Overnight, in Central New York
Apr. 5th, 2018 07:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayWoke up this morning to a strange, bright light illuminating the windows of the house and the sound of traffic strangely muffled as it passed by out on the street. There was, of course, a logical explanation for both. If you can call 2 to 3 inches of snow on the 5th day of April "logical."
Because that's what we got, overnight, here in Central New York State. That was following a day of hurricane-force winds that tore through here yesterday from the early afternoon to the late evening. Not much damage, on this property, aside from a decorative shutter torn off the front of the house and shattered on the ground next to it. But across Upstate NY, over 100,000 homes and businesses had lost power due to the high winds.
All of which makes about as much sense, in terms of weather history, logic, and known facts, as that orange-haired blowhard in the White House. But which is still, despite blacking out significant portions of the power grid, much less dangerous...
LPK
Dreamwidth
4.5.2018
Because that's what we got, overnight, here in Central New York State. That was following a day of hurricane-force winds that tore through here yesterday from the early afternoon to the late evening. Not much damage, on this property, aside from a decorative shutter torn off the front of the house and shattered on the ground next to it. But across Upstate NY, over 100,000 homes and businesses had lost power due to the high winds.
All of which makes about as much sense, in terms of weather history, logic, and known facts, as that orange-haired blowhard in the White House. But which is still, despite blacking out significant portions of the power grid, much less dangerous...
LPK
Dreamwidth
4.5.2018
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Date: 2018-04-07 12:54 pm (UTC)Sounds much worse out your way. Surely spring will come, won't it?
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Date: 2018-04-08 02:24 am (UTC)The old timers, of course, would often tell stories about the legendary storms they'd seen, blowing in off of Lake Erie, and I was around for a couple of record-setting ones myself--one in the mid-fifties and another in 1966, I think.
But this has been just weird, with a week of 60-degree weather in January and now this. I'm sure it has more to do with our failure to build the border wall or allowing transgender folks in the military than it does with global climate change though...