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Happy Chinese New Year everyone!
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caseydog said:
New weather forecast here...

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Monday -- high of 15F (-9C) and low of 2F (-16C). Like I said before, we have mild winters, but usually get one week where we get hammered. Looks like this is that week. Probably because I just got my dog groomed, and as usually, they cut off way too much fur. He's driving me nuts. He is glued to me when I sleep. I wake up in a "C" shape on the edge of my bed.

Looks like snow, too. We didn't have any last year. I don't recall if we did the year before.

38F tomorrow, so I better get gas in the car and go to the store while it is "warm."

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Oh, your “this is the week” sounds nasty. Look at this photo I’ve taken this morning - Lombard Pre-Alps
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Yesterday it was completely different. Our weather/temps are getting through a day by day forecast by now. In any case, I can’t remember a very cold winter here in Lombardy which lasted for more than 2 weeks.
 
The weather took an awful toll in North Texas this morning. At least 6 dead, and over 60 injured in 133-car/truck pile up on I-35 in Fort Worth, due to ice on an elevated section of roadway.

The crash happened around 6 a.m. Thursday as drivers were dealing with pockets of inclement weather across North Texas, including freezing rain.

A number of people remained trapped hours after the crash happened and patients were still emerging from vehicles at the crash scene as of 8:30 a.m., officials said, with an estimated 36 people needing medical transport. Many of them had serious injuries and several were life-threatening, officials said. -- WFAA News



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Grr... troubles continue.
My right knee is in a brace and my right ankle in a bootie (medical boot that replaces plaster nowadays)... and I'm not allowed to put any weight on that leg at all now... for at least the next 2 weeks.

All I can say is thank goodness they didn't find the fracture at the beginning! I'd have gone mad if it had been 6 weeks totally non-weightbearing. It actually looks like I'm back in the wheelchair in the house. I don't use it in the house, nor the crutches. And I can't not weightbear with the style of crutches I have (similar to canadian/ arm crutches). It might be easier to purchase some underarm crutches.

And the entire leg is how to have an MRI to find out exactly what I did to it when I fell.

I fell forwards and to the right at 45° but had to push myself away and off the rock face I was going to hit head first. (we have these rocks called "Wanderers" by the first world nations. They are protruding rocks that occur naturally but can get hidden by shifting soil (think about very heavy rainstorms. Here they can move masses of soil in are storm digging gullies meters deep in a matter of hours. It's not hard to see how rocks appear to move from one location to another as one is buried and another uncovered. Only grass roots can prevent this but if these roots have been eaten, and all manner of wildlife eats grass roots here, then soil erosion can be extreme.)
Anyhow pushing myself away and off the rockface with my ankle rolled over, I landed across an old gum tree trunk about a meter in diameter that was cut almost to the ground. Somehow I landed on my left side leaving briusing across the middle of my thighs and shins but on the left side of them (so right leg bruised on the inside and left leg bruised on the outside) as well as bruising across my toes on both feet.
 
The mental health facility is not happy with my stepson, he has been incontinent again (he has phases of this due to his severe ocd and not allowing himself to go to the bathroom) and they figured out he's completely unable to care for himself. Exactly the things we've always said to care workers, but they always downplayed it because he comes across more composed if you see him for an hour and don't live with him.
They're now comprehending that actually, he belongs in a facility for severly disabled people as we've said all this time. But of course, due to waiting lists and such they don't know what to do now and are suggesting we take him back. Which would be the absolute worst scenario for him, because here he only gets worse. So we've declined and set our specilialist on the task of them finding a solution , whether it's in their facility or another.
It just keeps stunning me that my stepson keeps being sent away from clinics because he's 'too difficult' yet he's somehow not too difficult for us to care for. And the worst thing is, if he is so difficult HE NEEDS HELP. And not just being left to fend for himself..
So this is again, stressful. We can't take him back in so we hope they'll sort things out..
 
A palindromic date...there's a rare beast.

I thought it a little chilly here yesterday at -10C, but that was nothing compared to Braemar in Aberdeenshire, where it was -23C. Braemar is about 135 kilometres (85 miles in old money) north of where we are and is famous for being the coldest place in Britain.
 
Duck59 said:
A palindromic date...there's a rare beast.

I thought it a little chilly here yesterday at -10C, but that was nothing compared to Braemar in Aberdeenshire, where it was -23C. Braemar is about 135 kilometres (85 miles in old money) north of where we are and is famous for being the coldest place in Britain.
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I was working on the coast of St. Fergus in February '84. Fulmar platform landfall. Bejasus it was cold.

Peterheed said it was the coldest winter in 17 years. I didn't feel so cold then.

Reminds me of a story. When her husband died the widow Reed wished to put an obituary in the local paper.

"Peter Reed from Peterheed is deed" she informed the reporter. "Is that all?", he asked. "Yes" said the widow.

"Wouldn't you like to add 'Rest in Peace'?"

"Not at two bob a word, no!"

"OK, look, I'll give you three words for free, how about that?"

The widow thought for a little and proposed "Peter Reed from Peterheed is deed. Volvo for sale".
 
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I've been feeling nauseous and dizzy from spending so many hours working on my laptop. Google diagnosed me as having cybersickness, a kind of motion sickness that comes from standing in front of computer screens for too long. The remedy is not spending so much time in front of a computer screen, which is impossible with my current workload. Let's just hope this goes away as suddenly and unexpectedly as it appeared.
 
caseydog said:
The weather took an awful toll in North Texas this morning. At least 6 dead, and over 60 injured in 133-car/truck pile up on I-35 in Fort Worth, due to ice on an elevated section of roadway.

The crash happened around 6 a.m. Thursday as drivers were dealing with pockets of inclement weather across North Texas, including freezing rain.

A number of people remained trapped hours after the crash happened and patients were still emerging from vehicles at the crash scene as of 8:30 a.m., officials said, with an estimated 36 people needing medical transport. Many of them had serious injuries and several were life-threatening, officials said. -- WFAA News



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Made the news here, looked horrible seeing those rigs crashing into cars.

Russ
 
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