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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Feb 15, 2015 - 06:16pm PT
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Dammit wilbeer...that's our snow you're getting...Went bird watching At crowley today and Mono yesterday...the gulls are back 6 weeks early and the brine flies are buzzin ....Mid 60's here...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 16, 2015 - 02:31am PT
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hey there, say, willbeer... oh my, say, i am in mich... most of it, moved around our area, though, but say:
these last few night, i KEEP getting updates from my boston friend, every night, BY phone, and i HEAR her news on the tv. there, and whewww, it is
not good... :O
what is so funny, just now, is this:
that LINK that you sent, well, i THINK it is the same news clip that i heard her listening to, on her tv, of the newscaster, and the thundersnow, lightning, :O
i wanted to see it, as, the weatherman really did seem to 'lose it' during
that report... :O oh my...
i will go see that now... thanks for sharing...
say, take care, ... stay off roads... all kinds of squalls, still and
multi car pile ups... :)
say, warbler, are you one of chappy's friends,
say, just saying 'hey there' if so, :)
(seems i saw a post, and that you might be...)
:)
wow, i just saw the clip:
ps:
also, willbeer, NOW i understand this, as well...
she said that someone sent in a tape, of their toddler WATCHING this,
and while she was watching this, clip, my friend said:
the toddler was DANCING... lilke--dancing along with the guy...
and gigglings...
i could not FIGURE OUT WHY... why would a little kid, dance to a guy, yelling about the snow and weather...
well NOW I Know--
he looked like he was dancing up a storm, there... :))
oh my... of course, why NOT dance along... :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z11678g9PzI
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Feb 16, 2015 - 12:32pm PT
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Yeah, lots of snow here right now. However, we are a hardy bunch and it's freaking winter after all!
My 200+ year old home is hurting right now. Ice dams are the devils work. Water was dripping vigorously inside my house because of those damn ice dams on the roof.
The worst part is that, as a carpenter and homeowner, I'm unable financially to remedy this situation that I know oh so well to be damaging the frame of my beautiful old place.
On a lighter note, I spent eight hours yesterday snow blowing, fixing the snow blower, shoveling, and removing snow from roofs. At it's worst, I was moving coffee table sized chunks of ice. At it's best, I was getting a tan standing atop a ladder roof raking my home to prevent more ice dams.
The roofs I shoveled two weeks ago now have mid-thigh deep snow on them again, time to repeat the process.
The big positive is that my mom, who suffers from psychological disorders, is still keen to maintain the neighborhood. She lives down the road from me with her mum and at fifty eight is out there moving snow like a boss. Go mom!
Pretty much, it's all good here in NH.
How's everyone else doing?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 16, 2015 - 12:44pm PT
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Yosemite Valley was very warm, so warm that we hid in the shade on a Saturday cragging session at the base of Royal Arches... and climbed in tee-shirts in the Sun on Schultz's ridge...
the central valley of California is in blossom...
and there is no water due from the sky anytime soon.
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Feb 16, 2015 - 12:50pm PT
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Yes I am serious.
I was skiing down a nice pitch yesterday when I was all of a sudden freaked out by what I thought was the sound of an Avalanche above me.
It was thunder,right in the middle of a snowfall.
Then some lightning.
Unreal.
Later ,when home ,it started ice raining for a bit,in -3f temps.
Two things I have never seen.
Brandon ,I hear you about The Snow!
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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Feb 16, 2015 - 12:53pm PT
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Left Moab with daytime temps in the mid to high 60s with plenty of sunshine. Arrived Santa Cruz with temps in high 70s, hitting 80 and the beaches full. I had to remind myself several times it was Presidents' Day not Memorial Day.
Bought new-for-me crampons a few months ago. Not likely to get used.
Headed up to Yosemite on Thursday....guess I'll leave my skis and snowshoes behind.
Oh well at least my bikes are getting a good workout while the wax melts off my skis.
Family back east are in a whole different situation. Said I'd visit later in the spring!
Susan
Wilbeer and Brandon....several generations of my family back east are saying the same "never encountered anything like this". Also the ice issues are really bad and horrible bitter cold that is just unrelenting.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Feb 16, 2015 - 12:56pm PT
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Thunder snow, I love that stuff!
Haven't witnessed it in a couple of years now.
Keep it real, Wilbeer, let's do something on rock this year.
Edit; Susan, if you're here this year in more accommodating weather, I'd be stoked to show you around NH.
And Wilbeer, it's crazy that you got thunder, it usually accompanies warmer snow and it's been pretty dang cold. Super unusual.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Feb 16, 2015 - 12:57pm PT
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Colorado seems to be alternating between the two extremes. We have three or four days of 50 degree weather and then it snows and inch or two for a couple of days and then warms right up again. I alternately shovel snow and work in my garden ??!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 16, 2015 - 01:02pm PT
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I bet the ski area owners in Vermont and New Hampshire aren't whining.
Although maybe they are if people can't get there to spend their moolah.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Feb 16, 2015 - 01:15pm PT
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Reilly,
I live along the ten mile route from the freeway to Mt Sunapee on a state highway (well, I live on a loop off of the main route) and I can tell you that the Massachussets plates on the BMW SUV's tell a story of easy driving and mass spending at the local hill.
Salt the sh#t outta the roads and those with money will come...
At least some of us are getting a winter, and I'm a jaded Tahoe guy.
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Feb 16, 2015 - 01:16pm PT
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Will do Brandon.
The Hill I was skiing has been known to slide,I have set off some good sloughs there,as I did yesterday.
Hence my fear.
And It was very cold ,but,you do not get cold with a 3 mile skin/approach.
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