It was soooooo cold...

[turpin]

They shut down the schools in Metro Atlanta today, even tho I can see the grass on my lawn still. But as I said elsewhere, ice, hills with curves at the bottom, and school buses don't mix well. at least in Chicago the streets are flat and straight. I do miss Chicago during a good snowstrom, but not the dirty, messy aftermath.

[Pleater]

It really depends on how old the children are - my son was taken out on a school trip he forgot about/neglected to mention and after half an hour in high winds but only moderately low temperatures had moderate hypothermia.

I have seen that satellite picture a couple of times, and looking closely just to the North West of the Isle of Wight - the diamond shaped little island in the middle of the South coast of England - there are a few darker areas. One of them is Parkstone, where I live.

All the rest of the country is covered - the term albedo keeps coming to mind - must be the same word root as albescent, shading into white.

To be fair though it is not the snow which is causing problems, it is the ice. Though the idiot drivers going about at normal speeds are perhaps the real trouble.

I expect that there will be some specimen plants missing next Summer - the forecast was for a mild winter so some gardeners might not have taken all precautions - though the duration of the low temperatures is going to be the killer. Many plants which can survive through a few night frosts can't cope with prolonged sub zero temperatures.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: