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My lazy-ish day was yesterday. I went out bright and early to pick up plants from a nursery that sells natives and walked the dog, but anything else I was planning on doing got derailed bc hubby got a bee in his bonnet about what we were paying for Spectrum cable service, so I helped him (in a minor way) getting Amazon Prime movies going, and then got stuck watching a movie I didn't really care to in order to "test it out". So ...phffft! There went the rest of the day!

Today was a LITTLE better, tho. Dear daughter and I blitzed the house tidying, dusting, sweeping, and vacuuming ... everything was VERY dusty... so now the house feels livable again!

Tomorrow the weather will cool off again, so more outdoor work. So much to do, I think I'll start with picking up the spoiled avocados and feijoa so that we can start picking them up every day after that and have a reasonably good chance of getting good ones. Also... start leveling the front yard, I guess, now that the weeds and grass are gone. I'll try not to get the monitor too sweaty bc I don't want it to come off too early ... it's supposed to be on until Friday. We'll see what happens. Also, dear daughter and I need to sort the mail ... I'm trying to train her how to do that for herself and (potentially) for us, if we get too addled.

I always overschedule every day, and rarely accomplish everything I planned. But off to bed for me; we have a busy day ahead of us.

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You had a really good day there Jack. That's excellent you got the work done on your tires.

You should be about set for the winter then.

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My new tire guys are AMAZING. I couldn't be happier with the service.

They put in the order and two days later they had the tires. Brought the flat car tire and the mangled snowblower tire that I seriously screwed up in there and watched them do it and had a good laugh thinking there was any way I was going to ever be able to do either of those tires with a few crowbars, screw drivers and elbow grease when it looked like they had a $20,000 hydraulic machine to do the job. Sometimes you just have to cave and let the pros deal with it.

Great group of guys there. I said I'd take the tires with me initially because I didn't want to pay $5.00 per on disposal. After the tire was done the kid said I should have it balanced. I had already paid and was just expecting to take the car home and switch out the spare with my new tire. The head guy I had been bullshitting with earlier checked my reciept to see if the balancing was on there and when it wasn't he just told the kid to go ahead and do it anyway. Then the kid told me to bring my car in and 3 minutes later he had already changed the tire for me and had it properly torqued. When I was done I asked him where the tires were because I didn't pay for disposal. He asked me if I really wanted them and I said no, but I didn't pay for disposal and he laughed and said "don't worry about it".

All that, and I got both of them done for 2/3rds of what I thought I'd be paying for just one new car tire and they're only about a mile from my house.




Came home and popped that tire on my snowblower and then I fired up both my blower and my generator which hadn't been used for a while and they both fired right up without issue.

Then after doing an inventory on what I'd need this week to re-caulk my windows before painting them, I headed out to the store and saw a large truck on the driveway of the foreclosed house behind me. It's foreclosed no more. Dude had a truck half full of various home improvement stuff with him and it looks like my neighborhood isn't going to have to worry about that house dragging down our property values for much longer. Maybe he could use some help and I could walk next door and make some cash this winter doing stuff I love doing.

And I've got everything I need to repair the bad caulk job that Uncle Bob did in the windows with just enough warm weather left to safely paint them.


Today was a good day...



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Finished removing all the bad caulk and doing repairs. Moved the work in the garage where I had light so I could repair the aluminum for the sills and remove that caulk. I managed to beat the hail damage out of them as well as bend everything back into proper shape. Cleaned them all off and put a coat of primer on them so they hold the caulk tomorrow. All that's left is to wash the rest of the windows tomorrow before caulk can go on.

Caulk will be ready to paint 30 minutes after I put it down, so by the time I'm finished caulking the last window I can go right to the primer. 4 hours after primer I can put the first coat of Rustoleum on. That will be as much as I get done with the windows until Monday though, since I'll be helping my bud out all weekend and I have to give 24 hours before coats on the actual paint.

Hopefully I have a few hours left to spare when the paint is done so I can address the foundation cracks, otherwise I'll be putting that off until Monday too.

I'm getting a few bi-fold doors from my friends old man this weekend, so I'll be able to paint them and finally have doors on the 2nd bedroom closet soon too.





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I missed that about the heart monitor Sigs... You don't seem particularly worried about anything. Why is your doctor putting you on that test?

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I guess I "forgot" that I'm going to have to use backer rod too before I caulk anything. Hopefully that can be done while the stuff is drying, but if history is any indicator with the shower and the garage floor, doing the backer rod is not going to go quickly.

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On top of that, the aluminum that Uncle Bob put up to cover old rotted wooden window frames on the bad windows (see: 4 out of 6 of them at the bottom of the house) were so amateurishly installed that the only thing really holding them together except for nails at the top was the caulk itself (and tons upon tons of it at that, to fill the gaps caused by the amateurishly cut aluminum). Before I caulk anything, I'm going to squirt a whole lot of Great Stuff on the wood behind the vertical lengths. I may even do that before the wash itself.

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And now I've figured out why a rather benign bump of the aluminum sill dented the hell out of it a few years back too. It's just superficial shell, and I'll have to be extra careful around them after I fix it until I sell the house.

I'll have about a good 9 hours to work. I do have a halogen lamp I can take out with me if necessary, but hopefully it doesn't come to that. I absolutely have to have the first layer of paint up by tonight. And looking at a chance of rain creeping into Monday I may have to let my friend know that I can't come out on Sunday until I put the 2nd coat of paint up.

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Looks like my work is up in the air again. Her work has been cut down, so she's not sure if I am going in once every week or once every other week. Have to see what happens next week.

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Looks like my work is up in the air again. Her work has been cut down, so she's not sure if I am going in once every week or once every other week. Have to see what happens next week.

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It's so hard being on call like that. Mkaes it hard to plan anything!

But at least your unpredictable schedule is caused by someone else's unpredictable schedule, not just flightinesson your boss' part. Because if it was just your boss being chaotic, THAT would be irritating!

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Actually, my heart is worrying me quite a bit. It suddenly decided to start doing the rhumba instead of the foxtrot a few weeks ago. It's disconcerting to feel your throat pounding after mild exertion. In addition to the Zio patch (which I will be mailing back tomorrow) I have an upcoming stress echocardiogram which is a test for heart failure (ejection fraction). Sigh. I hope it's just an uncomplicated irritable atrium.

But I did manage to get half of the veggie garden #1 prepped for planting today and now that the patch is off I can continue with yardwork, weather (and health) permitting.

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I suppose compared to YOUR weather ours - no matter how cold!- is still quite warm. But actually we had a 20 degree drop in temperature from yesterday to today (91 to 72... yeah, I know... you wish you had it so tough!) and the infamous "they" are predicting a quarter inch of rainfall tomorrow around ten. It's not a lot, but it's been eight months since the last measurable rainfall, and we've had such a big ashfall pretty much everywhere, it's be great to wash the dust and ash down.

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Looks like you gave us 20 degrees and took our rain. We've been blessed with a really light amount of rain this fall, but even more stunning is that it was 75 degrees today and it will be even warmer tomorrow! I really hate that I had obligated myself to my friend when I could be doing a lot back home, but at least it will still be in the 50's when it cools off after Monday, so there's still time.

Ashfall just seems crazy to me. Definitely an event I've never witnessed firsthand.

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I also finally managed to square away my sis's Xmas gifts. They both need somewhat "high ticket" items ... one needs a compact reciprocating saw and possibly an oscillating saw (multi tool), the other a smart phone and either a Roku or a smart TV, ... so we did a lot of research at our end and came up with some gift ideas that we ran past them and they're OK with. Plus, I found a DVD for dear daughter that she has been looking for for a LONG time, so I think I scored on that one!

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Hubby has some tools he wants, too, so my two sisters can put their shekels together and get him a nice brace (drill).

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I'll have to look into that Great Stuff. We have an old house, too, and altho water damage isn't an isse, termite damage is.

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Great stuff is truly great stuff. Definately wear gloves when using it, and protect anything that you don't want ruined underneath though. A little goes a long way. If you're anything like I was when I first used it, you're going to end up wasting half the can and cutting it away when it's done expanding.

Last year my bud used great stuff on a horribly rotted out window on his rental. It kept the rain out, but it looked like hell. (The outside of it makes a hard shell, but if you cut it away it's basically a hard sponge and would no longer keep water out). Last weekend I was out there I cut it all away flush with the windows and stucco walls and primered it, then I threw another coat of primer on it today and he came around and caulked whatever still needed to be caulked. I'm going to paint it tomorrow. I can already tell you that it looks like a solid and completely legit window even without the paint on it. I can't believe that we fabricated several feet of missing and rotted out wood with Great Stuff, and I thought he was crazy for trying it. But using a metal cutting sawzall blade by hand (taping up the end with electrical tape) as well as a sharp taping knife, you can really form it into the exact shape you need, and it takes primer extremely well. I didn't even know that before.

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40 miles per hour? That's any given day that ends in "day" in Chicago.



I'm surprised things aren't already bolted down for you with all the earthquakes though? Sorry to hear about the mess. You still feeling OK after that?



Got my leaves all blown and my gutters cleaned out. MY NEIGHBOR'S TREE IS EVIL PERSONIFIED. Tiny little leaves that clogged up my gutters from end to end on my entire front house, meaning some 150 away from where the tree stands was still somehow clogged to the brim. The poor downspouts are probably all jammed up too.



We finally tackled the front steps at my bud's house. I don't know how, but I finally got through to him about how important it was to shore that up otherwise all that tuckpointing time and money he's spent would just be wasted after winter falls and the ice blew it all back out and made it even worse on him.

So after three months of telling him and his old man that he needs 15 to 20 bags bags of concrete easy to fill that gap we go to the store today to get what we need. I come out from the bathroom and see he's at the register. How many bags does he have?

Eight........

OK. I'm done telling him what to do. Eight it is.

First bag mixed up and poured down... I said "There it goes. It's halfway to China".

A half hour later and 8 bags into it and it seems as if we didn't even put a dent into it.

That's when I got assertive. "I told you that we'd need at least 15 to 20 bags".

"Did you tell me that today".

"No. I've been telling you and your old man that for 3 months and how important it was that you do this. When I saw you with 8 bags I figured it was time for you to learn a lesson. So here's what's going to happen now. I'm going to go paint those two windows I came here to paint today, and you're going to go back to the store and get 20 more bags of concrete."

And that's what we did. And he came back with lunch, which in all the day's I've helped him he's never done before.

And after we ate, we poured 11 more bags of concrete down the hole.



He actually thought we were done with only 5 more. Then I went back with a paint stir stick and started jamming it down the cracks on the side that were not as bad as in the middle where it just poured right in and I ended up getting another 6 bags down there the hard way. Now it's full. Now it's not hollow like a chocolate Easter Bunny. Now it's not going to collapse and ruin the 40 hours he put into masonry work and take his entire freaking house down with it when it finally collapsed.





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Nah... My writing makes sense in my own head, but I've been told that sometimes I don't write as clearly as I think I do.

It was the 8 original bags, and 11 more of the 20 I made him get the 2nd time.

He said something about taking back what he didn't need, and I said "why would you do that now?". He's got two other minor staircases that could use the same treatment, although on a much smaller scale, and I'm sure he can eventually find use for whatever is left of the 9 bags that we don't use. They're only $2.50 a piece. It's not even worth loading back into his car from the garage to get that money back.

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It's bad drainage, and what I have to assume has been years of neglect and a blind eye to it. Not only does water pool up in front of both staircases to the side of it where you can tell the water has just been eroding the dirt from the bottom of those steps, but the two slabs that finish the walkway to the front stairs bowed together in the middle creating an almost funnel right into the massive hole on the bottom step. The house is on a big hill, and all that water going directly to (and under) the steps from all sides I think has just washed everything away.

At least, that's my unprofessional opinion. The house has stood there for almost 100 years. But he needs to take care of the obvious and get the water going away from all sides of that foundation before doing anything else. In fact, I think I had better stress to him the importance of taking care of that sooner than later. The gears are turning in his head now, but I need to make sure he realizes that he's not done yet. It's great that we did what we did yesterday, but it won't hold up to the elements very long if it's not properly graded and sealed.

I'm somewhat sensitive to this type of thing having lived through it myself. Sure, his house isn't on a flood plane and from the street you wouldn't think it would ever have any water issues because of the hill that it's on, but the last 5 to 6 years has been crazy with the spring rainfall around these parts, and who needs an underground river when you've got one above ground and everything is sloped toward your house?

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All I can think of is either a sinkhole or an underground stream. Either way, I think you got the problem solved! The porch steps are now sitting on top of what is essentially a giant boulder!

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Oh the kind of earthquake bolting down isn't the same for wind. For earthquakes you need the sill plate bolted to the foundation, the water heater bolted to the wall, Ihopefully some plywood built into your walls... no unreinforced masonry (many ppl were killed in the Long Beach earthquake when chimneys fell thru the roof), stuff like that.

But shingles, tree limbs, lawn furniture... that kind of stuff can get windblown.

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I spent 40 hours the week after the Deracho a few months back cleaning up the mess. Now that one was pretty out of the ordinary, with winds exceeding 110MPH.

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Dear daughter and I did most of the cleanup, just palm fronds and branches, but our bins were full so we had to stop. The hose bib and chimney rain cap still need repair and the gutters need cleaning.

I do quite well in cool weather so I feel great. I'm looking forward to putting in a steady hour a day of yardwork. There's still a lot of repair, clean up, leveling, planting and pruning in my future, and if I keep at a steady pace I can get ahead on that and not short all off the other things I need to get done.

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Speaking of weather, here is my 10 day: Mon (today) through Sat - highs from 60F-65F Mon (today) through Sat, and lows 38F-49F; with onshore light breezes during the day and the gentlest offshore zephyrs at night.

Then we get to a different weather system starting Sun through Wed - where the highs start out with a bang at Sun 72F then Mon 75F, but then drop to 65 on Wed, the lows are a steady moderate 54F-56F, and the wind switches around from mostly gently offshore Sun through mostly onshore Wed. I was guessing a low pressure will be passing though, and looking at the predicted barometric pressure, that's what I see.

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Well, it made an attempt to snow where I am. Just a bit as I was starting to leave this morning. So I hightailed back in to put on my boots and grab my umbrella. Umbrella I needed as it did start to rain, boots not so much. But better safe than sorry. Quite cold today for around here. See what the news weather has to say.

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Well, it made an attempt to snow where I am. Just a bit as I was starting to leave this morning. So I hightailed back in to put on my boots and grab my umbrella. Umbrella I needed as it did start to rain, boots not so much. But better safe than sorry. Quite cold today for around here. See what the news weather has to say.

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Sorry to hear that Brenda. Snow.... :(

We've got one more nice day, and then the bottom drops out. It's still going to be slightly warmer than the average for another week, but Summer is officially over here tomorrow night after a very appreciated late comeback.



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Well, it made an attempt to snow where I am. Just a bit as I was starting to leave this morning. So I hightailed back in to put on my boots and grab my umbrella. Umbrella I needed as it did start to rain, boots not so much. But better safe than sorry. Quite cold today for around here. See what the news weather has to say.

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Well, it made an attempt to snow where I am. Just a bit as I was starting to leave this morning. So I hightailed back in to put on my boots and grab my umbrella. Umbrella I needed as it did start to rain, boots not so much. But better safe than sorry. Quite cold today for around here. See what the news weather has to say.

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Sorry to hear that Brenda. Snow.... :(

We've got one more nice day, and then the bottom drops out. It's still going to be slightly warmer than the average for another week, but Summer is officially over here tomorrow night after a very appreciated late comeback.



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News weather was talking snow again for tonight and into tomorrow morning for my city and Vancouver as well as a couple of other areas. Have to see if I wake up to white. Right now it is raining though.

My area is expecting dry on Wednesday then rain for Thursday and Friday.

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Speaking of weather, here is my 10 day: Mon (today) through Sat - highs from 60F-65F Mon (today) through Sat, and lows 38F-49F; with onshore light breezes during the day and the gentlest offshore zephyrs at night.

Then we get to a different weather system starting Sun through Wed - where the highs start out with a bang at Sun 72F then Mon 75F, but then drop to 65 on Wed, the lows are a steady moderate 54F-56F, and the wind switches around from mostly gently offshore Sun through mostly onshore Wed. I was guessing a low pressure will be passing though, and looking at the predicted barometric pressure, that's what I see.

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Damn... that's pretty cold for where you're at, innit?

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Well, it made an attempt to snow where I am. Just a bit as I was starting to leave this morning. So I hightailed back in to put on my boots and grab my umbrella. Umbrella I needed as it did start to rain, boots not so much. But better safe than sorry. Quite cold today for around here. See what the news weather has to say.

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Hey there Brenda! A gift of early Christmas rain sent down this way would be much appreciated!

And, I'm thinking about how damp and cold your old place was ... and now you have a warm dry place. I'm still smiling for you!

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Well, it made an attempt to snow where I am. Just a bit as I was starting to leave this morning. So I hightailed back in to put on my boots and grab my umbrella. Umbrella I needed as it did start to rain, boots not so much. But better safe than sorry. Quite cold today for around here. See what the news weather has to say.

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Sorry to hear that Brenda. Snow.... :(

We've got one more nice day, and then the bottom drops out. It's still going to be slightly warmer than the average for another week, but Summer is officially over here tomorrow night after a very appreciated late comeback.



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News weather was talking snow again for tonight and into tomorrow morning for my city and Vancouver as well as a couple of other areas. Have to see if I wake up to white. Right now it is raining though.

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Good luck.

They're talking 55% chance of thunderstorms today now. Just yesterday, it was a 15% chance of rain with no mention of thunderstorms.

I guess I'd better go out and protect the two most vulnerable windows. That paint I put up is oil based, but it doesn't exactly set quick. If the rain is constant and hard enough it might not end well.

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Well, it made an attempt to snow where I am. Just a bit as I was starting to leave this morning. So I hightailed back in to put on my boots and grab my umbrella. Umbrella I needed as it did start to rain, boots not so much. But better safe than sorry. Quite cold today for around here. See what the news weather has to say.

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Sorry to hear that Brenda. Snow.... :(

We've got one more nice day, and then the bottom drops out. It's still going to be slightly warmer than the average for another week, but Summer is officially over here tomorrow night after a very appreciated late comeback.



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News weather was talking snow again for tonight and into tomorrow morning for my city and Vancouver as well as a couple of other areas. Have to see if I wake up to white. Right now it is raining though.

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Good luck.

They're talking 55% chance of thunderstorms today now. Just yesterday, it was a 15% chance of rain with no mention of thunderstorms.

I guess I'd better go out and protect the two most vulnerable windows. That paint I put up is oil based, but it doesn't exactly set quick. If the rain is constant and hard enough it might not end well.

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No white this morning Jack. Just dry and a little warmer than yesterday. Now, I see what happens the rest of the week, weather wise that is.

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Well, it made an attempt to snow where I am. Just a bit as I was starting to leave this morning. So I hightailed back in to put on my boots and grab my umbrella. Umbrella I needed as it did start to rain, boots not so much. But better safe than sorry. Quite cold today for around here. See what the news weather has to say.

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Sorry to hear that Brenda. Snow.... :(

We've got one more nice day, and then the bottom drops out. It's still going to be slightly warmer than the average for another week, but Summer is officially over here tomorrow night after a very appreciated late comeback.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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News weather was talking snow again for tonight and into tomorrow morning for my city and Vancouver as well as a couple of other areas. Have to see if I wake up to white. Right now it is raining though.

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Good luck.

They're talking 55% chance of thunderstorms today now. Just yesterday, it was a 15% chance of rain with no mention of thunderstorms.

I guess I'd better go out and protect the two most vulnerable windows. That paint I put up is oil based, but it doesn't exactly set quick. If the rain is constant and hard enough it might not end well.

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No white this morning Jack. Just dry and a little warmer than yesterday. Now, I see what happens the rest of the week, weather wise that is.

Yikes! Sounds like. You don't need the weather ruining all your hard work.

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I was out all day, but I came back with some light left and things look okay. I don't think we got much rain yet. Hopefully it stays that way. It was just a minor drizzle when I got home. But the clouds are dark.

I'm looking forward to a day off. Tomorrow won't be it, but hopefully soon. Should know more tonight before I go to sleep.

Hope when it snows it's not a big problem for you with your new place. Eventually we're bound to get slammed with it.



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Heh... We got the wind.

Cold front came in and told the warm weather to GTFO last night. Once the rain and colder air set it in calmed down, but I was half expecting the air raid sirens to go off for a while there.

Leaves from 2 cities over are on my formerly pristine lawn now. I'm starting to remember why I'm usually not very proactive on the leaf cleanup.



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Heh... We got the wind.

Cold front came in and told the warm weather to GTFO last night. Once the rain and colder air set it in calmed down, but I was half expecting the air raid sirens to go off for a while there.

Leaves from 2 cities over are on my formerly pristine lawn now. I'm starting to remember why I'm usually not very proactive on the leaf cleanup.



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One weird thing I noticed about LA weather... but not sure it holds for anywhere else... is that it always seems to be the BACK end of the cold front that does the most damage.

As I understand it, air moves in masses, and altho there is some diffusion and mixing between two air masses it's not enough to overcome the speed with which they move. Cold air, being heavier (warm air rises) tends to slide in under warmer air, lifting it up. As the warm air is lifted, it cools, water vapor precipitates out and forms rain.

But for some reason, the cold fronts here come in perhaps a little more slowly... clouds form, it gets a little breezy (downdrafts, because what goes up must come down) and drizzly, or rainy ... but it isn't until the front is on its way OUT that we get hail, downpours, lightning and thunder, and strong winds.

What about where you are? Next couple of storm fronts, I'd be interested if you kept track and let me know. Just as a point of curiosity, bc I never paid attention to that in WNY.

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