Loading ...Mountain areas getting a ski persons paradise if you can get there. One road is gonna be closed all winter. Chains now required. I think if I did skiing in this I’d have two wrist paracord’s with me in case you got stuck on the lifts.
I remember one year “ Donners pass” abouve is you go through me and a friend got on a bus that takes you back and forth to Reno.
Good thing we took a bus since we had no chains. On the way back there was a bunch of abandoned cars on the Hwy while we were waiting pass as they were checking cars first for safety covered with snow. Better to have to abandon your car than slide of a 1000 foot cliff so they were doing the right thing checking cars first not to mention getting stuck and freezing to death. It was bitterly cold out there that night.
Snow
redneckokie1
That kind of work will get ya goin! We are burning wood all day long at this point. Nice and toasty!
Ipso
I spent the day making little logs out of big ones so when the 70 degrees changes to 7, I will be ready.
Pict
Other gators have swallowed our early morning profits … sigh
Palm Trees
79* and sunny at Cape Fear NC today. Gators are still active.
Ipso
Just wait until we get warm moist air from the gulf coast with an overriding polar blast riding the jet stream. Every four or five years it shuts down the whole state. Then comes tornado season!
redneckokie1
“80 degrees”
and I always thought Oklahoma was a midwest blizzardy kind of place!
treefrog @ 11:3
Sheesh. Tough crowd!
Record high temps in Oklahoma
It was 80 degrees on Christmas Day here. In 2009, we had 5 foot snow drifts, 60 mph winds and single digits temps. Most East-West roads were closed. Most North -South roads were clear. The storm started with rain, then freezing rain, then sleet changing to snow. This was in a state with no snow plows or no snow blowers. Power lines down everywhere. I was really serious about having a place in Belize!
People are still wearing shorts and flip flops during the day now. Sooner or later, the winds will change from the desert southwest to Artic air mass to warm moist gulf winds.
Silver seems to have some sort of low here. The moving averages have all turned up on the daily chart. Oil and natural gas are also steady to higher.
Stocks seem to be taking a breather.
ipso,
both my ex-wives were english majors…
…ditto the nightmares.
treefrog
I still have nightmares! 
ipso, 10:28
sounds pretty kinky! just lying under there, would be tough!
I’d call this a serious offense
Former Washington state Democrat campaigner sentenced for terrorist attack on railroad
A Washington state woman has been sentenced to a year in prison for sabotaging railroad tracks near the US-Canada border in Washington state in an attempt to derail a train carrying crude oil.
Ellen Brennan Reiche of Bellingham was sentenced Dec. 17 in US District Court in Seattle to 12 months and one day in prison for committing an act of violence against a railroad carrier. Reiche is also required to complete 100 hours of community service while on federal supervision.
Re: snow
The thing I hate most about it is laying under your car putting on chains and icy water is dripping down your neck. Blechh!
Hey maddog, Alex Valdor
for some reason the shares are doing OK but hard to know if they’ll hold. USD up yet again. Weird day when the SM is down, metals flat and shares up???
Bitcoin taking a hit, not sure why.
Alex – your life up in Canada was more like survival. Crazy. We’re cold in Idaho but nothing like that, worst I’ve see is -15 with wind chill. We also don’t get nearly as much snow either.
Pan American Silver (PAAS) Project Uncertain as Mining Law Repealed
The future of Pan American Silver Corp.’s PAAS Navidad silver project is uncertain again as of Dec 20, after the executive of the Province of Chubut in Argentina repealed the mining law approved earlier this month. The law had triggered expectations that the company would be able to start the project — one of the world’s largest undeveloped silver deposits after an 18-year long wait
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pan-american-silver-paas-project-133201100.html
Maya – you’ve taught me something
At close to 14 000 feet and with seabed locations close to Hawaii as deep as 18 000 feet , we’re talking over 30 000 feet elevation difference . Six miles !
In the late 1960’s I hiked to a ridge at 12 600 feet , and could only climb a few feet without a break to catch my breath as I neared the summit* . Yours , at a thousand feet higher , would be impossible for me to climb even 50 years ago.
* but at the peak was an old man , age 86 – a Mr. Oviatt who had made the climb every year since 1936 except for the year before .
” why didn’t you make it last year ?”
Mr. O “Because my doctor said my heart could not take it.”
” And this year ?”
Mr. O ” I didn’t go to the doctor.”
True story !
Morning Buygold
Yr right 1820 is a new line….we just lost $ 10 for no good reason.
Looks like $1820 is the next line in the sand
and the scum is definitely fading it…
edit – on the other hand, let’s go silver!!!
Morning Maddog
Going to give it another try today?
Shares (HUI) didn’t perform so well yesterday, but metals continue to creep up.
Eventually, this is going to blow higher – I swear it will. 🙂
PM’s climbing that Wall of Worry
then again the scum are happy campers, they have the SM all ready to close the year at record all time highs.
The only thing they need to add to such an event, is hearing the Trophy Wifes Ski Instructor, has got anther dose, so he can’t bang her..!!!!!!
Alex – I can relate
I grew up in Wisconsin. I have done outside work at -60f. When I had a chance to move to Hawaii at age 25 I never looked back. This is as close as I get to snow now days. This is the Maunakea snow capped summit, 13,796ft, as seen from Hilo town on 12/24.
Late winter 1970-71 ; near Chalk River ON : 140+ inches of snow
The next winter we had 172 inches total accumulation . Both years were records .
I have seen -45F many times on the window thermometer .
That’s why I’m in Florida ! NEVER again will I live in winters like that . Call me a pansy if you like , but it beats freezing to death in a few minutes if you found yourself accidentally locked outside without adequate clothing .
My place had a sauna hut out back , and I have made ‘snow angels’ in the snowdrifts while nude after getting heated up in the sauna when the temperature outside was -20F . Great way to cleanse the pores !
Ipso
That’s what they did pre 08. Made everything look fine with their bad loans they repackaged and rated as tripe As and bonds thrown in the mix to keep them up until…