My Monday Comute: -40 windchill.

[Ralph Wiggum]

<=== Is basking in a balmy 21° F, with no appreciable wind or wind chill.  All I need is a(nother) piña collada. 

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[BlueStateSaint]

My phone says it's -2 right now, so I figure it to be about -20, actually. The wind is blowing pretty good. I'm also hearing from minus 40 to minus 5p tomorrow. I gotta go to work in the AM, unfortunately...

Even going out to have a smoke is damn near unbearable right now.

That's one way to stop smoking . . .

[Ralph Wiggum]

My car started up after a couple seconds of cranking.  It took longer to pry open the frozen door.

The guy in my department that works out of Stoughton, WI said it took him two hours to get his truck unfrozen enough to start.  -50 wind chills and all the schools in the state are shut down.

All the schools are closed here, and I believe that Minnesota's governor decided to close theirs last Friday in anticipation of the cold.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Yay, it warmed up to -9!!!! 

[JohnnyReb]

That's one way to stop smoking . . .

QUIT????? or you kidding?

1-Lay on back and blow smoke up the chimney.

2-Hang garden hose out window, place cigarette in garden hose, suck and blow smoke out hose.

3-Blow smoke in heater vent and blame on bad furnace.

4-Stick head under kitchen range hood with hood exhaust fan running.

5-just say the hell with it and light up in your easy chair.

Dang amateurs.

[Ralph Wiggum]

QUIT?????

Everyone hates a quitter. 

[thundley4]

QUIT????? or you kidding?

1-Lay on back and blow smoke up the chimney.

2-Hang garden hose out window, place cigarette in garden hose, suck and blow smoke out hose.

3-Blow smoke in heater vent and blame on bad furnace.

4-Stick head under kitchen range hood with hood exhaust fan running.

5-just say the hell with it and light up in your easy chair.

Dang amateurs.

My shift foreman was kind enough to leave early yesterday so I just smoked in the shop.  It's against Illinois law and against company policy, but I was the only one there.

[JohnnyReb]

My county and city has been over run by the anti-smoking Nazis. You are not allowed to smoke in any public building or work place. If you smoke outside, you must be at least 20 feet from a doorway.....and no smoking on any government property/grounds.

[formerlurker]

-20 Saturday; yesterday it warmed up to just above freezing; today it hit 54 when I was driving kids to school (in thick fog and rain).   

Tomorrow right back down to arctic chill.    Oil companies are loving this weather - had to call for another delivery.  I am going through it like water.

[Ralph Wiggum]

My county and city has been over run by the anti-smoking Nazis. You are not allowed to smoke in any public building or work place. If you smoke outside, you must be at least 20 feet from a doorway.....and no smoking on any government property/grounds.

Not sure of the exact law, but here if you are at a medical facility, there is no smoking allowed on the property.

[thundley4]

My county and city has been over run by the anti-smoking Nazis. You are not allowed to smoke in any public building or work place. If you smoke outside, you must be at least 20 feet from a doorway.....and no smoking on any government property/grounds.

Illinois is no smoking in any business and requires 15 feet from any doorway.  However, I'm sure that is ignored quite often.  It seems their main targets with the law was bars and restaurants. 

One bar I know put a portable building near their back door for smokers.  It had one light and a small electric heater.  They were told that they had to take the door off and remove the windows to meat the laws requirements.

[Scoobie]

-20 Saturday; yesterday it warmed up to just above freezing; today it hit 54 when I was driving kids to school (in thick fog and rain).   

Tomorrow right back down to arctic chill.    Oil companies are loving this weather - had to call for another delivery.  I am going through it like water.

Two hour school delay this morning for my kiddos due to the heavy fog and residual ice. I'm expecting delays again tomorrow due to the arctic blast coming in later today/tonight, which will pretty much refreeze all the snow/rain/slop puddles that are everywhere.

And we had our second oil delivery this morning. I still haven't gotten acclimated to this New England weather. 

[Chris_]

My house has these wonderful space heaters built into the walls (two upstairs, three downstairs).  I don't know which costs more to run, the heat exchanger in the attic or them, but they sure are comfortable.

I had to close off a couple of hallways/exits yesterday.  It was a big improvement.

[BlueStateSaint]

My wife found a leak from the master bath shower stall into the ceiling of the half-bath on the first floor, yesterday.  I spent soem time ripping the ceiling in the half-bath apart, then called for reinforcements.  There's a big hole in the ceiling now, the shower drain is the culprit, but it's not a big leak.  My cousin (the retired police officer) has an in with a plumbing company in the area, and we'll be getting a few estimates on the repairs soon.  We may have to spring for a new shower stall . . . !

In the meantime, the hole in the ceiling has caused a pretty big draft into that half-bath, so we closed the door.

[Eupher]

My wife found a leak from the master bath shower stall into the ceiling of the half-bath on the first floor, yesterday.  I spent soem time ripping the ceiling in the half-bath apart, then called for reinforcements.  There's a big hole in the ceiling now, the shower drain is the culprit, but it's not a big leak.  My cousin (the retired police officer) has an in with a plumbing company in the area, and we'll be getting a few estimates on the repairs soon.  We may have to spring for a new shower stall . . . !

In the meantime, the hole in the ceiling has caused a pretty big draft into that half-bath, so we closed the door.

I hate when that happens.

[Ralph Wiggum]

My house has these wonderful space heaters built into the walls (two upstairs, three downstairs).  I don't know which costs more to run, the heat exchanger in the attic or them, but they sure are comfortable.

I had to close off a couple of hallways/exits yesterday.  It was a big improvement.

Does it matter at this point?  All about staying warm at most any cost.

[Mr Mannn]

I can hear the wind howl outside. Its only -30 outside right now.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I can hear the wind howl outside. Its only -30 outside right now.

At least we warmed up to -4 at last glance.

[Mr Mannn]

At least we warmed up to -4 at last glance.

Oh, well that's shirt sleeve weather right there.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Oh, well that's shirt sleeve weather right there.

I'm sure there will be some douche at pool league tonight wearing shorts.

[jtyangel]

It will be -13 tomorrow morning in Des Moines, with a windchill of -40! -40?!!
This is something that is supposed to affect the north east, not here.

I won't get to stay home because its "too cold." I have to buck up and get to work!
I remember thinking when I volunteered to move here from Phoenix. I thought, "It will be an adventure."
Earth to Mannn: Cold is NOT an adventure! Frostbite is NOT a freaking adventure!

I'm gonna find me Al Gore and I'm so gonna kick his rich, 1% a$$!   

I had to work today. It was about 0 outside not including wind chill

BUT.....

It was 68 degrees from my bed to my desk in my pajamas and once the coffee as brewed a scant few minutes later it heated up even more--work from home day

[Ralph Wiggum]

I had to work today. It was about 0 outside not including wind chill

BUT.....

It was 68 degrees from my bed to my desk in my pajamas and once the coffee as brewed a scant few minutes later it heated up even more--work from home day

No bragging!!! 

[jtyangel]

Well. My car won't start. I was forced to call in today. I tried.

FREEEEEEZING cold! Wind cuts right through you! I'm drinking hot tea right now to survive.

God was talking to you friend.

My car is in the garage but I've still went out and started it and set it out to heat up a couple of times. My mothers car is outside but thankfully the wind is on the back of the house and blocking it. Still, it started slow so I have been starting hers a couple times today so hopefully once tomorrow and the coldest of it is over, life can get back to normal.

My guy put a clamped utility light on his engine last night.

I don't know what you do Mr. Mannn, but I really wish more businesses would allow at least situational work at home for just these times. I tell you my morale is through the roof when I wake up on a day like today and know I can still put in my time AND stay in the comfort of my warm home with my family. Serves both masters and a great option. Wish more folks who can were allowed that option. My ex is allowed situational and they STILL dragged him in and there is ZERO reason he can't do his job from home with what he does. But since we didn't get much snow they called them in, yet they have to take their laptop home every night as a contingency for his company, yet he's not afforded the same contingency when his situation better warrants working from home. Just bullshit imo.

Ok rant done--stay warm.

[jtyangel]

Does it matter at this point?  All about staying warm at most any cost.

We are like liberals with obamacare--someone will pay it someday...only in this case that somebody will be us next month or the one after  



edit to add we are the 'us' that gets to pay for the other too

[jtyangel]

No bragging!!! 

It pays to be in our line of work Mr. Wiggums