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Marej
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09-20-2002

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 12:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This Thursday in MN., the experts say the high will be -5 and the low will be -24. On Fri -7/-23. On Sat -8/-18. We got a light dusting of almost a half inch of snow on Sun; which covered the brown ground.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yah, but... you live in MN!!! <wink wink nudge nudge> (Isn't International Falls almost always the coldest place in the lower 48?)

And no matter what... anything below 75 degrees is just plain COLD! <smirk>

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow, Sandy I heard about your walls..

Oh and I chatted with Moonie and they have lots of leaks too..

When I lived in Modjeska Canyon where it was colder in the winter, hotter in the summer, much rainier when it rained prone to flooding and we didn't have real heat, and the power was dicey.. we just wore jackets inside on normal nights, we hung blankets in the kitchen door and let the LR be cold.. the dogs got nice thick coats too.. and used a space heater or the gas stove if the elect was off..

Where I am now is in one of those zones too, Costa.. we have the waste treatment and water districts down the street and the do want to keep both of them electrified :-)

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 1:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Y'know... y'all with your leaking roofs and all... makes me glad I own a CONDO and not a home! Not responsible for exteriors, y'know! (Nor was I responsible when the pipe decided to leak in my living room, last year!)

I'd forgotten about pipes freezing. I guess that's one of the worst things that can happen?

I consider myself lucky (or smart) that I've stayed in temperate zones. Since I don't know how to drive in snow/ice, I figure y'all will thank me for that! <wink>

Kstme
Member

08-14-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 1:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
We're still raining, too! War, if you'd just dry up, so would we!! We haven't had any leaks, yet and I've got my fingers crossed. I talked with a friend in Seattle and they have SUNSHINE today!!??? What's up with that???

Ark building classes will be starting soon!

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, my husband has said more than once over the past couple weeks that he wants to sell the house and move to an apartment. I just remind him of the time the neighbors called the cops on us and he gets over it real quick.

Bil called awhile ago to tell me he'd gotten in the car, drove to the end of his driveway, looked down the street and backed back up and went in the house. Said there is no way he can get out right now and even if he thought he could he wouldn't try it. I'm not too worried, the towel is keping water from running down the wall for now, hopefully it will last until Darren gets home or bil gets here.

Costa, got to agree, anything under about 75 is cold! I could not live in MN without freezing half to death. -7 is just too cold!

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 2:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Costa, we have learned the hard way to fill juice/milk jugs with water for cooking, cleaning, and flushing as soon as it looks like a major storm is arriving. Layering clothes and crawling under plenty of covers, making sure the BBQ still has gas in the tank for winter cooking, and lots of candles (great for roasting marshmallows, too)
The BBC said earlier that the sun will come out again in SoCal, so hang in there, guys!

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 2:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think that's Wednesday, Lum. We're in for another day of heavy rains and I'm wondering if there will be school tomorrow.

We always keep bottled water with our earthquake stuff, along with canned food (though i hate to admit this, i don't have a manual can opener, lol.) What I'm wondering about though is when ya'll have these big power outages that lasts for days, how do you keep your food in the fridge/freezer? Our biggest power outage was 7 years ago and lasted about 8 hours or so, and we got by by not opening the fridge and feezer doors, but I'm thinking that wouldn't help if it's lasting several days!

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 2:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, I'm in a condo (one of the types anyway) but I'm responsible for anything inside which includes all that fell.. and I'm not sure how it will be covered on my individual homeowner's policy.

As for weather.. we moved from the cold winters and hot muggy summers of Detroit when I was 13 and, aside from a brief time when I thought I was going to relocate to Alaska (ROFL) with this guy.. I've never wanted to leave here..

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 3:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
One person reported dead, some missing in mud/rock slides in Ventura County.. La Conchita area..

Schoolmarm
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02-18-2001

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 3:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You don't open your fridge or freezer door. The freezer will be ok for several days. THe fridge for a day at least.

I've had to dump both fridge and freezer several times when I lived in Indiana. They don't know how to keep and electrical grid going there! LOL! That was not nice on a poor grad student's budget!

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 3:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Illinois is preparing for an ice storm. You have to wonder at the weather service warning us 2 days BEFORE for an ice storm! Lots of talk today at school about tomorrow's ice, will they cancel school?

Ginger1218
Member

08-31-2001

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 3:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Really strange weather happenings. It has been unusually warm here in NY, (I am not complaining), I believe it has something to do with the 9.0 earthquake knocking the earth's axis around. It is so weird.

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sea:

quote:

Well, I'm in a condo (one of the types anyway) but I'm responsible for anything inside which includes all that fell.. and I'm not sure how it will be covered on my individual homeowner's policy.


But if the leak wasn't anything that you did (i.e. as a result of the roof leaking) isn't it covered by the HOA?

Reader:

quote:

Illinois is preparing for an ice storm. You have to wonder at the weather service warning us 2 days BEFORE for an ice storm! Lots of talk today at school about tomorrow's ice, will they cancel school?


Um... Reader, hun? You know these nasty a$$ stormz that we are havin'? They head east from the West Coast! Meaning... they be headin' YOUR way! <grin>

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 3:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Uh, Reader....would that even be me down at the tippy tippy southern point?

Dang, Maybe I should stay in Munich!

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 3:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sea, I shoulda added... I'm responsible for everything from the interior walls in. But the leak that tore a gigundous hole in my living room ceiling just before Xmas last year (in the area where my Xmas tree would go so I didn't have a tree!) was from something that was not in my unit. So the HOA was responsible for repairing the leak, my ceiling (with that nasty popcorn stuff), and the damage to my furniture and carpeting. Took 'em almost a month to get it fixed right, too!

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 4:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OMG!! I just saw the footage of the landslide in La Conchita on CNN!!!

CNN doesn't have anything on it yet, but my local news Web site does. Major Landslide Kills At Least 1 In Stormy California

Citruscitygal
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08-07-2003

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 4:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
War & Marm: Re keeping food cold. A couple years ago, almost to the day, we had rain and high winds. A huge pine tree was uprooted and fell on the power lines. We got "lucky" and were one of five houses on our block that were without electricity for 3 days (the rest of the neighborhood was fixed in about 24 hours). We bought dry ice, lots of it, to keep the food in the refrigerator cold. Food in the freezers (we also have an upright freezer in the garage) eventually thawed but stayed cold long enough for us to use some of it, but we did have to dispose of quite a bit. I'm in SO Calif, so it wasn't freezing, but it was cold. We used the fireplace for warmth and battery operated lanterns and flashlights. We have gas for cooking and water heating so that was fortunate. My idea of roughing it is a hotel without room service (LOL) so needless to say I was glad to have my electricity back. It was a reminder to appreciate a lot of things I tend to take for granted on a daily basis.

And so today, as I sit listening to the pouring rain and knowing that my backyard is a swamp and the patio is partially flooded, I am grateful to be warm and dry inside under my fairly new roof (a few years ago I had water pouring down a wall, so anyone with leaks has my sympathy).

There has been a serious mudslide here in So Calif. My understanding is that there is 1 dead and several injured. Homes and cars are destroyed. My heart and prayers go out to all who are suffering losses or hardships due to the unusual weather conditions.

Beachcomber
Member

08-26-2003

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 6:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I hope everyone in CA stays warm and dry. My dogwoods are putting out buds in this warm weather (70+ the last 2 weeks) we have been having - crazy is right!

Abby7
Member

07-17-2002

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 6:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow, sorry to read about all the damage.

Keep safe everyone.

All is fine here. Lost power for about 4 hours and flooding in the area....but not too bad.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 7:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Marm, the map they are showing looks like you'll get rain in your tippy tip area, but up here near WI, all bets are off, seems like with Canada and the below zero, hitting this Calif. storm, mix in with Texas and we get freezing rain.... I am no meterologist, but I'm thinking, Jan, IL, why freezin rain, and not snow? Yes the weatherman did try and 'splain just that, but still, I'm sayin... snow darn it!!

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Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 9:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ah Costa.. see mine is a townhome style so there is no one over me or under me.. and only on one side of me, so only the weather affects the roof.

I have an adjustor coming on Thursday so we will see.. LOL.. he kept asking me if there was a garage that someone could get up on and then up on the roof.. nope.. you have to have a gigantic ladder and climb two stories up plus about 6 feet of mansard roof!! I think he decided he'd talk to or refer to the contractor who repaired the roof for the association.

Since I had most of the carpet protected, no real damage there.. I had water drip on a small TV and a VCR and a lampshade.. if they won't cover the repairs to the ceiling, I doubt if I'll meet my deductible, but with the ceiling.. well we will see.. if they will give me cash I might forget replacing the items and see if I can stretch it into a partial payment for getting the cottage cheese scraped off.. I gather they prefer to do the whole place at once, but not sure I can swing that.I hate the cottage cheese with a passion.

And.. I was lucky.. I managed to drive to Curves and only be in very light rain.. then it raind like CRAZY while I was inside working out, but was back to light when I left..

It is back to raining hard and steadily now. I think it is supposed to keep up tomorrow, at least "scattered showers" and Wednesday predicted to become sunny and pleasant!!! YAY!! I'm sure we all can use sunny and pleasant.. and pray for those people in La Conchita and surrounding areas (Ventura County coastline and canyons south of Santa Barbara.. La Conchita has suffered in the past from fires and slides).

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 9:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh man, yeah, I saw the mudslides too. It's just awful! They're now saying at least 2 dead, and up to 12 missing. Yesterday there was a family who drove through a flooded street (maybe closed street as well?) Rescuers were trying to get to them but a 2 year old girl slipped through her mothers fingers and was killed. News report was showing another family who had gone down a closed road (closed due to buckling from the rain) and got submerged. Just horrible.

We got a phone call tonight at 7, same message as this morning, different day. Schools cancelled for tomorrow, hopefully they'll be open Wednesday. If today was any indication, I'm not in any hurry to get back out on the roads or to put the kids out there.

Kstme
Member

08-14-2000

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 10:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thekid said there was lots of rain from Barstow to Ontario with major fog by San Bernadino. She's drove that part of trip!! Said it wasn't bad between Vegas and Barstow, when, of course, someone else was driving! lol She said she's glad to have arrived!

And they are predicting more rain tomorrow!! ACK! Is it supposed to quit in CA by Wednesday?

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 10:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's what I've seen and heard reported, Kstme. Heavy rain through tomorrow, then by Wednesday we should have clear skies. And I think that will last for a few days?