[Mike]

We're supposed to get up to freezing today. Woo-hoo! And it's forecast to be 36° / 2° over the next couple days with a high of 38° / 3° on Saturday.

[Maitland]

It has been snowing here today but hasn't amounted too much. Temp sitting about +4 and forecast to rise to a balmy +6. Contractors are working hard outside (for lots of money) to clear the paths and roadways 4 weeks after it started to snow. If they leave it another 48 hours Mother Nature will do the job for them and the council won't have to waste my community charge by employing contractors in a pointless exercise



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[Mike]

Sunshine and 33° / 1°, here. We're f-i-n-a-l-l-y above freezing for the first time in I forget how long.

[Maitland]

Snow snow and more snow and this lot wasn't forecast. The heavy snow on Saturday is but I bet that doesn't appear. Have I mentioned that I hate the snow.

Dog at the Vets. About to ring and pick him up.

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[Mike]

Barely 5:30 AM and it's 30° / -1° here. We're meant to get up to 38° / 3° today, which is the good news. The bad news? Tonight we're apparently going to get freezing rain through noon tomorrow.

Maitland, I just hate Winter.

[Mike]

4:00 PM, bright sunshine and the temperature is at 41° / 5°!

[Karen]

38 degrees here

[Mike]

The weather forecast was all wrong for us. It's 5:30 AM and the temps are at 37° / 3°. I cannot believe how much snow melted overnight. I imagine we'll end up paying heavily for this warm-up, but it's meant to continue through the early part of next week.

[Karen]

They called for freezing rain here this morning. Didn't materialize. It is so ugly here ... cloudy, snow melting and 39 degrees. I am going to Hawaii next month, ahhhhhh SUN and warm breezes.

[Maitland]

We have had a weather warning overnight for heavy rain, Now that the heavy rain has set in the snow has about melted, this has obviously brought some problems with flooding. There has been a landslide on the M74 Motorway with other raods being closed. Temperatures are around the +7 and are set to stay around this for the near future.

Off in a moment to get a Jag for Alexander. Swine Flu for everybody in Scotland sometime soon but we are starting with the young ones first.

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[Mike]

Isn't it a bit late on the H1N1 jags? All regions in the U.S. are reporting reduced numbers of people stricken with influenza-type symptoms. As a matter of fact, zero of the fifty states are reporting widespread influenza activity. Hospitalizations are also dropping as are the numbers of deaths from influenza-like symptoms.

The pharmacies here in this area are now starting to run price wars on H1N1 vaccinations. Sixty days ago, you couldn't get the jag and now they are having clearance sales? Methinks getting the shot at this late date achieves nothing more than padding the pharmaceutical companies' pockets.

Oh, wait a second. That's been my position on the H1N1 vaccine since the get-go.

[Maitland]

Mike, on 16 January 2010 - 04:26 PM, said:

Isn't it a bit late on the H1N1 jags? All regions in the U.S. are reporting reduced numbers of people stricken with influenza-type symptoms. As a matter of fact, zero of the fifty states are reporting widespread influenza activity. Hospitalizations are also dropping as are the numbers of deaths from influenza-like symptoms.

The pharmacies here in this area are now starting to run price wars on H1N1 vaccinations. Sixty days ago, you couldn't get the jag and now they are having clearance sales? Methinks getting the shot at this late date achieves nothing more than padding the pharmaceutical companies' pockets.

Oh, wait a second. That's been my position on the H1N1 vaccine since the get-go.

Its about the same here Mike. The vaccine is sitting in warehouses practically useless (I am led to believe) There is talk about sending it to third worlds countries because we have so much stockpiled and no need for it. To be fair to the politicians, if they didn't have enough to go around and it got bad they would be in trouble but now they are in trouble for buying all the stuff and having nothing to do with it. Who would be a politician at times !!

Mrs M wasn't sure whether the Wee Man should have it but I took the decision to take him down (This house isn't a democracy as she may think !!) and get the Jag. If he were to get ill with swine flu and I hadn't taken the opportunity to have him vaccinated then I would have felt pretty bad.

Anyway the Wee Man went into the Doctor sat down had his Jag and said "Thank You Doctor" stood up and walked out, not a peep from him, not a tear, nothing. Its as if nothing happened. I asked him later if it hurt and he said he just felt it a wee bit.

Dry day today. A wee bit of snow still on the grass. Off to get the rest of the rubbish out of the garage and up to the coup. Bins haven't been collected here for weeks due to the bad weather (how do other countries survive???) so the cardboard and paper and plastics have to be taken up by myself. I may bill the council for my diesel costs !!

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[Mike]

Maitland, be thankful the wee man is so good about getting a jag. I wish I could be so calm about it, believe me!

At one point, they had to recall some of the H1N1 children's vaccine as it was proven to be so weak it was medically useless. Yet the parents of the children that had rushed to judgement and had their children vaccinated with this 'useless' vaccine are reporting their children are no worse off than those children who got the 'full-strength' vaccinations.

The pharmaceutical companies managed to drum up this 'deadly pandemic' that was going to kill millions and the U.S. government stockpiled billions of dollars in vaccine to prevent it. But now, the people are seeing the H1N1 pandemic was a media-driven medical hoax. So now what is the government going to do? I suspect we'll start seeing some phony, trumped-up numbers to suggest the pandemic is still out there and waiting to kill us all. And if that doesn't happen, the government will attempt to mandate vaccinations. Since the people have seen through the H1N1 hoax, both strategies are going to die before they ever see the light of day.

And here is where it gets scary for Americans. The Environmental Protection Agency regulates the pollutant level of treated sewage water before it is dumped back into our rivers and streams. But what most people do not know is the EPA does not regulate what is known as DNA pollution. There are no laws to govern the flushing of pharmaceuticals down the drain. And guess what? The Food and Drug Administration doesn't regulate drug disposal either. Can you see where this is leading? The American waterways are going to end up being polluted with billions of dollars worth of H1N1 DNA/RNA and the pharmaceutical companies are building in their next pandemic scare.

Sure, there is a chance that EPA-mandated treatment might remove some of the H1N1 DAN/RNA from the water. But in this country, the sewage biosolids that remain after treatment are sold to companies who produce fertilizer. The sludge is often referred to as 'black gold'. And people wonder why I am earnestly seeking out a Community Supported Agriculture farm in this area, that use no commercial fertilizers???

I took a bit of time and did some research on the H1N1 vaccine. I posted the information in MY BLOG on the Patriot Alert site. Give it a read and you will be stunned at how the pharmaceutical companies, the Center for Disease Control and the mainstream media are selling everyone a bill of goods.

[Karen]

I am so thankful we have a well. It is deep, around 210 ft. down.

[Maitland]

It's March 29th why is it snowing !!

It started snowing about 6pm. It's not going to lie I said to myself, it's March, it wouldn't dare. Well here we are three hours later and there is a blizzard raging outside and yes the ruddy stuff is lying and (depending on who you listen to) we are expecting 12 inches or more in the next 36 hours. The bad thing is that it is the same type of snow that we had the last time, very very wet and sticky. All we need is the power lines to come down again but hopefully it won't reach the 30 odd inches we had the last time.

Is it spring yet (apparantly so)

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[Maitland]

What a lovely morning. I haven't measured the snow yet but there must be close to 8 inches and it is blowing a gale. The front door is slowly piling up with snow and the winds are forecast to reach 60mph at some point. The weather man (or lady) has said that it will turn to rain today but turn back to snow overnight and the heavy snow forecast for Wednesday will not materialise.

It certainly looks like it is on for the day but what do I know. Kids are all still at school and Mrs M got to work okay but then there is nothing in Stirling as usual, we seem to have our own mini climate here.

The snow won't last long as the temperatures shouldn't dip below freezing at this time of the year so once the snow stops it should disappear quite quickly, we can only hope.

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[Mike]

Maitland, difficult times are when heroes are made. I'm quite sure Mrs. Maitland would agree with me. More I cannot say.

The weather forecast is dire on this end, as well. Today's forecast is for sunny skies with temperatures as high as 61° /16°. Tomorrow, it is meant to be 74° / 23° and that is as cool as it is going to be through Saturday. I do hope not to sunburn in this terrible weather.

All kidding aside, you say Stirling has nothing? Do you suppose the Ochils define the weather patterns then? We see crazy snow patterns in this areas too. If you travel about 12 miles north of Lafayette on I-65, you enter into a winter wonderland, when we have hardly any snow here in town. HRH lives 4 miles west of West Lafayette and it can get much worse out there than here in town, as well.

Thankfully, we're not worrying about snow in our immediate future.

[Maitland]

Mike, on 30 March 2010 - 05:53 AM, said:

Maitland, difficult times are when heroes are made. I'm quite sure Mrs. Maitland would agree with me. More I cannot say.

The weather forecast is dire on this end, as well. Today's forecast is for sunny skies with temperatures as high as 61° /16°. Tomorrow, it is meant to be 74° / 23° and that is as cool as it is going to be through Saturday. I do hope not to sunburn in this terrible weather.

All kidding aside, you say Stirling has nothing? Do you suppose the Ochils define the weather patterns then? We see crazy snow patterns in this areas too. If you travel about 12 miles north of Lafayette on I-65, you enter into a winter wonderland, when we have hardly any snow here in town. HRH lives 4 miles west of West Lafayette and it can get much worse out there than here in town, as well.

Thankfully, we're not worrying about snow in our immediate future.

I am quite sure the hills have an influence on the weather here. We are only about 400 feet above sea level but that certainly seems to make a difference. Mrs M tells me that that in Stirling (15 miles away) that it is chucking it down, whereas here it is still snowing. The saving grace is the fact that it is about +4 at the moment and it is melting as it falls but it is forecast heavy snow overnight and they are now saying that it may drop below freezing.

The trees are now covered in heavy wet snow and it is still blowing a gale. There is already a tree down over one of the roads in the village and I am sure it will not be the last. If it freezes this snow will just end up rock solid and the power lines will struggle to stay upright.

As for me, I hope to keep my underpants in my trousers and not outside, I never found it that fashionable and anyway I have the wee man to get to nursery in half an hour and the dog walked.

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[Maitland]

Och in the name o the wee man. The snow is thawing rapidly but we have now been issued with Flash Warning for tonight and tomorrow of severe weather and have been advised to take action so I am running around screaming and shouting "we are all doomed"

Heavy Heavy snow, blizzards with severe winds and power outages

Now can I get myself and the family over to Mikes before it all starts to get bad !!

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[Maitland]

Well would you believe it the English Broadcasting Company actually reported the adverse weather in the news, not however the wall to wall coverage given to the 8 inches in England earlier in the year but then I suppose us Jocks on the edge of the empire are used to it.

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