03-16-2026 — Thinking of Bro

Howdy all. Today would have been Ross’ 72nd Birthday. He graduated from high school in ‘72. I do miss him. Anyway, one thing he used to say all the time was, “It almost always snows in Ohio on my Birthday.” And that he that’s what he remembers most as a kid was the snow.

Well, today the temperature started around 59 degrees Fahrenheit. And lots of winds. It is now 6:30 pm, and sure enough, take a look of these pictures of the deck out back and one of my critter cameras out front.

The temperature is around 31 now, and will fall into the 20s and stay there all tomorrow. The porncasters are suggesting Lake Effect Snowfalls of as much as 6 inches in the area. I doubt the warm ground will allow that much to build up. But a slight white blanket is likely.

The power company has been busy since Friday trying to play whack-a-mole with electricity outages again. From the 265 thousand high, they’ve knocked it down to under 13,000 this last hour. Many of the fixes they’ve done, were replaced with new outages. The closest for me was about 150 houses just 3 blocks east. That happened this morning, and was corrected by 4 pm or so.

They try to get the largest groups fixed first. Especially for areas like hospitals or group housing. Now they are working hard on the small outages of 1-20 people. That takes longer.

I, for one, appreciate what they have done. Hopefully soon, they can take a break from work, catch up on their sleep, and Enjoy Life