On Thu, 08 Mar 2018 12:26:29 -0500, Ed Huntress
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2018 11:31:16 -0500, Clare Snyder
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2018 08:55:36 -0500, Ed Huntress
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 08:16:06 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 14:30:11 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
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This morning I took it grocery shopping, powered by a Lithium
jumpstarter in the shopping cart and the rear 12V outlet in the car.
Five days of breakfast, lunch and supper fit in snugly. It's light
and
narrow enough to carry with one arm so I can open doors with the
other.

I can just see the nightly Gnu Hamster news channel "Jim Wilkins was
arrested today during an attempt to smuggle food out of grocery. The
local bomb squad was called in to explode an unknown 'device'.
Wilkins
was thought to be attempting to cool the device with the frozen food
so it wouldn't prematurely detonate." ducking

Habanitro sauce?

The clerk asked me where she could buy one.

I took the freezer in to see how much I could stuff into it, as I
hadn't jammed in the more compressible empty boxes as tightly as
possible. Usually I put cold food in soft-side insulated cooler bags
in the shopping basket. They've told me I am the only customer who
does even that much to keep food from thawing.

We are in the middle of a major snowstorm, over a foot of wet sticky
snow that bent down the tree branches, though we didn't lose power.
New Jersey (Ed) got twice as much.

Over two feet north and west of us, but I'm close enough to the coast
(6 miles to Raritan Bay) that we got only about ten inches here. There
are lots of power lines down but, again, not here.

And the snow blower started on the first pull, so I'm a happy camper.
d8-)
Just over an inch on the ground here in the classic Central Ontario
Snow Belt, after the warmest (by 2 degrees) Feb on record, where we
set numerous record lows early in the month, and several record highs
late in the month.

If all the rain we got had come as snow we'd still be digging our way
out.

We haven't had much of our usual cold Canadian air here, either. The
weathermen said that the lack of our usual cold air mass pushing down
from Canada made the path of our nor'easter wobbly and uncertain. They
usually have a pretty good handle on where the air masses will
collide, and thus, they can predict snow lines more accurately.

This time the sucker just moved up the coast unhindered, and then
headed out to sea -- actually, up to Cape Cod and Maine.

So we had wildly different snowfall amounts 20 miles in any direction.

BTW, a "nor'easter" is just a storm that travels up the coast from the
Southeastern US, sometimes from Florida, following the path of
hurricanes that take the same route. They can be worse than hurricanes
here. They have a tight cyclonic airflow and the flow is strongest
when the eye is positioned such that we feel the wind coming from the
northeast -- thus the name. One of them blew half the shingles off my
house 30 years ago or so.
The counterclockwize rotation around the low pressure causes the
north-east wind to suck moisture out of the atlantic and drop it on
the leading edge of the storm as the low travels north.

Hense the old saying "when the wind is from the east it is fit for
neither man nor beast"

Here in central ontario those easterlies drag the moisture out of
lake ontario and dump it on us when the lake isn't frozen. The
prevailing westerlies pick it up off Superior and Huron, dropping MOST
of it to the west uf us. Something has changed in the weather patterns
and Kitchener/Waterloo, Elmira, and Statford get a LOT less snow in
recent years - and where Elmira used to get significantly more than
waterloo (only 14km apart), both now get significantly less than areas
both to the east and west - almost like we are in the shadow of
something - - -