As many people are aware, during this time, over one-hundred-and-fifty million people are currently being affected by adverse and extreme winter conditions. I do not know how long the internet will be stable at home, so I just wanted to make this quick thread to make sure people in the community are…

Yep. I haven’t been going out much in NE Ohio lately. But, I know other (younger) birders are out there enjoying the gulls and ducks on the lake and rivers where there is open water. It is difficult because the reason the gulls and ducks are close to shore is because of the north winds and the freez…

Here in my part of the Willamette Valley, it is 50F and sunny (at least for now)

Living in Winnipeg (-38 C last week, -26C this morning), I concur. If you are unfamiliar with snow or cold weather, be very careful. I assume in the S. US that the ground has been warm, so snow will turn to slush/ice, which is extremely hard to navigate. Even temps like -10 C can be dangerous if yo…

Today in New York City the temperature reached 51º and it was sunny. it was very nice, but it was not quite as idyllic as it sounds, because there is still lots of snow compacted to ice on the ground; that will take weeks or months to all melt away, as there are a few miniature snow mountains in my …

Yep. I started some small neighborhood drama yelling at some kids to get off a semi frozen pond (seriously, it was cold as hell here for a couple days but that ice is not thick enough to walk on and it’s still that milky white-gray ice) It’s very apparent that Dallasites don’t know how handle cold …

Yeah, ice bravado is a thing everywhere water gets hard. Around here ice starts forming in November and there are always a few yahoos from the shallow end of the gene pool who end up wet and cold or worse. There’s something about snowmobile exhaust fumes that multiplies the tendency, apparently. Any…

Yeah. Ice. The rivers, and whatever water ponds around, freeze to about 2’ thick in the winter. Yet, I won’t even let my dog on the river ice until at least mid December because currents and other factors affect how thick the ice becomes, and how fast. As I said above, for me, this is routine, but f…

it was (and still is) a mess in Texas. in Houston, we had temperatures down to -10C or so for a couple of nights, and for about 3 days, more than half of the people in the area had no electricity (which is needed for heat in most houses here). they were supposed to do rolling blackouts, but the cycl…

Oh, gosh! I hope things start turning around soon. That story told me more about what it’s like for Texans than most news stories I’ve read. How do you boil water when the power is off? I saw a news article that asked people to curb energy use in California, especially at night, to help with the en…

[image] teellbee: to curb energy use in California, especially at night, to help with the energy crisis in Texas. But, that doesn’t seem well publicized. It may be a feel good story, but with the exception of the area around El Paso it won’t make any difference in Texas, their power grid is c…

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teellbee February 21, 2021, 3:59pm 12

Thanks. That may explain why it was only in one news story and not widely published.

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