We got 2-6 predicted.
What are your winter plans?
We have at least 10" here now , and it's suppost to drop 1-2"s per hour till 6am, with 35 mph winds. White out coming!!! Ric
Eeeeek!
It started here about 1/2 hour ago.
well at least the snow is hiding the wires.. LOL
Pretty!
I read that a lot of the displays were now LEDs, and the snow stays on them , as they are not hot enough to melt it off.
Allison, you're really looking like a winter wonderland now! Excellent work by you, Randy and Mother Nature.
thanks!!.. Polly yes they are not hot enough to melt the snow off.. good news is the wind is taking care of that.. bad news is ... BBBUUURRR
Beautiful!
That's what my DH says about the new LED traffic lights that they don't produce enough heat to melt the snow off.
Well you could have made it in and back before the snow.. it didn't start here till about dark... but then came on down... Blown down with 30 mph winds .. drifting..
Yes.. the city has some characters still... but before it was out on the street... like the old Womans House of Dentintion... on 6th Avenue and 8th Street... a five story jail... no visiting necessary.. just stand below on the street.. and yell up to your friends...
HAY>>>Mable....MABLE...that no good pimp of yours isn't going to bail you out again.. ...WHAT>>>>> Get his lousey ass down here right away.. I can't stay in here another day.... he owes me big time.. [ I guess alot of them rode donkeys back then.. ]
it was like a continual episode of Life on the Wild Side... running 24 / 7 all broadcast up to the girls on the upper floors... by fellows on the street... now that's characters..
Well undenyablely... about the best Pizza is Lombardies on Spring and Mott Street... if you're walking up from Canal Street... but it's full pies... sit down or take out... but if you'd like a quick by the slice pizza..a little further north.. on Bleeker Street... just east of Broadway is Two Boots Pizza... two boots comes from the boot shape of Italy and the boot shape of Louisiana.. great slice with a cornmeal backing to the crust... [ crunchey ] and wonderful toppings... my favorite there is one called The Dude.. it has cheese.. and Andouille Sausage.. along with other Cajun items... but all theirs are great... by the slice.. and plenty of places to sit inside..
So.. what does it look like today in my roof top garden.... well cleaner than yesterday..with a blanket of fresh drifted snow.. here it is today... drifts from 2'.. deep... down to almost nothing... where you can see the lawn peeking up through.. The tropicals.. the Brugmansias... and the plumerias.. have all been moved inside below.. and to the cool room for dormant storage outside on the roof
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it is still pretty in the winter.. but cold now Japaneese maple and the roses are shutdown.. now.. unprotected... there...
Nice shot! What's the tree in the container?
OH.. it's an Oridio Nashiki...a variagated [ white / green / pink ] Japaneese Maple.. there was an article in Fine Gardening some 15 years or so ago..about J Maple grafters...and they talked about this grafter in Pa.. outside Philly..his name was Wolf... so I went down then to see him.. and spent a wonderful day talking to him about the maples...grafting.. and his work with them.. I got that tree and a red one...you can see it at about 4 o ' clock in the first picture of the roof and the flag I posted above. the picture was taken in the late fall... like the middle of October.. so it's not as red but more of a brown/red..then. ..so they have been outside here .. for that long.. and were about 10 years old when I got them.. both are raised... the red oneto keep the lower limbs off the roof.. and this one as it kept having it's 150 lb container to blow over in the wind..so I elevated it and tied it to the table below.. it also frees up some growing area.. having it raised... and provides about the only shade for some things that like it less intense..
so what's tropical... and not downstairs... is in the cool room on the roof..... pictured below .. it's made of 2" thick foam...
[ R- 20 insulation value ] and it didn't get any snow on it at all.. as it blew right off... it's windy up there.. as there's nothing higher to the west... .. till 30 miles to the west ... where some hills in Short Hills , NJ are... the city is just north of me.. so it doesn't block much of my westerly winds.. and what blows around it to me is likely moving / blowing faster than what hits it.. it's 30 * outside here now... and 50 * f in the cool room
Gordon, my DH grew up a few blocks away from that detention center. Boy, has he got some stories from that whole area! I grew up in NJ and only watched about it on the news.
By the way the news was talking about the storm, you would've thought the entire city would shut down for a week. Oh well. DS took a Jujutsu intensive at the Dojo instead.
I've been to Two Boots. Love that place. Funky interior decorations, too.
Thanks for the winter rooftop pics!
We always overreact to winter storms in this area. You would think we were going to be trapped for months the way people raid the stores.
Supposedly the store raiding habit developed after the blizzard of '78. south shore here needed supplies. they must have had over a foot of snow.
Oooh, yes, the Blizzard of '78 closed down CT---Gov. Grasso closed all the highways----we had to have a construction truck with a plow on it to clean up driveway---when we opened our garage door, snow was to the top of it.
We didn't have school for a week. Dad and I cross-country skiied to town and got supplies. I lived with irisMA at the time(in high school).
that must've been fun to see Marilyn
that must've been fun to see Marilyn
Not that much fun, Harper! We had a large dog at the time---half lab, half Giant Schnauzer---you couldn't see her over the drifts.
Looks like I had the hiccups! Funny about the dog. I love watching dogs hop around in deep snow. Getting the chunks of ice off their fur when the come in is a drag, though.
Yes---Robs chews his paws!