Archive for 'weather woes'

I Guess It’s Our Turn

Posted on24. Feb, 2010 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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I was shocked to hear of a huge storm coming tomorrow. I guess I have been too busy to listen to the news and weather much. WHOA! It’s been a while. Now THIS is a storm– we’re expected to get clobbered with a foot or two of snow. It may disrupt things for half a [...]

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Securing Your Garage Door for a Hurricane

Posted on03. Sep, 2009 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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My weatherman has been warning us from time to time of “tropical systems” creeping up into the Northern/Western Hemisphere. While hurricanes rarely hit the Northeast (they DO strike us, though– check out this post about the most damaging one to ever hit the U.S., in 1938), they usually do affect our weather. But this post [...]

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How a Hurricane is Born

Posted on25. Aug, 2009 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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The United States is in the midst of another hurricane season. New York State was completely drenched by Hurricane Bill (THREE inches of rain in two hours!) and my yard looked like a lake again…. I can’t complain, really- other areas suffered flash flooding and there were multiple car accidents from it. And [...]

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Are the Politicians On Vacation, Or Something?!

Posted on18. May, 2009 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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Here we are, one week from Memorial Day, and it is FREEZING this week. We’ve had a handful of frost warnings (and frosty nights)… at a time when my furnace is put to sleep for the season, it’s still chugging away. So where’s all this hot air that we usually experience a week [...]

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The Dreaded Ice Dam

Posted on25. Feb, 2009 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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There has been a persistent, nasty smell of mildew in the house this week. Its DRIVING ME CRAZY! I have a sensitive sense of smell, and it’s unbearable to smell the mildew. I’m ready to claw the walls out.
I dealt with this last year, when we completely gutted and renovated the living room. But now [...]

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