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[boinsie]

You might have heard on the news, but Seattle's having a sudden bonkers snowy winter. This area normally gets one or two little 2-inch snow events per year. I live somehwat southeast of Seattle, at around 450 ft in elevation. So anyway, on Friday I left work early to race the snow storm home. Fri we got about 4 inches. Then Sat/Sun/Mon each had their share of snowfall (I was unable to go to work on Monday due to snow/ice, etc), and we were up to about a foot of accumulation when we went to bed last night.. Then this morning, I woke up at 2am to a power outage. Went outside to get firewood for heAT, and found a fresh foot and a half of snow (on top of the foot we already had from the previous days). We're talking up to my knees. Power didn't come back until 2pm and it snowed almost all day. I did a whooole lot of shoveling and splitting wood... I'm exhausted. Going to bed at 8:30PM tonight. ^^;;;;

[Moh]

Yup, it's been all over the news. It sounds absolutely miserable! Hope y'all stay warm.

[esm]

Meanwhile, I’ve never seen this before until this morning: So much ice covering everything, like tree branches. It’s not that cold. There was just freezing rain the night before.

[TotallyUncool]

The snow does look beautiful, and so does the ice on those branches, but I know that it is much, much easier for me to say that from a safe distance than it is to be in the middle of it all.

[JonCC]

This is strange: ever since the October Update of Windows 10 was installed on my computer Windows doesn't recognize the ℃ symbol (as in ℃-ute any more)

A new update got applied today: problem fixed.

[TotallyUncool]

Conversation overheard in the elevator (on my way back from picking up lunch):
"Do you know what he does? He takes a shower at the airport, then he goes directly to see the client."
"He doesn't even stop in at his hotel?"
"No - he always has to be moving. He's not human."
"Don't say that!"
"This isn't just about work. It's about life."
I'm inclined to agree...
Although I suppose I shouldn't say too much, since I haven't quite figured out how to make my ideal balance (utter slacker who somehow manages to take care of business) actually work.

[Moh]

Meanwhile, I’ve never seen this before until this morning: So much ice covering everything, like tree branches. It’s not that cold. There was just freezing rain the night before.

I didn't mention this when you posted it, but that picture reminds me of the last winter I spent in Tennessee.


Man, I miss that place... She says as they're under a flood threat right now.

[TotallyUncool]

That is some impressive ice!

[rikkikow]

Happy Birthday to you!

[TotallyUncool]

(I didn't take these pictures - I wish I had, but only from a safe distance. )

In all the time that I lived on the central coast of California, thunderstorms were almost unheard of, and I can't recall ever seeing lightning (I probably saw it once or twice, but it was that rare). In the L.A. area, thunderstorms and lightning were always a little less uncommon, but still rather unusual, and generally on the small side.
The weather this season, though, has been a bit extreme for the area:

Somebody in Nipomo (in the middle of the central coast, and just about zero on the "ever gets thunderstorms" scale) sent this picture to a local TV station (a friend then posted the link on FB):


And a professional photographer in Santa Barbara took these:

Lightning in the skies above Santa Barbara as seen from Stearns Wharf.
Quite a light show for Southern California.
(All photos were taken with a Nikon D750 & 24-70mm lens. Cable release and exposures vary from 15 seconds to 75 seconds. No composites or layers. All single frames)

Apparently, the Southern California area had somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 lightning strikes during the past few days - not much at all for the midwest, I know, but remarkabe for this area.

It seemed to be pretty close in El Segundo (near LAX) on Tuesday night, and I could still see (and hear) it later that night in Covina (which is about 30 miles inland). I don't know if this is going to become common in Southern California, but it is definitely spectacular.