Winter Storm

eDJ · #1 (**permalink**) 01-29-2009, 01:36 AM

So has anyone else taken photos of their area during this storm ? I've been lucky that the
power hasn't gone out for a day or two in this 15 degree weather. The power has flickered
a lot. There are thousands of people in this area without power now.

Some photos where I live:

hiker472 · #2 (**permalink**) 01-29-2009, 02:46 AM

Wow, cool country there!

I guess it pays to live south where January looks more like the beginning of November! Is that first pic of a blizzard? Those are the kinds of days I've always liked to hike on.

I heard about that storm sweeping thru the south down there and it's amazing that it hasn't snowed here for 4-5 days now I think.

I ought to go outside and take some pics of what it looks like here.................naw, it's too cold out!

**Bikeguy Joe** · #3 (**permalink**) 01-29-2009, 09:34 AM

eDJ-

Up here the snow is so regular that photos are just another way of stating the obvious.

For you guys, it is a special time in history.

My daughter goes to OU GO BOBCATS!!!!!!!

eDJ · #4 (**permalink**) 01-29-2009, 12:03 PM

LOL, yeah I hear you guys in the Great White North.......

But I'm talkin about when it snows in DIXIE !

Just across the river from me is Ol' Virginia. (now called West Virginia) One of our local High School Teachers had a piece in the newspaper explaining how we have some specialized form of a sub-tropical climate here in the Ohio Valley. In the summer time it can easily hit 100 F and 96% Humidity. (ya'd love it here then) Even the cats climb up in the top of the pine trees and lay on the branches to catch a cool breeze.

We almost never see tornado's here, and a blizard comes along about every 50 years. Last one was
93 and I stuck a yard stick in the snow and measured 24 inches. But Floods.....yeah we got
them enough to give away......anyone want one ?

But for now I'm blessed to be able to look out at the beauty of this snowfall and enjoy it. I don't get to see it like this too often.

jasonh · #5 (**permalink**) 01-29-2009, 12:25 PM

Before I came to Colorado from Phoenix, I thought that winter would look like those pictures all the time. Boy was I mistaken, haha. Seems like it snows a few inches, then warms up for a week or two, then back down. We haven't really gotten and big snow storms here this winter. I know there has been more snow in other areas here, but not where I'm at.

Is it weird that I was actually looking forward to having lots of snow?

eDJ · #6 (**permalink**) 01-29-2009, 01:50 PM

A neighbor of mine moved to Loveland, CO a few years back and lived on the Front Range.
He sent me a photo his wife took of him sitting on a chasise lounge on his patio where he was
wearing a pair of cut off jeans and pair of tennis shoes while reading the Sunday paper. He said it was it was 70 F degrees. (this was by 10am when she took his picture)

There was about 30 inches of snow showing beside him in the photo and he said that by noon it was all gone. It seems
the air is so low in humidity there that the snow almost evaporates as it melts. There was no
sign of water on his patio from the snow melt. Then the humidity there is around 12 to 18%.

On another board I posted those same photos and this one Philippine Girl keeps wishing she could see
see some winter weather like that in her lifetime. Under her Avatar she list her location as "paradise". LOL

She says her idea of paradise would be to have four seasons, as she looks at tropical weather all year long. (then she's in school and I don't know if she is actually living in the Philippines presently)

**2door** · #7 (**permalink**) 01-29-2009, 02:21 PM

Jason,
Your time is coming my friend. You've been lucky so far this year but some day...
This is looking across the street from my front walk. That's a Saturn SC-2...the red thing buried under about 2 feet of, you-know-what.
Tom