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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Yesterday was 80 degrees. Today we are getting a blizzard. They say it's going to be pretty bad. Over a foot of snow, 60 MPH winds, whiteout conditions and power outages. It isn't supposed to end until around 6PM tomorrow. I'll be going home soon and probably won't be back 'til Wednesday. I will be working on a new song that I'm writing, checking on my elderly neighbor periodically, and thinking about all that I am missing here. It's times like these that I think it would be worth paying for DSL at the house too, but if the powere's out it wouldn't matter anyway. See ya'll in a couple of days. |
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Location: big island | hunker down and stay warm alison. stoke up the fireplace, enjoy a warm mocha and write that song under the influence of inspiration. take care! |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | ...I dreamed I was an eskimo ;) |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...ah, yes. Hot Springs South Dakota. I loved it!.... hunker down Alison! Those wet, Spring snows usually broke half the forest! |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Please send it back up to the Canuks instead of over to us in Michigan. We've had ENOUGH! |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | OOPS! I posted twice and don't know how to delete it. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Like I said B/4 Be well, Stay warm!! ;) |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Whoa! Go home. Get the fire going. Get candles in case the electricity goes. Have blankets. Put batteries in flash light and radio. You'll be fine. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Take care Alison...enjoy the time to create...and stay warm... |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | Home is a great place to be in weather like that. Keep snug |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | I guess you now have the inspiration to write the counter to 'Summer in the City'! ;)
Stay warm and well... |
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Location: East Tennessee | Storms like tthis in the spring can pack a punch.
Stay at home till it blows over. We'll be here waiting to hear that new song. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | MMMmmmm! Snowday.....
Snowday: noun. Orig. Canada.
1: Unplanned day home from work caused by unforeseen snowfall. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Also, if DSL comes over the phone lines, and the power grid goes out, but you have a generator, can you still get DSL? Just wondering. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | If the power goes out cuz the telephone poles fell down, you loose your phone.
If the power goes out because of a blown transformer, you May still have phone service. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I'm baaack. Ow, my baaack! We didn't get hit nearly as hard as they said we would, but I hurt my back shoveling. I got up yesterday and the back door was frozen shut. I tried to kick it open and hurt my foot. Finally I went out the front door and shoveled my way around, but hurt my back. I took it as a sign that I wasn't supposed to leave the house, so I spent the day alternately lying down and walking around the house. I couldn't sit comfortably so I didn't play guitar. Just walked and read, then napped and groaned. I'm here today but not too comfortable. I HATE getting old! |
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Location: Vernon CT | Ouch!!! Sorry to hear that Alison. Hope your back feels better real soon. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Rapid City got nailed according to the news today...hope you're feeling better... |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Yeah, Rapid got a lot more snow than we did and heavy winds. Deadwood got 30 inches. We here in the southern Hills only got 5 inches of heavy wet snow. The wind blew like crazy BEFORE the snow hit, so we had no drifting or power outages. Nebraska got tornadoes, and we did have some pretty intense thunder and lightening with the snow. All in all Hot Springs dodged another bullet. Now they say we may get more tomorrow. :( |
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| Ouch is right! Can't stand to hear about anything that would keep you from playing guitar. Get well soon! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Hear the Red River Valley is getting whooped by flood... |
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Location: south east Michigan | We didn't get hit nearly as hard as they said we would, This is my frantic weatherman rule of thumb....
Say they predict 4 to 8 inches of snow. Take the lower number and divide by two. Many more times than not, that's what you get. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | It's even harder to predict the weather here than it was in New England. Last summer they came across the screen with a warning about baseball sized hail falling at Cold Brook (which is about a mile or so from my shop), and heading for downtown Hot Springs. The sirens went off, and my student ran for his car (to put it under a bridge) while I flipped the sign and raced home (less than a mile) to get mine in the garage. We got about 30 seconds worth of marble sized hail, then the sun came out. |
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OT: Blizzard!
