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opelgt1969
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Have you swam in the bay below Diamond Head? I stayed with a friend that was in the marines back in the 90's. It's like swimming in a very large aquarium. He lived in an apartment that was right below the Crouching Lion on the back side of the Island, it would be a nice hike, I didn't do it as it is almost straight up but I bet it would be a great view.
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We did not. Just walked from our hotel up to Diamond Head and back. Give or take about 12 miles round trip and 760 feet of elevation change. We're exhausted.
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If you have the time a bus ride around the Island is well worth it. One of the funniest things I saw while there was a cop driving on the freeway with a paper map unfolded all over the windshield trying to find something, remember this was around 1988.We did not. Just walked from our hotel up to Diamond Head and back. Give or take about 12 miles round trip and 760 feet of elevation change. We're exhausted.
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There is a joke about donut shops there somewhere...
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Just started raining a little bit for the next 8 hours at least
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The weather has actually been really nice and sunny in Germany the last couple of days. It feels like Spring has finally arrived but unfortunately it‘s going to be 8 degrees and cloudy next week. Typical schizophrenic March weather.
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Joey D
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I haven't lived through an actual natural disaster with wife spread destruction in a long time. We lost power on Saturday and still don't have it back, which sucks because that means no heat or water. I'm using my gas stove to heat the house and it's a balmy 48 in here right now. Power poles are snapped in half still and trees are still down everywhere. I've been out with people in the neighborhood cutting trees to get the roads passable. Yesterday the weather was decent, 40 and sunny, but we're getting snow right now and tomorrow the winds are supposed to be 40 mph. Monday was the worst day though. We had a thunderstorm of freezing rain, which was a new one for me. It's a horrible sound laying in bed and hearing the snap of trees over and over again. Thankfully we have a metal roof which can take some pretty hard limb strikes but it's still pretty dented.
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Northern Michigan — no stranger to wild weather — tries to cope with days of no power
It is another day without electricity for much of the northern tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Utility crews are trying to restore power in a region that was hit by freezing rain last weekend.
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Sorry to hear that, I really hope things will be back to normal soon. Wishing you all the best!I haven't lived through an actual natural disaster with wife spread destruction in a long time. We lost power on Saturday and still don't have it back, which sucks because that means no heat or water. I'm using my gas stove to heat the house and it's a balmy 48 in here right now. Power poles are snapped in half still and trees are still down everywhere. I've been out with people in the neighborhood cutting trees to get the roads passable. Yesterday the weather was decent, 40 and sunny, but we're getting snow right now and tomorrow the winds are supposed to be 40 mph. Monday was the worst day though. We had a thunderstorm of freezing rain, which was a new one for me. It's a horrible sound laying in bed and hearing the snap of trees over and over again. Thankfully we have a metal roof which can take some pretty hard limb strikes but it's still pretty dented.
Northern Michigan — no stranger to wild weather — tries to cope with days of no power
It is another day without electricity for much of the northern tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Utility crews are trying to restore power in a region that was hit by freezing rain last weekend.
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After 10 days of no power, water, or heat I'm finally back online! It was seriously one of the gnarliest disasters I've been through and even the National Guard who patrolled the neighborhood to help said this was as bad as any hurricane they'd been to, just without the water.
The first day after the storm, the roads were damn near impassible and I had to drive through this for miles and miles and miles. I finally got a chainsaw and went to work helping clear the road though.
This is what the nearest city looked like:
This was in front of my house. Thankfully since the entire grid was off line I managed to chop up the tree without too much worry, but in the middle of cutting it up we got a thunder ice storm, something I've never seen before. It was thundering, lightning, and raining incredibly hard with a strong 40 mph wind. It was freezing as soon as it hit the ground. That night was the absolute worst night I've ever been though. The house was 45 degrees and it stormed for hours. All I could hear was trees snapping and falling. We have a metal roof and the sound of limbs banging off it was awful. The best way I can describe it is think of listening to bones snap for six hours straight.
If that wasn't enough, it then decided to snow hard. We ended up with a little over 6" by the end of the day and the road was so slippery I couldn't drive anywhere.
Thankfully, that finally cleared up and I made it into town. I started seeing these things and wanted one so bad. It's a utility tank used to get power back on in remote areas.
When the weather finally decided to cooperate, it did look eerily beautiful outside
Once my son could go back to school, I started assisting with search and rescue, delivering water, and clearing roads. I also helped find and report broken utility poles. In our neighborhood and surrounding area alone we had about 100 broken poles. Our energy company typically replaces about 800 poles a year in all of northern and western Michigan. In the past week they've replaced 1,200 with an esimated 1,000 more to go. However, the worst part working with search and rescue was the police having to bring in cadaver dogs. There were very inaccessible areas and without power that meant potentially frozen people. I didn't find anyone, nor did the people I was working with, but I don't really know what others found. The dog were has was awesome though.
As the weather cleared more, I could get around more. I went down this road that, no joke, had hundreds of red pine trees broken and it covered the pavement in needles. It was the best smell road I've ever been down.
And now, it's still just cold and snowy, but we might get into the 60s this weekend. I have so much to clean up around the house but nothing major was damaged thankfully. The only real loss was my entire fridge and freezer of food, which was a pain in the ass. It was cold enough to keep the beer cold on the back deck though. We tried putting some food out there to say cold and it was almost immediately taken by animals. I was afraid to put meat out there because we do have bears and I didn't really want one milling around.
The first day after the storm, the roads were damn near impassible and I had to drive through this for miles and miles and miles. I finally got a chainsaw and went to work helping clear the road though.
This is what the nearest city looked like:
This was in front of my house. Thankfully since the entire grid was off line I managed to chop up the tree without too much worry, but in the middle of cutting it up we got a thunder ice storm, something I've never seen before. It was thundering, lightning, and raining incredibly hard with a strong 40 mph wind. It was freezing as soon as it hit the ground. That night was the absolute worst night I've ever been though. The house was 45 degrees and it stormed for hours. All I could hear was trees snapping and falling. We have a metal roof and the sound of limbs banging off it was awful. The best way I can describe it is think of listening to bones snap for six hours straight.
If that wasn't enough, it then decided to snow hard. We ended up with a little over 6" by the end of the day and the road was so slippery I couldn't drive anywhere.
Thankfully, that finally cleared up and I made it into town. I started seeing these things and wanted one so bad. It's a utility tank used to get power back on in remote areas.
When the weather finally decided to cooperate, it did look eerily beautiful outside
Once my son could go back to school, I started assisting with search and rescue, delivering water, and clearing roads. I also helped find and report broken utility poles. In our neighborhood and surrounding area alone we had about 100 broken poles. Our energy company typically replaces about 800 poles a year in all of northern and western Michigan. In the past week they've replaced 1,200 with an esimated 1,000 more to go. However, the worst part working with search and rescue was the police having to bring in cadaver dogs. There were very inaccessible areas and without power that meant potentially frozen people. I didn't find anyone, nor did the people I was working with, but I don't really know what others found. The dog were has was awesome though.
As the weather cleared more, I could get around more. I went down this road that, no joke, had hundreds of red pine trees broken and it covered the pavement in needles. It was the best smell road I've ever been down.
And now, it's still just cold and snowy, but we might get into the 60s this weekend. I have so much to clean up around the house but nothing major was damaged thankfully. The only real loss was my entire fridge and freezer of food, which was a pain in the ass. It was cold enough to keep the beer cold on the back deck though. We tried putting some food out there to say cold and it was almost immediately taken by animals. I was afraid to put meat out there because we do have bears and I didn't really want one milling around.
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Joey D
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I don't think it's super common in most places. We get thundersnow all the time here but this is the first time I've seen thunder ice. Here's an article about how it works.
Thunder Ice? Michigan among states reporting this weird weather combination
The unusual mix of lightning flashes during an icy freezing rain event was reported across several Midwest states early today.
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