February 11, 2005
It looks pretty or It can cause some damage.
I was talking to Outgoing Co-Worker this morning. She lives a little further North and they really got slammed with ice first and then snow. As a result, they have town-wide power losses.
We were lucky. Usually a storm like this, that makes the branches hang down with the weight of the snow, end up causing power losses for us too since we live on a road that is lined with trees. Branches snap and fall on power lines and then it is a matter of waiting for a utility truck to make it to that location and fix the problem. Depending on where you live this can take a while since they fix the lines that will restore power to the most people first.
A bad ice storm would have the lower branches you see in the picture touching the ground from the weight of the ice and snow.
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Hi Bob,
I looked through your archives trying to find out where you might be with so much snow but only found lots of stuff on how much you like to drink wine - that's like calling you an alcoholic in the US, right?
So where's the snow?
Posted by: ria on February 12, 2005 03:36 PMThanks, Deirdre. This snow was the result of a winter hurricane, a Nor'Easter. They can be more serious because it is so cold out. You can end up with frozen pipes or frozen people though that doesn't happen that often.
Hi Ria. Yeah, drinking wine in the US is almost like that. I live in Madbury, New Hampshire.
Posted by: Bob on February 12, 2005 04:13 PMWait, I don't understand... why does drinking wine make us alcoholics? I'm not denying it, but I would say our proclivity for martinis is more the culprit. Mmmmm Bombay Saphire...
Posted by: David on February 13, 2005 08:04 PMBe quiet and pass me the bottle!
Posted by: Bob on February 13, 2005 09:25 PMDrunkards! (I didn't understand that wine thing: what's that about?)
Posted by: Deirdre on February 14, 2005 07:38 AMUp at the top of the comments Ria said something about me blogging about wine all the time. :-)
Posted by: Bob on February 14, 2005 04:53 PMI know that, dopey. :)
I meant what does "that's like calling you an alcoholic in the US" mean? Does wine have a bad reputation there or something?
I should have been sleeing then instead of posting. LOL
I'm not sure what she means.
Wine still labors under the bad reputation it gained during our Prohibition period in some parts of this country. All wines were fortified back then to give them really high alcoholic content. The only reason anyone drank was to get drunk and the faster the better.
Posted by: Bob on February 15, 2005 04:46 AMOh, thanks.
Posted by: Deirdre on February 16, 2005 04:08 AMI skipped over "sleeing" when I read that yesterday, not having any idea what this means. It only occurred to me later you might think "dopey" refers to drugs? In my part of the world it usually means silly. As I've probably just illustrated nicely, being very dopey myself.
:)
I should definitely have been "sleeping." :-)
Dopey means the same thing on this half of the world. LOL
Posted by: Bob on February 16, 2005 08:52 PM(laughing) That's all right, then! I was thinking of that expression "Two cultures separated by the same language". Actually, the more I look at this apparent-though-not misunderstanding, the more ridiculous it seems. Good for a laugh, eh? :) Dopey indeed.
Posted by: Deirdre on February 17, 2005 04:29 AM
That photo's beautiful.
Our power losses are often caused by falling trees too, but in this case, due to cyclones (probably called hurricanes there?). I presume your power blackouts are more serious: you could actually freeze or something?
Posted by: Deirdre on February 12, 2005 09:58 AM