It's snowing now. Forecast calls for 6-8 inches by tomorrow afternoon with high winds--that translates to 3-4 foot drifts in the dooryard. And our tractor is still at the John Deere hospital.

Waaaaaaaaaaa...

-- Anonymous, November 25, 2001

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You can come and visit with me in Ohio, Big K. It's still in the 50s, clear and dry.

Until your storm arrives. ):

-- Anonymous, November 25, 2001

South Dakotans are known for their generosity--we just love to share, lol.

-- Anonymous, November 25, 2001

It was near 80 today. Very warm. Got the AC on again. Course, BF never turns his AC off. Do you even have CH, BF?

-- Anonymous, November 25, 2001

Got 2 inches of snow today.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001

As long as it skips So Ia on the way to OH, I will be happy :)

It is raining here again this morning.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001

We had a little rain too ut not nearly enough to make up for about a month of no rain. Thank heavens for the soaker hose and little sprinkler system I got from Costco--saved my back and knees and probly saved some on the water bill too.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001

Look out Meemur, if you get our storm. It be blizzarding right now (7.15 am). White-out conditions. No school, no work. Guess I'll just have to bake coookies. Damn, no eggs. Maybe I'll just go back to bed.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001

http://www.ammas.com/u/showrecipe.cfm?recipeid=13980

Melting Moments (No egg cookies)
Author: Christopher J. Anton (12/19/95)
5 1/2 Tbsps powdered sugar
3/4 C cornstarch
1/2 lb butter
1 C flour

Cream together well the powdered sugar, cornstarch and butter, then sift in 1 cup flour and mix. Roll into balls the size of a nickle (approx 7/8 inch, or about 2cm) bake at 300F for 20 minutes, cool.

Icing
3/4 C powdered sugar
1/2 stick butter (4 Tbsps)
1/2 tsp vanilla.

Cream icing ingredients together and dot on cookies. Makes approx. 1 1/2 dozen.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001

BK,

What.... a prepper with no dehydrated eggs? LOL

Today, it is supposed to reach around 60 (currently 52) with high winds. However, tomorrow it is supposed to be a high of 35 with wind chills in the teens to 20's and high winds. Later the sleet (and maybe a tad of snow thrown in) will start to fall. They are calling for 2-4" of the stuff. Snow I can handle, sleet I can do without.

I better bring some firewood in to keep dry tonight. Send the snow my way, and I'll send the sleet yours... okay? Okay? OKAY?

apoc

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001

Cool and rainy in southcentral Michigan yesterday. Today is cool but we are having some sunshine. Last year at this time we were shoveling so I am happy. I can WAIT for the white stuff.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001

apoc, yep. . .we've got a similar forecast except no snow, just sleet/freezing rain -- UGH!!

Highs on Wednesday only in the upper 30's!! What's with that? Got the garage cleaned out so the truck can go inside and going to go bring some coal up from the barn to supplement the wood.

Hard to believe it may get real nasty tomorrow; it's 70° right now.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001

Yes, it's hard to believe there's a major storm out there: it's still in the 50s and just starting to cloud up. I could use a few more days of the 50s temps, but given the bonus days we've had so far this year, I can't complain.

Bring on the storms!

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001

I know, I know...I just couldn't make myself buy any powdered eggs. I ate waaaay too many of them at forestry camp.

I don't mind the snow so much, but the wind really sucks (and blows). It just never wants to stop.

I would be more than happy to send snow to all y'all. But I don't want any sleet or freezing rain in return--they don't believe in road salt around here.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001

actually had the a/c off a few days this year. course some days were not by choice, ;).

Yes, we have central heat for those days when it gets below 65. heh heh

Had a great weekend. Hurting all the time. Guess with all the box searching and stuff I overdid it.

Y'all have fun with that white stuff. I don't envy you at all.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001

Okay...who mentioned sending sleet and ice here...

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001

BK,

That'd be me. :(

Don't tell me it started to sleet! You be careful if you have to get out and about.

Outside here right now, huge puffy white clouds, with high winds. Not quite sure what the wind chill is, but it is too damn cold. Sad thing is that winter is just beginning.

Where's my snow?

apoc

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2001

It was actually freezing rain. Don't know where that came from. But now we're back to blizzard. They've already called off school for tomorrow. And I doubt I'll make it in to work either. Everyone at work lives at least 20 miles out in the country, so when the roads are bad, we are encouraged to stay home.

Good news: the tractor is finished and should work better than ever.

Bad news: it's too far to drive it home and we won't be able to get a trailer lined up 'til saturday.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2001

It’s November, but summer weather prevails By JOE ENGLERT : The Herald-Sun jkl@herald-sun.com Nov 26, 2001 : 8:55 pm ET

DURHAM -- Temperatures in the region climbed to match a record high Monday, while concerns over depleted water reservoirs seem to be easing as experts forecast heavy thunderstorms later this week.

Monday’s high of 76 tied a record for this day set in 1990, the National Weather Service in Raleigh reported.

The service said that so far this month, daily highs have averaged five degrees above normal and overall temperatures 1.8 degrees above normal.

The fall months have been exceptionally dry, with only 3.2 inches of rain recorded since Sept. 1, about one-third the normal amount. The National Weather Service reported that the mercury was at or below normal levels in September and October.

The warm weather is expected to continue in the next few days, as temperatures will hover in the mid-70s until thunderstorms move in on Thursday and Friday, meteorologists predict. The weather service expects temperatures to fall back to more seasonable levels after the rain.

There are also signs the storms will mark the end of the three-month drought that has drained the city’s water reservoirs to well below normal levels. Last week, after three weeks without rain in November, city officials considered taking conservation measures to protect the dwindling water supply. Light showers this weekend only garnered a half-inch of rain and did little to ease concerns.

But Ryan Boyles of the North Carolina State Climate Office in Raleigh said this week’s anticipated thunderstorms signal a major shift in the region’s weather pattern and an end to the drought.

Boyles said the exceptionally stable high-pressure weather pattern that has been sitting over much of central and eastern North Carolina this fall has already begun to shift. He expects temperature and rain to return to normal and "weekly rainfall to recharge the reservoirs."

The total effect of the fall drought would not be known until evaporation begins to drain the reservoirs again in the spring.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2001

It's raining hard. I can barely make out the trees outside. I'm sure some of this moisture is earmarked for NC, OG. I'm just happy that it's not snow. That'll arrive soon enough.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2001

Yep, we're due for thunderstorms on Thursday and Friday. Must be moving fairly slowly.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2001

By the way that radar image looks, be glad it is warm and that you'll only get rain. If it were cold, that image looks like it would give you feet.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2001

Yeah, I know! I remember we were here on November 11, 1987, and there were 12" of snow on that date. And let us not forget the 20" we got January a year ago. Wonderful! I'm hoping the tropical storm out in the Atlantic will make up its mind where it's going and drop its load here when we have a cold spell :)

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2001