Crunch time
Tuesday December 06th 2016, 10:24 pm
Filed under: Garden,Life

Outside: 35F and going down. (Mango tree: 62F.) I have no doubt this will be our coldest night yet and the mandarin oranges are shivering under their covers, too.

I got a good laugh at my own reluctance to head out for a grocery run–hey, you, didn’t you used to live in New Hampshire? A little perspective check in the video from Montreal: five cars in the snow that got rear-ended by a long bus that got rear-ended by a pickup that got rear-ended by another bus that got rear-ended by a cop car that–

–and you can hear a voice yelling, “Hey! Get out of the car!”

And the cop did, just before the snowplow doing that same long no no no don’t! skid with its tires turned uselessly thataway (c’mon guys, steer into the skid and then away!) smashed the officer’s car.

Drive carefully out there, you all.

And to the Californians: keep an extra sweater or jacket in your car, willya? You never know when someone else who isn’t prepared for real cold is going to need it.


3 Comments so far
Leave a comment

Yikes! Hope no one was injured too badly. Here is a bit of sunshine. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2016/12/05/phoenix-middle-eastern-bakery-supporters-thanks/95021986/.

Comment by DebbieR 12.07.16 @ 6:22 am

Oh. this is wonderful, Debbie, thank you!

Comment by AlisonH 12.07.16 @ 8:51 am

We’ve had over 10″ of snow in the last day or two, which is unusual in Winnipeg. Plows are not keeping up—and some car accidents are darn hard to avoid. No idea about Montreal, but we are limiting our driving as we can, but everyone mostly goes to work (and school) no matter what…

Comment by Joanne 12.07.16 @ 11:03 am



Leave a comment
Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

(required)

(required)