The other day, I bet Mrs. L.A. we were done with snow this season. We only have a dusting, but that’s enough for me to lose the bet.
It is February 3rd. That giant rat, Puxatewnay Phil predicted 6 more weeks of winter just yesterday. No shit Sherlock. I live in New England and we would be very fortunate to have only 8 more weeks of winter in a good year. The upper Pacific northwest isn’t exactly the Caribbean either.
BTW, you need to change your name to Johnny WA. It has been long enough and people don’t like false advertising. 
AIUI, if the groundhog sees his shadow, there will be six more weeks of Winter. If he doesn’t, then Winter will only last another month and a half. We live in the lowlands. We’re about 500 feet from, and 45 feet above, the beach. There’s usually not a lot of snow.
As for the Caribbean, Mrs. L.A. said yesterday she wished we were back in Puerto Rico.
I’m from L.A., so I’ll keep the name. 
Yes, but a quarter of a what? A quarter of all your earthly possessions? A quarter of an hour? A quarter of … of … a dollar? Pay her off, man, before the compound interest crushes you.
Shagnasty, I admire your valiant attempt to go it alone, but Wikipedia and cut-and-paste are perfectly valid tools to use when attempting something like Punxsutawney Phil. Did the parable of John Henry teach you nothing?
A quahtah dallah, of course.
It’s really coming down now. I’m still sure it will change to rain…
I tried… I really did. It makes me wonder how people that live there ever get mail. Poor kids.
They ask the Post Office how often they get mail. They heard the Postmaster say, ‘Tri-weekly.’ They said, ‘That isn’t so bad.’ The Postmaster said, ‘Ayuh. We try weekly. If we can’t get through we try the next week.’
Are we sure it was that groundhog’s shadow that scared him back into his hole … we might be looking at 4 more years of winter …
Here’s a quarter. IF you can still find a pay phone call someone who cares…like Travis Tritt.
And it’s still coming down. It’s been coming down all day. Man was I wrong!
This morning it looks like we have about six inches accumulated. Mrs. L.A. bought a ‘greenhouse’ tent a while back. It was blown around by the high winds we have here sometimes, and got tweaked. She decided not to mess with it until the likelihood of more winds was less. Well, now it got snowed on and is looking a little flat. And it’s snowing again.
When I’m wrong, I’m really wrong!
Punxsutawney Phil told you this two days ago. You need to listen better when rodents speak. My chinchilla Puffy doesn’t know anything about the weather but he is really good at picking stocks.
You sound like my wife!
It seems our street is last in line for plowing. I have serious doubts that the Prius will move, since it shuts off power to the wheels when it detects slippage. When both wheels are slipping, power is shut down to both of them. I have the Cherokee, and it does very well in snow, thankyouverymuch. But it’s blocked in the driveway by Mrs. L.A.'s RAV 4. So if I/we need to go anywhere, we’ll have to take her car.
Well, crapulshki.
Snowing again. :mad:
Tomorrow is trash & recycling day. So I had to shovel a path and a patch to put them out. As if they’re really going to pick it up tomorrow. :dubious: I started the Prius and turned the defoggers on while I was doing the other things. Got the snow off of the glass. I saw Mrs. L.A. being very careful on the stoop, so I put down some kosher salt to melt the ice. It worked very well.
Since the house was warm and I was a bit heated from shovelling, I decided to go sit on the deck. You may (or may not) recall that the large deck roof is not attached to the house. One of the bedrooms extends beyond the living room so the roof there slopes one way and the roof by the living room slopes 90º from it. So the deck roof extends above the house roof about three feet, and overlaps it. So there’s a gutter outside of the French doors. It leaks. With the cold weather, there was a bit of ice. Guess who slipped in it and almost went down? I put some salt there, too.
It’s snowing heavily. It’s drifting into the covered part of the deck. More snow tomorrow. Possibly snow Tuesday morning.
Here in Orygun, just a bit south of y’all, we were under a Winter storm warning until it just flipped to a flood warning. Apparently it’s not going to get quite cold enough to snow, but we are going to pass flood stage on several rivers. I’d rather have snow. :mad:
Not ‘or-ee-GONE’? 
d&r
heh it snowed here in the antelope valley for about a minute in a half about a week in a half ago but its funny as hell that just because we get a slight thaw in January every year
people act like its may last couple years people tried starting their gardens early and when it froze again like normal it killed off hundreds if not thousands of dollars in live plants …the storms are supposed to start up again left overs from johnny’s snow …
I’ve bookmarked a live webcam located at the Central Market in Poulsbo, because I like to look at what the weather’s like up there. A few days ago they got a couple of hours of snow, just barely enough to stick on the ground, but it was all melted by nightfall. It must be a bit warmer there than where you live, Johnny L.A..
However, the snowfall at my Hurricane Ridge webcam has been awesome.
Friday or Saturday I heard Bellingham – about 20 - 25 south of here – was pretty much snow-free. Here’s the live ‘Viking View’ camera at WWU. It looks like they’re pretty much snow free.
Ha! Famous last words!
There’s even snow in Sequim, in the “rain shadow” zone. I have a Sequim lavender farm webcam bookmarked, and there is snow all over the lavender shrubs.