> South Carolina

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The nights are rather chilly here in north county San Diego....low
forties.....brrrr:) However the days are a bit on the warm side. I prefer the
high sixties to low seventies. It looks like we will see eighty this
weekend...probably just for an hour or two at mid day and then it should cool
down again.

Here is the forecast.

Tonight
Partly cloudy. Patchy fog with visibility less than one
quarter mile at times. Lows in the low 40s to low 50s.

Friday
Mostly sunny. Patchy fog with visibility less than one
quarter mile at times in the morning then haze in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s to near 80.

Friday Night
Mostly clear. Patchy fog with visibility less than one
quarter mile at times. Lows in the lower 40s to lower 50s.

Saturday
Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.

Saturday Night
Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s.

Sunday
Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.

[zhanataya]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 04:39:14 GMT, Zeuspaul >
wrote:


>The nights are rather chilly here in north county San Diego....low
>forties.....brrrr:) However the days are a bit on the warm side. I prefer the
>high sixties to low seventies. It looks like we will see eighty this
>weekend...probably just for an hour or two at mid day and then it should cool
>down again.
>
>Here is the forecast.
>
> Tonight
> Partly cloudy. Patchy fog with visibility less than one
> quarter mile at times. Lows in the low 40s to low 50s.
>
> Friday
> Mostly sunny. Patchy fog with visibility less than one
>quarter mile at times in the morning then haze in the
>afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s to near 80.
>
>Friday Night
>Mostly clear. Patchy fog with visibility less than one
>quarter mile at times. Lows in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
>
>Saturday
>Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.
>
>Saturday Night
>Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s.
>
>Sunday
>Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
>

You're now at the top of my slap list son. I'm so jealous.

zhan

[samuel l crowe]

"loonyhiker" > wrote in message
...
> Hi all! We had 5 inches of snow that came after 1am today. They cancelled
> most schools and businesses here. I felt my camellia bush even shiver as I
> walked by her. Tonight it is supposed to get so cold here that the
> wind-chill will 10 degrees below zero! brrrrr. Is it warm anywhere? If you
> have some warm air, please send some my way! I'm ready to do some
gardening.
>
> loony
> South Carolina

We got maybe 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch and that was gone by midafternoon.

Just came in from checking on the heat in my hoop house. all is ok there.

Tempature at 4:30 am is 18 degrees, wind chill 1 degree, thats cold.

--
Sam
Along the Grand Strand of Myrtle Beach SC

[Iris Cohen]

We have had over 90 inches so far. The nearby city of Oswego has a snowpile 75
feet high
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much
that ain't so."
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), 1818-1885

[Bob H]

Ha ... Minneapolis here and the ground is showing everywhere!

Bob

"loonyhiker" > wrote in message
...
> Hi all! We had 5 inches of snow that came after 1am today. They cancelled
> most schools and businesses here. I felt my camellia bush even shiver as I
> walked by her. Tonight it is supposed to get so cold here that the
> wind-chill will 10 degrees below zero! brrrrr. Is it warm anywhere? If you
> have some warm air, please send some my way! I'm ready to do some
gardening.
>
> loony
> South Carolina
>
>

[madgard]

would that I could, after living 5 years in arid Colorado, I can only
imagine how dry it is now with the on going drought conditions you've had
the last year plus............but sadly Mom's Nature doesn't turn the
weather patterns around from East to West.............
madgardener
"Sed5555" > wrote in message
...
> I would gladly exchange our warm "Chinook" winds for your 5" of snow. We
in
> Colorado are desperate for moisture.
> sed5555

[madgard]

> You're now at the top of my slap list son. I'm so jealous.
>
> zhan

no, I'm cutting line and slapping him first.................maddie

[Tracey]

>You're now at the top of my slap list son. I'm so jealous.

Well, I'm glad I didn't chime in with our forecast. :)

Tracey

[zhanataya]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:27:27 GMT, Tracey > wrote:

>
> >You're now at the top of my slap list son. I'm so jealous.
>
>Well, I'm glad I didn't chime in with our forecast. :)
>
>Tracey

LOL. Live dangerously. Go for it.

zhan

[Tracey]

>LOL. Live dangerously. Go for it.

I'm living in Hawaii now. Need I say more?

Tracey

[loonyhiker]

YOU can be the top of my slap list then Tracey! LOL

loony


"Tracey" > wrote in message
...
>
> >LOL. Live dangerously. Go for it.
>
> I'm living in Hawaii now. Need I say more?
>
> Tracey
>

[loonyhiker]

Sorry Tracey! Now I'M at the top of my hubby's slap list. He said, "Don't
slap Tracey! We might want to go visit sometime!!!!"

loony



"Tracey" > wrote in message
...
>
> >You're now at the top of my slap list son. I'm so jealous.
>
> Well, I'm glad I didn't chime in with our forecast. :)
>
> Tracey
>

[zhanataya]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:03:15 GMT, Tracey > wrote:

>
> >LOL. Live dangerously. Go for it.
>
>I'm living in Hawaii now. Need I say more?
>
>Tracey

Oh you poor, poor dear. The clear sky, trade winds, perfect gardening
soil must be murderous. <G>

[Jo]

"loonyhiker" wrote ...
> Hi all! We had 5 inches of snow that came after 1am today. They cancelled
> most schools and businesses here. I felt my camellia bush even shiver as I
> walked by her. Tonight it is supposed to get so cold here that the
> wind-chill will 10 degrees below zero! brrrrr. Is it warm anywhere? If you
> have some warm air, please send some my way! I'm ready to do some
gardening.
>
> loony
> South Carolina

Only -10?? My husband has been in Saskatchewan for several weeks and last
time he called it was -35.

Br-r-r-r-r.

[Jo]

"Zeuspaul" wrote ...
>> The nights are rather chilly here in north county San Diego....low
> forties.....brrrr:) ...

I have to chuckle. I grew up in Winnipeg where temperatures in "the low
forties" refers to forty below zero. ;-)

[Tracey]

>Oh you poor, poor dear. The clear sky, trade winds, perfect
>gardening soil must be murderous. <G>

Oh, I'm so glad you understand! It's been horrid, horrid I
tell you!

And the fact that I can now grow orchids is almost too much
to bear! <grin>

Tracey

[Mickey&Nat]

Sorry Loony but please get in line and wait your turn. By the way do you
know how the Outer Banks of N.C. faired? All I can do right now is dream of
spring. I haven't seen grass since the first week of December.
You and your
plants try to stay warm,

Natalie

[Mickey&Nat]

Around here the 40's at night are shorts and sweat shirt weather. The day
time is definitely beach weather. I also am very jealous. Care to trade
spaces for a week or two? LOL

Natalie

[Derryl Killan]

> "Zeuspaul" wrote ...
> >> The nights are rather chilly here in north county San Diego....low
> > forties.....brrrr:) ...
>
> I have to chuckle. I grew up in Winnipeg where temperatures in "the low
> forties" refers to forty below zero. ;-)

Yeah, it is cold in Calgary at -25 C. tonight. I grew up in Saskatchewan
and we used to go out and play in - 25 F.



Derryl
>
>

[zhanataya]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:22:41 GMT, Tracey > wrote:

>
> >Oh you poor, poor dear. The clear sky, trade winds, perfect
> >gardening soil must be murderous. <G>
>
>Oh, I'm so glad you understand! It's been horrid, horrid I
>tell you!
>
>And the fact that I can now grow orchids is almost too much
>to bear! <grin>
>
>Tracey

OK that did it!. You made the slap list. ;-)

[Ann]

"Mickey&Nat" > expounded:

>By the way do you
>know how the Outer Banks of N.C. faired?

I believe they got 9".

--
Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
********************************

[zhanataya]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:01:28 -0500, Ann > wrote:

>"Mickey&Nat" > expounded:
>
>>By the way do you
>>know how the Outer Banks of N.C. faired?
>
>I believe they got 9".

;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

[B & J]

"zhanataya" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:01:28 -0500, Ann > wrote:
>
> >"Mickey&Nat" > expounded:
> >
> >>By the way do you
> >>know how the Outer Banks of N.C. faired?
> >
> >I believe they got 9".
>
> ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Quit gloating, Zhan. 9" by anyone's standards is unusual - even those of us
who come from MN. :-)

John

[zhanataya]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 23:40:28 -0600, "B & J" >
wrote:

>"zhanataya" > wrote in message
...
>> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:01:28 -0500, Ann > wrote:
>>
>> >"Mickey&Nat" > expounded:
>> >
>> >>By the way do you
>> >>know how the Outer Banks of N.C. faired?
>> >
>> >I believe they got 9".
>>
>> ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
>
>Quit gloating, Zhan. 9" by anyone's standards is unusual - even those of us
>who come from MN. :-)
>
>John
>

I'll quit gloating if you'll quit bragging.<G>

zhan

[B & J]

"zhanataya" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 23:40:28 -0600, "B & J" >
> wrote:
>
> >"zhanataya" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:01:28 -0500, Ann > wrote:
> >>
> >> >"Mickey&Nat" > expounded:
> >> >
> >> >>By the way do you
> >> >>know how the Outer Banks of N.C. faired?
> >> >
> >> >I believe they got 9".
> >>
> >> ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
> >
> >Quit gloating, Zhan. 9" by anyone's standards is unusual - even those of
us
> >who come from MN. :-)
> >
> >John
> >
>
> I'll quit gloating if you'll quit bragging.<G>
>
> zhan

That's snow, Zhan, snow! <G> BTW, are you turning into an icicle in those
temps in the Sunshine State? Rumor has it that it is cold.

John

[zhanataya]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:06:49 -0600, "B & J" >
wrote:

>> I'll quit gloating if you'll quit bragging.<G>
>>
>> zhan
>
>That's snow, Zhan, snow! <G> BTW, are you turning into an icicle in those
>temps in the Sunshine State? Rumor has it that it is cold.
>
>John

Oh Snnoow! Yes it's cold. I haven't dressed or left the inside of
the house since Friday morning. Stayed in bed watching tv or reading
when I'm not playing on the computer.

zhan

[CWilde]

And I drove 30 miles in ice today for work? I am jealous. We don't have much
snow - but it was crappy freezing drizzle today, I'd much rather been
cuddled on the couch somewhere.

Carlotta

"zhanataya" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:06:49 -0600, "B & J" >
> wrote:
>
> >> I'll quit gloating if you'll quit bragging.<G>
> >>
> >> zhan
> >
> >That's snow, Zhan, snow! <G> BTW, are you turning into an icicle in those
> >temps in the Sunshine State? Rumor has it that it is cold.
> >
> >John
>
> Oh Snnoow! Yes it's cold. I haven't dressed or left the inside of
> the house since Friday morning. Stayed in bed watching tv or reading
> when I'm not playing on the computer.
>
> zhan

[Rozrn2@cox.net]

It's gonna be 80 degrees here again today.
Imagine the summer?
Roz
phoenix

[Jo]

> > >"Mickey&Nat" > expounded:
> > >>By the way do you know how the Outer Banks of N.C. faired?
> > >
> > >I believe they got 9".

> Quit gloating, Zhan. 9" by anyone's standards is unusual - even those of
us
> who come from MN. :-)
>
> John

Last year Winnipeg had 8" in one day.....in May!! Hope things are
"springier" this year.

[Faye Lifford-Earle]

We have 3' of the white stuff so far....and our coldest day was
-35F.......my poor greyhounds are bothered by the salt on the
sidewalks....oh well!!!!.....gardening time, will erase all memories of
this...right!
Ldymac

loonyhiker > wrote:

> Hi all! We had 5 inches of snow that came after 1am today. They cancelled
> most schools and businesses here. I felt my camellia bush even shiver as I
> walked by her. Tonight it is supposed to get so cold here that the
> wind-chill will 10 degrees below zero! brrrrr. Is it warm anywhere? If you
> have some warm air, please send some my way! I'm ready to do some gardening.
>
> loony
> South Carolina