{"id":32643,"date":"2021-12-16T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32643"},"modified":"2021-12-16T19:21:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T00:21:35","slug":"building-my-snow-sculpture-during-a-tornado-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32643","title":{"rendered":"Building my snow sculpture during a Tornado warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Dole’s ghost swept across his hometown last night with 100 MPH winds. Its climate change in Russel Kansas which saw its wind records shattered. <\/p>\n

I save my snow from a couple weeks ago carefully hiding it from the sun and moved it to my front yard. Last night we got 1 inch of rain as Minnesota records of various sorts fell. One of them being the first December ever to have tornado warnings. I covered my sculpture of a quintet of Carolers under tarps to survive 47 degree melting and last night’s rain. Here’s the intersection during one downpour last night.<\/p>\n

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I was substitute teaching Tuesday and Wednesday and my eight our days left me no time to work in the light but I did manage to cover the sculpture with tarps. This is how it looked when I began peeling them off this morning.<\/p>\n

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And here is my relatively successful protection in the full unveiling. Note that I covered snow wet from the rain with the tarps to prolong their dampness for the morning as the temperatures dropped. I needed to keep them sticky to put flesh to my boney fingers:<\/p>\n

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After I used up most of the snow I got more help from my two grandsons and I had them decorate the singers with scarves, ties and other assorted enhancements. I ran out of steam to work when lunch was ready. I’m still thinking about whether I really want to spiff the carolers any more. My back says no. Note the yellow clay model I made before I piled up the snow. Its at the foot of one of the carolers.<\/p>\n

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And this is how I would like my sculpture to look. I didn’t place the women properly to manage this but since it will be cold if I do fuss with things like eyes and noses they are likely to survive through the cold to come.<\/p>\n

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Bob Dole’s ghost swept across his hometown last night with 100 MPH winds. Its climate change in Russel Kansas which saw its wind records…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32646,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32643\/revisions\/32646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}