Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

As usual, Toppop is sending that heat up to me, and I'll forward it along to New England.
58 degrees in light rain, was pouring and rattling the gutters earlier, another dose of it on the way.
Having a delightful day, got the garage cleaned and organized, and a fire going in the fireplace from earlier.
Will likely let it go out, getting nice and warm. For a little while...
The flood watch is expiring so I'll probably not venture out to the River, just a rushing river likely, with chunks of ice and snow and debris
flying past. Surprised they dropped the watch when the main batch of rain is still to come. Likely because the ice jam at Trenton melted.
Anyone who left their dock or mooring out for the winter is likely to regret it.

Small commercial freighters can come pretty far North on the Delaware, almost to Trenton, and boy would that be an experience to be tooling your
concrete barge upriver and see that wall of ice coming down at you. Or worse the chemical/oil recycler boat that's constantly going up and down the River near here.
Hopefully they saw the movie Titanic...

 

[mostly_gas]

Drew, you were talking about flood memories. I recall working on a sandbag wall in '93 that was about 10 ft high and seeing the jon-boat working the other side of the wall above my head.:shocked::confused2:
Also the number of displaced deer and other animals by the side of the road.

 

[sodamo]

68F no rain last 24 hours, lookin nice

Off to town, breakfast with Sophie, then HD and a couple errands.

Have a great day.

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[daugen]

Drew, you were talking about flood memories. I recall working on a sandbag wall in '93 that was about 10 ft high and seeing the jon-boat working the other side of the wall above my head.:shocked::confused2:

Mostly, must have been a spooky feeling, particularly knowing that all that water over there on the other side of that skinny wall wants to get over to where you are...

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Morning. 1145, rain, 66* with 94% humidity. Forecast high of 70* with 80% chance of rain for this afternoon, and clear with a low of 41* tonight.

I always come in to work an hour before the first customer's opening time so I can get my two miles of walking in. {I aim for doing it in 30 minutes, but have only got that goal one time. The phone always rings or someone comes in, messing my time up} Well today was no different. Just as I was going past the half mile mark my customer called and ask if she could come in early. I told her to come on, but figured I could get done before she got here. Then a half mile later I see my boss driving up. {her washing machine had died and she was coming in to do a load of towels} As she was loading the machine, the customers show up. Oh well, it is a job. I will do the other mile after everyone leaves.

The flood watch is expiring so I'll probably not venture out to the River, just a rushing river likely, with chunks of ice and snow and debris
flying past. Surprised they dropped the watch when the main batch of rain is still to come. Likely because the ice jam at Trenton melted.
Anyone who left their dock or mooring out for the winter is likely to regret it.

Small commercial freighters can come pretty far North on the Delaware, almost to Trenton,

Drew, the Foul Rift on the Delaware River plays a part in one of my stories. And back in 1718, before the worst of the rapids were blown out, it was really bad.

Larro

 

[deerseeker001]

I went out and plowed the driveway we had 3 inches so now the birds are looking for me to fill the feeders.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Not morning, but it is 52 and hammering rain.

The pond is still frozen so the water is flowig all over the top of the ice, looks very odd...

Be well all,
David

 

[Jim Shooz]

Drew, you were talking about flood memories. I recall working on a sandbag wall in '93 that was about 10 ft high and seeing the jon-boat working the other side of the wall above my head.:shocked::confused2:

Mostly, must have been a spooky feeling, particularly knowing that all that water over there on the other side of that skinny wall wants to get over to where you are...

Back in 89/90 I visited the UK and while there took a canal boat for a week and crossed the Pontcycylite Aqueduct. The boat can only do about 4 Knots and you can lean over the side and look straight down to the ground 126 feet below

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/WalesC0171.JPG/120px-WalesC0171.JPG

While you're sitting there the boat sometimes scrapes along the side and you get to thinking that's only 4 inches of cast iron holding the water in and it's been there for 200 years. How many other boats have scraped along the side and how thin has the iron been worn away to.

 

[dave1949]

Evening.

What a rotten weather day this has been here. Lots of accidents today all over the state today due to icy roads.

It was below freezing and raining until around noon. It has been 33*F and raining since noon. The frozen rain from this morning is still stuck where it landed. The sand I put on the driveway Monday is now embedded in ice. No way 33* rain and zero sunshine is going to melt blocks of ice with hard froze ground beneath it.

The weather guessers are still saying it could hit the low 40's around 9pm with more rain. I still have higher hopes than Drew Brees. :laughing:

 

[JDgreen227]

Scraped about a foot of snow off 120' of roof edges yesterday afternoon so the warming temperatures and rainfall didn't create ice dams. It got as high as 42 degrees here yesterday, and as high as 38 today. Crazy weather. Girlfriend is watching the grandkids so I am single again for the night...:laughing: or at least until she gets back here....

 

[Thomas]

Just plan icy than wash out day,icing bad enough salt sand trucks slid off road,temps reach upper 30's thawing following by wind fog heavy rains,by late afternoon ice almost gone.
Sunday fingers cross for 40's w/sun.

Brooks/streams should have good ice jams.

 

[JDgreen227]

Just saw the post where someone mentioned a 32" Sony CRT....mine that is shown in the pics below cost me $1430 back in 1993, had one $255 repair a few years back, replaced it with a 58" LED Panasonic and the picture is 10X better. My Sony tipped the scales at 155 pounds, much of the weight was the cabinet, took it to Goodwill and they sold it the next day for $29.99....:laughing:

 

[WayneB]

40 degrees this morning and looks like a nice day.
Expect the winds to continue to blow all day , busting to nearly 20 MPH
Not sure how much rain we ended up getting, but it is still snow covered around here.
I am sure by the tuesday a whole bunch of the white stuff will be gone.

 

[daugen]

JDGreen, what a great idea to use the FEL!
boy that would be hard on the stair carpet getting the Kubota
to the second floor...need to think on that...

41 degrees on a quiet Sunday morning, only going up a few degrees, but warmer tomorrow.
Let the mud begin...

Hopefully my teenage helpers will show up to haul the huge old Sony out, mine doesn't have a wood case like JD's, but
almost as heavy. Then I can get the "new" one hooked up and have something to watch while on the treadmill.

 

[daugen]

Foul Rift is a Class II rapids in the Delaware River from mile 196.3 to 196.7, located about a mile south of Belvidere, New Jersey. The rapids are caused by a 22 foot descent in elevation of the limestone ledge riverbed for approximately 0.5 miles, and are considered to be the most dangerous on the Delaware River.[1] At elevated water levels some of the narrower rapids can become extremely dangerous.

wow, learned something new every day. Thanks Larro. This is way North of us and the River was used heavily to bring logs down from Easton to a lumber mill in Lumberville PA to make timber for housing. The lumberyard, Tinsman Bros, is still there, after 250 years, and since my first wife was a Tinsman, boy I know the logging stories by now. http://www.tinsmanbrotherslumber.com/about-us/
I believe they are the longest operating lumberyard in the US, but since their history page on the website isn't done, I'll have to wait to read it.

As someone who has done some white water rafting many years ago, that must be some "hydraulic" at the bottom of that drop.

I wonder what Native Indian was for "big hole in water"...

The river was navigable further North, but the rocks at Trenton, and even at New Hope sure wouldn't let much through.

 

[ronjhall]

Got the coffee pot brewing. 57ｰ with clear skies this morning. Heading to 79ｰ with sun and scattered clouds all day. Did not get downtown to take pictures of the birds on power lines. But a flock of noisy Green Parrots showed up for a few minuets. Then left before I could get a full picture of them. Other birds do not seem to be bothered by them.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

36 this morning lots and lots of rain yesterday even caused a tall segmented wall to partially fall yesterday closing a major highway for a while. More rains and maybe some snow next week turning colder as well

 

[daugen]

But a flock of noisy Green Parrots showed up for a few minutes. Then left before I could get a full picture of them.

boy does that look neat Ron, I've never seen that. Like being in Brazil...what beautiful birds, and big too...
what do they like to eat?
Hopefully not rv awnings...

 

[Thomas]

36F cloudy winds settle little.
Snow melted lot yesterday southern sides,but north side not so much and now crusty.
Mid week another mix bag of weather,thats okay longs as temps stay around 30's

 

[dave1949]

36*F, clear and windy. Not enough warmth yesterday or overnight to do much melting. The ground is still under 8-10 inches of snow and I could ice skate on the driveway.

I'm hoping the sun this morning, and the bit of warmth in the air will soften the ice enough to chew up the surface with the tire chains. What a mess.