Author Topic: Sissy stuff to keep warm with during the "VORTEX"? (Read 98835 times)

andyg0404 · « **Reply #330 on:** January 21, 2019, 04:32:48 PM »

Hi,

It was one degree on the thermometer here this morning as well. If I didn’t have the doctor’s appointment I wouldn’t have gone out. Since I had no choice, when I left the house I wore five layers of clothing and I certainly wasn’t hot. If you stuck a carrot in my nose I could have been a snowman. My hood blew off and I took off my gloves to find the ties without success; after a minute I had to stop and put the gloves back on because my hand was frozen. But we were incredibly lucky with the actual storm, just a very slight dusting on Saturday/Sunday, nothing to shovel. The sidewalks were very slick so on my walk I stayed mostly in the street where the surface was better. Did not want to fall.

Supposed be more of the same tomorrow although not as harsh. I expect to stay inside.

Andy G.

Angela M... · « **Reply #331 on:** January 21, 2019, 09:45:14 PM »

Yes Andy, very cold here also but I needed to go to the bank and deliver some soup to my sister also. I worry about falling these days too as I just heard a friend broke his leg Skiing on the weekend. He is much younger than I though and I would not dare to Ski or skate these days. I noticed kitty foot prints in the snow around my vehicle so I banged on the hood as I have heard of cats climbing into the engine compartment to keep warm. Never had that happen to me yet but it did happen to a teacher friend who lived across the road. She was in shock when she heard the screech on staring her car and thought it might be one of her own but on checking the house found hers eating in the kitchen. She called my father to investigate and it was not pretty. As you say I will be staying inside for the next few days also.

andyg0404 · « **Reply #332 on:** January 21, 2019, 11:00:37 PM »

Falling is one of my big fears. In my years of walking in the winter I've fallen a number of times on the ice and as I've aged I've thought to myself that if I don't pay closer attention I'm going to break something which would be very unpleasant. I look down as I walk to try to prevent this and consequently I have walked into lampposts and other things on the sidewalk it's hard not to notice. Clumsy I guess is a good word for me. Stay warm Angela, you too Betty. I keep telling myself spring is coming and eventually I guess it will.

Betty · « **Reply #333 on:** January 21, 2019, 11:33:36 PM »

Yeah, the bones get brittle when we age, & take longer to heal.

We don't have to wait for spring. They're saying it might go up to 42F Wednesday. But by the weekend it'll be back to super-chills, like we're on Pluto.

Spring? What spring? Most recent years it's still snowing in March, & many April temperatures are still like winter. You have to wait until the end of spring these days for it to be regularly above freezing. But we did have a lot of 40-50s temperatures in December & the first half of January.

My sister -- a brave soul, actually tried to go outside to take pictures of the eclipse last night. It was a windy -4F at the time with a wind child chill of -24F. That didn't last long, as clouds obscured the view most of the time, she got really cold fast waiting for breaks in the clouds.

Standing inside the screen/storm door to warm up in her hall she got these through the glass on the door, through the frost forming immediately on the door. I boosted the colors, zoomed & sharpened them for artistic effect with more detail.

Betty · « **Reply #334 on:** January 22, 2019, 12:04:29 AM »

She gave up, & just started taking pictures of the ice on the glass instead. I zoomed, enhanced, sharpened, & boosted the color on these.

Betty · « **Reply #335 on:** January 22, 2019, 12:06:38 AM »

Betty · « **Reply #336 on:** January 22, 2019, 12:07:39 AM »

Betty · « **Reply #337 on:** January 22, 2019, 12:08:23 AM »

Angela M... · « **Reply #338 on:** January 22, 2019, 02:07:37 PM »

Pretty cool pictures Betty, no Pun intended LOL. I have often watched the frost form on our windows when I was younger back when the house we rented only had single pane windows and was heated by a space heater in the kitchen. No privacy in that house as we had to leave all the bedroom doors open in winter to heat them and the bathroom was the last one being inside my parents bedroom. Like yours Betty, it was an old mansion divided into four apartments and the land behind it was becoming the city dump as we were leaving. It eventually became a wonderful city park in the late 80's with baseball fields and a soccer field and the old house was torn down in the early 70's for a high-rise apartment building. I did see some of the moon eclipse but only just as it was freezing out there and cloudy here also but it was about half way when I caught sight of it just over my house. A friend who lives a few blocks away near the canal, got two pretty good photo's before the clouds moved. The other side of the canal is open fields and part of the Indian reserve lands so she gets great views of the moon and stars most of the time. She is becoming quite a good photographer as her hobby and has taken some great photo's when walking her dog along the canal. We see lots of geese and Blue Herons along there as well as other birds when the weather is warmer although the Canada Geese just don't fly south that much anymore and seem to be everywhere these days. Stay warm Betty and Andy and we will hope that Spring is on it's way soon and our Winter does not get any worse.

samantha1 · « **Reply #339 on:** January 22, 2019, 04:55:29 PM »

Hi Betty,looks like snow i have s every where as we have snow in berkshire UK still lucky i don't have too go shopping as i ordered my food via the internet.