Re: PNW Weather
Oliver T Massey CFS (massey@hal.fmhi.usf.edu)
Tue, 31 Dec 1996 10:23:03 -0500 (EST)
> I've lived here all my life. It has been 20 years sence
> I've seen this much snow, but that has not been the hard
> part. It is the fast melt with heavy rains. I have never
> seen any thing like it in my life! Interstate Highway 5
> was an ICY RIVER most of the way home from work yesterday
> and where it was not river like it resembeled a lake, yesterday
> Dec. 29. The media said dont go out in it unless it is a matter
> of life and death and my experence having been there is that it
> was. I work temprature control at Swedish Med. Center In Seattle
> and we couldnt send the sick people home for the storm so I went
> to work. It has not been so cold about 28 deg F to 32 most of
> the time I live in Everett about 32 miles north of Seattle
> and Commute there 5 days a week.
> My vft are all out in this and most of my Sarracenia! They
> have been there for years. Andrew Tells me that while his
> power was out he heated his green house with a Gas Lantern
> (Coleman) and mantained 45 Deg. F. I guess We designed and
> built it right. When the Snow was on my Green House it used
> much fewer Btu's than on a normal night same temps. I run mine
> much cooler about 33 to 34 Deg. F.
>
>
> Kevin Snively
Whoa, the news has gotten so parochial that I hadn't heard much about the
situation up there. The most I heard was a short bit about heavy rains.
Hope your new year is better.
Tom in Fl