Take care! When I lived in Hadstock, two villagers were benighted by snow coming back from Saffrom Walden and had to spend the night in the car because the snow had drifted and was too deep to get through. Who says we have it soft in the South?
Winter- Bring it on!
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Hurricane Sandy (hopefully the last of the season) is expected to collide with an Arctic blast early this coming week and hit the US East Coast somewhere between Washington and Maine. Expected power outages of several days with possibilities of a week or more in that area.
A long way from here but I'm wishing them the best through it all.
A long way from here but I'm wishing them the best through it all.
I'm worried about the kids I taught in the Bahamas many years ago. We missed a hurricane back in the 70s but a tropical storm was bad enough. Somehow the news always jumps from the Caribbean to the US missing what happens in the Bahamas every year. Maybe it's because the think the Bahamas are in the Caribbean: there are, of course in the Atlantic. It's a long way from the cosy winter cold outside and a warm fireside I was thinking of when I started the thread.
The best laid plans.....
I was quite pleased with myself for having the car winter ready, but the O2 sensor has just gone
On the plus side it has 1 week to run on its one year warranty, so I guess that's lucky I will need to embark on a 35 mile drive to where I bought it from though, so here's hoping the snow doesn't lie.
I was quite pleased with myself for having the car winter ready, but the O2 sensor has just gone
On the plus side it has 1 week to run on its one year warranty, so I guess that's lucky
I will need to embark on a 35 mile drive to where I bought it from though, so here's hoping the snow doesn't lie.
You're right; I rarely if ever hear about the Bahamas or Bermuda.
Sorry for the hijack, it's not what I meant to do. The reason I bring it up at all is exactly because it's so unusual for a hurricane to strike this late in the season and to hit so far north. Usully hitting in the South in the Summer, cold isn't an issue. This one's power outages could be a different problem in the colder Northern autumn (although lack of air conditioning has killed a few elderly here in the South after hurricanes)
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Just a wee dusting o snow here yesterday in Drummuir.
Bring it on!
Shetland Pony tracks in the snow behind the house, pony just dithering around.
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Bring it on!
Shetland Pony tracks in the snow behind the house, pony just dithering around.
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