On 2018-03-04 5:30 AM, wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 16:23:31 -0700, graham > wrote:
>
>> On 2018-03-03 3:44 PM, wrote:
>>> On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 15:34:47 -0700, graham > wrote:
>>>
>>>>> It's 58° here, pink cherry trees and forsythia bushes are in bloom.
>>>>>
>>>> Shurrup!!
>>>> My place this morning: https://postimg.org/image/qtfppjvr9/
>>>> Graham
>>>
>>>
>>> I was just watching local news and various stretches of coastal road
>>> are no go because of all the beach rock thrown up on them. Winds were
>>> wild but I was lucky, we did not lose power. However there's another
>>> dose coming tonight.
>>>
>>> I don't know about out your way but they were all cranking on about
>>> lightest winter ever the other day and I felt they were tempting fate
>>> OTOH, I have always found the old saw about March coming in like
>>> lion, leaves like a lamb, to be pretty accurate, so lets hope.
>>>
>> We are hoping for a gradual thaw, not like the sudden, rapid one a few
>> years ago that resulted in disastrous floods in Calgary.
>
> How are you placed if that happens? On higher ground?
>
Yes, fortunately! My son is even higher. He sometimes gets snow when I
get rain! People often forget that the highest point in Calgary is
~1000'/~300m higher than the lowest.