How Embarrassing, and No, I Wasn't Drinking
By Marsha
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
Midland, Michigan
January 11, 2017 8:04pm CST
On my post before the last one I wrote about a January thaw that's expected after a snowfall of about four to six inches yesterday. I always hope for a January thaw like one we had several years ago when it got into the mid-fifties. It hasn't been quite that warm since then, but I thought for sure it was happening again this year and that it would last almost ten days if no yucky weather pushed it's way in.
I've been sharing about it here and at work. Today, I called one of our customers asking if we could finish her windows tomorrow as it was supposed to get up to about sixty degrees F. She questioned me as her forecast said high of 29. We live about a mile or two from one another. I wondered why the difference until I looked at the top of the web page I was on. Come to find out when I downloaded a different Chrome type browser it automatically gave my location out as Washington, DC. Sheesh!
Tomorrow's high is going to be only 29 degrees with temps ranging between that and 42 for the next ten days. A far cry from what I was saying. And, no, I wasn't drinking, but I am thinking of seeing what we might have right now in the fridge, lol.
The view on the left side of this image is the same one taken yesterday after it snowed. This one shows how much it did melt yesterday. Rather than getting flooding conditions, though, we'll have ice instead.
The view on the right shows the sidewalk and a portion of our lawn under ice.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Jan 17
The wrong location was put in on the weather channel for me since I didn't realize I never told it where I was, since it was a new browser.
Thanks on the date, didn't even realize I did that.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
16 Jan 17
@just4him I was never logged in with chrome. Sometimes it would shift to other places in Michigan that I'd checked before if we had a job out of town, but it never came up at DC. This is my first time using coolnovo since 2013 and I never had the problem then either, but they've probably changed things since you didn't have to log in before.
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@just4him (317041)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
16 Jan 17
@MarshaMusselman The first couple times I did that and didn't realize the location was Washington DC I couldn't figure out what was going on with the weather, then I looked at the top. That's when I decided to log in with an account, so it would always give me my location and I didn't have to worry about it going to Washington again. Though it still does if it doesn't have me logged in.
You're welcome.
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@Shellyann36 (11384)
• United States
17 Jan 17
I have had had those duh moments before. I am sure she understood. Did you work on her windows?
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
18 Jan 17
No. We'll probably wait until next spring or summer now. We usually do some of the job each June and then everything around November, December. She has storms on her windows and once everything is taken apart it can get a bit chilly in her house. It's really too cold right now to do them. This Saturday it may get to fifty or so, but it will also probably rain most of the day. Plus we don't normally work on Saturdays. The customers have their own things going on and I work my other job.
Along with that, my work van is over twenty years old and needs a lot of work done to it. Rather than do anything, I plan on trying to get something for it at the junk place after cleaning all our equipment out of it first. I'm hoping to get one or the other of my employees to remove the ladders from the roof and put them behind the garage. Maybe this week or next we can do that. Then, we won't be doing any larger jobs until we figure out or next vehicle.
We can still do monthlies until we get a replacement vehicle since monthlies don't need any ladders. I'm hoping before my surgery we've had the time to get everything cleaned out so I won't have to pay the insurance or tags on it right then.
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@Shellyann36 (11384)
• United States
23 Jan 17
@MarshaMusselman Sounds as if you have a solid plan. I hope that it all works out the way you want/need it to.
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@rebelann (112878)
• El Paso, Texas
12 Jan 17
That is sad @MarshaMusselman hopefully it will get easier for her.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
12 Jan 17
I am warm and safe indoors, now. I did go see my mom today so I wouldn't need to leave the house tomorrow. She's doing fairly well although she is still fearful of moving from one location to another. I think her six day stay in the hospital caused her to forget she was walking around before.
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
15 Jan 17
Does it go muddy when the snow are all thawed? ..
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
16 Jan 17
@MarshaMusselman It's amazing how the grass quickly grows in spring time isn't it? ..even after all that snow ..
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Jan 17
If there's mud there already. We have a couple of areas on the side of where we park our cars that tend to get muddy in the spring, but later the grass will fill in and it will be fine again. Right now, there's more ice than anything else.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
12 Jan 17
i think we may already have had our January thaw, but it was early. It came the day after Christmas. No one would have let us work on that day, plus it rained all day anyway. I have one job we can do that's doing storms on the inside, but tomorrow we're getting more snow and my tires and brakes aren't the greatest, so I'm not driving any further than I need to in this type of weather.
Today it got up to around 35, but it won't get into the thirties again until Sunday.
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@DWDavis (25805)
• United States
12 Jan 17
@MarshaMusselman Prolonged winter weather is one reason I'm glad I moved back to NC from New England. The first snowfall of the year is nice and pretty. After that, it is just a nuisance.
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@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
12 Jan 17
Is weather forecast different at the same time for the same place
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
12 Jan 17
Yes, although not quite as different as what I was thinking it would be and what it is in actuality. When we compare weather reports for the same day and area it might say rain on one and not on the other, but the majority of it would be the same. It wouldn't be forty degrees different like I was thinking until today. Actually, I'd not heard anyone else talk about the upcoming forecast until talking with my customer otherwise, I'd have questioned it before now.
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@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
12 Jan 17
@MarshaMusselman I think it was something out of the way at work.
We all have such days once a while so no worries
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
12 Jan 17
No one else saw what I did, but I didn't consider I might be wrong at that time. There are many days when we've checked the online weather with each of our computers and that found on TV and even though they are all the same weather channel rarely do the forecasts match up. They are usually not quite so different, but rarely the same, so I figured I'd go with what I saw until today when I realized it really didn't have my location there in the first place. What a let down. I was already enjoying my warmer weather.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
13 Jan 17
the photos alone make me want to turn up my central heating - stay warm
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
18 Jan 17
Oh, that ice and snow looks like something we don't want to see again! Yes, your customer would think that was a little odd!
Today we will see 70. Last week we had ice and snow. Go figure!
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
18 Jan 17
The highest we'll be seeing this month is in the fifties and that's not until the weekend when it may rain more too. It may get to forty tomorrow, and the sun will shine most of the day, so it may get higher than that but that remains to be seen.
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
13 Jan 17
Every other week or so it goes up and down here and that's what it's done for the past few years. It started out gloomy this morning but the sun eventually came out and caused the temps to rise a few degrees over the projected high we saw for today. Even then, it was still pretty brisk out and still lots of icy roads. The main ones have been salted though.
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@cahaya1983 (11116)
• Malaysia
12 Jan 17
I remember Weatherbug used to be my favorite weather forecast app when I was there in the States. Living in a tropical country now I rarely check the forecast since there are no really drastic changes in the weather every day. 
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@paigea (36317)
• Canada
18 Jan 17
on the mixup. I hope you found something nice in the fridge. That is quite a bit of snow to disappear.
I never grew up hearing the term January thaw, but we are certainly having one too. Our deck is melted and dried, the driveway softened up so I could clear it off and it will hopefully dry and not be icy. That is the good thing about the winters in the past; winter came and stayed. Not dealing with thawing and freezing all the time.1 person likes this
@AliCanary (3239)
•
13 Jan 17
Ah, that's a simple mistake. Made for a funny post, though! We got eight inches on Saturday, but it's almost all gone (only thing remaining are the big piles that kind of insulate themselves).
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