Monday Open Thread 02-02-15

A happy Monday to everyone!

Anyone else shoveling out? The official snowfall in metro Detroit was 16.7". It started snowing Sunday very early and didn't stop until this morning.

Or, do you have any interesting story about another snow storm?

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12 or 13'' Saturday night, snow, high winds and drifts shut down all the roads in the area on Sunday. Then frigid temps afterwards with another potential big one Thursday. Yippee! My son scooped all the snow though, one perk of not feeling well.

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Cordelia Lear's picture

soon!

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"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." --Paul Wellstone

I felt better yesterday and thought it was just a one day thing, oh well, thanks for doing an open thread.

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We're on the down side of winter. I'm looking at a seven day cruise out of Miami - maybe. Spring is right around the corner. We're already making plans to open up the lake house up north. Compared to last year, this winter has been a breeze.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

Cordelia Lear's picture

compared to past year we're in good shape.

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"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." --Paul Wellstone

last winter was labeled a "polar vortex", haven't heard that phrase this year.

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Cordelia Lear's picture

I always find myself comparing to Jan. '77 and Jan. '78. I was in South Bend for both. In '78 the city complely closed for days and the National Guard used tanks as emergency vehicles.

Big difference in both those storms though was we had steady snow for multiple days.

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"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." --Paul Wellstone

We went up north for Thanksgiving. On the way home, we ran into a blizzard in Bay City. Normal 2 hour + drive turned into six hours. Couldn't even see the road. I75 was a one lane caravan hoping the driver in front didn't run off the road. Huge snow plows were overturned along the highway. Anyone spinning out and getting stuck was SOL.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

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Pittsburgh

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -

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or perhaps this is the new "winter". People here were calling the past month "June-uary". I read today that San Francisco had no rain in January. That's astounding. We had several days in the 60s. The high today, February 2nd, was 60!

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Unabashed Liberal's picture

better soon!

Heck, we got lucky--rain for a day-and-a-half. And temps in the teens for a couple of nights.

But agree with dkmich--around here, Spring appears to be around the corner. (Actually, we prefer fall and/or winter since our years in Alaska.)

What I really dread is the dead of summer (heat)!

Wink

UL

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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

I just woke a while ago, I fell asleep about 7:00 PM and woke up at 10:30, I can't stop sleeping. I tried most of the morning to get the image/video to work with the tweets, I tried everything to no avail, sorry, I'll keep trying. At least the tweets can be embedded, I noticed the images don't display at DKos either.

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Unabashed Liberal's picture

looks pretty good, I think.

(While you were out, I posted one of Rupert Murdoch's that I saw at BloombergPolitics.)

You just get well!

(This has been a terrible flu season from what I've heard.)

Mollie

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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

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Is this the place I've been looking for?
thanks jtc
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welcome smiley, make yourself at home.

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smiley7's picture

heart feels good and better

"Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter,"

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was very successful, and you're doing well!

Mollie (from EB)

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