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Post by Jaga on Mar 26, 2006 9:20:44 GMT -7
We had a terribly strong wind yesterday night with 6 inches of snow in some places in Idaho. THe power lines were broken all over a place, I also lost contact with the outside world. How we can live without the internet?  ... impossible ;D |
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Post by kaima on Mar 26, 2006 9:55:47 GMT -7
Ah, and here we are with springtime progressing in an orderly fashion (after the 8" of snow a week ago) with daily thaws and melted snow runoff. The ice is softening in the driveway (a product of earlier uncontroled thaws and overflows) and is slowly being disposed of.
We have about 20-25F at night and 40 days (-4 to +6C).
In a month the ski season will largely be behind us.
Kai
PS Yes, it is hard to imagine life without the internet. How easily hooked we are!
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Post by bescheid on Mar 27, 2006 12:36:42 GMT -7
For the past three days we have had morning clouds, cool evenings and late morning sunshine.
The trees are budding out and robins have returned.
Life in the Pacific Northwest is a mix of: dreary grey rain/overcast and sunny warm beutiful weather.
Charles
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Post by pieter on Mar 27, 2006 13:57:28 GMT -7
In Arnhem, Netherlands, Eastern province of Gelderland, border with Germany region,
same kind of weather as in Washington state, as Bescheid described.
Cycled for about 20 miles this afternoon, along the railway tracks, heading West
to meat an old buddy of mine, to go for a walk in the woods and eat and drink after
that. The same area i described last week. Beautiful skies, rapidly changing clouds,
from Cumulus clouds, til strange nearly microscopical piling clouds, pieces of hellblue light
and heavy dark, threatening darkgrey (anthracite) electric loaded front with flashlight
and rumbling sounds. Strange how nature sometimes can seem to be alien to you.
Spring is breaking thrue, mild weather, but in the same time March comes in like a Lion.
In the wood many differant colors and a enormous clearnes, because of the bright light.
The light changed from grey, lightblue, hellwhite, yellow/orange, beige to even green.
We saw three wild boars when we went deeper in the woods, and on our way back
we were caught by heavy weather, and were forced to hide under younger trees.
Heavy rainfall and a hailstorm, with thunder and lightning.
The paths in the woods turned into little rivers, and we ran back to the little town
were my friend is living, ending the day with a good meal and Bach music.
After that I had to cycle back to Arnhem 20 miles.
It was a good day, and surely a good afternoon, the beautiful nature does you
good as a city man. The fresh air and smell of woods does you feel better for a moment.
Pieter
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Post by Eric on Mar 29, 2006 3:02:50 GMT -7
Wow. Spring has come to Petersburg. It's +5 C today, raining, everything is melting. Thank goodness - I'm through with winter... at least for the next six or seven months.  |
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Post by Jaga on Mar 29, 2006 14:28:01 GMT -7
The winter is deifinitively too long in our part of the world. I wish we had mediterranean climate.
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Post by Eric on Mar 30, 2006 22:02:35 GMT -7
Just the other day I got an email from my friend in Odessa - it is already nice and warm there, but a little rainy right now.
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Post by Jaga on Mar 30, 2006 22:13:04 GMT -7
Eric, now you have to cross a boarder going to Odessa, right?
By the way, the Polish and Idaho weather were almost identical this winter. Poles are also complaining that the winter does not want to finish.... the same in Idaho
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Post by Eric on Apr 2, 2006 7:34:00 GMT -7
To travel to Odessa, you have to cross the Russian-Ukrainian border. Most trains going from northwestern Russia to Odessa, however, go through Belarus first, so you need to cross the Russian-Belarussian border, then the Belarussian-Ukrainian border.
The vast majority of the railroad routes in the former USSR are unchanged from the Soviet days, when it was all one country. So that is why there are so many problems with border crossings now.
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