Here also. Wife worried about the greens in her vegetable garden. I strung up 4 old 150W floodlights in series; they glow deep orange with the string on 110. Placed them within the plants, put on a 2 mil dropcloth cover over them.
Noting the conductors of my quick solder-on wiring job touching the wet soil, now I have to rig up an isolation transformer. Probably just take the one off my bench - it's only for 5 days, they say. Hopefully I dont cook 'em all in place - either by electric current or heat. I do have a temperature actuated switch I picked up at a yard sale - you never know when such comes in handy!
I told her she'll have to turn the rig off, before picking. She's an EE too, so I think she understands.
Foul here today - 100mm rain in the last 24 hours, lots of roads closed, flooded, and river escaping their bounds. Fields are now lochans. Still, the geese seem to like it...
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Buffalo NY -- two feet of snow and still falling. NYState Thruway is closed. https://www.foxnews.com/us/buffalo-ny-nearly-2-feet-snow-reported-more-way
I went to university there and do remember the snow. Good thing I had a VW bug - it could go when and where other cars couldnt. One year the snow drifts reached up to the power lines on some poles. A big storm and everybody city wide just abandoned their vehicles in place; they were all towed to the golf course.
I remember they had thick ropes on either side of the walkways to the different university buildings. I wondered what's the ropes for? The answer? "So you can pull yourself to class" against the howling winds.
A girlfriend the previous year dormed in a quad, way up high in one of the Ellicott campus towers. She said one time it got so cold, the room heaters couldnt keep up and all 4 girls had to stay in bed with their blow dryers running underneath the blankets to stay warm.
Yeah, Buffalo - I once lived there for a few years...Chicken wings, Mighty tacos and snow like you read about.
When the woman who invented Buffalo Chicken Wings passed, me an my bud on the trading desk called the obit writer at the NYTimes and kept her engaged for 45 minutes. Great story.
Buffalo NY other culinary treat is "roast beef on weck" -- delicious.
Bills and Browns moved to Detroit this weekend.
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Bradford PA has a restaurant that serves kummelweck (Kimmelweck?) sandwiches, always worth a stop when in the area.
I have been to both Buffalo places that are reputed to have invented hot wings.
Next we could talk about the special places in Cleveland.
Sorry getting off topic, perhaps we can talk about Cleveland’s lake effect snow. Amazing depth close to the lake and light snow a few miles away!
ES
Bradford PA has a restaurant that serves kummelweck (Kimmelweck?) sandwiches, always worth a stop when in the area.
I have been to both Buffalo places that are reputed to have invented hot wings.
Next we could talk about the special places in Cleveland.
Sorry getting off topic, perhaps we can talk about Cleveland’s lake effect snow. Amazing depth close to the lake and light snow a few miles away!
ES
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You can make a "kummel" bun with a kaiser roll and caraway/salt mixture on top.
When the weather gets more enthusiastically cold, the lake (Erie) freezes over. We used to ice skate for miles on the very smooth surface when that occasioned, but usually the lake, when frozen, was also covered with snow. The ice was about a foot thick when these were shot (1961):
When the weather gets more enthusiastically cold, the lake (Erie) freezes over. We used to ice skate for miles on the very smooth surface when that occasioned, but usually the lake, when frozen, was also covered with snow. The ice was about a foot thick when these were shot (1961):
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I've been to the "Anchor Bar" in Buffalo. "the concept of cooking wings in peppery hot sauce was born in 1964 at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, when co-owner Teressa Bellissimo cooked leftover wings in hot sauce as a late-night snack for her son and his friends".
I was there in the late 70's. Oh, we've got frost this morning!
Coast of Maine, thermo says we touched 18F last night (I saw 23F when I took the dog out). Coldest so far. Drained and hung the hose a month ago but had only a few freezes.
At NYC the week ahead looks balmy. 51F for thanksgiving?? 42F on 30 November?
