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Cabin fever 2014

Yes cabin fever, and it's all due to our non winter this year. Not non winter because of the cold, it's been that and continues to be cold. Non winter because of no snow,  less than a foot total so far and there's almost none left.  A more usual winter in our neck of the woods should be about 3 or more feet of snow by now.
And the cabin fever part is that it's still too cold to be out and about very much, even with no snow. It's been almost a week of an an air stagnation alert for the North West. In many areas that's meant days and nights of freezing fog, in this area it's meant constant overcast with lows around 27 and highs around 30, just constant cold. So Stacy and I can look around outside and can see things we could be doing since there's no snow, but being out in it for any length of time gets cold quick.  If we had the snow all over that we should have it would be different, it's the visual thing of it I guess. But Stacy and I both are feeling it more than ever this year.

A few years back when we were still in California and dreaming of living up here and living through the drought of Southern California we'd see on the TV news how the jetstream was going up shooting through Northern California, Oregon and Washington taking all those rain holding storms away from our area.  Now, up here and this winter almost the same thing, the jetstream is shooting up going into Canada missing the Northwest and dropping down through Montana to the central states given those areas all those record breaking snows and cold. Some of its supposed to be ours!

This area is less than 50% of normal in rain and snow according to the paper last week.  And I saw online that the "greater LA area" had had less than 3 inches over the past year making it the driest year Ever for that area. 

Well other than the obvious climate change woes what else is going on?

A couple of weeks ago Sean fell off of the helicopter he was working on, he said he fell about 4 feet and landed, back flop style, on the concrete. He did have a helmet on but didn't hit his head.  After getting checked out at the hospital, nothing broken, nothing ruptured, just bruised and very very sore. He's back at work after only taking one day off and still recovering, but doing better. 

Sandy's husband started his new job with Twitter from Netflix, and now they're thinking about moving closer to San Francisco as that's where he now works. We'll see what happens with that.

Laura, who we talked with earlier today is really enjoying her job. She recently even had her own experience similar to mine with the crazy old lady and a gun while out on a call. She handled it well, even calming her partner on the call with her that freaked out over the incident.  She really impressed her supervisor over the incident too.

Tad

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