It could be sleet. It could be freezin’ rain. It could be just rain. Look out for flyin’ pigs. Who knows!!!
That mumper friends appears to be the weather forecast in south Jawja right now as I post. I have learnt me sump’n though. Freezin’ rain means it’s rain when it falls but turns to ice at the surface. I think that’s what may be happenin’ right now. I see ice on trees but nuttin’ on the driveway. I expect that I shall have no problem goin’ to irk. However a few miles north of here the roads are slippery. Thus, all the schools have cancelled classes for today. This surprises me not. I reckon better safe than sorry.
Yay for Swampy - thanks for starting the MMP! And good morning all - I’m up and caffeinating. That storm is supposed to be headed my way (or thereabouts! ;)) tomorrow; where I live is in the 2-4 inch accumulations area. :eek:
Hope everyone has a good Monday - considering that it -is-, after all, Monday.
Ah, about time, I was considering opening the MMP but decided to go the lazy route.
I’m back at work, the horrid mist we had this morning has lifted. We should be going for lunch soon. Meetings on Wednesday, which sucks because it means I need to change my sign-up for WoW raids (games with other players) from “will be here” to “will be here if my boss doesn’t keep us in the office until Thursday”. He’s the kind of guy who takes forever to change what he’s doing: it takes him forever to start a meeting, takes him forever to finish one, takes him forever to get ready for lunch, then we pretty much have to drag him back… Nice guy otherwise, but any meeting with him will last at least one hour more than planned. Oh well.
Having a job is nice, when the job isn’t completely nuts.
ETA: maybe I should call him Minute Man. Not as in the Minutemen, but as in “just a minute more”.
Good morning! Thanks for starting us off, Swampus.
It’s cloudy and chilly, but all the rain went away. It might freeze tonight, but tomorrow night it definitely will, so say the weather people. Plants, pets and pipes, people!
I got me a compact fridge for my cubicle! No more putting my lunch in the science experiment they call a refrigerator around here. Yay! It even has a teeny-tiny freezer, with a teeny tiny ice tray! It will hold the ice tray and maybe two Lean Cuisines.
Beware, Mumpers…I have germs! I’m all snuffly today and my throat is very sore so that does not bode well for the rest of the week. We had a great weekend though, but the scales told me this morning that I definitely should not have so much fun in future as it’s not good for the heiferness, or non-heiferness for that matter.
Today I’ve been sorting out the last of the exam papers and now I can get on with something else for the afternoon. I may try to get my hair cut tomorrow, that’s always a possibility. Other than that, it’s wet, windy and cold over here. We have no snow though, and I want it to stay that way. This is a country that does not deal well with the white stuff.
So, we’ll try to post again. My last one got eated.
We are delayed until 10 a.m. at work due to a power outage. Now that it’s daylight I see ice on trees but the roads are clear. Of course this means that there’s ice on all my neighbors’ pine trees. Pine trees are notorious for droppin’ branches. All I know is my neighbors pine trees better not drop limbs on my fence. :dubious:
Oh and of course the cable is out. Stoopit Mediacom.
I get the APOD RSS feed through my LJ. Look at me being all acronymy. I could work for the government with that kind of language.
The ding-dong weathermen around here keep calling for 2-4 inches of snow. They all need to go back to school and learn what an inch is because there’s at least six inches out there and more falling. I’m expecting at least a foot by tomorrow morning.
Computer Boy’s friend Hyper has been staying with us this weekend because he was scheduled to go to court this morning. He definitely hiked out there because there are footprints (rapidly filling up) in the parking lot heading towards the courthouse. We’re only ten minutes from downtown walking.
Hyper is officially on the Cool People List. I showed him a classic MST3K movie on OnDemand last night (sans MST3K people): The Brain that Wouldn’t Die. It’s a heartwarming little tale about a mad scientist who has a car accident while taking his fiancee on a drive to The Country Place. The fiancee is decapitated, so he takes her head and keeps it alive until he can find her a new body. To facilitate this quest, he hits all of the finest strip clubs in town. Hyper thought it was delightfully insane, which is the correct reaction.
Cool deal Swampy! You started my thoughts this AM and the MMP too. As I was coming awake the radio was talking about Georgia (yours and not the one with my relatives) and the weather and all and I was hoping it all was finding you safe. One of my Pastor friends is in trouble with his congregation though - Norcross area. His sermon was mostly about how he missed the weather from PA even if he didn’t miss the rest of it much. He thinks Council is discussing a basic heretic burning.
We’re due for snow the next three days. I’m working on a Voyager kit for a buddy and have it strapped to my Sportie right now. I am soooooooo hoping for inches and inches so I can test it out some and see if I want to track down one for myself. These are like training wheels for a Harley; the cops use them a lot. But as we say around here sometimes YMMV.
We’ll barely freeze Wednesday so I’ll likely just cover stuff rather than bring it in. Got a bunch of trees being delivered Friday so I’m glad they’re scheduled for after. Over Christmas we hit -17 one morning and had 10 feet of snow in the mountains, plus high winds meant we had to divert our landing to DIA. Enough of that!
Baton Rouge is south of the worst of this storm, thankfully. It’s still cold as a witch’s tushie, though. The dog and I caught some intermittent sleet yesterday during walksies.
I was still late to work this morning, however, because idiots who are allowed driver’s licenses still don’t seem to understand that speeding through a constricted construction area where the road shoulders are unavailable might cause accidents. The interstate was backed up for miles.
I think we’d get more accurate meteorology from Ollie Williams. At least this year the weather ding-dongs have started prefacing every prediction with “This is what we think will happen” because after last year they finally realized that when the air masses hit the mountains they go every which-way and there’s no real way to predict where exactly they’ll go.
