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Lawrence, Kansas

Currently at 23:04 it is 3.8C

JimK

jps wrote:Feel better, John!

Don't you have one of these?

Yeah, but I talked myself into feeling good enough to use one of these for the mailman.


Thanks all. On the mend.

johnallg wrote:

My torso muscles are sore....

I remember i used to have these before the flab muscles fully developed.Glad your feeling better John

scotty wrote:

johnallg wrote:

My torso muscles are sore....

I remember i used to have these before the flab muscles fully developed.Glad your feeling better John

I didn't think I still had torso muscles either until yesterday. Thanks, Scott.

winston wrote:A desalination plant may be in order pretty quick Gil.

If you need help convincing the Knesset or the ruling government let me know........I can probably help since I have experience as a registered lobbyist here in our country

http://www.water-technology.net/projects/israel/

Largest reverse osmosis water desalination plant in the world, but it's enough for only %5 of Israel's water requirements
Besides - desalinating water requires LOTS of energy (they built a whole power plant next to the plant).

We need more rain, or snow, really, snow would be awesome!

Ah! That's good news. I see that it was built since the last time I visited Israel (2000). It's just about time to come back for a visit I think.

I love your country.

YAY!!!! It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Looks like the weatherman was wrong. What a difference a day makes!

Make that a foot and a half!

Peter: what do you do when there is so much snow? I mean - do people go to work? I wonder what is the daily routine in such cases.

When we get 50 cm or so over night it is very difficult to move first thing in the morning and there are numerous shut downs for the day. Then comes the task of trying to find a place to put the snow. For the most part, however, it is business as usual. The worst is when the storm is accompanied by high winds that cause extensive drifting and white outs in which visiblity is close to zero. Our fingers remain crossed that the power stays on.

admin wrote:When we get 50 cm or so over night it is very difficult to move first thing in the morning and there are numerous shut downs for the day. Then comes the task of trying to find a place to put the snow. For the most part, however, it is business as usual. The worst is when the storm is accompanied by high winds that cause extensive drifting and white outs in which visiblity is close to zero. Our fingers remain crossed that the power stays on.

I would have an extremely difficult time coping. When I briefly lived in the Sierras, we received 3 feet of snow in less than 24 hours one time, lost power for days and went crazy. I guess you develop a fortitude towards such events. I couldn't, though. I left the Sierras a few months later.

Where in the Sierras were you?

jps wrote:Where in the Sierras were you?

Jeff, I lived in a small town called Quincy, right in the middle of the Plumas Nat'l Forest.

I see, way up north. I used to hang out much further south in the Sierras a lot.

admin wrote:When we get 50 cm or so over night it is very difficult to move first thing in the morning and there are numerous shut downs for the day. Then comes the task of trying to find a place to put the snow. For the most part, however, it is business as usual. The worst is when the storm is accompanied by high winds that cause extensive drifting and white outs in which visiblity is close to zero. Our fingers remain crossed that the power stays on.

I assume you have an alternate heat source?
After the big ice storm in 1999, my in-laws in Montreal lost power for 6 days. We got a wood stove shortly after that, even though we live in an area that would get power restored very quickly.
When I was a teenager in Newfoundland, a February storm knocked out power for 3 days. We had friends with small children camp out in our living room, around our fireplace. 3 feet of snow was a common occurrence there, but that one storm is the only time I can recall that we lost power for a significant period. I think that was the night the Ocean Ranger capsized.