by Gary Lee
Weather over the weekend wasn’t what snowmobilers or skiers wanted as it rained most of Saturday. They still had the drag races on Big Moose Lake that day.
They must have been ducking the hole left by the pick-up plow truck that was retrieved out of the lake on Tuesday by Morin’s Tow Service.
Saturday was a great day at VIEW for the Chili Bowl Luncheon as a steady stream of people came in.
Most all the bowls were sold along with most of the chili and desserts eaten.
After lunch Sue Kiesel put on a power point program of her Adirondack scenic and wildlife pictures to a packed crowd…the photos were beautiful. Thanks Sue for a great show!
Other people didn’t have such a great weekend weatherwise as the Fiji Islands got hit with category 5 Tropical Cyclone Winston.
This was the second most powerful storm recorded in the South Pacific with winds over 200 mph.
So far 21 people have been reported killed and thousands are homeless.
The death toll is expected to rise once the back country is searched for victims. Power and roads to much of the area are out.
The southern parts of this country are going through some rough weather also with heavy rains and some violent weather.
This is all caused by water coming in off the Gulf and a temperature difference in the north and the south.
Some of this moisture will be coming up the east coast but mostly as rain. We are hoping for some snow for the Inlet Frozen Fire and Lights Festival this weekend. It may happen yet, but the forecast doesn’t look that good.
Our far northern state, Alaska, also got hit with a powerful storm. Former Super Typhoon Nuri tracked northward into the Bering Sea, but didn’t get much press as most of the press was more interested in the primary election results.
They had a super storm that recorded a record low pressure of 924 mb, the most intense storm ever to impact the region.
It looked like a hurricane coming off the ocean and hitting the northern part of the state.
They had high winds and much snow from this storm causing a lot of damage to some of the bigger cities.
Being such a big storm, this will come across the northern part of the U.S. giving us colder temperatures and possibly some snow later in the week.
I had four bald eagles and fifteen ravens feeding here this morning, three adults and one two-year-old bird.
There was some dive bombing going on as I only had one carcass on the dam and there was competition for the food.
The ravens would drive off the juvenile eagle but not the adults as they would stand their ground and give the ravens a peck or a wing flap.
Speaking of eagles, there is a camera on a nest in Lancaster, PA. This is the third year the camera has been on the nest.
Last year two eaglets were raised in this nest. The adults were named Liberty and Freedom by a vote of on line watchers. The web site is: lancasteronline.com/eaglecam/.
There are no eggs in the nest yet but the nest has been decorated.
This pair has been using this site for ten years.
They have a microphone there also to hear voices of the adults and chicks when food arrives.
Last year a squirrel chewed through the cable, which put an end to the sound, and one of the adults pooped on the lens of the camera making the view and bit blurry.
There are now two cameras with infrared so you can see them at night and covers have put over them so they won’t get pooped on.
Still running my trap line but you sure want to check with the ice spud as ice conditions change from one day to the next with our crazy weather.
One day you have ice and the next day you might need a canoe.
Winter fireworks will warm you up…but that’s another story. See ya.