{"id":3838,"date":"2019-03-03T15:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T21:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2019-03-03T15:53:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T21:53:50","slug":"77-march-2-2019-a-record-breaking-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/2019\/03\/03\/77-march-2-2019-a-record-breaking-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"#77 &ndash; March 2, 2019 &ndash; A Record-Breaking Winter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dear Friends,<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s been an unusual winter at Ishwar\u2019s construction project site in Bruce, Wisconsin. Record-breaking high temperatures, then record-breaking winter rains, then some of the coldest temperatures ever recorded, and finally, record-breaking snowfall.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">November and December were warmer than average, including some record highs. And it rained instead of snowed.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The first half of January had average temperatures, but then it rained some more and became bitterly cold, forming a hazardous layer of ice on the ground. The temperature at the Dera site dropped to -38F on January 31!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And then, in February it snowed. It began to snow early in the month, and never stopped. Record amounts of snow fell in many parts of Wisconsin during February, including 46 inches in Eau Claire.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here are some Susanne Schroeder frosty photos.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"3DD1456C-B4E2-4627-A59F-37A8DDB477EF\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1-Dera-2019-Susanne-winter.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"2CD0BEE4-6DDF-4F6E-B208-43741CEFC6E1\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2-Dera-2019-Susanne-winter-2.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"7C2A4B3C-D18D-421E-81FB-892466773E2D\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3-Dera-2019-Susanne-winter-3.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"6F201430-7670-40EE-8A0F-D81B3B40928A\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/4-Dera-2019-Susanne-winter-5.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"9752094F-0920-456C-898A-9FE77FFEB0BF\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/5-Dera-2019-Susanne-winter-6.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"5180ADA2-819D-472A-9B97-A6EF8CE88358\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/6-Dera-2019-Susanne-winter-7.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"8652B4E6-A0FE-4891-B26B-C614957B805D\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/7-Dera-2019-Susanne-winter-9.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"C05CC638-6B35-4F56-A719-0ADAF1FAC2AF\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/8-Dera-2019-Susanne-winter-11.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"6D88B2FC-9F87-4AC7-B1FF-C7EC47921A07\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/9-Dera-2019-Sues-house-Snickers.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BFBC18C4-C1FC-410F-8B0E-FF7BEBAAA96D\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/10-Dera-2019-Susanne-winter-Buddha-Cat.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"491B5D7E-0C65-4588-9250-93C7C764049B\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/11-Dera-2019-Susanne-winter-LAST.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;\">\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With warmest regards,<\/span><br class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Paul Bauer<\/span><br class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chair of ISHA Building &amp; Fund-Raising Committee<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, It\u2019s been an unusual winter at Ishwar\u2019s construction project site in Bruce, Wisconsin. Record-breaking high temperatures, then record-breaking winter rains, then some of the coldest temperatures ever recorded, and finally, record-breaking snowfall. &nbsp; November and December were warmer than average, including some record highs. And it rained instead of snowed. &nbsp; The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-construction-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3852,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}