General Chat

Yep, all they get in rain! :-P.

Sylvia, I thought you were in the big V?

I am!

they forecast about 3 lots of snow of 10-25 cm last week, for us :-0


all we got was maximum 2 cm


mind you ................ I'm on the south side, only a few short blocks from the river


Seattle and the Valley from A east got hammered, and then I guess over the mountains ..................


I need a new pair of wellies ....... it's pouring down!


As usual





next thing is, my daughter in NS will be blaming me for sending her snow :-D



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morning all our match went to a 1 all draw so the game is being played again in a fortnight another local derby lol .A,s car broke down conveniently yesterday lol so i had to get a bus to work .
day off today so just catching up with chores and admin lol

Derek - Shhhhh!!!! ;-)

RMS - you say we moan about inclement weather? From what you've previously said, you rely on the snow for your water supply!

Since Maz is home all day, whats the betting her front windows will be sparkling clean, just so she can keep watch next door with out being accused of a curtain twitcher. :-D

Got to get OH up - we have to leave for the opticians in 45 mins.

lol DET i dont need to do tha my windows create a reflection .The dogs are syill there I have spoken to the anti social behaviour team as I suspect they on removing fictures and fittings too .last night we heard brickwork being knocked .they have lead flashings lol or now had maybe lol
I just cant wait to to hear the landlords reaction when he is told ,lol lol .We had a visit when i wasnt there from a red engine during the night the fairies have been playing and the staff could not disable it lol .she was so annoyed as her hair was a mess and they had to search the premises lol .

What a shame its too cold to do the garden !!!

Hello all, been a bit tied up the last couple of days.

RVP what a star Derek :-D :-D :-D.

Evening all.

Waiting in trepidation for my lovely computer man!! I might be on later, or I might not be on for a few days!

I will let LG know by text if I lose the lappy for a few days.

If I am missing, make sure you all misbehave and live life to the full while I'm gone!! I expect no less!! BUT n o parties!!! :-D :-D :-D

YG you may miss the party we are quietly confident that they have gone ,apparently they have a new house to go to
The letting agency were here this morning in force went through the property and now it is quiet however it is possible he wants pipes etc he will be back .So we are awaitng the pop of the corks .

YG...In my Derbyshire "expert" disguise I have come across some SMELTS at Dronfield..and since you can spit from there to Ecclesall Bierlow, i wondered if they might be related to yours.......

Good luck with your computerman.

Derek.

Evening Derek,

Evening YG Maz and whoever else is lurking.

WE DO WE DO! :-P

But it has to stay in the mountains so it can melt slowwwwly and can last the summer (which it never does but....)

Derek does seem like a bright 'boy', doesn't he? :-)

We had a neighbour like Mazs, he was a drug dealer. and when he left he distoryed the inside of the house.

I'm back >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> at least for a couple of nights!!

OMG, OMG!!! On Wednesday evening, I have to do a full restore, then load MS Office, Camera driver and all my documents, plus connect with BT again!! :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0

Then on Thursday evening, my lovely little man is coming back to finish off the BT connection and anything else that I couldn't do!!


Ooh, Derek, I'm excited now!! I think we could be on to a winner with the Smelts!! I will look up my info and let you know. Thank you!

Just off to cook a very belated dinner!

Hey Gooner...I don't lurk...I loiter..but without intent!! :-P

You wouldn't want to loiter within tent, it's to bloomin cold to camp. :-D :-D :-D ;-).

Sounds good YG. That reminds me I must put office onto this lappy

So Derek has taken up camping, has he? He certainly is a useful chap to have around.

Don't worry RMS - the snow will melt as quickly as it comes (fingers crossed behind back)

Good luck with the restore YG. At least you are back for a day or so.

Instead of noisey neighbours, Maz will have workmen to oggle. Pity the new people next to the neighbour from hell. It sounds as if they need a house in the middle of nowhere, so they can wallow in their muck without annoying anyone else.

New glasses to be collected in 2 weeks - his and hers - needed a mortgage, and thats without designer frames :-0

no, no, DET


we don't want the snow to melt as quickly as it comes


that leads to flooding, major flooding


It has to melt slowly over several months, say from February or March until August, or even September ..... then we get even water going into the reservoirs.



and even so ............ where I live has a bylaw enforcing mandatory water saving from May 1.



don't know about RMS




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She's right you know! we really don't want flooding, thank you very much. People drown, roads disappear, houses float away, it is not a pretty sight

Our water savings are all year long :-P watering every other day, except when it is really hot and we are nearly out of water, then it once a week or not at all. Our valley is a semi-arid climate, which means we don't have a lot of water to spare.

Sorry - didn't think about that! Yes, we have run off, if the ground is frozen, but obviously, even in Scotland, the snow is never as deep as in your part of the world.

RMS, is your new picture recent? Can't quite see how deep it is, but it looks 'pretty'.

RMS


I can understand you having watering restrictions


but we're on the coast, in Temperate RAINFOREST :-S


mind you ............... rainfall in July and August here only averages 0-5 mm

we're a "wet winter dry summer" climate

..... and people do like to have green, green lawns, and just lurve watering the sidewalk and roads in the attempt to have them


they never believe that you can let them dry out for 4 or 5 months, if necessary, and they'll still come back after 2 days of rain in the fall :-)


along with all the mushrooms, and the moss etc


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DET


most of our water comes from run-off from the snow that accumulates in the mountains ....... of which we have rather a lot in the province.


Currently, the mountains across the harbour, less than 15 minutes from downtown, have at least 200-300 cm snow pack ...... and that is at the ski resorts. Higher up or in the back country there'll be much much more.

Mountains further north and east have much more .... one of the inland ski resorts has around 500 cm

All that snow melt runs into, eventually, just a few rivers that funnel south


and that is the problem when we get rapid snow melt!