Thread: What lousy weather!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by pro70z28

Picture postcard this morning with ice on the trees, snow on the ground & bright blue skies. Down side is -2°f.

hmmmm. one of them postcards with the caption, "How NOT to spend the winter"?--- almost the same here minus the ice and not near as warm.....-12 this morning... Let the dog out to do his thing, he had to pee on the run so he didn't freeze to the ground!!!!

Ain't winter fun.

There's just a dusting of snow in the second pic. This is all sleet & freezing rain. the real snow comes tomorrow.

CA-CA-CA- COLD !

Here are some cool,..... (actually COLD) old pictures for your enjoyment

And the hits just keep on comin'!
Got a little wind to boot, the first pic is our front porch that's under a 14' overhang, the second is my poor truck.

Last ones,..... I promise.

A picture is worth a 1000 words

Cold, Dave, Cold! Too damn cold for this time of the year

Yesterday it was a high of 15 with 40 mph winds gusting to 50 mph. Last night it was -3, today a heat wave of 26, tonight we are to have freezing rain followed by just plain rain tomorrow after 11 am.

If I could send this crap back to the Dakotas from whence it came I would. You'all are used to this crap, but I prefer it a little more mild thank you.

Originally Posted by mopar34

Cold, Dave, Cold! Too damn cold for this time of the year

Yesterday it was a high of 15 with 40 mph winds gusting to 50 mph. Last night it was -3, today a heat wave of 26, tonight we are to have freezing rain followed by just plain rain tomorrow after 11 am.

If I could send this crap back to the Dakotas from whence it came I would. You'all are used to this crap, but I prefer it a little more mild thank you.

That's ok, you can keep it, we like to share!!!!! Made it all the way up to +20 today!!! Looks like we get one more day of tolerable weather, then more sub-zero is coming..... Already tired of this crap, and at least a month more of it to go.....

Sorry guys, no snow in central Va yet, but I am hanging it up till it gets warmer. I worked on wiring the headllights and got the tailights hooked up while listening to Christmas music on the local station but the temp in the garage never got above 64F and was mostly in the 50F range so I ended up with my usual sinus infection. My lady MD-GP got me some amoxcillin for a ten day supply and this morning I slept late and woke up feeling like I had come out of a dark cave so I guess I was miserable for a week or so. Saturday I ran a red light (squeaked through) so I think my fever was messing me up. Thus I am a house boy till it warms up again, maybe by March 1 around here.

Don Shillady
Retired Scsientist/teen rodder

Why blame us? We're just the middleman. It is really a problem with those dang Canadians. It''s all their fault. I think there aught to be a law about them letting their weather out without a leash or at least a fenced border. We don't let our tornados run all over their country so why should we have to put up with their weather coming down here and taking a big ol snow dump in our country?

Power Outage

Just when you think it’s cold and things are tough, the power goes off. Thursday night we went to the grandkids Christmas play. The roads were covered with ice, and it was cold we had planned to have one of the grandkids come over for the weekend. Friday morning I was hearing what I thought was ice, and snow falling from the roof. I got up early and could not believe what I was seeing. Trees had fallen down from the weight of the snow, and ice. I wanted to move a couple of cars that were under some heavy branches; I didn’t want to take a chance on the roof’s caving in.

I saw a top part of a tree lying over the power lines. We called the power co. they said they had a big power outage but we still had power. My wife went to work that evening, and just as I was in the bathroom the power went out. I have vertigo so it’s bad when I cannot see, I had my cell phone and it gave enough light to get back to the kitchen. I got the flash lights out then the candles.

The generator was in the garage a good distance away, didn’t learn from the outage last summer when it was really hot to have it close by. We made it through the night the house didn’t get below 50 degrees. The survival mode kicked in and I pulled the generator though the snow, and ice to the basement. I couldn’t find my tools in the dark garage so I got a screwdriver, and a hammer. I put a hole in the basement garage door to run the power cord through. We had extension cords running through the house first to get a light in the basement, and then unhooked the furnace line to the power source. I made up a plug to run that furnace, and then hooked up the freezer. We ran another line up to the main floor hooked up the refrigerator, ran another line to the other furnace at the far end of the house. We had gone for groceries the night of the play so we had food. I was making scrambled eggs on an electric griddle just when they were getting close the power went off. I overloaded the multiunit outlet. Those were the best scrambled eggs I have ever had. The other light was still on in the basement so I reset the multiunit. The generator is a 6500 unit from sears but you just can’t imagine how much power it takes too run everything in a house. The next morning after checking every few hours on gas to operate the generator I was like a zombie. I made up a 220 plug so we could run our pump for water. I went back to town for more gas then around 2 pm I got something to eat. We were without power for two nights, and 2 and half days; it seemed like a lot longer though. We just kept thinking how are the other people making it with kids, and no power source.

When the guys came in our yard to cut the tree I was one happy camper, I tried to give them $20 to get something hot to drink (it was bitter cold) for there help but they insisted they could not take it. Sometimes we take for granted when we flip a switch and the lights go on. I don’t know how many times I would try to wash my hands only to remember no water with out electricity. I sure feel sorry for the other people who have been without power a lot longer then us.

Richard

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We've got 4-6" of fresh wet snow on the ground on top of the 1-2" of ice/sleet. I just got done blowing the snow off the driveway. I had to take 1/2 passes in high gear to shove the wet stuff in the blower. Slow or full passes it would just plug up. The ol' tractor was creaking & groaning & popped out of gear a few times. As I was finishing up it started to sleet again. It's supposed to sleet/rain through the night & then turn back to snow finishing Christmas eve.
Then a nice Christmas day with another storm for Friday.

Except for a few flickers, we've still got power though.

That sucks richard! at least when we lose power from hurricanes and bad rain storms its in the summer so it stays light out till 8 and its hot, definatly better than freezing. On a good note at least you dont have to worry about your food going bad.

Man, you guys are really catching it!!!!! Was almost nice today, made it to 20, supposed to be about the same tomorrow.....