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So home town has been encased in snow & ice for about 2 weeks.

When I got here Christmas Day it was off the main roads, but the neighborhood was completely locked in; city didn't even think of plowing. For years, they never have. A dirty crying shame.

And recent rains had turned it all to ice, so they couldn't plow even if they wanted to. Yesterday it was about 20 degrees all day. Today, we get out of the Friday Night Chinese Dinner At Regular Friday Night Place to pouring freezing rain. Fortunately we get home before it actually freezes.

What's the weather forecast? Oh, 60 degrees tomorrow. Those would be Fahrenheit degrees, if anyone is checking. Then cold swoops in again by evening & everything is scheduled to go down into the 30s. If we're lucky it will stay upper 30s, enough for the great masses of fluid in the streets to slowly drain, if we are not lucky, solid ice again.

ghost, if you need it, you are welcome to borrow the White Hot Glare of Righteousness to keep that ice off the streets. It worked for me last winter and again a couple of weeks ago, when it kept an ice storm about 10 miles north.

In the meantime, have a great visit with your family! Stay safe and warm.

I rode home from work this morning with my window down..... at least until it started raining halfway there....

And just 5 mornings ago it almost hit 0 degrees.....

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which the computer says are only 16(mph). Computer wouldn't lie, would it? They woke me up, sounding like a train going by the window. I know that sound, living in Somerville 2 blocks from an actual train. But they don't run the fast ones at 5:35am, & since I'm visiting in Ohio, there is no 2-blocks-away train here.

This is the end tip of Tornado Alley, but usually not in December, & so far nothing has hit or shaken the house, just whistled by.

So yesterday, two days after Christmas, all five of us plus two Golden Retrievers trailered our two canoes about 8 miles upstream from the house. My brother went along to drive the truck back home. The river was up and flowing, making the paddling effort needed to be just enough to point the correct end downstream. The sun was shining, temps were in the 70's and there was little wind. It was so warm that when Ryley, the youngest pup, decided to take a flying leap into the river that it was just an event, not a diaster.

A hour and a half of floating down a scenic river, watching your kids actually do something together and enjoy it and a 300 yard portage at the end of the trip to put us back at the house. Doesn't get much better than that.

11:00pm nightly news reported this am's wind highest measured speed at 66mph. Or was it 61mph. At any rate, not 16mph like the computer said. I think computer-posting mechanism is a little dyslexic. Lotsa pictures of cars smashed by fallen trees, & one family which has an entire tree uprooted & now trying hard to come in their windows. Not trying too hard anymore though now that the wind speed is down to about 10mph.