Its Too Cold To Deliver The Mail

I read this thread and just go Wow!

I can feel for you people that are living in a freezer. Us from here would just chock in that sort of weather.

Our temp has dropped from around 35c to 22c 70f as 2 huge tropical lows pressure systems head our way. They are already dominating our weather and are bring the first of the drought breaking rain. By Monday the weather people are saying we will have had over 600mm/2feet of rain.

This is cold weather for us and the jackets are out of storage and keeping us warm. And I am not joking.

Kgv - if we had the equivelant of 2 feet of rain here in Canada it would equal about 15-20feet of snow. However we could use the water as the great lakes seem to be lowering quite a bit. That ice shack reminds me of ones I would build for spearing but now are illegal here unless portable and no more spearing allowed.
Is USPS using snowmobiles in MN- I get the mail must go through but CAN post don't work saturdays , probably in their contract not to work below X temp or above X temp either- hard to be sympathetic when contracts come around. .

Although we have tropical weather here in the Philippines, mail is only delivered once a week....at the most twice a week

Well we've had about 4" of snow here in the UK and the whole country grinds to a halt. Had my first mail for 4 days yesterday, because it was "too dangerous" for the posties to go out on their rounds.

I just read a book called "Winter Experiences of a Russian Mailman" by Frazier Azov

Chimo

Bujutsu

Can only imagine the Siberian mailman - Maybe why covers are so expensive they froze to death (probably not a joke) . Winter can go away anytime now and sorry Mr Gore there ain't no Global warming in my neighborhood.

We actually have people here that have bumper stickers that state "Minnesotans for Global warming"

The rain is still pouring and the tropical low pressure systems are not here yet. 1st one will hit here in 8 to 10hrs and will drop over 300mm/1foot of rain in 2 to 3hrs. The 2nd one will hit in about 14 to 17hrs but no one is saying how much rain will come out of the large center of that one. Tomorrow here since the rain started we will of had over 600mm/2feet of rain and we will have 36hrs of more heavy rain after that.

I said 2 days ago that we were having cold weather and we have never experience this in the summer rainy season before and we have lived here for over 24 years now. The cold air hitting the hot tropical low pressure system has created 4 tornadoes today that came from off the ocean and smashed into areas about 180km/100 miles north of Brisbane which is the direction this weather is coming from.

They are saying we will get more tornadoes tomorrow as well but we just do not get tornadoes here. Any where near or far from here. We just do not get them. The wind is at a very strange angle it is coming at us from straight off the ocean as we can get it here. It is from the E N/E and that hits our house square on where all our large glass windows and glass doors make up the whole wall. The wind is said to reach 50 knots and gust well above that speed for many hours tomorrow.

We are prepared with ply wood and bracing timber etc . We are very high and dry from flood water and can cope with anything accept a tornadoe.

It will be interesting to see how our Postal system copes with this weather phenomena.

Stallzer,
I have not seen that bumper sticker, yet. We do have our share of crazy people. I just assumed they were all from Canada or Iowa, eh, ya betcha

Well after 5 days we have power back on. The wind was so strong Sunday night we thought the house was going to explode. The house was shaking and the humming sounded like a jet engine. The wind was well over 80 knots for about 7hrs. We have also had over 1m or 1yard of rain in the 4 days but for 7hrs the rain was totally horizontal and would not of gone into our rain gauge. We suffered no serious damage but got damp inside.

The government has helped us all financially in a generous manner so as to help us to be a happy community again. They come over with 200 funding credit cards and then realized they needed over 2,000. They even went in person to the old and disabled. The community made sure that all these people were visited.

We got the most damage because of the direction we face plus the storm was at its strongest at this end of the island. In our 24+years here we have never seen so many of our power lines down in our extended area or power grid.