Saturday, January 11, 2014
La Niñita
So far this winter is a sort of La Niñita. A miniature version of the 2008 Hellfest. Same events in the same order .... snow followed by harsh cold followed by windy and warm ..... but only about 25% of full strength.
In 2008 the result of this sequence at 100% concentration was lots of collapsed roofs and flooded houses and ruined lives. This year's HO-scale version is sort of scary to watch but not especially harmful.
Today was the windy and warm part. 50/50. 50 degrees, 50 mph. The 2008 version was 60/60, but it happened at a time when ice dams blocked outflow of a 30" snowpack. Result: floods inside and outside.
Result of this year's HO-scale: No problem on roofs, just swampy yards and perfectly dry streets.
The full-scale version nearly killed me. The HO-scale version just gives me nice walkable streets for the first time in a month. Nature doesn't do linear. Nature does sigmoids.
Labels: Heimatkunde
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