Is anyone else freezing their ass off?

I did a bike race in it...

You get to move around and exert yourself on a bike.

I had to shovel 300 feet of roadway to get my car out, with snow a foot deep or slightly more, and then do it again when we got more snow. Today I built an igloo.

Misread what you wrote there.

Pics?

It's small, designed to be our new beer cave, and the entrance isn't extended out yet.

Nice igloo! Looks pretty spacious.

We've had serious flooding from snowmelt before, but it was because we had heavy rain along with the high temps. It was times like that I saw cars drowned up to their windows, and drove home in 6" of running water.

Ironically one of the biggest road hazards in the desert (Phoenix let's say) is flash flooding. The hard like concrete soil combined with inadequate drainage infrastructure means people take chances driving across what looks like shallow water. But the water is zipping along very fast!
Car goes bye-bye hopefully not with you in it. They warn drivers over and over - if there is water where it shouldn't be, don't drive in it.

Welp. This morning proved that my dashboard thermometer DOES have a negative sign.
Coldest day yet! Average temps are supposed to be in the 40s. Record high was 60.

Meanwhile between the cold and warming my car up for 10 minutes in the morning, and sitting in it running lunchtime, my usual 30 MPG is down to 20!

Uh-oh! 36 degrees and raining. A few more degrees and we might get screwed with a snow-storm.
I have my fingers crossed - I don't need to eat a vacation day!

Oh, oh.



Works for @Forbin, too

Hey, Anchorage is Augusta's "sister city" temperature-wise today! Matching 36 degrees baby!

@oldfella1962

Saw thus while out and about today.

Snowing AGAIN today. 3" as we go to bed. Which means I get to clean off the cars and shovel the driveway AGAIN before commuting 22 miles with constant road salt spray on the windshield. I feel like crying.

Global warming - it actually causes more snow. Hey some day it will be global cooling - which causes...........less snow?

Actually, it does cause more snow in coastal areas. Warmer oceans feed storms, but the air is still cold enough that the storms present as snowfall during winter months.

Since I managed to clear our driveway after yesterday's snow, I parked under my back deck overhang last night.
This morning I discovered the snowmelt from the roof dripped onto my car and encased about a foot of the left side in ice. Opening the door sent a shatter-spray of ice up. I drove to work with the left 8" of my windshield and part of my driver's side window obscured by glacier (and the window frozen shut). Of course it all finally slid off just as I was pulling in to work. :/

Pics when I get back to my phone later - not allowed to have cells at work.

More snow tonight, then rain and in the 40s tomorrow. Oh boy, flooding!

This just in - the coldest February (average temperature) on record in Augusta.
Yesterday it was 75 degrees - go figure!

Same in NJ - coldest Feb on record.

Walla:


It finally let go when i hit it with a scraper.

I dealt with some icicles harshly today:

I am glad I am not your neighbor?

You can be glad you're not my icicles.

It hit -2 F in Lexington KY last night, tying the old record. We had 17.5 inches of snow Wednesday night, blowing the top out of our old all-time record of 13.4 inches.

So I slept outside in my igloo during the chill, lit up by a three-wick candle, which made it feel like a well-lit cathedral. It mostly stayed in the mid to upper 30's inside, although it crept way into the 40's this morning when I cooked breakfast. At that point it had gotten up to 5 F outside, so I stayed for a while, basking in the warmth. Igloos really work!

I want to sleep in an igloo! It will be in the mid-80's next week, so I won;t get a chance.
Anyway I'm trying to prune my crepe myrtles and one web site says to wait until the last frost of the year.
Another website says to prune them before they start to bud.

So which is it? Around here trees + flowers bud when the temps are in the 70's + 80's in March
but we still get frost until mid-April. Make up your fucking mind!
Yes, in theory the temperature gradually (in a linear fashion) warms up as summer approaches.
So how do I garden in Realityville Mr. Gardening Expert?

A few pictures:


We had an 11 inch snowfall (or so) back on February 14th, during a bitter cold spell, but the snow was light and powdery. About a week later it rained, which made the snow a lot heavier and I noticed it packed almost perfectly, so I grabbed a small white kitchen garbage pail and started making and stacking blocks. Here it is under construction, with two rows on the left side and three on the right.


This is how we left it after that first major storm. We hadn't lengthened out the entrance yet.


The igloo after the record 17.5 inch snowfall last Thursday that swept from Abilene to the North East.



The entrance was lengthened during the second snowfall (last Thursday), but we had to use a mixture of snow and slush to form the blocks because the snow itself was far too powdering to pack. Thus the dirty looking blocks


Sitting on some sleeping bags inside the igloo, lit by a three-wick candle and viewed from the entrance.


The thermometer says it's pretty warm inside. Occupied and candlelit, it stayed in the mid to upper-30's even when the outside temperature was -2 F. This of course means the walls feel a bit moist. That moisture refreezes back into ice when the igloo isn't in use.


And tired of building simple snowmen, I decided to make an Easter Island head with the last of the melting snow.