Thursday, January 08, 2009
"against cold" 3
Polistra is thanking Saint Maurus again.
Spokane was spared from the worst possible meltdown. The Weather Bureau** forecast a chinook with 3 inches of rain. We got the chinook (two days of scary but not quite dangerous warm wind) ... and no rain at all. So the roofs are now dry, the streets are clean and the snowbanks are receding, but we didn't get disastrous floods.
The Author is still jangled and thoroughly exhausted. During the month of ever-increasing snow, he jumped at every drip and creak, and spent hours on a precarious ladder trying to remove snow and break ice dams. Now he's still jumping at every noise. Needs a vacation.
More to the point, the Author needs to move back to Oklahoma. As the earth rapidly enters the next Little Ice Age, Spokane winters will become ever more dangerous.
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** For the record, I should add that exactly one of the local weathercasters was close to correct... not just on the meltdown, but during the whole emergency. Brian Albrecht at KHQ was right most of the time, while all the others followed the Weather Bureau's bad predictions. ¶ 6:26 PM
Polistra is thanking Saint Maurus again.
Spokane was spared from the worst possible meltdown. The Weather Bureau** forecast a chinook with 3 inches of rain. We got the chinook (two days of scary but not quite dangerous warm wind) ... and no rain at all. So the roofs are now dry, the streets are clean and the snowbanks are receding, but we didn't get disastrous floods.
The Author is still jangled and thoroughly exhausted. During the month of ever-increasing snow, he jumped at every drip and creak, and spent hours on a precarious ladder trying to remove snow and break ice dams. Now he's still jumping at every noise. Needs a vacation.
More to the point, the Author needs to move back to Oklahoma. As the earth rapidly enters the next Little Ice Age, Spokane winters will become ever more dangerous.
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** For the record, I should add that exactly one of the local weathercasters was close to correct... not just on the meltdown, but during the whole emergency. Brian Albrecht at KHQ was right most of the time, while all the others followed the Weather Bureau's bad predictions. ¶ 6:26 PM
