What is your weather like ... today

[sissy]

gosh windy here today also and it says it is 45 but feels like 25 .cloudy and no sun at all .

 

[icsd71]

It is amazing the damage these kinds of winds can prodiuce over a 8 hour period. There is a lot of shingle damage on homes around us. Thank god ours is a metal roof! Limbs everywhere. Other peoples trash and things in uor yard. crazy!

 

[callingcolleen1]

That weather sucks, hope the fish are all OK down there! Good to hear your OK icsd71! Now what happened to brandondad2???

 

[j.w]

Sunny and 31* right now and raining too.............yep sun and rain at the same time.............one of those passing sun breaks, must go look for the rainbow

 

[brandonsdad02]

I'm still here. This blizzard was something else. 2 people got there angel wings yesterday on Iowa roads. The 37 car pile up was the bad one and there was another 8 semi pile up that shut the interstate down for hours. Many are still with out power but should have it back by this weekend. Made it back to work today for a short, but exciting day. Its the last day we work for this year and it was bonus day. We don't go back to work until Jan 7th. Yessss. $$$$$$ Everyone was in a good mood despite the weather. The roads were still horrible this morning on the way to work. Could only do about 40 tops. Another guy from here in town left at 4am and got to work at 5:30. Its a 30 mile drive. He said there were times he had to stop completely in the road to wait for the white out to die down some. No job is worth risking my life for. Going to get down to 0-5*F for a low tonight. Went and checked on the pond today and this was what I found.

This is the bog spillway

And this is the waterfall

 

[brandonsdad02]

Looked out from the kitchen window tonight and saw the glow of the pond lights thru the slush ice. Looks rather cool I think. This is the first year that I have kept my pond going during the winter. When I was adding water earlier tonight, I opened up the path from the waterfall to the skim box. Just melted the ice with the water since the tap water is still rather warm. Enjoy

Here you can see the flow from the waterfall to the skim box.

The yellow, yellow light is actually a green lense, but I guess the ice makes it a different color. That light is 3' down on the bottom of the pond. The other lights are around 2-3' range.

 

[j.w]

Pretty neat photo's and you have lots of snow and bet it's going to get even colder. I want snow but not too much below freezing. You are showing 11F right now.................

 

[CountryEscape]

Last night was awful with the winds. I had to finally take a sleep aid to get to sleep, the wind was howling at my west bedroom window. I cannot imagine people who go through high winds like this on the coasts. I think the gusts got up to 50 mph or something like that. The temps only got down to the low 20's last night, but the winds put us in single digits as far as what it felt like. You could NOT walk, the wind knocked you down. I heard this evening of a couple of wrecks on the interstate last night. I guess one car "slid" off the interstate (no snow on the highway, so must have been the winds) and then another car slid at the same place, they both ended up in the median. Then a third car slid, hit one of the cars pushed it into the other car. What a bummer! And, also a semi was blown over onto it's side in the winds. My truck was really having a hard time of it, so I can only imagine an empty semi trailer! I was glad to get home, and glad I was not traveling north or south! Those winds out of the west would have been shoving you all day.
My daughter got home yesterday from UT. She missed her first flight, looked at the flight home info instead of leaving info. Then, on the connection, the next 3 flights to St. Louis were all booked, she was put on stand-by, but when she arrived in Denver, the lady at the gate said she was given a seat. She arrived only 30 minutes late from original plan. Her brother went to pick her up and they are hanging out today. I think my son bought his first Christmas tree today, they were shopping together. Bet that was a fun time for both of them!
Glad you got to stay home, Brandonsdad, and are now off work until Jan. 7. Sounds like you work in a school ....

 

[brandonsdad02]

CE. Lol I work in a factory but we are having a normal winter at work this year. Things are a bit slow so the first time in company history, they decided to give us a 2 week break to enjoy the holidays and spend sometime resting. Next year it's going to be another record breaking sales year. It's the calm before the rush. They have my number if they need something done in a hurry.

 

[addy1]

We dropped to 45 here, 36 at home. They are predicting some snow, minor amounts next week.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Lots of fresh falllen snow overnight, brushed it off the deck with broom, even though it was several inchs deep, it was like icing sugar, so light and fluffy it broomed off very nice. Currently five degrees Fahrenheit. Lots of snow on pond has made the water warmer (heater on) and more ice pockets have opened as snow is like blanket over ice now. Everything looks sooo nice with lights outside hanging. Got to go shovel now!

 

[sissy]

We had winds here gusting to 70 and 80 mph and what a mess and still windy but gust are down to 50 and 60 mph and christmas stuff in peoples yards all over .I saw my neighbor getting her front porch furniture out of the wood edge and out of the field .The other neighbors picking up stuff to .One is missing some vinyl siding

 

[j.w]

Rain and 37* w/ no hope for a White Christmas

 

[sissy]

well if we got snow here with the wind it would get blown away

 

[Fishylove]

20* this morning. Both ponds were lightly iced over, but were melted by noon.