I took a quick sweep of the balcony view this morning as there was a different colour outlook compared to the one i posted on Nov 15th.
And a few happy snaps too
The red wagon looking car is my current hire car and I had to clear the snow. Its kind of fun (at least for the first day). The snow was quite dry so it mostly brushed straight off using the special brush like implement that was in the car (its like they knew something), until you get to the actual windscreen which has a thin layer of ice which needs to be scrapped off. And, the windscreen wipers are frozen to the screen so they don't work for a little while until the screen gets a little heat form the de-mister. I am sure I'll get the hang of it by the time winter is over in roughly 3months. 3months doesn't seem that long.
On my way to lunch today I walked up to the corner sandwich shop through this.
And then on my way back to work the same view looked like this.
Well the follow up video won't load BUT the idea was to show you how the weather had changed as the sun was shining on my way back (technology great when it works).
From the videos (which tok a stupid long time to load into the system) you can see the difference between before lunch and after lunch which was only 45 minutes or so. These shortish snow falls are referred to as flurries. Flurries are quite common around here and their frequency will be on the rise in the coming months. In fact I think flurries simply turn into day long snowing.
Well its fun for now until it becomes a pain in the butt.
I hear from the guys at work, once there is a little more snow, its out into the car park at lunchtime for snow ball fights. The teams are all the US guys vs the Aus guys. And at the moment there is 65 people in the company and there are 2 of us Aussies, so it should be fun when it starts.
Well, another day in the USA - if we figure on a 3 year period, which is 1095 days, i have already done 7. What could possibly go wrong?
Cheers.
4 comments:
Hamsterelli,
Looks awesome from over here. But just for the record, today it didn't get much above 17C, and now at 10:30pm it is just into double figures at 11C! Very windy and cold. BTi and his smart comments may have brought karma onto us, and shared some of your experience.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...
Smarty
Same over here big time today. Karel and i had a giggle over your prediction of this all being over in three months....lets hope you are right though!
Hi Dave and Karel, Well 3 months is a way to tell myself it wont be too bad. Even if it is I would rather go into it with optimism regardless of what the outcome. Good luck getting some climbing in.
Cheers, Hamster
Hello Hamster,
I have one piece of advise,do not accept any so called free "lemon ice-blocks" from those pesky Americans.
Greg was right, very crappy sunday here.
Keep enjoying yourself.
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