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Re: SNOW????

Postby Slick470 » Fri Jan 22, 2016 1:42 pm

And it begins...
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Re: SNOW????

Postby kimbottles » Fri Jan 22, 2016 2:11 pm

HEY!!

All you east coast Santlingers, stay safe and warm!

We are worried about you guys!
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Re: SNOW????

Postby Orestes Munn » Fri Jan 22, 2016 2:24 pm

kimbottles wrote:HEY!!

All you east coast Santlingers, stay safe and warm!

We are worried about you guys!

Won't be any worse than Feb 2010, when we got snowed in and lost power for 5 days. Only potential problem is that we no longer have a wood stove and will have to get by with a propane heater. But we're tough here inside the beltway.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby LarryHoward » Fri Jan 22, 2016 2:55 pm

Orestes Munn wrote:
kimbottles wrote:HEY!!

All you east coast Santlingers, stay safe and warm!

We are worried about you guys!

Won't be any worse than Feb 2010, when we got snowed in and lost power for 5 days. Only potential problem is that we no longer have a wood stove and will have to get by with a propane heater. But we're tough here inside the beltway.



:lol:

We can tell when it snows inside the beltway. The TV news is overwhelmed with people insisting the government "do something" to allow them to get to Starbucks.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby kimbottles » Fri Jan 22, 2016 3:13 pm

Orestes Munn wrote:
kimbottles wrote:HEY!!

All you east coast Santlingers, stay safe and warm!

We are worried about you guys!

Won't be any worse than Feb 2010, when we got snowed in and lost power for 5 days. Only potential problem is that we no longer have a wood stove and will have to get by with a propane heater. But we're tough here inside the beltway.


Please vent that heater carefully Eric!
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Re: SNOW????

Postby Slick470 » Fri Jan 22, 2016 3:17 pm

Hey, I live inside the beltway and I don't even know where the nearest Starbucks is.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby Orestes Munn » Fri Jan 22, 2016 3:31 pm

kimbottles wrote:
Orestes Munn wrote:
kimbottles wrote:HEY!!

All you east coast Santlingers, stay safe and warm!

We are worried about you guys!

Won't be any worse than Feb 2010, when we got snowed in and lost power for 5 days. Only potential problem is that we no longer have a wood stove and will have to get by with a propane heater. But we're tough here inside the beltway.


Please vent that heater carefully Eric!

With luck, we won't have to use it, but yes, we will.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby Orestes Munn » Fri Jan 22, 2016 3:32 pm

Slick470 wrote:Hey, I live inside the beltway and I don't even know where the nearest Starbucks is.

Bet you know where Whole Foods is.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby kimbottles » Fri Jan 22, 2016 3:45 pm

I live in SEATTLE (home of Starbucks) and I had no idea where the local Starbucks was (Susan just told me where it is.)

I drink tea, all sorts of different teas, never coffee. I find that I spend around 10-20 cents a cup depending on which tea I am favoring (it was Mark T. Wendell Hu-Kwa today.)

Why spend $3 or more for a cup when you don't even get the pleasure of making it yourself using the proper technique?

Most people have no idea how to make a proper cup of tea. (Or as English rally co-driver Ellen Morgan once told me during my automobile rally days: "The only thing you can make with hot water is brown water, to make tea you need furiously boiling water." And then you have to steep the tea for the proper amount of time for that specific tea.)
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Re: SNOW????

Postby SloopJonB » Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:44 pm

Kim, you also need a pre-warmed Brown Betty teapot - accept no substitutes.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=brown+be ... 20&bih=940

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Postby SloopJonB » Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:45 pm

Slick470 wrote:Hey, I live inside the beltway and I don't even know where the nearest Starbucks is.


It's on the next corner. :D
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Postby Orestes Munn » Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:49 pm

My brother is a tea expert who spent several months learning about it in China and is working on a book about it. He is very careful about the temperature of the water and may throw out the first pot made from a portion of tea. When he has made tea for us, we always have several pots and observe how the taste changes. All tastes about the same to me, but I'm a pig.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby Slick470 » Fri Jan 22, 2016 5:56 pm

Orestes Munn wrote:
Slick470 wrote:Hey, I live inside the beltway and I don't even know where the nearest Starbucks is.

Bet you know where Whole Foods is.

I do, but I don't shop there. Safeway or Giant for most everything.

I drink coffee and tea but I'm not sophisticated about either. I find something I like and stick with it. Usually it's cheap. Likewise with wine. My favourite is about $12 a bottle.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby kimbottles » Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:06 pm

SloopJonB wrote:Kim, you also need a pre-warmed Brown Betty teapot - accept no substitutes.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=brown+be ... 20&bih=940

Really - it does make a difference.


Well we use a pre warmed Port Meirion tea pot. It's English, so it must be OK.

Why is the Brown Betty better? (I wonder if I can find Ellen again and ask her for her take on the matter, she was VERY serious about tea.)
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Postby SloopJonB » Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:21 pm

I have no idea but I do know that it is. Maybe it's the essentially spherical shape. They are always heavy pottery as well so they retain the heat well.

P.S. I just looked up your pot - it looks like a fancy finish Brown Betty - same shape etc.
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Postby Ish » Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:23 pm

We have many teapots, of all shapes and sizes. And cozies. And a drawer full of teas. And many different tea services. My wife is a tea maniac.

Edit: a real Brown Betty does not drip.
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Postby BeauV » Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:06 pm

Tea is for dying you white socks a pale brown.

Real men drink coffee, strong and black.

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Re: SNOW????

Postby LarryHoward » Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:22 pm

Back to the OP.

6-8" of dry snow so far but just starts sleeting. Wind 20+. On the windward side of the house, the updraft off the bank and backdraft off the house have combined to create an 18-20' standing "wave" on the deck, abot 6' from the house with bare deck against the wall. Leeward sode has 8-10" drifts against the house. "Thundersnow"predicts for midnight and a shift to heavy blowing snow by 0200 lasting for 18-20 hours. Wind will build to 35G50+ by shortly after dawn.

Just a brisk January weekend.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby kimbottles » Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:51 pm

LarryHoward wrote:Back to the OP.

6-8" of dry snow so far but just starts sleeting. Wind 20+. On the windward side of the house, the updraft off the bank and backdraft off the house have combined to create an 18-20' standing "wave" on the deck, abot 6' from the house with bare deck against the wall. Leeward sode has 8-10" drifts against the house. "Thundersnow"predicts for midnight and a shift to heavy blowing snow by 0200 lasting for 18-20 hours. Wind will build to 35G50+ by shortly after dawn.

Just a brisk January weekend.



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Re: SNOW????

Postby slap » Sat Jan 23, 2016 2:58 am

I live 18 miles from the White House, 5 miles outside the Washington Beltway. We are supposed to get 20+ inches of snow.

So what did I do to get ready? I bought a convertible on Thursday.

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Now my son wants to learn how to drive a manual.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby Orestes Munn » Sat Jan 23, 2016 7:13 am

Holy shit! They weren't kidding. A good 14-18" here nor no sign of letup. I'm putting steel-cut oats into the other Dr Munn, cause she's going to be doing a lot of shoveling.

Winds consistently below model around here.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby Slick470 » Sat Jan 23, 2016 8:11 am

This storm seems to be meeting expectations. At least 16" with some decent drifting. Ella is suitably impressed. I'm not looking forward to shoveling.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby LarryHoward » Sat Jan 23, 2016 9:11 am

So much drifting that it's hard to tell how much more we got overnight but listened to sleet plinking off the windows overnight so that will keep our total down. Guessing we are at 10-12 so far. Winds meeting forecast down here with gusts to 35 so far. Forecast is for winds to increase during the day so we'll see how that goes.
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Postby kimbottles » Sat Jan 23, 2016 9:58 am

slap wrote:I live 18 miles from the White House, 5 miles outside the Washington Beltway. We are supposed to get 20+ inches of snow.

So what did I do to get ready? I bought a convertible on Thursday.

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Now my son wants to learn how to drive a manual.


Brick garage how cool!!
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Postby Jamie » Sat Jan 23, 2016 10:08 am

slap wrote:I live 18 miles from the White House, 5 miles outside the Washington Beltway. We are supposed to get 20+ inches of snow.

So what did I do to get ready? I bought a convertible on Thursday.

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Now my son wants to learn how to drive a manual.


Oooh nice! You're a number 1 dad for even thinking of letting your son touch that ride. And those extreme summers look perfect for the snow. :lol:
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Re: SNOW????

Postby kimbottles » Sat Jan 23, 2016 10:10 am

Orestes Munn wrote:Holy shit! They weren't kidding. A good 14-18" here nor no sign of letup. I'm putting steel-cut oats into the other Dr Munn, cause she's going to be doing a lot of shoveling.

Winds consistently below model around here.


Steel cut oatmeal!! Yum

That's what we are having right now as I type this.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby kimbottles » Sat Jan 23, 2016 10:14 am

Jamie wrote:
slap wrote:I live 18 miles from the White House, 5 miles outside the Washington Beltway. We are supposed to get 20+ inches of snow.

So what did I do to get ready? I bought a convertible on Thursday.

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Now my son wants to learn how to drive a manual.


Oooh nice! You're a number 1 dad for even thinking of letting your son touch that ride. And those extreme summers look perfect for the snow. :lol:


That's RWD right? Teach him left foot braking (after you change out the brake pads to the competition type.) It's easy to practice left foot braking on snow.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby kimbottles » Sat Jan 23, 2016 10:19 am

BeauV wrote:Tea is for dying you white socks a pale brown.

Real men drink coffee, strong and black.

;)


Nope!

The real test of your manliness is how you wear your kilt, ancient or modern.

Real men wear their kilt in the proper ancient mode.

(Even in the snow.)
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Re: SNOW????

Postby The Red Lady » Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:23 am

We are at about 16" here west of Baltimore. Still really coming down out there, we are right on the edge of the 18-24 and 20-who cares grab another glass of wine area. I think we will top out around 2'. Drew got the first shoveling duty of the day so I am making eggs and pumpkin pancakes :-) if roads get cleared tomorrow we might bust out the jeep and go snowboarding.
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Re: SNOW????

Postby Tim Ford » Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:56 am

This morning I spent some time writing up notes from last summer's Bermuda Race. I have other stuff to do, grades for example, but for some reason I just felt like doing it...total procrastination.

Right now, we just got in from 20 minutes of shovelling, me and The Kid. I told her what we were doing, in essence, was shovelling the Gulf Stream out of our driveway. About 18 inches of it.

I think it is possible to both LOVE and HATE the Gulf Stream.
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