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12-24-2013, 05:43 AM
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excellent post Catherine!
The "thumbpress.com" link: The first one is my favorite!! The one with kitty sleeping in the Santa hat is just too precious, and the one with kitty haing some hot cocoa is too funny!
The "parade.com" link: Some beautiful photography!!
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I know I deinitely got more sleep!
Phew, I'm happy to see you've been here today Catherine. I was wondering if you still had electricity. Safe to assume you do, or at least did as of your last post here.
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12-26-2013, 08:10 PM
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Looks like you have had really bad weather over there. Here we've had high winds and rain with a bit of snow on higher ground, but nothing as bad as you've had. A few places have been without power but not with us. We had very high winds a few weeks ago and that seems to have brought down any trees that were about to go, so these winds have had little to fell.
I hope your "senior" is Ok with no injuries and that everyone is managing to keep warm.
Is this usual weather for you this time of year, or is this year exceptional?
We've had such upside down weather here for the last few years that we don't really know what to expect. Up until a week or so ago the temp. here was a good 7 to 10 degrees warmer than it should have been. Now it is quite cold, but not exceptionally so, it's just the high winds that are troublesome. We do get windy times but usually in late spring and autumn.
The weather is all out of whack!!
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I heard you had bad weather. I am glad it is not too bad. None of us is ready for the weather we have had. My senior wasn't hurt, but she was stressed and that is not good either.
We do get ice storms, but not usually this bad. The storm was on Sunday and it is Thursday and tens of thousands are still without power. The power people have done exceptional work restoring power, but the numbers that lost power were extreme(350,000).
It is not just branches down, some trees are split right to the ground. They will never recover. I have minor damage, but my trees are young and smaller and I keep them trimmed. My butterfly bushes are damaged, but they will come back after I clear out the broken branches. I am relieved that I did not lose power. It is so hard to protect my animals from cold in a winter power failure.
It is cold, some people have been bringing BBQ's inside and the carbon monoxide has made them sick. The city has set up warming shelters, but people want to be at home. Who wants to spend Christmas in a shelter.
I have stayed close to home in case the power goes out. Trees are still coming down because the ice is still thick and the wind stresses the branches and they break. We need a few warm days to melt this ice.
Catherine