Scarlet Pimpernel

Here are some I took over the past few weeks. Sending in 3 posts to avoid being too large...

Interesting...thanks for that information. I guess it makes sense that as you get ~6" snow there would be fewer accidents at least in part because people aren't daring to go out on the roads. Unlike for small events like that mini-clipper. Though it was frustrating at the time (and scary, but mostly due to some idiots thinking that you can drive normally on ice or spin their wheels hard if they're stuck or swerving!)...I certainly could see that a lot of focus and preparation was for the upcoming major storm.

Yeah I remember that all too well! Not that I minded the mini-clipper with an inch of snow as a sort of "appetizer" before the big storm. But the roads were awful, even main ones! I dropped my daughter off at her ballet class (Wash. School of Ballet, down near the Cathedral). No problems, but it had just started to snow on my return home. I then got a call that the class was ended early due to the road conditions. It took me an hour or more to get there from my place (normally took like 20 minutes). Wisconsin Avenue was an ice rink. Coming back home, it took literally 2 hours (!!!!) of white-knuckle driving in that mess. It was after 11PM by the time we got home, and that's after leaving the ballet school around 9. I was shocked at how apparently nothing was done to even the main roads before that...it's not like that light snow was unexpected. But of course by then, all the focus was on the big event later in the week, so it may have (literally?) flown under the radar.

So true! I was probably located on the western "edge" of the dry slot area here in southeastern MoCo, it lightened up for several hours that Saturday but never actually stopped snowing. Then in the afternoon we got crushed with the deformation bands. That was awesome! I got 24" from that storm, and not too far to my northwest there were 30"+ reports. So if that dry slot edge were just a bit farther east...oh hell, now I sound like Ji complaining about "only" 24" snow!

It was, indeed! I still think back on that and remember how exciting it was. Both in advance of and during the event. I recall the Saturday before the storm, sitting in a Starbucks in Rockville that was adjacent to a Barnes and Noble (sadly the bookstore is now gone from there!). I was on my phone looking online here at the latest discussions of the 12Z model suite that day. It's as if all models "clicked" to indicating a major event the following week. Details were up in the air of course at that time, but it was clear we'd be in for a high-impact winter storm. It was a weird feeling...like suddenly, "wow, OK, now we're in!" The entire next week was a waste at work, following all the details as it approached!! I remember your somewhat controversial avatar of the animated "guitar player" that you put up during that storm!!! Pretty funny! That was a guitar player, right?!?!

Haha!! Is that a rhetorical question??

Ahhh, the motto of the Panic Room! It's enGRAVEd in the marble halls of that establishment, I believe!! (ETA: By the way, "Shawshank" is one of my all-time favorite movies. Still think Morgan Freeman should have received an Oscar for his performance!)

North trend...just wait!!

That's just crazy to see! You know if it were happening here, someone would complain, "I bet we end up with member #46, only 27 inches!!!"

They're higher up in elevation, thus closer to the sun...right?!?!

Oh my! Is the Reaper...the Lord High Executioner of despairing weenie souls...getting all moist and sentimental now? I swear he shed a few dry tears there. Contemplating coming out of retirement? *Sniff*!! But at least you can throw a good Halloween party, eh?! Celebrate your holiday in style!

Hilarious movie, you should watch it!

I wish I would have slept through it, myself! Damn thing then kept me awake for awhile before I finally went back to sleep, which made for a groggy morning!!

Can't attest to the wind, but honestly I was in a daze after being awakened by the lightning and thunder so maybe didn't notice. The rain sounded very hard on the windows, and I briefly wondered if there was hail embedded in there.

Atlanta had one a several years ago, during the SEC basketball tournament in 2008. It literally went near the Georgia Dome.

Same here, just heard a rumble for the first time today. Now last night...different story with that cell that went through about 3AM! Tons of lightning and thunder as well as a deluge of rain. Several lightning strikes were very close...bright and followed immediately by very loud thunder.

That's awful...really is a shit-show all around. I hope you got your kids out of there safely in all this. That sounds more on the administration than the drivers. Oh, and by the way, I forgive your French...especially if you had called it a "merde show"!!!

<HannibalLechter>Excellent...especially with fava beans and a nice chianti!</HannibalLechter>

Yeah I actually kind of miss the periodical cicadas too! But I also always liked the sound of the annual cicadas as well. Lots of flagging trees around here and small twigs/limbs that have fallen off. I guess the class of 2038 is off and running! On the topic of those mites, I got what I'm now convinced were a couple of those sometime around end of July and early August, on my neck and upper chest. They itched at least for awhile (though nothing overly horrible), and looked almost pox-like with a large red area around them. I was kind of worried but no more appeared and then I heard/read about the mites sometime later. They eventually disappeared, but damn, it took a LONG time (far longer than regular mosquito bites).

Hi all! Amazing clouds around sunset yesterday evening, after the storms. Some mammatus-like ones in there (BEWBZ in the SKY!!! )

And a hummingbird...

Tiger swallowtail butterfly...

Hi all! Sorry I've been gone for awhile...nothing bad, just a lot going on! Just thought I'd drop in for a few and catch up. Anyhow, here's a full rainbow yesterday evening, shortly after the storms went through.

I hope this wasn't you at your first job interview!!!