Friend from my much younger days sends along a pic of a red-tailed hawk and some sort of prey. Sez it's shot through his kitchen window, and the bird usually hangs around hoping to pick off a dove or quail. Looks like he got mammal meat this time and can surely use the calories in that snow. My friend says it's the most he's seen in the 23 years he's lived in Alamogordo.
On other snowy fronts, Mike the Pirate sends along a prediction of 20% possibility of snow right there in Evilopolis on Friday. Having driven through that ill-built town in rain, I'm really horrified to think how it would look in snow. The murderous bastards would be stacked up like cordwood beside the freeways. El Paso had the road over the mountain closed and various public facilities out of service in their snow [pretty much the same snow as Alamogordo]. Meantime, here in paradise we continue gray, soggy, and afflicted by the coastal clammy cold that bites to the marrow of the aging bone. I'm ready to bolt for the tropics … but I'm usually ready to bolt for the tropics.
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That percentage of snow on Friday in Evilopolis has been raised to 40%. Actually looking forward to it since I'm an Adirondacker by birth, but if it actually sticks, it'll be a huge parking lot up here in Houston.
Come to Austin instead! It hasn't snowed here in years and years (although I do keep hoping for just one snow every year). xo Kari
Jeannie – I was thinking more like a huge wrecking yard, given that I've seen those people driving 60 in rain so heavy you couldn't see more than 30 or 40 yards down the road.
Kari – Klara gets all atwitter at the faintest prospect of snow. Kid purports to love cold weather and gray skies and lives in Austin. What's to say to that approach? My sun is out and my dogs are well walked, and I have half a pot of good soup to eat. Could be worse.
Snow to a weather freak, is much like a hurricane.....you may hope for it, for the excitement and adrenaline, and yes, a little dusting is a treat for some of us overgrown kids. But in truth when the big one hits, it's a mess and causes a real headache and it separates the men from the boys. While the boys are dragging out cardboard boxes or inner tubes to slide on anywhere they can find something remotely resembling a slope, the men are looking for chains, jumper cables, and chainsaws.........
That said.......let it snow! This old boy no longer owns a chainsaw, and while I wouldn't want to scratch up my beautiful K2 El Caminos, I do have my old Atomic "rock" skis, that should work just fine on a freeway off ramp, and I have snow chains for my truck to get me up there........
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