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MERRY CHRISTMASfrom
George and Pat Parizo
Sandy Beach Road
Picture taken by George of our window after Mother Nature decorated it for the Holidays.
Have a good and safe Holiday
Click on the picture to enlarge it - it's absolutely lovely. These frosty days produce some interesting effects in nature, for sure.
We've had snow pretty much constantly for a couple days now, and today there's a gusty wind that's beginning to blow it around a bit. My thermometer is reading 19 degrees right now and I've just reported 1.7 in. of new snow. It's light and very dry so when the wind picks up, it looks like a blizzard.
We can only see the northern end of the pond, and that has been frozen over for a while, even when we got the rain it never thawed completely. Bill Rossi is reporting the whole of the big pond is frozen today and there's snow on the ice. This is about normal. It could open up again if we get a warm stretch and some rain, but with a week of snow flurries and temperatures in the 20's ahead, it doesn't seem likely we'll see open water again until Ice Out time.
There have been some accidents due to the slippery roads, but nothing too serious that I've heard about. Fortunately mostly fender-benders. I've had the scanner on quite a bit in the past few days. Just this minute I heard a call for the Cabot ambulance because there's an accident on Rt. 2 by Hookerville Rd. There wasn't much more information except that a passerby called it in but said he had to go quite a distance up the road to get cell service to be able to call it in. Several other cars have stopped and Danville Rescue is on the way. I expect the Cabot squads will go over Danville Hill - that's the shortest route, but it's crooked and steep and there's all kinds of opportunities for a vehicle to go off the road, especially if they are rushing. Every time I hear one of these calls, I have concerns not only for the accident victims but also for the rescue squads. I also don't know how they get going so quickly. They are already out of quarters and it hasn't been more than five minutes since the tone came in - in fact, the second tone went just after the message they were out of quarters. Someone must have been right at the fire station.
This reminds me of how it used to be when I was growing up on the farm. The phone would begin to ring like crazy - it was a party line with at least 10 families on the same line - and all we had to do was pick up the receiver and the operator would tell everyone on the line where the fire was. Folks would rush to help and usually, if the fire was anywhere on Cabot Plain, they'd beat the fire truck there by 20 minutes or more. Because of the hills and because the fire truck was so heavy, it literally went at a snail's pace up the hills.
No there's been a cancellation of the emergency call - it was a "Chevvy Blazer went off the road and is back on the road now." One unit had already reached the scene (I'm not sure who) and said they would be there a while to help repair a flat tire.
That's good news. The rest of the calls on the scanner are road crews out keeping sand and salt on the roads. It's going to be a busy week.
Click on the picture to enlarge it - it's absolutely lovely. These frosty days produce some interesting effects in nature, for sure.
We've had snow pretty much constantly for a couple days now, and today there's a gusty wind that's beginning to blow it around a bit. My thermometer is reading 19 degrees right now and I've just reported 1.7 in. of new snow. It's light and very dry so when the wind picks up, it looks like a blizzard.
We can only see the northern end of the pond, and that has been frozen over for a while, even when we got the rain it never thawed completely. Bill Rossi is reporting the whole of the big pond is frozen today and there's snow on the ice. This is about normal. It could open up again if we get a warm stretch and some rain, but with a week of snow flurries and temperatures in the 20's ahead, it doesn't seem likely we'll see open water again until Ice Out time.
There have been some accidents due to the slippery roads, but nothing too serious that I've heard about. Fortunately mostly fender-benders. I've had the scanner on quite a bit in the past few days. Just this minute I heard a call for the Cabot ambulance because there's an accident on Rt. 2 by Hookerville Rd. There wasn't much more information except that a passerby called it in but said he had to go quite a distance up the road to get cell service to be able to call it in. Several other cars have stopped and Danville Rescue is on the way. I expect the Cabot squads will go over Danville Hill - that's the shortest route, but it's crooked and steep and there's all kinds of opportunities for a vehicle to go off the road, especially if they are rushing. Every time I hear one of these calls, I have concerns not only for the accident victims but also for the rescue squads. I also don't know how they get going so quickly. They are already out of quarters and it hasn't been more than five minutes since the tone came in - in fact, the second tone went just after the message they were out of quarters. Someone must have been right at the fire station.
This reminds me of how it used to be when I was growing up on the farm. The phone would begin to ring like crazy - it was a party line with at least 10 families on the same line - and all we had to do was pick up the receiver and the operator would tell everyone on the line where the fire was. Folks would rush to help and usually, if the fire was anywhere on Cabot Plain, they'd beat the fire truck there by 20 minutes or more. Because of the hills and because the fire truck was so heavy, it literally went at a snail's pace up the hills.
No there's been a cancellation of the emergency call - it was a "Chevvy Blazer went off the road and is back on the road now." One unit had already reached the scene (I'm not sure who) and said they would be there a while to help repair a flat tire.
That's good news. The rest of the calls on the scanner are road crews out keeping sand and salt on the roads. It's going to be a busy week.
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