Ramblings of a frozen mind.

There are a number of things that come to mind that could be worse than our frozen situation, much worse.
Why the western leadership keep getting away with this mindless no win effort to bring democracy to these places never ceases to amaze me. Well OK I do know, but that still does not make it right.
Pull out and let em have at it, like we do in places where there are no strategic importances.

Then we could be in for yet another snow storm [one would be nice], about the 6th this season I think.
Added to that the poor buggers in St. John’s have added burdens on the already overstretched decision making part of their brains.

Then there is this pore sod having his tranquil retirement disrupted by the unwashed masses who really only want to get wet and breath some fresh air for a short time, but I know where he is coming from, I have been one of unwashed myself.

Yep, things could be much worse than the just above -30 temperatures and clear sky’s we are experiencing. We are thankful that it is calm for sure, not so sure about the medium range forecast of more of the same.

Sure be nice to have snow up the ying yang.

The brooks do not have much snow on them at moment, ice is starting to ‘core’ in many places, I noticed the dam is starting to ‘core’ as well.

These conditions remind me of what happened back some 15 years or so. It was just like this, not much snow on the ground, very low temperatures for an extended time. The springs along the back of the community started to ‘core’ [water flowing on surface and freezing]. We had several large ice walls along our road; our house was threatened by a mini glacier. It had to be constantly watched, and at least once a week we had to dig trenches in the ice to divert the water.
Worse was the community dam almost froze solid, that was something. Thanks to many volunteers and the town council workers a minimum amount of water was always in the dam, water restrictions applied, but the town got through it.

For the uninitiated; Crews had to cut holes in the ice of a pond at a higher elevation to the dam. Pumps were manned 24 hours a day; the water was pumped into a brook that ran down into the dam.
At the dam a huge hole was dug down through the ice down to the water level, this was almost to the bottom. The water coming in from above tended to ‘core’, especially at night, so other volunteers dug trenches to keep the water flowing into the hole. From memory the hole in the ice had to be dug several times as the water level dropped.
Eventually the temperatures rose and we had some snow fall.

The town’s infrastructure has improved since then. We have gabion walls and trenches along a good part of the town to divert the ground water. There is a series of pumps, valves and pipe underground from the same pond that runs down into the dam, this should be able to fill the dam when it gets low, unless the pond freezes, but lets not think like that eh?.