Oh, the weather outside is...

[Thorgalaeg]

Storm Emma has dug up an old roman road and an aqueduct in Cadiz plus a galaxy of starfishes at the beaches of Spain Portugal and UK:

 

[Birdjaguar]

That's a lot of dead starfish and crabs!

 

[Sommerswerd]

Blizzard is supposedly rolling in tonight

 

[Lexicus]

Blizzard is supposedly rolling in tonight

And we only get rain.

 

[Cutlass]

Nice day today. Bad storm tomorrow. New England weather.

 

[Broken_Erika]

And we only get rain.

I get both(rain and snow)

 

[stfoskey12]

I haven't seen more than 3" (7.5 cm) of snow from a single storm since 2015. And most of the wintry precipitation the past three years has been freezing rain or ice pellets.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Day 1 of the blizzard turned out to be a fraud... nothing stuck, but then by day 2 things had cooled down enough and we ended up with over a foot (about 30 cm) of snow. And beacause of the relatively warm temps it turned to slush at the bottom which made snowblowers useless

So I had to shovel like its 1985

 

[Timsup2nothin]

1985? That's close to my era in the snow. When I lived in Idaho I would just roll my car up and down the driveway and pack it into a thickening layer of ice that frequently wouldn't melt off until May. But we usually only got a few inches in any one storm.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

How avalanche control works in the Rocky Mountains

Rogers Pass is one of the main ways to get from Alberta to British Columbia. It's absolutely gorgeous in summer, and it's very dangerous in the winter. There are signs along the road that say: "Avalanche area. Do Not Stop."

Scroll down to the last photo: it's one of several snow sheds that cover the highway. These are essential for traffic to move safely through that area of the pass.

I've only taken a couple of trips through the Rockies in winter - once in December and once in April (April counts as winter in this region of the world, or at least that was the case in 1982). It's snow and nerve-wracking and there have been numerous accidents during the last several weeks (and likely many more that don't make the news).

So kudos to the avalanche prevention teams.

 

[Lexicus]

I actually like shoveling, gives an opportunity to step outside for a smoke

 

[PhroX]

We're back to the usual weather for this time of year - damp and overcast but not excessively cold.

 

[Sommerswerd]

1985? That's close to my era in the snow. When I lived in Idaho I would just roll my car up and down the driveway and pack it into a thickening layer of ice that frequently wouldn't melt off until May. But we usually only got a few inches in any one storm.

Remember... I'm in insurance... I wouldn't be able to sleep at night doing stuff like that

 

[Farm Boy]

Hah! I could skid around on the University of Illinois campus sidewalks for hours trying, literally, not to fall into the street and die from the insane concentration of drunk undergrads who suck at driving, but if anything ever took you past the College of Law, the sidewalks were pristine and coated in enough salt to kill the grass through half the spring.

Then again... seeing as who their foot traffic is, that's probably extremely wise.

 

[Cutlass]

We got about 10" of snow Wednesday and overnight. But it was warm Thursday, and so half melted off already.

 

[Lexicus]

We got about 10" of snow Wednesday and overnight. But it was warm Thursday, and so half melted off already.

Ooh, did it refreeze? That's always my favorite part.

 

[Cutlass]

Ooh, did it refreeze? That's always my favorite part.

Yeah. But the roads and sidewalks are almost entirely clear. So the rest don't really matter.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Hah! I could skid around on the University of Illinois campus sidewalks for hours trying, literally, not to fall into the street and die from the insane concentration of drunk undergrads who suck at driving, but if anything ever took you past the College of Law, the sidewalks were pristine and coated in enough salt to kill the grass through half the spring.

Then again... seeing as who their foot traffic is, that's probably extremely wise.

The winter I was stationed at Great Lakes the combination of icy sidewalks, shoes required by uniform standards, and happily irresponsible young sailors made "sidewalk surfing contests" a regular event. Five to ten steps in the snowy grass to build up speed and a hop onto the sidewalk shooting for maximum distance being the usual standard, but sometimes a sufficiency of style points would allow for a winner who didn't necessarily make it as far as some others.

 

[Cutlass]

1985? That's close to my era in the snow. When I lived in Idaho I would just roll my car up and down the driveway and pack it into a thickening layer of ice that frequently wouldn't melt off until May. But we usually only got a few inches in any one storm.

Were you at that secret place that the Navy buries nuclear reactors?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Were you at that secret place that the Navy buries nuclear reactors?

I was at the Navy's Nuclear Power Training Unit, which is part of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory...which is where everybody buries nuclear reactors.