February 14, 200619 yr What a crappy winter for snow pics. I haven't gotten a snow shot since those West End ones in December. :(
February 16, 200619 yr We had a decent snowfall in Madison today. Probably 8 inches, and it's rather windy, so there is some interesting drifting going on. For some reason, it has also prompted a half snow day (no late afternoon/evening classes) at UW, apparently the first cancellation since 1990. Here are just a few random shots to keep the spirit of winter alive. (Depressed, but alive.) Being February, the shopping cart mafia sent Tony Three-wheel to "sleep with the ice fishes." Looking across a park near where I live. The street ascending the hill in the back is mine. Same park, a lovely view of the Lake Mendota shoreline. Tomorrow night, the return of sub-zero temperatures!
January 9, 200718 yr The following is what 30+ inches of snowed looked like Dec. 26, 2004 in Chardon https://www.instagram.com/cle_and_beyond/https://www.instagram.com/jbkaufer/
January 10, 200718 yr Clifton to OTR stairway was rough this AM due to all the daggone SALT ! Pretty sad that all the salt was wasted for nothing. People freak out over a piddly 1" snow forecast, and dump tons of salt on the roads and sidewalks, only for the snow to never materialize. I wish forecasters in this part of the country would get a clue, and realize that there has to be at least an 80% chance of 6-8" before we even see 1-2". I have absolutely NO faith whatsoever in forecasts for snow. I just laugh them off.
January 10, 200718 yr Cincinnati-area local governments use WAY too much road salt during the winter. Astounding, unbelievable, gratuitous amounts of salt. I lived in Michigan 24 years, including 18 on the snowbound west side, and never saw any municipality use anywhere near as much in anticipation of, or reaction to, winter precipitation.
January 10, 200718 yr I love how the Cleveland television media this past weekend was making a big deal over "GET READY FOR SNOW COMING IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS!" Um, it's January. It's Cleveland. DUH! Most places got only a dusting and many others got nothing. Watching the forecast over the weekend on the Weather Channel and visiting www.noaa.gov, it was clear to me this media hyperbole had no substance. So if you want a better forecast, stay away from the local buffoons. That includes our city service departments. It will save them some salt. By the way, I don't have any winter-time photos yet. It doesn't look any different out there than it does in late November..... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
January 11, 200718 yr Closest thing to a winter photo I've got this season- an ice sculpture in Boston at New Year's. It actually was chilly there on New Year's Eve (although not super cold), unlike the last couple of years.
January 16, 200718 yr ^ That's good ice. Everything up here in Ann Arbor is covered in bad ice. It's a freakin skating rink. The weight of it is pulling powerlines down Some pics outside my apartment this morning:
January 16, 200718 yr ^ That's good ice. Everything up here in Ann Arbor is covered in bad ice. It's a freakin skating rink. The weight of it is pulling powerlines down Some pics outside my apartment this morning: I find this picture to be rather impressive. Good work!
January 18, 200718 yr Today we had a rare lake-effect snow event in north central Illinois; this region is almost always on the leeward side, relative to Lake Michigan (except for today, of course).
February 5, 200718 yr Wow, Jimmy - you're a LOT younger than I thought you were! (haha!) That's great...always so cool to walk on water! For some reason, I find it fascinating. I'd hate the heating bills, but I could SO love seeing the river freeze solid again like in 1977...
February 5, 200718 yr I walked on the river in 1977, so, no that is not me in the photo. Today, there are not even ice chunks yet. It must take a month of this kind of weather to freeze the Ohio river.
February 5, 200718 yr You get any pictures of walking on the river? That would be incredible! In January 1977, two days reached highs of 33, two reached 34, and one reached 38. Every other day never broke freezing. The average low was 5, the average mean was 16, and the average high was 22...if I remember the figures right! Coal and gas shipments couldn't reach the city (or the whole area), and I've read about folks who were working in 45 degree buildings...factories were shut down due to the energy shortage...then the month ended with a huge blizzard! That would really, really suck - but I'd endure it to get the pictures!
February 5, 200718 yr I was a kid, and my dad took me down, and we have some photos somewhere. The cool thing is that I remember college kids driving a VW bug across the ice and my dad just shaking his head at the huge danger involved. It was making lots of cracking noises. The edge was really rough with huge chunks of ice frozen together, and the rest was smooth. I think it also froze in 1964?, but I am not old enough for that.
February 5, 200718 yr I've seen references to it freezing in 1948 or so...I'll have to look around, see if I can find any kind of comprehensive list...well, comprehensive list since canalization - before that, it probably froze most years. If you can dig those pictures out, I'd LOVE to see them!
February 6, 200718 yr ^Thanks, I can see them now! Its coming down pretty hard in Oxford right current, too hard for a decent photo.
February 6, 200718 yr Very pretty, Ink...and none of that flash-on-the-nearby-flakes either - well handled!
February 7, 200718 yr Jimmy, that is beautiful...I think that second one is my favorite shot ever of Music Hall...absolutely gorgeous!
February 7, 200718 yr jan 8, 2007. my kind of winter It amazes me how mild the first part of January was here in Cleveland! ;)
February 14, 200718 yr That's fantastic...there is nothing in nature as beautiful as a Cardinal against the snow... ...OK, that's an overstatement...but wow, Cardinals are beautiful. So, did the evening end up justifying the winter storm warning? The weather folks were calling it blizzard conditions in Fort Waye by around dinnertime...
February 14, 200718 yr That's fantastic...there is nothing in nature as beautiful as a Cardinal against the snow... ...OK, that's an overstatement...but wow, Cardinals are beautiful. So, did the evening end up justifying the winter storm warning? The weather folks were calling it blizzard conditions in Fort Waye by around dinnertime... There's a pair of Cardinals that comes around; the female shows up most often, and sometimes both, but that was one of the male's less-common appearances. Pretty significant snow, but I don't think it's anywhere close to what we got in '78. I made a last-minute trip to the hardware store to replenish my birdseed supply, and the fire/emergency routes weren't too awful, but the side streets and intersections were approaching impassable. I didn't realize until later that the city and county were under a level-2 snow emergency, and if I had gotten stuck and blocked traffic I could have been ticketed. All the schools, many businesses and the city and county offices are closed this morning. Snow has stopped, but forecasts call for winds to 30mph with severe drifting. The rural areas to the south apparently really got clobbered; the terrain is flat and open and broken only by occasional woodlots, and the drifting gets really bad. Even though my neighbor dug out quite a lot of sidewalk yesterday, it's mostly buried deep this morning. As soon as it gets light, I'll go out with my camera. Meanwhile, I'll finish my coffee and then bundle up and start shoveling. When the schools are closed for a snow day, there's a group of 4 or 5 high-school kids who show up with snow shovels looking to make a few bucks, and they're cheerful and energetic and do a good job. I've paid them well in the past in order to stay high on the list, so maybe they'll turn up and spare me some work.
February 14, 200718 yr I posted a thread of shots from today in "City Photos" http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=11958.0 clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
February 14, 200718 yr oh man love the birdie action shots QFT (Quoted for Truth) I agree, I like that pic alot.
February 15, 200718 yr From Mt Storm, Cincinnati State in Foreground and I believe St. Lawrence in Price Hill on the horizon. All trees ice covered.
February 15, 200718 yr Awesome ice shots. And, Rob, cool photos and fun-to-read descriptions. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 16, 200718 yr Great stuff Rob! I am sick and tired of walking on snow and ice covered sidewalks, you'd think a college campus that is recieving $20-30,000 per year from 16,000 students could afford to clear the campus sidewalks! My public school used to cancel school because the sidewalks were impassable for students, even though the roads were perfectly cleared and safe, I find that amazing thinking back.
February 16, 200718 yr A couple odds and ends I took in Hamilton today: Ever heard of "ice?" Industry and wildlife can coexist The water looks so clean and fresh right now German Village
February 16, 200718 yr Beautiful pics, ink. I think, though, that large concentrations of waterfowl should be called "waterfoul." The duck and goose overpopulation at a pond in one of our parks caused the place to be declared a health hazard because of the poop. They put up signs admonishing people not to feed them, but some folks kept doing it anyway. If the college administrators didn't have privileged parking, and had to use sidewalks like everyone else, you'd probably see a shift in snow-removal priorities on campus. That first German Village photo would make a beautiful Christmas card.
February 22, 200718 yr ^ wow, boy do i feel naive-- you got me! i had no idea there were mountains, snow and skiing in australia, i always think of it as tropical. looks like fun there. these are from yesterday when i was all over staten island, ny. the weirdest thing of the day was not a picture but a sound. there was utter silence when i was walking around tottenville, because i guess it was a workday morning, but since it got up into the 50's all i heard was snow melt water rushing into all the sewer drains everywhere -- it was amazingly loud. my fav pic -- moss and snow at the sandy ground cemetery brush and woods at sandy ground woods at richmondtown
October 21, 200915 yr Everyone ready for winter?!?! :-D "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 24, 200915 yr Let's just skip it this year. I'm still waiting for the summer we didn't really have. :?
October 24, 200915 yr Let's just skip it this year. I'm still waiting for the summer we didn't really have. :? Me too! I hate winter. I'm lobbying for xmas in Puerto Rico this year.
October 26, 200915 yr You all sound like you're too warm. Here's an early taste of winter from last weekend. Big rowing races on the Charles River around Harvard in really crappy weather. (It's the Head of the Charles Regatta, which I know and frankly care very little about, but it's pretty much right outside my house so I might as well look.) A persistent chilly rain began to be accompanied by big fat snowflakes, the kind that show up rather well in photographs. It was sunny and very pleasant today, for what it's worth.
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