gogoblender 3,070 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Save me some soup, extra meat please, hope the skating rink turns out good, I've just noticed that they've sprung up in the out door parks all over Montreal in last ten days here! Folks, we have -18 here in Sunny Montreal gogo Link to comment
Knuckles 904 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 The weekend got pretty cold here. Was around 0°F ( -17°C) with and wind chill of -20°F ( -28°C) on Sunday. Good news: I was working inside....Bad news: There was no heat.....Good news: I had a space heater.....Bad news: it took 2-3 hours for it to warm up the garage bay. One strange thing about this winter for us, is other than this last weekend daily temps have been much higher than average and basically no snow at all. Had a couple minor storms that dumped an inch or 2 but that quickly melted. Last year we had already been through several major storms/blizzards by this point. I have a feeling February isn't going to be very nice for us. Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I wish I could say the same thing about our weather here Robb, lol I'm actually getting just plain ole tired of it, and am looking for a break in it. Thank god for those Mcd's coupons! gogo Link to comment
cider_steve 26 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 The last couple of days have been cold 'n' icy, but no snow thus far, thank goodness ! Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 We've got a raising of the weather here, only -7 here today, the floors feel a tad warmer, no need for me to leap to the slippers in the morning gogo Link to comment
cider_steve 26 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Slightly warmer here today, but it has brought in some rain. @ Gogo :- My feet get very cold, so I always wear slippers indoors, even in summer. Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Well, we had pretty messy weather last night. When I was walking home from work in the dark at night, rivers of icy water and slush, rain, snow, splattering cars whipping by. Happy to make it home finally, but it is cold out there today. gogo Link to comment
cider_steve 26 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 *Y A W N * ! ZZZZzzzzzzz I didn't get much sleep last night. The wind was blowing up a storm, and I can never sleep through that noise ! So tired. Guess I'll have to sleep when I get to work, rofl ! Steve. Link to comment
chattius 2,526 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Yesterday -7C and dry, this morning +2C and rain. Guess what happened at rain on frozen ground: 2 ladies, aged 78 and 81 fall. One broke her lower arm bones, the other upper leg. Phone calls came to my wife at 21:30 and 21:50. Daughter drove my wife in the unimog so my wife could get informations by phone while reaching the place. Our oldest drove it home where I attached a street sander. Red cross car came at midnight when the street was sanded. The unimog was driven to the accident places not using asphalt road but field roads where it had grip. Rain and above 0C, so not possible to do woodcutting tomorrow. But at least the flooded field is nicely frozen and kids can do skating at weekend. Link to comment
cider_steve 26 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Yesterday -7C and dry, this morning +2C and rain. Guess what happened at rain on frozen ground: 2 ladies, aged 78 and 81 fall. One broke her lower arm bones, the other upper leg. Phone calls came to my wife at 21:30 and 21:50. Daughter drove my wife in the unimog so my wife could get informations by phone while reaching the place. Our oldest drove it home where I attached a street sander. Red cross car came at midnight when the street was sanded. The unimog was driven to the accident places not using asphalt road but field roads where it had grip. Rain and above 0C, so not possible to do woodcutting tomorrow. But at least the flooded field is nicely frozen and kids can do skating at weekend. That's very sad news about the ladies, sorry to hear that. I hope they recover quickly. At that age, it will be a terrible shock for them, and risks taking away thier confidence too. Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I'm always scared for old people falling, Chattius, that is saddening news. My neighbor was 96 before she went to assisted home, but year before, she had fall too, and this impacted her mobility, confidence...she was still stubborn as ever, but the fall had shaken her up and she was in pain. My mom works in an old age home, and she's always terrified of the residents having their "fall". If it happens at a very old age, and they break their hip, it's very difficult to recover completely from it. On that note, -14 here, gonna be a cold one! :cha (18): gogo Link to comment
chattius 2,526 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Depends on how complex the bone is broken. I know the 81 year old with the broken arm. She used to walk 30 kilometres a day with her dog. Met her a lot in the forest. Link to comment
cider_steve 26 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Depends on how complex the bone is broken. I know the 81 year old with the broken arm. She used to walk 30 kilometres a day with her dog. Met her a lot in the forest. It is good that the elderly keep fit with walking, though not all are so lucky with thier health. Some are too infirm to walk much at all. Still must come as a nasty shock to slip and injure themselves though, no matter how fit and healthy they are. Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 The "big fall" is what everyone is on guard for. Apparently , if they fall at that old an age, they can get blood poisoning or something like that? It's like infection I think if the bones break? and this can be devastating gogo Link to comment
chattius 2,526 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Deutsch Drahthaar, german wirehaired pointers are a dog race preferred by hunters here. Robust,intelligent and like long walks. You see this often at old people, they kinda live for their animals. German wirehaireds often had their tail shortened which is forbidden now in germany. I never liked this cutting pointy ears or shortening of tails. Link to comment
DaveO 88 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 That dog reminds me of a husky that my brother once had. It loved to go on walks and mountain hiking treks. Temperatures are still quite good here in Arizona. Maybe instead of the rejected oil pipeline, we can build one to send gogo some warmer air. Link to comment
cider_steve 26 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I don't think Gogo needs any help there, rofl ! Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 That dog reminds me of a husky that my brother once had. It loved to go on walks and mountain hiking treks. Temperatures are still quite good here in Arizona. Maybe instead of the rejected oil pipeline, we can build one to send gogo some warmer air. lol, please more warm air! I've begun changing weekend plans just because of this cold. I don't think Gogo needs any help there, rofl ! ro fl ... gogo Link to comment
cider_steve 26 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Yikes..........put down the axe Gogo, there's a good chap !! Very overcast with strong winds here. Not much protection from the wind and it really drags the temperature down. *sigh* Link to comment
chattius 2,526 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Fog,Rain, sun, hail, snow, storm, each hour diferet Link to comment
cider_steve 26 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Fog,Rain, sun, hail, snow, storm, each hour diferet That's some confused weather you have there, friend. I can't see my weather, it's too dark ?!?! Link to comment
chattius 2,526 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Daughters reported a chain of cranes flying south while waiting for the bus after school. So I was not surprised at all when weather report forecasted extremely cold air from sibiria the next few days. Northern germany has some stationary cranes which normally stay in winter. But seems they are on the run, aeh flight, ... Link to comment
essjayehm 58 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Massive snowstorms here this week. I've been working overnight shifts and my drives into work and home on Saturday night were awful. I took a private driveway (as I couldn't go up my own - too steep and curvy) and I was going thru 3 feet of snow, with the snowdrifts (6-8 of them along 300-meter stretch) were 5 feet deep. Heh... I felt like one of those "professional drivers on a closed course" you see in the winter-tire advertisments. Snow flying over the hood, obsuring visibiltiy even with wipers on high-speed, the car lurching every time it hit a drift... but at least I did not get stuck! Until I tried to park. hours of digging later, I got moving again. Link to comment
Stormwing 40 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Well, I'm freezing my @$$ out here... Constantly over -20C and seems it should go that way all week long. Guess it would be nice to hibernate every now and then... The heating's okay and all, but ever a short peek outside is horrible. *Shudder* Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I can't see my weather, it's too dark ?!?! Still early there Cider? Gmornin btw! Daughters reported a chain of cranes flying south while waiting for the bus after school. So I was not surprised at all when weather report forecasted extremely cold air from sibiria the next few days. Northern germany has some stationary cranes which normally stay in winter. But seems they are on the run, aeh flight, ... Chain of cranes... COOL image! Well, I'm freezing my @$ out here... Constantly over -20C and seems it should go that way all week long. Guess it would be nice to hibernate every now and then... The heating's okay and all, but ever a short peek outside is horrible. *Shudder* Ah, now you guys have that horrible coldness! It broke for us here for a while, but yesterday it jumped back to bite hard... we're at minus ten already gogo Link to comment
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