Posted November 23, 200519 yr Seeing the roads covered in snow, I figured it was time to open up a winter thread.
November 23, 200519 yr Curses! Beaten to the punch on creating a winter pictures thread! I've got nothing to show for this winter yet (which is a good thing), so I'll start off with a couple pictures from last year's record-setting storm. This was sometime during the day on December 22. The car on the right in back (behind the flag) is mine. And this was the next day--my birthday! For my birthday I got to help shovel not only the driveway, but half the freakin' street! (Long story.) Yay!
November 26, 200519 yr wow that is crazy snow --- i am not ready for that yet! these are from today. they are from a hike around our friend's property behind their home in doylestown, pennsylvania --- which is in the center of bucks county in northern suburban philadelphia (they are orig from dayton): down by the river deer bow hunter stand a pond behind the house some ice on there today they have a mega huge bamboo stand, i did not realize that could take cold weather some cold weather kid fun post-outdoor hike, the 'top dawg' bowling game ruled!
November 28, 200519 yr This isn't my photo, but I ran across this in the Toledo Blade. These deer are at Side Cut Metropark in Maumee. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051124/NEWS12/51124019/-1/NEWS
November 28, 200519 yr ^What's the big deal? It's always that warm in Cleveland in November! :jo: "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 3, 200519 yr Hot... er, cold... off the presses from Madison: Behind those concrete things is Lake Mendota, which apparently is starting to freeze now. The ice is presumably from recent splashing lake water. The ground at the edge is also covered with ice. Left=lake; Right=not lake.
December 4, 200519 yr I'm sick of winter already. It took me 9 hours to get from Columbus to Dayton last night because of the ice. I spent about 7 hours parked on I-70.
December 4, 200519 yr ^Ouch...that sucks. I was sitting snug at home in front of a fire, eating some tasty beef stew with rolls and a nice glass of bourbon...sorry...
December 5, 200519 yr Ooh, warm. That last one looks like it is spelling some secret message. Actually, I don't need fire... I've got free heat! (Well, maybe not exactly "free"... I'm sure it's factored into the rent.) Still, I will think of your fire tomorrow when then high temperature will be only 15.
December 5, 200519 yr Every apartment I ever had that offered "free heat" just proved the old adage, "you get what you pay for." The worst was a house in O'Bryonville, where the bedroom would lock in around 56-57 degrees...we had to buy space heaters - but of course, we paid the electric bill...
December 5, 200519 yr Every apartment I ever had that offered "free heat" just proved the old adage, "you get what you pay for." The worst was a house in O'Bryonville, where the bedroom would lock in around 56-57 degrees...we had to buy space heaters - but of course, we paid the electric bill... My dad owned some rental properties, and although I don't like to admit it, he teetered on the brink of being a slumlord. At least one place was an old house that had been duplexed before codes required separate heating systems, and it was grandfathered in. Dad paid the gas bill and provided for it in the rent that he charged. The tenants on the two sides of the house could never agree on the heat; the people with the thermostat would set it for their comfort, and it was too hot for the people on the other side who would then open the windows to cool down their unit. Dad about went ballistic when he drove by and saw windows and the front door standing open on a twent-degree day. The next time the place became vacant, he painted all the windows shut. He didn't last long as a landlord; he was too frugal to renovate the places properly so they would attract anything other than riffraff, and too controlling to tolerate the riffraff and their failure to respect the property.
December 5, 200519 yr we have heat included, its pretty standard in nyc apts. we dont even turn on the old steam heater, the steam pipes that run up thru each room keep the place toasty enough (when the heat is on that is). we usually even open some windows a bit, thats the only control we have over it!
December 7, 200519 yr When a fog blows in off the lake and it's six degrees below zero outside... You're supposed to get a bit of snow in Ohio soon... we'd better see some more pictures!
December 7, 200519 yr Ooooh! Hoarfrost! It's one of my favorite winter scenes, especially out in the country as the sun is coming up! :-)
December 9, 200519 yr Great pics, PigBoy! That squirrel one's fantastic. Tomorrow might be a good day for me to get a few shots. Then they'll sit on my hard drive for 3 weeks before I do anything about them.
December 9, 200519 yr Not particularly pretty, but winter here often isn't. These are from my porches this morning, and that's probably as far outside as I'll go until I stop coughing up pieces of my lungs. Back door Back porch Patio - cookout, anyone? Back steps, Ranger & driveway West on Washington Street & Swinney Park, from front porch East on Washington Street Across the street, this house was built in the late 19th Century and later donated to the Catholic Church as a residence for the Bishop of the Fort Wayne Diocese. The wing on the left, added at that time, holds a library on the first floor and a chapel on the second. Both have been maintained intact by the present owners. The Bishop now resides in South Bend, and the house is a private residence. Thomas Swinney home in Swinney Park
December 9, 200519 yr oh thats so nice rob. you are almost snowed in. it was gorgeous here today, winter wonderland big fat snowflakes all day. we just got back from crowded times square shopping tonight, where it was looking very white snowy and holiday-ish. im sorry i did not grab the camera. here's one of central park from ap:
December 10, 200519 yr Blizzard of '78 photos again?! :-D I'll have to post some that my parents took, back then, tomorrow. (I couldn't taken them, I was 3+ years old back then)
December 11, 200519 yr Make with the '78 photos! Here are some random winter photos from my considerably younger archives IceFest in Hamilton, January 2003 I believe: I think this is a dragon... really hard to tell in the picture. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Curse cheap photo developing for cutting off the top of this one and the next one! :x Moving on, killer icicles around the same time. And one from Ohio Wesleyan after that February storm in 2003. Skip back a couple months to Christmas 2002 in New Jersey. And why not... a scene in Boston shortly thereafter.
December 11, 200519 yr Ah, thank you - especially the Boston one - it's great to wake up to an unexpected visit from Boston...and now that a) my computer's back up, and b) the trend is to post from the Ghosts of Winters Past, I'll have to do some digging, find some fun winter stuff...
December 12, 200519 yr I figured I should add a Winter shot from beautiful North-Central Ohio. This is Richland Carrousel Park in Downtown Mansfield, taken just minutes before my daughter and I went to see The Chronicles of Narnia this past Friday evening. Happy Holidays! Thomas/PresOhio
December 15, 200519 yr Great shots, everyone! Time for the latest installment from Madison. We had a decent snowfall today, probably four inches. And we already had about 5 inches on the ground before that, so we've got a very nice blanket covering the ground now. Here are some photos from this evening. Tilty... As usual, there will be some photos of the capitol. I can't keep away from it! Snow in spotlights! Footprints Merry Generic Winter Holiday! Also par for the course, I took a picture looking down State Street. Hey, look, another guy is doing that too! Stair snow! One day I should do a tour of my little sub-neighborhood, Mansion Hill. (Go ahead, guess what characterizes the area.) For now, here are two places a couple doors down from me. If you can read the sign, you'll see that this one is an inn. It's one of the only old mansions here that hasn't been turned into apartments. That's all until the next storm!
December 15, 200519 yr The State Street shot is so inviting and gorgeous...thank you, and keep them coming! Say, you happen to have a shot from that same angle from when it's warm? Would be a great comparison - would warm the heart!
December 15, 200519 yr Wow, what service! Actually, I think I prefer the winter shot, oddly enough - but it looks like a cool spot!
December 15, 200519 yr Madison is a beautiful city, and you have a very good eye for lighting effects. Nice photos!
December 17, 200519 yr OK, my turn to post some pics of winters past. I know I have some pics of the aftermaths of the Blizzards of '77 and '78 where I lived in Highland Heights. I can't seem to locate them. However, I found some other stuff of interest from the Blizzard of '78, and from snowstorms in the 80s and 90s. Might as well go chronologically.... The front page of the PD on Jan. 27, 1978, the day after the blizzard hit... For weather geeks like me, you know that if winds are sustained for 35 mph for 3 hours straight or gust above 50 with falling or blowing snow, that constitutes a blizzard. Cleveland got only 7.1 inches of snow from the Blizzard of '78, but there were 80-mph gusts, sustained winds of more than 50 mph lasting 3 hours, and sustained winds of 35 mph continuing for 13 hours whipped up drifts as high as 20 feet in places. This is what Brookpark Road looked like along the northern edge of Hopkins Airport -- two days after the storm hit. Over Christmas 1983, west winds and below-zero temperatures conspired to dump up to three feet of lake-effect snow on the town of Northeast, PA, just east of Erie, PA. A couple of days later, after the snow had settled somewhat and I-90 was reopened, we drove up to visit my 91-year-old great aunt. This is the view from her front yard, looking across the street.... At the time, in 1983, my family lived in southwest Geauga County, within earshot of Geauga Lake and Sea World Park. As you can see, we got very little from the lake-effect storm, as west winds off Lake Erie limited their whiteout effects to north of US322. But it was 10 below zero, and the cold night gave a crisp look to our Christmas lights. Cleveland in February 1984 saw only 4 inches of snow as the month came to a close. But, to the southwest, a growing storm moved out of the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandle region and moved northeast. It pulled a lot of moisture north from the Gulf of Mexico, clashing with cold air from Canada. The ingredients fostered a megastorm that spread from Mississippi to Maine. Cleveland got some of the heaviest snow from the storm, totaling 15-20 inches on 40 mph winds. This is what the after-effects of the storm looked like at my family's house in Bainbridge Township.... That's not just any ruler sticking out of the snow on the table on our back deck, it's a 2-foot-long ruler. The snow on the table measured 17 inches.... Another view on the back deck.... This is me, at the tender age of 17, painfully showing the snow from the 1984 storm to my father in what was supposed to be a humorous photo. So why did it turn painful? Because he took his time snapping a number of pictures, meanwhile my hand was starting to go numb... Speaking of numb, in January 1985, we set a record low temperature of -17 at Hopkins. It was equally cold at our house. And, yes, I was the teenager the sign warned visitors about, as my sister had already gone off to college. Two months later, we got a windy snowstorm that created this neat effect in reaction to the picket fence that surrounded our pool yard.... In December of 1988, I photographed this westbound Conrail train, coming through Ravenna, OH at about a 60-mph clip. Mother Nature doesn't always create the wind that causes the blizzard.... Sometimes man-made wind sources create blizzards too! Here's the results from a quick but nasty storm in December 1996 that struck overnight. It dumped a foot of snow and combined with 50 mph gusts to create this large snowdrift that blocked the door to my former apartment in Berea. I had to carefully climb around it to get this picture before I shoveled it out and destroyed this pristine view. I'll end the show on a warm note, with a little help from Photoshop. That earlier frigid picture suddenly looks like the train is going so fast, it's setting the tracks ablaze in a fiery cauldron. May this picture warm you on cold nights this winter.... Don't freeze! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 18, 200519 yr Great post! Looks like you've kept good records. For another random picture, here's Dayton from last January.
December 20, 200519 yr http://www.daily-jeff.com/article.php?pathToFile=/archive/12152005/news/&file=_news2.txt&article=1&tD=12152005
December 20, 200519 yr http://www.daily-jeff.com/article.php?pathToFile=/archive/12152005/news/&file=_news2.txt&article=1&tD=12152005 Death wish? :-D
January 23, 200619 yr This thread's been inactive for over a month. Is everyone depressed by winter? However you feel about it, here are a few wintry scenes from the other day. Frozen wasteland! Close-up (cropped at 100%) of some snow
January 23, 200619 yr This thread's been inactive for over a month. Well, this is mainly because we haven't had winter for almost a month. It's more like spring than anything else. I love 60 degree weather, but not in the middle of January!
January 23, 200619 yr I think the coldest it's been all winter, at least in Cincinnati has been 24'. I'm not complaining. I just hope we don't have 20 days of 100 or more this summer.
January 23, 200619 yr That may have been the lowest high temperature we've had, but it's been down in the single-digits at night...I'll dig up actual numbers later on, though...
January 24, 200619 yr I have some photos from just after that blizzard that hit a few days before Christmas in 2004. At my parents' house, we received just over 20 inches of snow from that one storm; quite unusual for north central Ohio. Here is a view looking south (upstream) from my parents' lower backyard. Here is a picture of a bridge near Norwalk. Here is another view from a further distance. Here is a view looking off of a nearly 100-foot cliff.
January 24, 200619 yr That may have been the lowest high temperature we've had, but it's been down in the single-digits at night...I'll dig up actual numbers later on, though... Hmmm maybe it was January then. This has been an odd winter.
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