At the farm this weekend, and

[dananne]

boy is it cold up here! Brrrrrrr. I'm eventually going to have to readjust, but I'm realizing that I've been in the South so long that I've gotten a bit soft. Growing up in Wisconsin, I'd have said this was snowmobiling weather, but it now seems like Euchre weather . . .

[Thomas]

Hah!

I wasn't raised in the south, haven't lived farther south than Maryland right over the DC line, have been on this earth a few decades, lived a year in Thule Greenland, and I still am not reconciled to this kind of weather...

It's the coldest here for the longest stretch that I can remember since I moved to Keuka Lake 25 years ago.

My wife and I erected a greenhouse last summer, with the intention of growing vegetables in winter. They are not dead, but they aren't exactly growing through this weather. When the sun shines, the greenhouse gets up to the 70s (71 yesterday) but at night it drops to a few degrees above outside temp (1 last night).

[Innkeeper]

Early yesterday morning (around 4 am) the power went out. The generator wouldn't come on. Bev had to get up because she's on a c-pap. Investigation revealed that the propane had solidified and frozen in the gas line. Now, that's COLD.

[wondersofwine]

Tuesday we had our first significant snowfall in four or five years--3" to 6" depending on which weather report you go by.
Timing couldn't have been better. Fort Bragg closed normal operations and only essential personnel (hospital, fire, etc.) had to report to work. I wanted to watch the inauguration anyway and now I got to stay home and view it.
Today I went by the command center (at 6:45 am) saying a two-hour delay for normal operations and came in around 10:00. At 7:30 am they had changed it to a three-hour delay but three of us at my place of work were there an hour earlier than we needed to be because we didn't keep checking the emergency phone number.