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sharkshooter
Not your average shark
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It is supposed to be a warm rainy Christmas here in the nation's capital. Yuck. Warm and dry would be ok, or cold, but there's nothing you can do with a warm rainy winter day.
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lily pad
Shipmate
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Sharkshooter, we are facing similar weather here. The forecast is for +12 tomorrow but the wind and rain is going to make it pretty nasty out. We still have six bridges out since the rain two weeks ago. I made an extra trip out to the church yesterday as I couldn't see carrying everything - especially the four dozen cupcakes - in tonight in the wind and rain. Yes, it is better than snow but it will make for a cozy indoor Christmas. If we keep the power, that will be a bonus.
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Piglet
Islander
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We got the merest dusting (really just a few flakes) of some frosty/snowy stuff last night, and it's quite cold here, but nothing exciting (Deo gratias). Any weather that you don't have to shovel is fine by me.
I don't even want to think of the possibility of power-cuts. We had a humungous one last New Year that lasted most of the weekend, and was apparently caused more by brainlessness on the part of Newfoundland Power than any meteorological factors. Having no electricity when it's your only source of heat and the temperature's hovering around the -10° mark is no fun.
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Horseman Bree
Shipmate
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The torrential rains we were promised turned out to be drizzle falling through fog. Temp. up to +14 C yesterday, today a mere +3 C, with the snow magically vanished, and surprisingly little mud.
One of our C&E visitors managed to find the one seriously muddy spot and dug his car in rim-deep, but that was a ten-minute diversion after service, since many of the locals understand how to deal with such a problem. No-one got mudded! Otherwise a blandly pleasant time.
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lily pad
Shipmate
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Brrrr........we had the nice warm +14 degree Christmas Day and now we've got -13 with a wind chill of -25. They are forecasting a big storm for Sunday so does that mean I don't need to prepare the service/sermon?
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Piglet
Islander
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quote: Originally posted by lily pad: ... They are forecasting a big storm for Sunday so does that mean I don't need to prepare the service/sermon?
Certainly not.
Whenever there's a big storm here, we're sometimes the only church in the city to open its doors. Having said that, the Deanery and the curate's house are just across the road from the Cathedral, and we're about 5 minutes' drive up the road.
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John Holding
Coffee and Cognac
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"They're forecasting..." words that fill one with dread, and yet words that don't carry a lot of conviction as prophecy.
Even apart from what the Piglet says, would you actually base your actions on weather forecasts for more than the next day?
John
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Happy New Year!
In keeping with Ship tradition old regional threads die on the last of the year and then new threads appear when anyone so minded starts the next.
I'll miss this thread but I'm sure a sooper-dooper new thread will soon takes its place.
Go to it, Shipmates.
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