Wednesday - 1st Day Above 32°F In About 3 Months...

[Greenguy]

What happens to snow & ice when the temp goes above 32°F?

If you guessed that it melts & turns to water, you're right!

Same question, but put all that snow & ice on the roof of your kitchen...

Woke up to see a puddle on the floor, as well as the paint on the walls & ceiling swelled due to water leaking in. I think I'd be more distraught if this wasn't just another catastrophe in a looooooong list of just rotten bad luck

[Cleo]

Lots of water here and I'm planning on kayaking on it this evening.
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Just a day of work planned. Yesterday I bought a tarp to keep my kayak covered. Still trying to figure out the best way to keep tied it down over everything wile making it easy to put on and off.

So now I have a big brown blob in my driveway.

[Ramster]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

What happens to snow & ice when the temp goes above 32°F?

If you guessed that it melts & turns to water, you're right!

Same question, but put all that snow & ice on the roof of your kitchen...

Woke up to see a puddle on the floor, as well as the paint on the walls & ceiling swelled due to water leaking in. I think I'd be more distraught if this wasn't just another catastrophe in a looooooong list of just rotten bad luck

That sucks! Nothing worse, happened to us as well some time ago

[Ramster]

Well good morning everyone

Another day of work and yes, as Greenie says it is suppose to reach 0 today (32F) for the first time in sooooo long. Bring on spring. I need to go away and just so happens I have a free flight credit of $500 to use by April 11th. Now I just need a free/cheap place to stay where it's above 70 every day lol

[JustRobert]

Good Morning

Greenie, so very sorry to hear about the leak but at least you can now wear shorts.

It should only get to about 70F today which is perfect but will reach 80F by the weekend which may sound great to some people but I have no A/C at this time so it really is not.

Getting back to work on the house and all the issues makes me wish I was a renter at this moment and could just call the landlord.

[ecchi]

A new experience for my friend's puppy. He was standing on the roof (my friend has a penthouse, so the roof is his back yard) when it started to hail. You could see the quizzical look on his face as he thought "Who is throwing bits of ice at me?" Eventually he decided that it was an attack, and came running in to me for protection from the "rain that hurts".

I later started teaching him the "lamppost" command. This is for when he is on a lead and goes round a different side of a lamppost or tree to me. I train dogs to go round the other side when I yell "lamppost". However the training involves me yelling "lamppost" and pulling on the lead, so that the dog is pulled back round the post. Eventually they learn to go round the post on their own when I yell. This was the first time I tried it on the puppy, and he got scared from the weird fact that he could see me pulling on his lead, but was getting dragged further away from me!

Originally Posted by Greenguy

What happens to snow & ice when the temp goes above 32°F?........just another catastrophe in a looooooong list of just rotten bad luck

My sympathies. When I was a kid we often got flooded out by a stream at the end of the road bursting it's banks. This never did any serious damage, and the council widened the stream decades before we moved out. But it worried my father enough that he now lives on the side of a hill so that any flood water will (hopefully) run straight past his house.

And for those of you who think I exaggerated my journey woes yesterday, here is how the national press reported it:

Life threatening chaos at railway station


Police are called after rush-hour services at London Bridge grind to a halt AGAIN

And here is a photo of people trying to get on the station: