Brace for Impact - yet another storm

I'm still drying out from the last storm and drinking boiled water but I'm sure I'm better off than some of you. They say we're in for another large storm.

Oh goodie. My squeegie skills are finely honed and at the ready.....

What happened to contaminate your water Growin?

Looks like people at the Pacific coast are going to get the worst of it. Puget sound region is supposed to get less than an inch of rain with winds around 30mph. Nothing to sneeze at, but less intense than the last one. We're getting our storms early this year.
I got an email from a friend that included a PDF file with aerial photos of the damage at Mt. Ranier. Anyone who wants me to forward the email to them can dmail me their regular email address. The photos are incredible. I had no idea of the extensive damage, since we don't have television. It will take years to repair that damage.

Poochella, the entire city of Vancouver is on a "boil the water" advisory - that's 2 million people. The water is murkey-brown and they say they can't guarantee it is clean as there has been so much water going into the resevoir washing everything into it.

Bad turn of events there in Vancouver, Growin. I hope the water flow settles down soon, and your water returns to normal.

Poor Mt. Rainier. There's a place that takes a weather beating many days of the year, but when it's clear: oh my, there's no more majestic sight for miles around.

What were in the pics of Mt. Rainer???
That is my most favorite mountain in WA. I grew up seeing that beautiful mt. everyday. It is my ice cream cone mountain!
Carol

If you want the photos, dmail me your regular email address, and put "Mt. Ranier Photos" in the subject line so that I'll see it among the millions of spam messages. I can forward it to you via regular email, but not through DG. It's a PDF File and is quite large, but very worth it. There are photos from all of the areas of the park and the damage is quite extensive.

I was driving home after driving kitty to the vet after she broke her paw and the radio said -4C as a high on Monday. Say-what?! I checked when I got home and, sure-enough, it's going to be a cold-snap. I'm protecting my sensitive plants tomorrow but I thought I let y'all know.

Yes, I had noticed that it is to get down to 21 here in a couple days. So I am going to put my babies in my plastic greenhouse tomorrow. Is pouring down rain right now so hope it doesn't freeze on the roads for people traveling.

Yes, sunday is supposed to be below freezing. My daughter will have to leave early and travel in the warmest part of the day. Fortunately, she is going south.
I finished the insulation in the greenhouse today to prepare for this cold snap. What wierd weather. But I guess that's the usual.

This cold weather makes me appreciate the remote read out therometer Linda bought me for my gh for my bd a couple years ago. It is 27 outside right now with a strong NE Wind the snow has drifted wildly between the house and gh and I can sit here and read 45.9 guess its about time to turn up the heat I like 48 better. E

BRRR! We've had the woodstove going all day! Glad I got my insulation up in the greenhouse. It's a toasty 50 degrees in there. Had 1 hour today with sunshine before work and spent that hour piling leaves on top of tender plants. Everyone deserves a nice blankey on a night like this! Here's to soup and grilled cheese sandwiches!

LoL turned up the heat and it was an even 50 all day but the temp has sunk to 14 and the wind has increased. The gh temp is down to 41 almost time to start some propane heaters to help out. Mary the gh cat and Bunny the rabbit are living in there without a care in the world .

This will not help my winter wheat grow but I think maybe it drowned anyway at least what the birds didn't get.

The snow is going sideways and in an hour you can't tell anyone walked to the gh because the tracks are filled.

This should do a little dalhia thinning as mine as usual are still in the ground.

A good time to make seed orders except only two have come so far.Ernie

It's 19 degrees here, 4 inches of snow and I'm not going to find out how the big hill leading to our house is faring in terms of ice. They closed I 90 East in Issaquah for a while last night: that tells me to stay home. One woman spent the night at the 24 hour Walgreen's in the lowlands of Issaquah- couldn't get up the hill to the plateau, along with plenty others I bet. Silver lining: maybe she got some holiday shopping done.

Ernie I hope your dahlias make it. It should warm up enough, soon enough so that it doesn't freeze too deeply, or am I dreaming? I know you've been colder up there- real cold. My tubers are tucked in for winter in a balmy 36 degree room in the garage. If they make it, I should have extras of many if you need them. Alas, I have a box of tulip bulbs huddled together in the garage, unprotected by a heater. I'm not planting those today LOL.

Pixy: good old tomato soup and grilled cheese was our menu the other night! Comfort food at its best.

We've gotten just a dusting, really, though i think more snow is in the forecast. Silly question, probably, but does this mean it's too late to sink a few pots of lithodora into the ground?

Just wait a few days. It will warm up and you can sink your pots. Rats. My chiropractor called and said no one would be in the office today so I have to reschedule my much needed appointment. Does that mean that I can cancel all my clients tonight???
We have a couple of inches of powder here and it's still in the low 20's. Remember last November? We had one of these that lasted about a week. Maybe it's a pattern. Came home last night and realized I had not rescued my blue plumbago from the ground yet, so went out with a shovel and dug that baby up before it got too cold. Whew! That was a close one!

Annie temp got to eight last night and wind was strong its still raging but the heavy snow cover will save most of them I think. We had snow sculptures in the front yard this morning and at the moment we are cut off from going any place because of simi trucks blocking the roads. Besides there is a four foot drift in front of the garage So here we sit warn and snug as bed bugs lol. I have a generator and have been riding these storms since the early fifties. Thanks for the offer if mine do croak I will be sure to ask in the spring.A real heat wave in the GH the sun is out and it is now up to 49.6 a full 10 degrees since this early morning. Off to get the propane back up ready for tonight.

I think the tulip bulbs will like the cold untill you plant them and btw its buloney you have to let them grow roots in the fall for them to bloom I have planted way later than this and had them do just fine. Ernie

Ok, thank you Pixydish. I'll plant them once i no longer see my breath when i exhale. :)

I was at a deli in Redmond, Wa today - saw 4 ducks sitting tight on the frozen ground - 2 of which look fuzzy enough to be last years or early this years ducklings. I thought to myself about the migration habits and all that (of course memories from elementary school... who knows if that was the full details). Shouldn't they be flying south for the winter?

It's 18 degree's tonight and now I'm worried that they may be frozen duck in the morning. Does anyone know if they instinctively find shelter or are they more resiliant than that?

I'm prepared to hop into the Jeep and drive the 15miles tonight to lay down some bedding for them if someone here says they may be in harms way.

Broken the duck will do fine . Much more in danger of being hit by a car in the Big city or being hurt by a kids BB gun than hurt by this cold. Some ducks never migrate they are called locals.

sure is cold...and snowy!

I LOVE THE SNOW, I'LL TAKE ALL I CAN GET!!!!! I've spent the morning watching the birds and squirrls in the yard.. such a great time they are having in the snow. I tossed some seed and bread out some apples and peanuts.. its like my own wild kingdom out the kitchen window... LOL

Hope everyone stays warm, and have a wonderful time with our winter wonderland


Viv

I can't stand this weather. I hate assessing the dead and damaged plants afterwards. If only I was born a few miles further south I'd be able to move to California.

Yeah, it doesn't seem quite fair does it? Seems to me like you should be able to move to California, and I should be able to move to Vancouver, BC.
Vizz, I was watching today and saw this squirrel run back and forth along the fence every 5 minutes or so for the longest time! I don't know what he was up to. I'm worried because I haven't seen my douglass squirrel for a long time now. I had one for 4 years, but not all year long, only in the winter and spring. Now I wonder where he is. Seemed like last year there was a baby one.
Yeah, I'm probably going to lose plants, too. What is this 16 degree weather we've had? Where does that come from?? Do I need to change my zone?? I was hoping to change it from 8 to 9, not 8 to 6!

LOL. Ditto here. Where is that Global Warming?

Someone told me tonight that this weird PNW weather actually IS a result of global warming - that it is changing the balance of things and bringing different weather to different parts of the country. So does that mean this could become the norm? Good grief. (The person who told me this is very bright and looks into things as a rule, but I have no idea if she's right . . . the thing is, when she and I were little girls, we had tons of snow - and we thought global warming had pretty much taken it away!!)

we've had this weather before.. in the early 70 's we 12'' of snow and bursting pipes, then again in the mid 80's.. when it was so cold the trees would pop from te cold.. its not all that different.. just not very often...


Viv

When I was a kid in the 40's, 50's it happened every year - usually more than once and the snow stayed around for sometimes a couple weeks. Even in th 60's when my own children were small, it happened frequently enough that most people had sleds for their kids. But since then it has tapered off and some years, of course, there is nothing. Hopefully this is a fluke and not a sign of things to come!

It thaws! It thaws! I saw sun today and glorious bare asphalt. I look forward to a little garden time in the upcoming heat.

Pixy, Growin sent us the 16 degree weather from Canada and that's why we won't let Grownin move to California LOL! You keep your sub freezing temps above the border, buster. It got down to ten degrees here. Thankfully no 4 ft drifts like Ernie. I think you guys up in Whatcom got the worst of it, by far.

It seems there are always a cpuple 'big' snow events each winter in the 26 I've been here. What I don't like are the pure ice storms that break trees and plants like crazy. And bones on falling people.

LOL just another day at the office these are nuisance storms compared to the fifties and sixties. The year our first son was born we had chains on one car for six weeks. That was a quarter mile up the road lol we must like it here.

In the early 90s the town people who moved out here into a development found out what its like they froze out of their houses and many of them didnt have the sense to shut off the water they just huddled in their powerless houses and let them freeze up many fled to town and when the power came back on some of those home suffered water damage to go along with the broken pipes. A few of them fixed up and moved back to town lol proclaiming this was not a fit area to live . Works for me . Ernie