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Kids tourneys can be brutal. Stands are packed with parents, friends and wrestlers. Kids crowed the edge of the mat. You haven’t a clue when your kids next bout will be on deck so you fear going for a bite to eat, and when you do, nearly all the food is gone. You can’t leave to eat because you’ll never find a parking space. This year it looks the tourney sponsors are moving to spitting the age groups. The younger groups from 8 to 12 PM for the championship bouts. The older wrestlers will go from 1 to 5. It should ease the crowding and wait times.
Another northern blow arrives tonight dropping the temps to around 20F with a high tomorrow of 30-32. I’m not ready for that.
yeah, I remember those days. Weather here is fairly mild. Sometimes we get some serious snow in Nov but it was very mild this year and last. Above freezing the next three days. Where we lived in MN will get to 33 on Wed, otherwise, full days below freezing. How did the Indians do it? Why did the Indians do it? Word.
mspart
Buffalo hides and fires in the wigwam I guess with lots of dried buffalo and deer meat. What’s surprising is that they didn’t 19 or 20 kids. That’s a lot of snuggle time in a studio apartment.
I know in MN, the Ojibwe (I think) figured out how to blanche wild rice. They migrated north in the summer and south in the winter. Once they figured that out, they stayed in the MN area year round. Miserable!!
mspart
We’re experiencing one of the coldest Decembers on record. It seems the El Nina weather flip is real. Last December was one of the warmest. We’re not going above 30 until Wednesday. I pulled my horseradish roots just in time. It made for some wickedly hot cocktail sauce
We won’t get below 45F for the next 10 days. It rained 2 inches in the last 24 hours. It will continue to rain heavy for the next 10 days or so. 1.7 today, that may count part of the 2 inches. 2.2 inches wed. .55 inches thu, .2 Friday, .1 Sat, .35 Sun, .9 Mon, .4 Tue. That’s 6.4 inches in the next 10 days or so. During that time it is low overcast, very dark days. We won’t see the sun for a while. Our garden is done, bear or deer have found a way in, we had to secure it a little better, and so far I think we are good. Our garage is detached and at the bottom of the hill, but above the house. It gets flooded if I don’t keep the drainage cleared. I had to do that last night and then this morning. I’ll probably have to do that a few times again because my wife uses it for a preschool. It was raining hard enough they did not go out for recess. Fairly typical for around here. No sun, always wet, trees are green and grass is green word.
mspart
That much rain would cause a bit of flooding around here. Been down with a bug for the past few days. Cold and extremely tire. Slept 14 hours yesterday off and on. Feel better today but not 100% Didn’t eat a bite yesterday, woke up hungry and gorged myself.
48 hours of misery, but it’s gone now. Upside, it’s a great diet tactic, lost 4 lbs. 1st snow is predicted to hit. The weather guessers are back at it. 1 – 6 inch forecast. Nuisance or big headache. 2 weeks ago they predicted 7 inches in the state but by passing us. The Gov declared a snow emergency the day prior which triggers slating the roads. That night the forecast changed to rain. Sure enough, it was a half inch of rain which washed all of the salt into the watersheds.
The final snow prediction as it started falling was 3-5″. We got 11. I spent the afternoon shoveling out and finished as the sun and temp dropped. We won’t be seeing anything above 32F until Wednesday. Then mid 50’s Thursday and Friday. 11F this AM. More of the same tomorrow.
Well, we are sending more your way as the Pineapple Express dumps 3-5 inches on us again this week. Not cold. Will start sticking in the mountain passes Wed or so. Right now Steven’s Pass is closed for being washed out I think. Big ski area there. Snoqualmie pass is lower so they should be ok even though the ski areas there might get something where the snow level is. Mostly rain there though which is not good for the flooding situation. We have a mountain drainage creek that runs across our front yard and it was really full last week and now lower but still rolling along word. Probably will get heavier this week.
mspart
I read about the state flooding. I hope you aren’t impacted and that stream out front doesn’t take out any crossing.
Tat snow we had was the typical wet stuff we get and the temp dropped to 17F. 2 days now of sub 25F so everything is ice. The streets are clear but everything plowed to the curb is block ice. The temp is supposed to rise to +50 on Thurs and Fri, but rain on Friday. We expect the roads to flood since the storm drains are covered in ice.
The little stream in our front yard crosses the property via an underground pipe. Sometimes it get clogged due to the amount of water rushing through and it floods the neighbors property. I look at it when it rains hard to make sure that is not a problem. There are a number of major roads that are closed so things are not great here. For me, I can still get to and from work ok and we can get groceries etc. So far we are ok word.
mspart
The cold blitz is over. It hit 50 today and will hang around through Friday. With it comes a fierce storm with lots of rain. It should melt the snow but not before the road piles block the flow and cause some backup flooding.
No’1 grandson is playing a hockey game at Prudential Arena tomorrow, home of the NJ Devils. He’s pretty excited. Not every team gets invited to play there so we are heading up there. Downside, it doesn’t start until 8PM.
8PM is awesome to be able to play there – Congrats to your #1 Grandchitlin’.
Temps here are moderate but will start to go down in a few days. But forecast is not to go under freezing yet. I’m sure it is coming. However there is a new flood advisory. We have major roads damaged. I-90 has two lanes closed due to erosion.
US 12 and US 2 are closed with US 2 closed indefinitely. These are the major thoroughfares across the Cascade mountains. If you can’t do it there, you have to go to Oregon and hope to cross there. Not a good look here for sure.mspart
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