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danalwyn ([personal profile] danalwyn) wrote2012-01-11 06:01 pm
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Went for a Run

I just came back from a run.

Outside.

In January.

It's supposed to finally start snowing tomorrow. Does someone have their seasons confused or what?
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[personal profile] silverjackal 2012-01-12 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
It's been an exceptionally mild winter -- almost an un-winter -- here as well so far. Mind you, next week we're due to get proper cold temperatures. But as it stands the high country is very dangerous, avalanche prone because it's been so warm.
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[personal profile] silverjackal 2012-01-12 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. We've had a bunch of above-freezing as well. And when it is "cold", it's a few degrees below freezing. Pfft. Not cold, and very odd for here. The warmth actually has made the avalanche risk worse. When it warms up an ice crust forms on top of the snow, and then more snow falls and doesn't bond to the lower level because of the ice. So the whole thing is like a precariously balanced layer cake -- one trip, and the whole thing goes sliding. But people *will* ignore the risk and go into the backcountry where there's no avalanche prevention work, and so we've had more fatalities this year already than in a whole regular winter. I admit I've been tempted to go out myself, because the weather is so very beautiful, but I'd stick to safe areas, yes?
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[personal profile] silverjackal 2012-01-13 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm not directly professionally involved with the avalanche searches (unless I get called out for volunteer S&R). It's just a stupid waste of life, yes? And also of taxpayer's resources. They've finally started charging the extreme sport yahoos for when they need emergency extraction, and it's about bloody time. There's a difference between "avoidable" and "idiotic risk", and when people do the latter I don't have much sympathy if things go sideways.

Your scheme for fixing things is alas impractical, no matter how appealing. The plane routes tend to go over passes so far as I know (but I could be wrong), so those are already being managed, and they'd mostly just blow up people and put inconvenient holes in the roads.

[personal profile] thesharedself 2012-01-12 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's raining here and I'm not at all worried about ice. That's absurd for January. It is supposed to snow tomorrow, so we'll see. It's still 50 today, though.

I can't decide if true winter is just late or if it just decided to skip out on this year.

[personal profile] thesharedself 2012-01-12 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Time to stay home and play video games and read books, y/y?

I am admittedly skeptical. Central PA got 4 inches of snow right before Thanksgiving, after all, and it's hit 60 a number of times since then. I hope it sticks this time, though. False winter is way more unnerving.

[personal profile] thesharedself 2012-01-12 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm the kinda of person who will always enable potentially gratuitous use of vacation time, so...that's all I have to say on that count.

If you do get snowed in at the office, you could spend the time booby trapping the office. Or create a tent city. Either/or, really.

[personal profile] thesharedself 2012-01-12 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I dunno..."dangerous or wildly impractical" sounds about right to me.

*whistles, scuffs foot on floor*