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Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 10:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Mudslides.

again.

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
It's pouring cats and dogs here!! I just know we're going to be hearing the reports on the mudslides in the burn areas. Hang in there Beekindpleez!!

Oh, and I decided to go grocery shopping about two hours ago because it was a bit sunny with lots of clouds but no rain. By the time I came out of the store...omg!! it was pouring rain and the groceries and I got soaked just walking to my car...fun times!!


Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Sorry about the mud, Beek! We had rain overnight and then a break and then some really hard rain today (I suspect that was the rain that drenched Eggie today) . Also wind last night and today.

Oddly, the golf in La Jolla was not affected yesterday or today, which they had expected to happen.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
La Jolla being on down the coast from me, not THAT far.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 11:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Funny, Eggie, we had the same experience. Went shopping early and it was kinda clear out but when we came out it started raining and then pouring. Guess it was around 12:30 and from then until, hmm...5? it poured.

Worse than the rain though was the high winds. I took the dogs outback during a brief break in the rain and the puppy was sitting on the patio. Gust of wind came and pushed her a couple feet over. LOL, poor little thing couldn't figure out who or what to bark at!

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Monday, January 28, 2008 - 8:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
Yeah War, that was about the time frame for my down pour as well. It was clear when I entered the grocery store and I was in there about an hour or less...and when I got in the checkout line I saw the down pour and knew I would be soaked...as well as the groceries. The young man bagging my groceries asked me if I wanted help and I said no... because he was dealing with a bad cold and being the mom I am, I wouldn't want him out there in the cold and wet weather!

As for Dixie, she goes out back to do her business with no problem, but Harley is still afraid of this new scenario. I'm using training pads for him and so far it's going decent with a few little accidents here and there.

It's raining right now as I type this and it's just basically wet and soggy everywhere outside...and cold! Brrr....


Rosie
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11-12-2003

Monday, January 28, 2008 - 10:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
Heavy rain right now and it has been dark and raining for days. Temperatures at night are freezing. Enough already!

ETA: Just received my heating bill. Ouch.

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Monday, January 28, 2008 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
SW Ontario Canada
it is sunny and 30F (-1C) We are to be 46F tomorrow with rain and then back to cold...could just have a normal winter

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, January 28, 2008 - 10:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Last night it poured so hard here in northern California, it scared my puppies.

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Monday, January 28, 2008 - 10:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
Do the puppies get underneath the covers?

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, January 28, 2008 - 10:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Well, the little one does. For Christmas, we got our girls one of those little tykes type playhouses, and the dogs think it's their doghouse. LOL. I looked outside and boo was in it (it's on the porch, covered) looking out the little window through the plastic pink shutters. LOL. I hurried and opened the door and they all 3 came bounding in and ran as fast as they could to their beds, where they snuggled, and slept quietly. They were barely even wet from the rain, which tells me the minute it started to rain, they made a b-line for the playhouse. Dogs are funny. AND they know better than to act up in the house when it's nasty outside, for fear DH will make them go back out. Spikey, our chioxy jumps up on our bed and snuggles into the blankets, makes himself a little nest. I'm sorry, HIS bed. LOL, a 8 pound dog has the majority of a Cal-King bed.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, January 28, 2008 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
I saw white puffy clouds this mornign when I took the kids to school but now they're gone and ugly dark ones are in their place. We have a high wind warning today (it's pretty bad out there now and freezing cold) and have been having occassional sprinkles off and on.

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Monday, January 28, 2008 - 11:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
We'll be cleaning that doggone road of mud and rocks again all day.
Hopefully the sun will pop out while we're doing it.

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Monday, January 28, 2008 - 12:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
That didn't work. Got all geared up (oh, you should see my sexy rain gear get up. Giant duck, anyone?) and it started to absolutely hammer down rain.
Time to light a fire and wait it out.

Bonzacat
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07-08-2003

Monday, January 28, 2008 - 1:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonzacat a private message Print Post    
Bee - I am north of you and it is clearing. Hang in there... thinking of you.

(Drive-by from bed. Cough, cough. )

Lyn
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08-07-2002

Monday, January 28, 2008 - 1:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lyn a private message Print Post    
Was going to get the kid up for school today, saw it was -33C (-28F) with a windchill of -48 (-55F), and went back to bed. The switches on the metro tracks were frozen so the trains were on a 30 plus minute delay...no way was son going to stand outside in that. Needless to say he's not impressed with me

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 1:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Seattle WA
We've been getting all sorts of weather alerts since about Thurs or Fri. Frozen front coming in, lot's of snow coming. Surprisingly, it's been sunny and dry (albeit cold and in the upper 30's). Wasn't taking any chances and picked up groceries.

Last night (well, Sunday nite) checked out and still dry around 1pm. About 4am I woke up and happened to check out and dang if we didn't already have about 3-inches of snow during that 3 hour period. All day it's been cold enough that most of the snow is still showing. Back to getting all sorts of NEW weather alerts that SNOW is coming. Black ice alerts, won't catch me even walking out THAR!!!

ME? I'm hibernating and grumpy like a bear!

When will Summer ever get here?

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 1:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Escapee, LOL at your Puppy Playhouse story! Could just picture it.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 2:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
When will summer ever get here? Not soon enough, Bisc! It was so cold tonight that even with the heater on, Darren ended up starting a fire before it finally warmed up (and thermostat on the heater had been set to 72 all day so it shouldn't have been that cold!)

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 2:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Opps, I goofed there. It was 1 a.m. still dry. By 4 a.m. 3 hrs later we had about 3 inches.

This may sound unromantic but okay, I will confess...last year I taped plastic over my fireplace, like a crude storm window. I don't use the fireplace anyways and even with the glass cover and the flue shut, it just sends in cold breezes. Even after the fire dies down, one needs to leave the flue venting & cold creeping in.

Lazy, but I left it intact last summer. Makes a huge difference, but I'm still unromantically
Hibernatin' in Seattle!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 2:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Ours is a wood burning stove, not a fireplace and one thing I've never noticed is the cold breezes people talk about with fireplaces. I dunno if it's cuz it's closed or what. Usually it'll get so hot in the den we have to crack a window open a little to make it comfortable.

Despite the weather we've had this year, we've only used it 2-3 times so far because it hasn't been cold enough and the heaters been enough.

Heh, this afternoon Caleb called me to tell me track practice was cancelled and he needed to be picked up early. When I went over to get him, he was standing there talking to his friend and the poor kid was in his pe uniform (shorts and t-shirt.) Usually I just pull up and get Caleb and run but I felt so sorry for his friend standing there freezing I had to park the car and tell him to get in til his dad got there to get him (this isn't a stranger kid, we've known him and his parents for several years or I wouldn't have offered.) It really was that cold that I'd have felt like a terrible person to drive off and leave him standing out there.

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 2:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Bonza...it finally cleared and we've cleaned the road once again.
I have a sneaking suspicion it won't be the last time this year.

Get better! BB is coming!

Wargod...that was nice of you to let that kid sit with you. It really has seemed so much colder this year. We've used our fireplace every day and night for weeks now.

Biscottiii
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05-29-2004

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 3:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biscottiii a private message Print Post    
Yes War, that WAS nice! Can't let a poor kid freeze his knees off. <shivering just thinking about it> Worth the time and gas to keep a kid safe!!!

You've got that right about the fireplace. I have one of those fireplaces in the wall w/chimney. Looks pretty, but when I ever get to sell the house I will be sure to pull off the plastic first. I used Clear plastic so you can see the little logs I placed in there (for effect), they just ain't burning.

If I had one of those wood burning stoves though, that's a horse of a different color!!! Would dearly LOVE one of them! My big brother in Colorado told me that his wife was planning big remodeling in their house. Her plan was to yank out the wood burning stove in the family room and he told her H*ll NO! If the power went out that would be the only source of heat & cooking they had, he wouldn't consider taking it out. Smart Dude, even if he IS my big brother! (slightly prejudiced here ahem!}

Serenity
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06-28-2005

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 6:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serenity a private message Print Post    
Today -59.8F Neither of my vehicles started. The schools never close here in the city, so I am hoping that the daycare can drive my kids. If not, then they are not going. The windchill is just too d@mn cold!!!

People always ask how we live here. I just reply that it builds character..LOL.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 7:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Oh good grief, Serenity. I thought you must have made a typo but then I checked your profile. That is just too damn cold.