Community Chat

[151949]

Well, it is 10:30AM. It has finally cleared and the sun is shining on a beautiful day.However - by around 5 to 5:30 it comes back. So not very much sunshine.This is our 6th year here and the first we have experienced this to this degree.

[2blonde]

This isn't meant at all to be mean, but I'm having a hard time relating.  We are expecting arctic temperatures, high winds and heavy snow beginning tonight and through tomorrow.  I have to be to work at 7:30 a.m., and we are expecting 6-12 inches, depending on how the wind blows.  You don't want to know what rush hour is like around here even on a good day.  I live in NE Ohio.

[qualitygal]

Before  you even said it, all I could think of was the Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

[bri20]

Sea fog really doesn't compare to freezing temps and snow and ice.   I don't think you're going to get much sympathy 

[151949]

Not every poster or thread is looking for sympathy. Some of us just want to discuss something we find to be interesting. I found this is interesting. Pardon me for not posting a OH POOR POOR ME thread.

[CANDLEQUEEN]

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@151949 wrote:

While most of America is dealing with cold and snow and sleet, and sending me hate messages on FB because I live in the tropics, we are dealing every night here by the gulf coast with very dense sea fog. It rolls in just before dark in the evening , gets thicker as the night goes on and by morning we can't even see our own lanai furniture.Then when the sun finally burns it off - which doesn't happen until around 9 or 10 AM - the furniture outside is left damp and nasty for hours to dry. I've had to bring in the cushions from the porch furniture, to prevent them getting mildew. Anyway , it is very eerie - I feel like we are living in the movie The goast & Mrs Muir. We have had sea fog before but never like it has been these past few days. Of course it makes driving treacherous. if you aren't accustommed to living by the ocean it is quite weird how it rolls in from the sea - you actually see it coming in from the west & then it just settles here.

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Did you ever see the movie called The Fog? very scary! I think intense fog is pretty spooky anyways, and even more so if you have to drive in it, we have had fog so thick here you couldn't see two feet in front of you-very scary, but I don't think you would want to trade for our Wisconsin Winter so far, tomorrow the high is supposed to be 4 degrees, with a wind chill of about -7.......

[tends2dogs]

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@151949 wrote:

@tends2dogs  We had weimaraners and they are retrievers, so they love to chase anything. We would go out in the backyard and throw snowballs for them but , being scent dogs , they could not find them and they would be running all over the yard looking for them. Even though they had very short fur they loved being out in the snow, so my Mom bought them lands End doggie squall jackets. 

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Oh my gosh, @151949.  That is too funny.  Would love to see the doggie squall jackets!  My dog grew his own LOL .

[151949]

@qualitygal A favorite old movie of mine.

[tends2dogs]

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@CANDLEQUEEN wrote:

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@151949 wrote:

While most of America is dealing with cold and snow and sleet, and sending me hate messages on FB because I live in the tropics, we are dealing every night here by the gulf coast with very dense sea fog. It rolls in just before dark in the evening , gets thicker as the night goes on and by morning we can't even see our own lanai furniture.Then when the sun finally burns it off - which doesn't happen until around 9 or 10 AM - the furniture outside is left damp and nasty for hours to dry. I've had to bring in the cushions from the porch furniture, to prevent them getting mildew. Anyway , it is very eerie - I feel like we are living in the movie The goast & Mrs Muir. We have had sea fog before but never like it has been these past few days. Of course it makes driving treacherous. if you aren't accustommed to living by the ocean it is quite weird how it rolls in from the sea - you actually see it coming in from the west & then it just settles here.

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Did you ever see the movie called The Fog? very scary! I think intense fog is pretty spooky anyways, and even more so if you have to drive in it, we have had fog so thick here you couldn't see two feet in front of you-very scary, but I don't think you would want to trade for our Wisconsin Winter so far, tomorrow the high is supposed to be 4 degrees, with a wind chill of about -7.......

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@CANDLEQUEEN  Was that Stephen King?  If I remember right, people just kept disappearing in that fog never to be found again.................creepy.........

[151949]

@tends2dogs  Yeah your dog looks pretty well prepared for the cold. Our Daisy & Gretchen only had 1/2" long fur and not a lot of that. Their bellies were just skin. 

Every year at Christmas time Lands End used to sell those doggie squall jackets. Our dogs loved them, would stand very still to get them put on.