Been spending the last couple of weeks getting my house ready for winter. Still slightly traumatized over last winter. Hopefully it will be like the old days, you remember. You got new snow tires for the car, then, voila!,NO SNOW!!

Hootie

Your guess is as good as ours...or the meteoroligists!

*Hootie I may have to sell a kidney to pay for propane if we have another winter like the last! I am too old to lose any working body parts...

Lol. If it gets that cold outside this winter, I may have to open the windows!

Yup, house is ready for winter, just unplugged the AC, ain't gonna need it until March.

Yup, house is ready for winter, just unplugged the AC, ain't gonna need it until March.

We just turned on the heater. Ac has been off since some time in early September.

I'm not turning the heat on till November. I say that every year and looks like this year it could finally happen! I don't care if I have to sit in my living room in a coat a night or two.

I'm not turning the heat on till November. I say that every year and looks like this year it could finally happen! I don't care if I have to sit in my living room in a coat a night or two.

I wish I could do that. It is still 60 or so during the day. But it is any were from high 20s to low 30's at night. That is the Avg for this time of year. Even with me wrapping my self up in a cocoon of blankest. It sucks getting up in the morning.  

*Hootie, according to Dave Toleris of Wxrisk.com, a professional meteorologist, we are in for a severe winter in the eastern half of the country.

 

Seems the snow in Siberia is at a very high level and this usually leads to a bad winter for us east of the Mississippi.

 

We had a full house GENERAC home generator powered by natural gas from the city installed and my wife is on my case to load up on bottled water for the grandkids when they call to come over because they lost power or their well pump/pipes froze again.

 

You can check out Wxrisk.com on Facebook or check out his web page, www.wxrisk.com

 

Very interesting posts and Dave us usually 99% correct on his weather calls.

We just turned on the heater. Ac has been off since some time in early September.

 

Ceiling fans will be enough down here maybe until mid December

Last winter was so cold, my drain field froze. I bought an Eden Pure heater to avoid paying the $5.00/gl for more propane (that was being rationed).

I heard this winter is supposed to be just as bad.

I wish I could do that. It is still 60 or so during the day. But it is any were from high 20s to low 30's at night. That is the Avg for this time of year. Even with me wrapping my self up in a cocoon of blankest. It sucks getting up in the morning.  

Getting up in the morning is a good thing!

Getting ready for winter for me is moving the snow blower to garage and doing PM on it, winterizing and covering my motorcycles (they're in a heated garage), and moving the patio furniture to the shed where the snow blower usually sits.  That, and making sure my skis are ready to go in case I get some time off.

Last winter was so cold, my drain field froze. I bought an Eden Pure heater to avoid paying the $5.00/gl for more propane (that was being rationed).

I heard this winter is supposed to be just as bad.

 

The farmer's almanac says, YES, we're in for another 'real' winter.  

Real winter where I´m at ----> 75° and sunny.

Man I gotta keep rubbing it, now it´s Valley Sports turn: my project for today is mow the yards once more, my project for next week is, guess what ? yup, you got it right ! ----> to mow again, if I don´t mow every week the lawn turns into an impenetrable jungle, time also to prepare the flowerbeds for winter plants like Pansies and Impatiens ( I think you ppl up near the North Pole plant those in the summer ), also time to do a little house painting ( I prefer to do it during Nov. so the house will look pretty and neat for the Holidays ). Oh yup, winterizing is a lot of work.

Raul, Im going to send you some of our northern, delicious yellow snow. When you get it just pretend its Italian ice, and seeing as tho I'm part Italian, thats kinda what it is.

Raul, Im going to send you some of our northern, delicious yellow snow. When you get it just pretend its Italian ice, and seeing as tho I'm part Italian, thats kinda what it is.

I could send him some Irish whiskey. He would just have to wait for the ice to melt.

The farmer's almanac says, YES, we're in for another 'real' winter.

They also said we were going to have a miserable summer this year..