IronTy

There's hope for you yet!

Anecdotal.... We have started the process to build our cabin on Meadow Mountain next to DCL. We own the land already so it'll be build only. Planning on a relatively modest A-frame at this point. So far the process has been relatively painless. We have the concept and the architect has started work on construction drawings. We are deciding between two builders at this point. Goal is to begin construction in March and be completed by the holidays next year. So far all guidance is that this is doable. I'll build deadline penalties into the builder contract to keep them motivated, and we are doing everything with cash already on hand so maybe that helps too. So far we're being quoted around $220/sqft. That's build only - like I said we already own the land. Big variable will be cost to get electric from the nearest pole to the POE.

Now we know where JB is getting his "coldest since the pleistocene" call from.

Triggered!!!! This is a deb safe space, be gone with your treachery and polyanna ways!

We need to hope for a THC shutdown. Or maybe Greenland just all melts one summer and throws us into an ice age. Or maybe a supervolcano or asteroid hit. Those could turn things in our favor on a dime .

JB just posted about how the upcoming period has the most severe cold potential of any period he's seen in years. Finally some good news that you can take to the bank, guaranteed.

Same here in Calvert. It's dumping.

I've been saying this for years but I might as well be howling at the moon. The warming ocean WILL help produce monster snowstorms...up until a point. And then it'll be just too warm to snow at all and we'll only end up as rain. We had a blowout season in 09-10 and the NE had one five years later like I expected. And it's generally sucked since then. Now we're in the rain-only phase. Might as well embrace it and welcome the arrival of anoles and geckos followed by larger and ever more dangerous reptiles as the years go by.

Not sure I'd say it's easier to be a pessimist around here so much as it's just more accurate given our location...assuming the goal is snow as you say. But I do agree that incessant bellyaching isn't really contributing much and its probably just best to find a new hobby.

I think this board is a microcosm of human behavior. Some people tend toward optimism, some toward pessimism. I posit there are few areas where this is more blatant than the weather. It's something that nobody can do a damn thing about and really unmasks our inherent biases. I tend toward "defensive pessimism". Eternal optimists annoy the fock out of me. But it's like an introvert vs an extrovert. Neither is inherently wrong or bad. And let's face it, the pessimists have gotten it right for a while now.

Looks like everybody and their uncle used that phrase. Must've all been closet weather weenies.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Ugh here I am. After last year a significantly more humbled version of myself. So yeah, I'm ready for winter. Looking at the data and most importantly the SSTs, there's no way we fail like we did last winter. Maybe we find some other way to fail but I'm so much more enthusiastic about this winter than I was last year. Fwiw.....

Cost is measured in snow on the ground! Basically it's free!

Oh, so validated. I feel it.

Lmao, I just got home from vacation. Was expecting at least 10" of snow on the ground. Instead I got 50F+ and sunny and my viburnums are about to break into song. Sorry @WesternFringe, there's always next year. Even a 4th grader coulda figured out that we weren't getting any snow this march. I guess there's always the hope for a late April snowstorm? Cows could come home on their own too.

Tupac once rapped about Hail Mary. It didn't turn out so well for him.

We're really digging deep for some snow. It ain't gonna happen.

Who actually thinks we're gonna get a storm at this point? Life moves on, it ain't happening.

They must be sasanquas. It's normal for them to bloom in late fall or early winter. The flowers are kinda lame compared to japonicas though.

What!? Ours never bloom that ?early/late? Are they sasanquas? We have a couple of those and they typically bloom in late fall or early winter but that's typical for sasanqua. But japonikas (in my pic) don't normally bloom until early spring.

Camellias have started to bloom. This beats even 2012 as the earliest date in the 17yrs I've had them.

Man the intense sunshine is awesome for my depression. Who gives a fuck about snow? I'm pumped for spring.

Last January I woke up and it was pouring rain and like 40F out. 8hrs later I had over a foot of snow on the ground. It's possible.