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Snow. BLECH! It's been in the 70s where my family is in California... (Original Post) Triana Feb 2015 OP
It's been in the 70s in NM, too Warpy Feb 2015 #1
I wish we could send some of the precipitation we're getting here in that direction Triana Feb 2015 #2
The Keystone pipeline might be a good idea Warpy Feb 2015 #4
We in California wish you could too. TDale313 Feb 2015 #5
I know. It's not looking good at all again this year. Triana Feb 2015 #7
hope we can get home tomorrow...leaving NRaleighLiberal Feb 2015 #3
Uh-oh. Triana Feb 2015 #6
you seriously should keep an eye on the situation. barbtries Feb 2015 #9
that makes 2 of us. barbtries Feb 2015 #8
Me, I just HATE snow and ice. Have a heat pump, which just freezes up and doesn't operate Triana Feb 2015 #10
you poor thing~ barbtries Feb 2015 #12
AC usually works... Triana Feb 2015 #13
that song's always in my head. barbtries Feb 2015 #14
flight canceled! we get another day in Seattle! NRaleighLiberal Feb 2015 #11
make it a good one! barbtries Feb 2015 #15
New Rule... Triana Feb 2015 #16

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
1. It's been in the 70s in NM, too
Mon Feb 16, 2015, 12:52 AM
Feb 2015

I think this is the first January/February when there has been no snow on the mountains. Oh, we've had some, it's just gone in all this spring weather.

Our next chance is Tuesday. I'm not holding my breath, we'll get sprinkles if we get anything.

 

Triana

(22,666 posts)
2. I wish we could send some of the precipitation we're getting here in that direction
Mon Feb 16, 2015, 12:58 AM
Feb 2015

They can pipe oil all over the freaking country. Why not rain/snow? It would have to be collected someplace first I guess.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
4. The Keystone pipeline might be a good idea
Mon Feb 16, 2015, 01:01 AM
Feb 2015

if they were shipping water to the agricultural areas of the south and southwest with it.

I'd get behind something like that.

In the meantime, I'm so glad I'm not in Boston this year.

I'll be kvetching about desert summer heat soon enough.

TDale313

(7,822 posts)
5. We in California wish you could too.
Mon Feb 16, 2015, 01:48 AM
Feb 2015

The warm weather is beautiful, of course, but we *really* need the rain and some snow in the Sierras. This is going to be another really dry summer-after several other very dry years.

 

Triana

(22,666 posts)
7. I know. It's not looking good at all again this year.
Mon Feb 16, 2015, 02:53 AM
Feb 2015

Very worrisome for residents and farmers. Much US fruits and veggies come from Cali. If this drought is the "new normal", we'll be buying it all from freakin China - nasty tasting and probably poisoned with who knows what. And...expensive.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,501 posts)
3. hope we can get home tomorrow...leaving
Mon Feb 16, 2015, 12:58 AM
Feb 2015

Seattle at 11:30..through Chicago... Schedule to land in Raleigh at midnight. Or will we?

barbtries

(29,792 posts)
9. you seriously should keep an eye on the situation.
Mon Feb 16, 2015, 06:48 AM
Feb 2015

it sounds as if you'll be trying to land in Raleigh at the worst possible time. safe travels

barbtries

(29,792 posts)
8. that makes 2 of us.
Mon Feb 16, 2015, 06:47 AM
Feb 2015

family in CA...i will be there soon. but to be honest i am glad we get a taste of winter. breaks up the monotony, and it's pretty when you gaze out from your heated apartment.

 

Triana

(22,666 posts)
10. Me, I just HATE snow and ice. Have a heat pump, which just freezes up and doesn't operate
Mon Feb 16, 2015, 09:16 AM
Feb 2015

in this kind of weather. I end up without heat and under blankets for the duration.

barbtries

(29,792 posts)
12. you poor thing~
Tue Feb 17, 2015, 04:09 PM
Feb 2015

i would hate that too. do you have AC in the summer? summer is the time i hate in NC

 

Triana

(22,666 posts)
13. AC usually works...
Tue Feb 17, 2015, 07:36 PM
Feb 2015

I can stand too warm easier than too cold. Heat pumps just suck in really cold weather - and especially snow and ice.

I went out to California a couple Christmases ago and HATED coming back to the cold rain of NC. Granted it *should* have been raining in Cali - this is one of the recent years leading to the drought - but it was just gorgeous! Every time the weather here sucks (most of the time, IMO), I get that 'California Dreamin' song going through my head!

barbtries

(29,792 posts)
14. that song's always in my head.
Tue Feb 17, 2015, 11:38 PM
Feb 2015

7+ years now. i'm going home no later than 2017 even if i have to live like a pauper.
out here, i don't even call it "summer." i call it "sweat."
i'll be there in July for a week. can hardly wait.

barbtries

(29,792 posts)
15. make it a good one!
Tue Feb 17, 2015, 11:39 PM
Feb 2015

was thinking about you today. by the time you get here the roads may even be passable.

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