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[shadowinthelight]

You just know somebody is using this at the dinner table.

"Honey, please pass the salt."
"Sure thing!" [ch-chk] BANG

I HAVE to buy one of those now. A small gun rack would sure beat the standard salt shaker at a dinner table.

[shadowinthelight]

It's probably the sleep deprivation but this had me crying from laughter.

Fried Gnocchi

[AnotherFairportfan]

17. And CHARTER Spake, saying "Let there be INTERNET", and lo, there was INTERNET.

18. And there was Grayte Rejoycing.
 


The full-sized version of this image (almost 2 Meg) is here.

[AnotherFairportfan]

Power went out about 2100 EST Monday; back on about 1400 Tuesday; internet came on about an hour before my previous post.

[AnotherFairportfan]

Photos from my phone:

Tuesday, about 1030 EST:



Tuesday, about 1200 EST:

[AnotherFairportfan]

Out and about:



Hollies:





Pyracantha:





Gainesville Courthouse Square:







Dogwood:



{The dogwood is the full frame; i love how it came out}

[AnotherFairportfan]

Bulletins i posted to the Misfile forum using my phone:

Posted 16 February 2015 - 11:41 PM

Freezing rain/ice storm coating trees and power lines, with predictable result.

Power's been out for over two hours (went out about2100 EST, likely out till sometime tomorrow) - lines down across the driveway, and trees and branches falling all over the place. To judge by tone noises. One tree came down in tone yard, apparently, and there's a big limb that stretches across the driveway, right over where we park the cars that iI've been worrying about for a while that looks iffy with the ice, so we've moved the cars.

Supposed to be ice and black ice on the roads, but we can't get out to check.

Posting from my new phone, which has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, or there'd be a lot more errors.

Posted 17 February - 01:09 AM

Was out taking some pictures - since i don't have a decent tripod, it was all flash and manual-focus-by-guess-and-by-god, but I think I got some. Heard several trees come down, at least one across the road. Saw green flashes over the hill that i assume were a transformer giving it up or more power lines coming down.

If we get power back before Wednesday it'll likely be a miracle. And until Georgia Power show up to get their wires off our driveway, we won't be going anywhere.

Posted 17 February - 07:51 AM

0745: No power. Took a bunch of pictures - when i have power (and internet, which is not necessarily the same thing) I'll post some.

It's pretty - pretty cold.

Two trees down - that I can see - across the street.

Posted 17 February - 07:23 PM

Power's been on for a few hours, but Charter has no idea when we get internet.

Tomorrow afternoon at the earliest, i'm sure.

[Dave]

Will you stand by me against the cold night,
or are you afraid of the ice?
Afraid of the ice?

Ice...

(Crack The Sky, "Ice"). (IMHO it's worth buying their "For Catherine" cystic fibrosis research fundraiser CD just for this one track... it's quite amazing on a good pair of headphones... prog jams just don't get much better than this )

[AnotherFairportfan]

First thing Tuesday:





A fire in the back yard? Yep. Coffee.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

[AnotherFairportfan]

Lakeview Drive runs along the low side of out yard:

[AnotherFairportfan]

Currently (0500 20 Feb 15) 12 F, which is apparently three degrees lower than the previous record, set in 1934.

[Dave]

Whee! That poor tree peeled its roots out of the ground quite neatly!

Was it just from the ice loading (asymmetrical?) or did you have a strong wind accompanying the freezing rain?

It was an ice storm in Philadelphia, back in '67 or so, that led to a day without school, my being introduced to computers, an immediate fascination with them, a decision about my career, and thence to my college choice, work-study, first out-of-college gig at Honeywell in LA, meeting my future wife, marriage, moving to Silicon Valley, 30 years of work, Web surfing, running across Fleen, learning about Shelly-1's death, archive-diving Wapsi Square, and my being here in this Forum to torment y'all with bad puns.

Yes, definitely a natural disaster. Who can tell what terrors this new ice storm may have unleashed? A kid raised on rap music and Justin Bieber, learning about nanotechnology on his "no school" day? Only time will tell.

We really must get control of anthropogenic climate change, or even worse things might happen.

[AnotherFairportfan]

Ice, the fact that it was on a fairly steep slope and that the ground has been softened by quite a lot of rain in the last month or so.

Lots of other trees came down all over town, as well. Somewhere, i have a shot of a house that was hit...

[AnotherFairportfan]

Powerlines and things, 17 February 15

What we saw when the sun came up and we could look into the woods. Note two medium-sized pines across the lines:



Our heroes arrive!











Contract tree service workers clearing the powerline right-of-way.

[Grantwhy]

and where I am (north east coast Australia), according to Bureau of Meteorology - at 10am this morning it was 33C (91F) and with wind chill it felt like 37C (98F) with over 70% humidity

I'd be happy to trade some of our heat for some of your snow

[AnotherFairportfan]

...and now for something Completely Different:

So, when i met Kate (more than seventeen years ago, my god), she had a nice pseudo-butcher-block cutting board.

'Bout the middle of last year, Helen decided that the board wasn't clean enough - Helen borders on obsessive-compulsive regarding raw meat contamination - so she put it in the dishwasher to get all clean in the hot, soapy, steamy water.  Turns out that the board was only glued together, not doweled:


 
It happened that i had noticed that there was a nice-looking (if somewhat smaller) plastic board on sale at Kroger - as i recall it was less than $15:



...and the package included a knife (with protective sheath), and you can never have too many (good) knives in the kitchen.



Anyway, i assumed that the knife might be ceramic, but it turned out to be (good, double hollow-ground, very sharp) steel with a ceramic non-stick/protective covering:



It's a very good knife - very sharp (as i said) fits my hand almost perfectly, just about perfectly shaped. I use it for most of my kitchen work that involves vegetables and the like - when i'm mincing stuff it's almost ridiculously easy to get it teeny-tiny.

And i'm not likely to mistake it for any other knives i own:

[AnotherFairportfan]

Here we go again:

(0730 EST 24 February 15):

[AnotherFairportfan]

[jwhouk]

Waaaaah. Wah wah wah waaaaahhhhhh.

[Catawampus]

Winter snows may be pretty, but they do tend to make going out or getting online a tad trickier. I always keep a good supply of food stored in my kitchen, though, and have various non-electrical thingies for when the power goes out and I can't make it into town. And the insanity caused by the isolation isn't too bad, as eventually the voices start to keep me company! Wheeee!

Morning! Yay!

In town, they hadn't turned off the town fountain.

The fence posts in town were having a funny hat contest.

Gate, and gate-related things!

Snow!

More snow!

I used to have knees. I am 87% certain of it.

The wood-burning tea kettle: essential gear for any arctic adventurer.

I wonder which way the wind came from?

The sky is still up in the air! Yay!

Cold makes electrical equipment work better, right?

Oh, wait. . .

The skies have cleared.

The trees have not.

The ground is still downwards! Yay!

Fences don't work well for keeping snowstorms contained.

The sun decided to go where it is warmer.

Frozen waterfalls are easy to chase, TLC.

They also look weird.

And get a bit pointy. (For a sense of scale, the individual icicles on the left are about three to five feet long).

The locals have adopted strategies to cope with being snowbound.