Comments on: White Out

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:32:02 +0000

’96 was the last one for me. That’s when I loaded up the truck and headed for Californy.

By: AJStrata

AJStrata — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:17:44 +0000

Mike M – what are surprised about? I just did not have time to blog with all the shoveling and checking in on others.

Yeah, I have been here for them all (’80, ’96, etc)

By: Mike M.

Mike M. — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:40:16 +0000

That sounds right. It was the winter of ’79-’80. Nasty affair, as nobody was ready.

By: Redteam

Redteam — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:26:24 +0000

just did a little googling, seems the blizzard of 79 was mostly in mid west (chicago area) blizzard of 80 was in Va. 2/29 and 3/1/80

By: Redteam

Redteam — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:21:19 +0000

MikeM was that blizzard of 79 the one that happened along in Feb or Mar of ’80?

By: Paul_In_Houston

Paul_In_Houston — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:01:48 +0000

Just curious.

Does Virginia have the equivalent of the “Dear Diary” note I published in Snow ?

(I’d be awfully surprised if it doesn’t.
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By: Mike M.

Mike M. — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:07:00 +0000

AJ, I’m surprised at you. This is bad, but we’ve both seen storms just as serious. The 1979 blizzard….THAT was hard. Because the National Capital area hadn’t seen more than 6 inches in living memory. 17 inches was a back-breaker, especially with another 8 inches falling a week later.

The biggest problem is that this is the third major snowfall in six weeks…and we’ve run out of room for snow.

By: Toes192

Toes192 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:34:28 +0000

We Alaskans wish you’d stop hoarding the water and send more snow up here…

By: Wildebeast

Wildebeast — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:08:40 +0000

I’m in Arlington. We have about 28 inches. The total at Reagan National is 25.6-inches (8 yesterday, 17.6 today). We lost power at 5 but got it back at 7:14 this evening. With the low tonight going down to around 15Â°, I’m really happy to have the power back.

I’ve been reading this site since the 2008 campaign. I’m a centrist/liberal Dem who’s appalled at the leftist takeover of the DNC. We voted for McCain in 2008 after meeting him in June of that year. I wasn’t too pleased that he was a member of American Friends of Bilderberg but thought he’d be better than Obama.

I thought it was about time I registered and said hello.

By: WWS

WWS — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:16:26 +0000

well I’m sorry I missed your tipoff, crosspatch.

AJ is on the east coast, and is technically competent, hmmmm….

naaaaaahhh. LOL

oh and it was a pretty cold day here, too. It only got up into the 50′s! And we might even have another freeze later this week.

By: smill1953

smill1953 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:29:37 +0000

I’m in Alexandria, VA and our trees took quite a beating from this heavy, wet snow. I agree, it’s tough shoveling!

By: OldSarg

OldSarg — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:57:58 +0000

I think it’s God smiting DC. Every time Obama says “Global Warming” God dumps another foot of the white stuff on the liberal coast.

By: Quite Rightly

Quite Rightly — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:05:02 +0000

Stay warm! Linked at Bread upon the Waters.

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:50:23 +0000

“time stamp info in the files appears to indicate that the files were accessed and collected by someone shifted 5 hours from GMT, ie on the US East Coast.”

I pointed that out more than a month ago on several blogs.

By: WWS

WWS — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:09:04 +0000

fascinating article on the supposed Climategate “leak” in the UK Guardian today; remember, this up until now has been one of the most pro-AGW voices in the MSM.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/04/climate-change-email-hacker-police-investigation

Coincides with a lot of what you have written earlier on this topic. One piece of new info buried in this article that I had not heard before – time stamp info in the files appears to indicate that the files were accessed and collected by someone shifted 5 hours from GMT, ie on the US East Coast.

But the most important point is that so far, the official investigation has turned up no evidence whatsoever that the CRU system was actually hacked. It appears that their “security” was so poor as to be nonexistent.

What a great irony it will be, an approriate metaphor for the entire AGW fiasco, if it turns out that the entire edifice came tumbling down simply due to the technical incompetence of the scientists who were in charge of things!