It's a cold snowy day today! #gitchigami is in a mood again today but I'm not about to go down there for pictures today, it's too crazy out!
Schools are already closed for tomorrow so my people will be going to work with me.
We're sitting at Subway right now watching people go by, bundled up and leaning into the wind. We're a hardy breed up here.
I'm not sure how many inches we have already but the snow plows have given up on even Superior Street to keep the freeway clear.
Wow / still snow
It's only April. Sometimes we get snow into mid-may! 💜
Here in Oslo, snow in April is pretty rare - but my home town is some 1500 km north of here, big difference. The average and extreme winter temperatures there are not colder than here in Oslo (actually, marginally warmer), but it's generally more snow and the winters are much longer.
Once (1997 IIRC) we had more than two metres of snow. I was a student back then, so I had the freedom to just say "enough!", jump on a plane and take more than a month of vacation. The 29th of April I was in Bergen, really enjoying the first real summer day, skating on roller blades in t-shirt and shorts - before going home to Tromsø. On the airplane I changed from shorts to trousers. I can't remember what had happened to my shoes ... maybe I had forgotten them behind somewhere, I still had skates on my feet when landing in Tromsø. The 29th of April was the last day it was snowing that year - but it was intense, and we also made the record that day, 2.40 meters of snow according to the official measurement!
There is this religious holiday Pentecoast ("pinse") usually in the end of May or early June, with one extra day off from work. By then usually the summer has come - but I've experienced several times that as we're trying to enjoy this holiday, nature manages to throw yet some more snow on us.
Snow at the mid-summer day (June 23) is also not completely unheard of. The local hiking association has a tradition every mid-summer day to climb the highest mountain top nearby town (1238 meters above the sea level - and as it's a coastal town, that means it's actually 1200 metres of climbing) and make a fire there (that means one has to carry all the wood - it's only rocks on the mountain top). I joined once. It was such an excellent summer day, sun was shining, it was hot ... only one small cloud could be seen on the sky. Of cours e, that very cloud stayed put just around the mountain top we were visiting, and while we were sitting there making a fire and grilling sausages we got like 15 cm of snow on the ground...
Oh man! Bub-bye busy.org! Between losing posts and now comments! I am outta there! Ever have that happen?
Anyway! Back here to connect now 😊 i think the storm you have there is heading north too. We are supposed to get another 10cm dump soon. Bleh! ....just aching for spring so much.
Schools don't close here for snow storms very often. It's usually cold they close for and that's -42°C. Pretty effin extreme! Luckily my son does school at home and is 13. So he's able to be alone when I have to go work or therapy sometimes.
Is it ok to take your offspring to work with you? What do you do for a living? Will they be ok there? I tried taking my kids door to door when I was a realtor, drumming up business. What an epic failure! The training lady said it would be a great idea ........ not!!!
I am not familiar with whom gitchgami is!? But am wondering now?!! 😊
Stay safe out there! Hope the snow stops soon.
Until you mentioned it I had no idea busy.org was a thing! Lol! I'll have to check it out. 💜
#gitchigami is the native name for this beautiful and highly tempermental lady.
She also goes by the name Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes. 💜
We don't close for snow typically either, we close for ice. Duluth is basically a giant hill, and transporting youngsters in this crap up and down the hill is a baddo idea.
I work in a restaurant, they come with me sometimes, though it is a very rare occurance to have all three at once. Not going to lie I'm nervous they'll get obnoxious. But, I'll bring the tablets and Inari will bring his DS and hopefully they'll be quiet. Lol
I see that one. I once experienced that the kinder garden finally had to keep the children indoors for a full week, they considered it too unsafe for them to play outdoors in the yard due to the ice. That's rather extreme in Norway, as being outdoors is considered to be a very important part of the kinder garden experience, I believe we have laws stating the minimum amount of hours per day the children should be outdoors.
(As we sort of joined the European Union we have been getting so many laws and regulations, quite some regulating playgrounds - they should be ultra-safe, soft ground or special shock-absorbing sand around all the installments, slides should not face towards the south as the children may get a heat-stroke (very relevant in Norway, hah!) ... I was very much sad when most of the public playgrounds in my hometown was simply destructed because they were considered "unsafe" according to the new regulations. However, there are no regulations on ice. Whatever kind of shock-absorbing sand or mats there may be around the installments, it's pretty much useless when it's covered with rock-hard ice)
I've never experienced school being closed for neither snow, ice or cold in Norway (except maybe once when they had problems with the heating), neither as a child nor as an adult. But, when our eldest son was 7 we stayed in St.Petersburg, Russia for some months, and he was attending school there. I was very much surprised that for a whole week the school was "half-closed" due to cold! They are pretty much used to cold weather in St.Petersburg, -30C isn't that rare. "Half-closed" means that the school was open for those who wished or had to go to school, like less than half the class came (retiring age is relatively low in Russia, so it's normal for children to have grandparents that can take care of them in such situations. My wife's parents were still working though). The rationale was that "the children may catch the flu while walking to school". In that neighbourhood there are only high-rise apartment buildings, the school density is also quite high, I believe nobody has to walk for more than some five-six minutes to get to the nearest school.
Oh man. So, this one was ice and snow, because the county plows were diverted to the freeways and the state plows only do the big roads, too.
We got 12.3" of snow by 11PM last night, broke our record of snow in a 24 hour period.
In my hometown, they would prioritize cleaning bus lanes, and people were encouraged to use public transport, go by feet or stay at home on days with extraordinary amounts of snow. It makes sense as the bus services are supposed to handle such conditions in a professional way (then the public transport services was put out on a tender, the local bus company with decades of experience was replaced by an international consortium that had no idea on how to drive buses in snowy conditions ... but that's another story), while one car driver with bad tires really can clog up the whole traffic. (To be honest, I believe that in the winters in my home town, the best thing would be to simply give up snow cleaning and rather use skis and snow mobiles to get around :-)
I was quite shocked when we had such a day (or rather: night - it had stopped snowing in the morning already) here in Oslo two years ago (we've had many days this winter with really lots of snow ... but that day was different. I took my daughter out skiing, on the local car roads, as they were perfectly covered with snow - lots of snow - and nobody was crazy enough to try driving on them. All until we met one lady that was in a great hurry, trying to get to work by her car. I think I spent half an hour helping her, and I'm quite amazed that she actually did make it to the main road eventually). On that day, they simply cancelled almost all the bus services all over Oslo! Even in the evening, when most roads had been cleaned, most of the buses still didn't go because the bus drivers had been given a full day off!
Oh!!! What a nice way to meet the Great Gitchigami 🙏 WOW! Okay. 🤞😫 it all goes well out there Mackenzie lotsa love to you. Crazy how much snow you're dealing with.
When a post is posted, it is really posted, it should not disappear - that's one of the characteristics with a blockchain-driven system. However, posts not showing up in the search results ... that's a different issue.
I've seen posts not showing up when searching by tags at steemit.com lately.
I've never tried busy.org, I don't know much about it neither, I'm mostly sticking to steemit.com and now I've also installed the eSteem app on my phone.
In busy.org there's no auto save in the comment and posting prior to actually posting . So, if you click out before posting all work deletes. Which doesn't happen at steemit.com. i have heard great things about esteem app. Gonna try it out :)
For longer posts, it may be a good idea to write it up and save it on your local computer or device while writing the draft.
No kidding! But, that means Steeming on my laptop & not on my phone!! Why is change so challenging LOL.
I tried writing a comment using the esteem app on my phone the other day. Luckily it wasn't a particularly long comment, but for me, even writing some four full sentences on the phone is a time-consuming task. I had to put it aside for a while, buying a train ticket on the train ticket app. Back to eSteem and the comment was gone, I had to start from scratch! I was half the way through when the train conductor came over and wanted to see my digital ticket ... oups, try again ...
Oh mannn! The struggle is real!! I steem on my phone too. I totally get it 😬 i downloaded esteem app but have not looked at it yet.
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How cold is it there? Looks cold plus wind chill factor.
I lookes up the weather for when the photos were taken. It was 14° F, which translates to -10°C.
Wow -10 that is rather cold thanks for the info.
This morning looks to be much calmer. Right now it is 24° F with 12 mph winds.