First snow of the year

[Razgovory]

Been a warm fall here.  Most of the leaves are on the trees still.  I've noticed this happening more and more as the years go by.  When I was a kid the leaves were off the trees a week before Halloween.  Also there are armadillos here now.  I know those didn't live in the area twenty years ago.  Al Gore was right.

[jimmy olsen]

3 million without power

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45093724/ns/weather/

[HisMajestyBOB]

3 million without power

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45093724/ns/weather/

How will the watch the games this Sunday? 

[Lucidor]

3 million without power

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45093724/ns/weather/

How will the watch the games this Sunday? 

Battery radio?

[Caliga]

Just got back from the grocery.  Sunny and in the 60s.  I was wearing shorts.

[sbr]

Just got back from the grocery.  Sunny and in the 60s.  I was wearing shorts.

It's low 60's here too, but raining buckets.

[Caliga]

Where do you live?  I forget.

[KRonn]

Eastern Massachusetts. I got about 2 or 3 inches of snow, not enough to shovel, and by afternoon on the driveway it's melted. My brother is about 15 miles inland of me and he got six inches of snow, enough to use his snowblower on. But he's lost power for about 12 hours now, and without electric start on the snowblower the thing won't start on the pull cord. Just like mine has trouble with when the engine is cold. No power outgages for me, thankfully.

[grumbler]

Been a warm fall here.  Most of the leaves are on the trees still.  I've noticed this happening more and more as the years go by.  When I was a kid the leaves were off the trees a week before Halloween.  Also there are armadillos here now.  I know those didn't live in the area twenty years ago.  Al Gore was right.

Maybe the armadillos are gluing the leaves back on the trees in the  dead of night. 

[KRonn]

Been a warm fall here.  Most of the leaves are on the trees still.  I've noticed this happening more and more as the years go by.  When I was a kid the leaves were off the trees a week before Halloween.  Also there are armadillos here now.  I know those didn't live in the area twenty years ago.  Al Gore was right.

We've had a return of coyotes here for some years now, probably over twenty now, long time. I saw coyote tracks in my backyard in the snow; pretty sure they were, as the prints all follow in a straight line. I don't think dog prints follow each other. I've seen those tracks before though, and seen coyotes. And this is a heavily populated area just southwest of Boston.

[sbr]

Where do you live?  I forget.

About 25 miles southwest of Portland Oregon.

[garbon]

I was watching Columbia play Yale up in the Bronx. I left at the half after my feet were frozen.

[The Brain]

did you get col... zzz

[jimmy olsen]

Been a warm fall here.  Most of the leaves are on the trees still.  I've noticed this happening more and more as the years go by.  When I was a kid the leaves were off the trees a week before Halloween.  Also there are armadillos here now.  I know those didn't live in the area twenty years ago.  Al Gore was right.

We've had a return of coyotes here for some years now, probably over twenty now, long time. I saw coyote tracks in my backyard in the snow; pretty sure they were, as the prints all follow in a straight line. I don't think dog prints follow each other. I've seen those tracks before though, and seen coyotes. And this is a heavily populated area just southwest of Boston.

Where they native to New England? I thought they were just moving in and filling the void left by the eradication of wolves.

[KRonn]

I don't know if the coyotes were native to New England at one time; I don't think so. I think many of them migrated from western US areas over time, and in the last 20-30 years seem to have become a lot more plentiful.