Author Topic: A Bit Of Snow (Read 838 times)

akpls · « **on:** January 21, 2006, 06:20:37 AM »

Looks like daveinthebush is getting a bit of snow. It's even snowing here in North Pole, but not like in Valdez it looks like.

http://www.arh.noaa.gov/wmofcst.php?wmo=NOAK48PAVW&type=public

Daveinthebush · « **Reply #1 on:** January 22, 2006, 07:18:35 AM »

Just a flurry or two actually. We recieved 17" on Friday night. Just a tad on Sat. It is snowing now but looks light. We are actually behind our yearly average of 500". We are probably only at 7 feet for the year. It hardlt snowed at all from the beginning of Dec. till now.

The snow on the roof really helped insulate the roof. Just putting one log in at a time in the wood stove and it is 80 in here. :coffee:

williamlayton · « **Reply #2 on:** January 27, 2006, 01:41:27 AM »

I hate cold more than satan hates holy water but I wish we would get a good freeze down here for the mosquitos and weeds.
Blessings

akpls · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2006, 06:25:34 PM »

I expect to see a mosquito by mid-April and maybe a weed or two whenever my yard starts greenin' up......maybe end of May. Of course May, June & July more than make up for the lack of mosquito's the rest of the year! :grin:

Daveinthebush · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2006, 07:00:44 PM »

A good 12 gauge with #12 low base shot usually puts a mosquito down. Sometimes a double hit is required but #12 shot is safer around homes.

It is really diffucult not thinking about putting the boat in the water. Two months!

williamlayton · « **Reply #5 on:** February 09, 2006, 09:55:11 PM »

I will admit that, from the tales told, AK has big and numerous mosquitos. That said I have not stopped slapping mine all year--well, this year.
This is not a subject, I think, that anyone wishes to have the biggest and best of.
Dadgum skeeters.
There is hope that we may get a skeeter killer this weekend. Maybe our winter will be 2/11 between 4 and 7 AM.
I'm hopin.
Blessings

akpls · « **Reply #6 on:** February 10, 2006, 11:37:39 AM »

williamlayton, West Texas is one of the places on my short list of possible retirement places. I did a bunch of work with the NASA Crustal Dynamics Project at MacDonald Observatory in Jeff Davis County and really came to like the area from there all the way down to Big Bend. I don't recall seeing too many skeeters out that way.....now if they could only get rid of the rattlesnakes!

williamlayton · « **Reply #7 on:** February 16, 2006, 02:02:53 AM »

YUP.
Sorry if I hijacked the thread.
Blessings

akpls · « **Reply #8 on:** February 18, 2006, 06:13:56 PM »

Quote from: williamlayton

YUP.
Sorry if I hijacked the thread.

Didn't think that....most Alaskans can relate to skeeters no matter where they are!!

corbanzo · « **Reply #9 on:** February 23, 2006, 03:22:24 PM »

Been wet in Seward, saw quite a few skeeters in december still.