Sunday, March 30, 2014

Not again!

We got an inch of rain on Saturday. 

It just poured down.

Temps were in the high 30s.


I took this photo around 5:30pm


When I looked outside about an hour later, I was floored.

Temps tumbled.

Wind was fierce.

And SNOW was piling up!


Sunday morning:

Snow over ice.


I give up.

16 comments:

  1. Wow - Is Spring ever going to spring in NE Ohio?

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    1. That's THE question on everyone's lips over here. They keep showing documentaries about the 'Little Ice Age' and histories about the "Year without a summer" when it snowed in June, July & August. All crops failed. Cheerful stuff, no? *sigh*

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  2. My goodness, Kris. How depressing for you all. Here at the south coast of Britain spring has finally arrived. I`ve been busy sowing seeds in anticipation of a good growing year. Today is Mothering Sunday here, so I`ve shelved my gardening tools and have gone on a short bike ride out into the nearby countryside. Temps here today: 15 C whilst little overcast and slight sea mist rolling inland. Not a bad day for a bike ride.

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    1. I just love the sound of "Mothering Day" vs our "Mother's Day". After all, you don't have to BE a mother "to mother" someone. So glad you got out in nice weather for a cycle. We up to 50s next 3 days, although there is blessed little I can do with all the resultant mud and future freezes coming. Still, it's nice to sit in the sunroom and bask. :-D

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  3. Oh you poor thing. I've had a similar day to Sarina - I was in the greenhouse early on until it just got too damn hot to stay there any longer :}

    We've had no snow this winter and maybe temps below freezing once, possibly twice.

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    1. Oh my dear, if you wish for snow just ASK! I'm sure I could get you several tons. LOL We're just so da~n tired of this winter. And, apparently, April will be just a continuation of the roller coaster. At least I've got things growing in the basement else I'd be well and truly nuts!

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  4. Well, you know I'm with you in this--and we'll get through this. I think. Maybe. Yea.....we will. But gosh, Ma Nature---you're really are a witch---with a B
    Hahahhahahahaa

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  5. You`d be horrified by the predictions of our climate change scientists. Today they urged our government to take on board all their advice for the future. Apparently, human abuse of mother earth with all the carbon emissions we have thrown at her over the last 50 years have now painted a dreadful picture for our future here on earth. Climate changes are now truly to blame for all our extreme weathers. More of the same and worse is to come in years ahead of us. British government is urged to take action, to prepare our sea defences faster and better than they ever were before. Flooding will be happening again, and each time we are unprepared it will leave the already flooded areas even more vulnerable to more serious damage the next time around. Extreme as well as longer winters and drier summers with crop failures will be the norm in the future. We shall see price rises for food supplies all over this globe, as the variety and availabilities of foods will decrease. Climate change is speeding up and we all will feel the consequences of man`s previous abuse of this earth. Carbon emissions released into the atmosphere over the last 50 years makes this climate change now unstoppable. Changes are happening and they will happen faster than we all anticipated. This long spell of your winter is just the tip of the iceberg that`s to hit earth in the future. We should all prepare ourselves for a constant and on-going change in weather conditions. Stock your larders and prepare with plenty of canning and preserving of anything food related for the future. Build some strong greenhouses to grow your own crops in the future and prepare yourself for commercial crop failures that will bring high food prices as well as limited supplies. Times are a' changing, folks.

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    1. I've been watching/reading etc about climate change for a decade. I know we're at the tipping point. I do what I can environmentally, but against the other 6 billion..... I just do what I can. What I don't get is - why won't people, even scientists, BELIEVE IT IS HAPPENING????

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    2. Honey, you just hit the nail on a very uncomfortable head: 6 billion. Our planet wasn't designed for that sort of over-population.

      Unacceptable though it may be to say it what I believe need (or rather what the Earth needs) is one big Mother of a pandemic. A 'kill half the population of the planet' sized pandemic.

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    3. Jayne, no, not a pandemic. The simplest way is to just stop making more people. If there is need of pandemic, then read Dan Brown's latest book: INFERNO. He's got the right idea.

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    4. Sorry about the awful construction of earlier comment, trying out a new tablet :{

      Don't much care for the way Dan Brown writes, but you could do worse than read some work by Dr Ken Thompson, a plant ecologist who likens humans to a parasitic mould which multiplies and multiplies until eventually completely overwhelming its host ...


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  6. Unbelievable! At least you got rain!

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    1. Oh yeah, like we needed more moisture after feet and feet of snow. :-/

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  7. It's just weather. It will come and then pass. Our winter has been miserable but the plants are well watered from all the rain/snow and the plants that died made room for all the seedlings I have in my greenhouses.

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    1. Ah yes, the 'bright side'. LOL 'Making lemonade'. The 'silver lining. '
      Hard to keep that in mind when the winter onslaught continues.... *heh*

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