Jan 20

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 It started snowing Monday night about 6pm, and continued until tonight (Tuesday) about 8pm.  Heavy snow, in fact all the people I talked to here today in Burgas say it's the heaviest snow they've ever seen here.

I took a nice walk from our new place on Rilska street, down to Bogoridi, to the Sea Garden …. out to the end of the pier, on to the beach … back through the sea garden.  You can see the pictures below in the embedded picasweb link.

What a great day it's been.  It reminds me so much of living in Madison, Wisconsin in the US.  Sure, it's not quite as cold here – just a few degrees below freezing, and it only snows like this once a decade here where it snows like this repeatedly throughout the winter in Wisconsin – but hey, it does remind me of the past three winters I spent in Madison, and I did like the winters there for some weird reason :-)

 

 

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Dec 19

On Dec 11 we had our first snow in Burgas

Picasaweb Photos

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Nov 04

Yesterday morning I checked the local weather forecast on the weather underground website, it said 30 percent chance of rain during the evening.  Ok, I can deal with that.

So yesterday evening it started raining, and raining, and raining, in fact it’s still raining this morning – it “30 percented” all over us, all night long.

Shortly after midnight the power went out.  I suppose I should be used to that kind of thing, in a way – I spent June and July in east Texas where those big thunderstorms booming through often caused the power to go out, sometimes for hours.

But I still don’t like it :-(   And it shut down my web server too (whine), and even worse – I could not make espresso!
I don’t know what time the power came back on, I finally fell asleep waiting for it.

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Dec 24
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Almost 3 ft of snow has fallen since late November, and we just passed through a week where the temperatures went below 0 (that’s Farenheit) degrees regularly.  In fact last Sunday began at -10 and only reached -2 for the high.

It’s snowing again today, it’s going to snow again tomorrow.  Somehow we’re going to have a few days this weekend where the temperature will be warm enough for it to rain.  Think of it, 38 degrees will be 48 degrees warmer than it was Sunday morning. How many of you have temperatures that vary by nearly 50 degrees in one week?

Snow is neat, it’s interesting, the icebox is curious … but I am really tired of it now. The latest word from my friends in Bulgaria has me thinking I’ll be back in Burgas by March 8 … how many weeks is that? Well, I’m ready to leave Madison, that’s the truth.

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