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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: franksolich on December 08, 2009, 05:36:34 PM
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This is the "official" bad weather thread for the current storm embracing most of the middle west. If one's in good weather, don't come here, leave us alone.
If your weather's bad, how bad is it?
Any unusual experiences?
In late afternoon here, I got into the motor vehicle and took off; the snow was already to the top of the hubcaps. Roads not ploughed, because no point in ploughing while it's still snowing (at least that's the Nebraska logic, and we're used to it).
I live on a gravel road, for about two miles, after one reaches the paved highway.
I got through okay, but it was a pain; I have a low-sitting sedan (makes for easier driving in high winds) that I sometimes have to ram through snow drifts (and thus occasionally bending tie-rods). But I wasn't in the drive for the ease and comfort of it; I was in it just to see what's going on.
It's pretty bad, but obviously I survive.
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The rain moved out. We got clipped by the southern end of the storm. WCF is supposed to get into the single-digits (F) tonight and tomorrow wind gusts around 35 to 40 mph with a high temp. of 32 (F).
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19 degress in Stillwater. Snowing all day, but maybe an inch of accumulation.
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As I mentioned in the other thread we are looking at anywhere between 8-12 inches of snow and tomorrow a Wind Chill of between -10 and -20 .
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As I mentioned in the other thread we are looking at anywhere between 8-12 inches of snow and tomorrow a Wind Chill of between -10 and -20 .
We're supposed to have 6" by midnight, when the wind starts.
The "low" is predicted to be -4 degrees.
But with wind circa 40-60 mph after midnight, and through most of Wednesday, I have no idea what that translates into wind-chill.
After 20 degrees, it pretty much doesn't make any difference, 10 degrees or -10 degrees or whatever; it all seems the same, cold.
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Well.....I need to make a long road trip up to Chicago either tomorrow or Thursday, during which I get to enjoy the entire length of Illinois, from south to north. Sounds like Thursday may be a better bet. But, as awful as Illinois is, they do remove snow an ice pretty well.
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Depending on who one listens to around here, we're due to get anywhere from 2" to 5" of the white stuff before it changes to rain and sleet. Carl will get more, as he lives at a higher elevation than I do. The thing is, people forget how to drive in this stuff from one year to the next--or even one storm to the next. Downtown Albany is going to be an expletive-deleted mess tomorrow. If it gets to the point that The Heiress' day care is closed tomorrow, I'll stay home with her, as my wife has to go in and get her check.
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Our weather is pretty bad. I was out at 5:30 PM central and heard multiple sirens. I blame Algore.
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Well.....I need to make a long road trip up to Chicago either tomorrow or Thursday, during which I get to enjoy the entire length of Illinois, from south to north. Sounds like Thursday may be a better bet. But, as awful as Illinois is, they do remove snow an ice pretty well.
Here in the central part of Illinois, we're still getting rain. Temps are supposed to start dropping after 6a.m. tomorrow.
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It was in the high 40's and sunny today, should fall to sh*t tonight though.
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Depending on who one listens to around here, we're due to get anywhere from 2" to 5" of the white stuff before it changes to rain and sleet. Carl will get more, as he lives at a higher elevation than I do. The thing is, people forget how to drive in this stuff from one year to the next--or even one storm to the next. Downtown Albany is going to be an expletive-deleted mess tomorrow. If it gets to the point that The Heiress' day care is closed tomorrow, I'll stay home with her, as my wife has to go in and get her check.
Even up here in the country they get stupid. :thatsright:
Channel 6 has us at 2-4 but we`ll see.
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Mid 80's here all week with some cooling to the mid 60's at night. :uhsure:
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Mid 80's here all week with some cooling to the mid 60's at night. :uhsure:
Well then I don't feel so bad for posting that we are headed to a hard freeze 20 or less. With lots of wind, but precip should be minimal. (I wasn't sure if that qualified for bad weather, but I may have to wrap some plants, and pipes and stuff.)
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6-12 inches and then rain/sleet on top of it, winds in the 30 mph range. I'll be leaving work early tomorrow morning to try and beat the storm home.
I love winter.
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Its windy and slightly wet here. That is all.
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We're supposed to have 6" by midnight, when the wind starts.
The "low" is predicted to be -4 degrees.
But with wind circa 40-60 mph after midnight, and through most of Wednesday, I have no idea what that translates into windchill.
After 20 degrees, it pretty much doesn't make any difference, 10 degrees or -10 degrees or whatever; it all seems the same, cold.
What it means Frank is that after 20 degrees is how quickly your flesh will become frozen. The more wind you have the quicker you can become a human popcycle.
http://www.weather.gov/os/windchill/index.shtml
(http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/9025/windchill.jpg)
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It's been 4 degrees here for the last two to three days. No wind by our standards.
I'm watching this storm. Supposed to go 8 hours north on Thursday.
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What it means Frank is that after 20 degrees is how quickly your flesh will become frozen. The more wind you have the quicker you can become a human popcycle.
http://www.weather.gov/os/windchill/index.shtml
(http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/9025/windchill.jpg)
Yeah, I knew that; just not a specific number.
Wind-chill indici were invented and used in Nebraska long before any blue states and blue cities had them; back in the 1920s at least around here, when one glances at old copies of ancient crumbling newspapers.
But my point was more that, if it's -10 degrees (either real temperature or wind chill) or -30 degrees, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference; it's just too cold to worry about, or even notice, distinctions in gradation.
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The news said it may get to the lower 20's and teens tonight. That may not be much compared to the great frozen midwest, but it is really cold for around here.
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Well, here it is, circa 1:00 a.m. out in the desolate Sandhills of Nebraska, midnight mountain time, and I went to the door, hoping to find the cats Abbie and Gustav waiting for me, anxious to come inside.
(In case I don't see them, there's a cat house on the porch, insulated from the wind and carpeted, even.)
Utter devastation, clear to the horizon, in all four directions.
The whole world, including the motor vehicle and the William Rivers Pitt, covered and indiscernible.
The nocturnally foul one here, who beeleeves in man-made climate change, has no idea.
I imagine that's how perceptions are formed, when one lives in a crowded congested blue state, and so can't see the weather among all the crowds, buildings, noise, light, and dirt.
But we out here in the middle of weather, know that mankind ain't nothing, compared with nature.
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The news said it may get to the lower 20's and teens tonight. That may not be much compared to the great frozen midwest, but it is really cold for around here.
Well, come on over--I'll keep ya warm... :naughty:
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Blizzard and white out conditions from last night till 6PM tonight. 8-15 foot snow drifts. 14 inches of snow dumped on the city of Des Moines. Every road is ice/snow packed. Accidents galore.
--My phone keeps dying...it will work and then cut out (winds affecting satellite dishes). Same with my cable.
Likely I will get a snow day today.
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We have rain and high winds. Somehow somewhere in my house the rain is being blown in. I found it coming through my basement ceiling this morning but can't find it upstairs yet. Not the best day in the world to have to patch a roof.
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In less then 12 hours we are now predicted to get 3-6 inches (already have the 3).
Anyone that thinks we can guess the weather or climate 50 years down the line is just simply insane and easy to understand why data is fudged and the original destroyed.
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Update: the rain is gone and the sun is shining, but its still a bit windy out there. It is a balmy 50°.
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In less then 12 hours we are now predicted to get 3-6 inches (already have the 3).
Anyone that thinks we can guess the weather or climate 50 years down the line is just simply insane and easy to understand why data is fudged and the original destroyed.
I went out to clean off my wife's car, and mine, around 4:30, and there was about 2" on both cars. Went back out around 7, to put The Heiress into the car, and there was another 4" to 5" on the car. Took me 20 minutes to get to the day care place, which was open only because the owner got stuck trying to get there to close it at 5:30 AM. Got on I-87, and I got up to 7 mph twice. That was as fast as I got. I called in from the Northway, telling my supervisor (who had a 4 or 5 mile drive) that I wasn't going to make it. Today is NYS payuday, and the weather is another argument for my wife to have Direct Deposit. Day care will close at 3 PM, and I'll get The Heiress long before then.
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Holy schnikeys! 24 on my way in, and way colder with WCF. Thank the Lord above, no precip here. Otherwise, I wouldn't go in, and would be required to use my holiday I already have scheduled for Christmas Eve.
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I went out to clean off my wife's car, and mine, around 4:30, and there was about 2" on both cars. Went back out around 7, to put The Heiress into the car, and there was another 4" to 5" on the car. Took me 20 minutes to get to the day care place, which was open only because the owner got stuck trying to get there to close it at 5:30 AM. Got on I-87, and I got up to 7 mph twice. That was as fast as I got. I called in from the Northway, telling my supervisor (who had a 4 or 5 mile drive) that I wasn't going to make it. Today is NYS payuday, and the weather is another argument for my wife to have Direct Deposit. Day care will close at 3 PM, and I'll get The Heiress long before then.
The roads here were virtually untouched as well,4wd truck and still didn`t feel comfortable at 40 mph.
Guess the state is too bankrupt to plow...so much for one of the few things you get for your tax dollars.
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Blizzard and white out conditions from last night till 6PM tonight. 8-15 foot snow drifts. 14 inches of snow dumped on the city of Des Moines. Every road is ice/snow packed. Accidents galore. --My phone keeps dying...it will work and then cut out (winds affecting satellite dishes). Same with my cable.
Likely I will get a snow day today.
But I thought yankee's could drive in snow ???????? At least that's what they all tell me.
Funny one. A few years back we had a bad snow here....that's about 12".... :rotf:
Anyway, I was the first person on the highway that morning, not a track anywhere. I got near town where the road widens to 4 lanes and there was a 4-wheel drive SUV in the median headed the other way...stuck. I stopped and asked if I could. ....sure he said. I got my log chain out, hooked it to my 2-wheel drive pickup. He was going on and on about 2-wheel drives couldn't go in this wet stuff blah-blah-blah.... then I mentioned that my pickup was only 2-wheel drive...."Well then, you know how to drive." Then he went into a rage about how southerners couldn't drive in snow like yankee's....explained how some dumb hick had run him off the road blah-blah-blah.
While he was yapping away I looked down the road where I had come from and there one set of tracks in the snow....I looked up the road where he had come from and there was one set of tracks....... :rotf:.....I looked him in the eye and he knew he had been owned. I said, "Apparently they can't fly very well either.".....along with a lot of other BS. :rotf:
He didn't say much after that. He seemed to be glad to get on his red faced way.
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Very cold here. WCF at -2 (F) when I got up at 0700.
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We had a high this morning around 4a.m. of 34, now it's 24 with a wind chill of 6, winds gusting to 35.
...RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES RESULTING IN SLICK SPOTS ON AREA ROADWAYS...
MUCH COLDER AIR HAS BEEN SPREADING ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS THIS MORNING. AREAS WEST OF I-39 AND HIGHWAY 51 WERE BELOW FREEZING...AND EASTERN ILLINOIS WILL FALL BELOW FREEZING OVER THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS.
DUE TO THIS RAPID COOLDOWN...WET ROADWAYS FROM THE RAINFALL YESTERDAY AND OVERNIGHT HAVE BEGUN TO FREEZE. THIS HAS CAUSED NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS. WINDS GUSTING AS HIGH AS 50 MPH ARE ALSO CAUSING PROBLEMS WITH KEEPING VEHICLES UNDER CONTROL.
IF YOU ARE TRAVELING ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING...SLOW DOWN AND ALLOW PLENTY OF EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION.
Slick roads like this seem to produce more wrecks than snow around here.
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I woke up this morning to a balmy -15 outside. By the time I got to work it was down to -18, and an hour after sunrise, it was -20. It's now a toasty -13.
Al Gore can suck the salt from my sweaty nutsack.
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Al Gore can suck the salt from my sweaty nutsack.
Judging by his waistline, I'd suspect that Owl Snore has enough of a sodium problem as it is... :-)
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Damn cold here...negative 17 or something. Had to put a heater in the pump house. Poor chickens, I bring water out to them and it freezes so fast they barely get a drink.
Cindie
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I won't brag or sob about the obvious Glow Ball warming I have to endure right now. BUT I do want to bitch about my A/C not working and that it's going to cost me $4500 I don't really have tomorrow to get a new 16 SEER heat pump installed. :bawl:
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Everyone who is in the midwest, be safe and warm. Hope you have plenty of food and TP!
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and TP!
:lmao:
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Looks like we got around 10-12 inches of ALGORES so called Global Warming . H e should be the one out there scooping up all this white shit.
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Had an 11am customer meeting and wanted to give myself a LOT of time since I was goofy enough to drive the car instead of the truck (it needs an oil change)... People here forget how to drive in snow in about 32 seconds, so I figured even with the 2"-3" I received here, that people would be stupid. I was correct. Drive took about 1.5 hours...
Customer decided to work from home today. :rotf: :rotf: :hammer:
Just spent an hour plowing the driveway and making a path to the wood pile. Love the tractor!
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Looks like we got around 10-12 inches of ALGORES so called Global Warming . H e should be the one out there scooping up all this white shit.
Did you catch Limbaugh today? He's determined that big huricanes and tropical storms aren't the only storm systems that need to be named now. All of the heavy winter storms shall now be named for global warming frauds. The one currently hitting the northeast/great lakes region is now Winter Storm AlGore.
Me likey how the Great One thinks. :-)
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I woke up this morning to a balmy -15 outside. By the time I got to work it was down to -18, and an hour after sunrise, it was -20. It's now a toasty -13.
Al Gore can suck the salt from my sweaty nutsack.
Ain't no sweat on nobody's nutsack at -20.
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And of course, the moisture content and temperature of the snowfall was just perfect to turn the snow into about the same consistency and weight as wet concrete.
Forget about snowblowing it quickly, too. My arms are lead right now, but at least the driveway won't turn into a block of ice on me anytime in the near future.
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Ain't no sweat on nobody's nutsack at -20.
Depends on the size of the bear chasing you... :cheersmate:
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Yeah, we're freezing down here....
(http://i49.tinypic.com/2lt0tcj.jpg)
Someone pass the sunscreen...
(http://i47.tinypic.com/142u4ue.jpg)
God, don't you hate obnoxious Floridians.... :evillaugh:
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Yeah, we're freezing down here....
(http://i49.tinypic.com/2lt0tcj.jpg)
Someone pass the sunscreen...
(http://i47.tinypic.com/142u4ue.jpg)
God, don't you hate obnoxious Floridians.... :evillaugh:
I think somebody's baby is a sleepy little girl. She is a cutie, I love her dress!
It has warmed up a bit out here. 40's over night and 50's in the day, and the rain has arrived.
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That's her bathing suit...It was in the 80's here today...feels like mid 70's tonight.
I'm waiting for some cool weather...maybe January.
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Everyone who is in the midwest, be safe and warm. Hope you have plenty of food and TP!
No shit.
I will enjoy a three day weekend in the 60's.
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No shit.
I will enjoy a three day weekend in the 60's.
What is this "weekend" you speak of?
Teens this morning, maybe getting into the mid-20's today, but the windchill will probably push that back down near zero again, if not lower.
Oh, and I feel a cold coming on.
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What is this "weekend" you speak of?
Teens this morning, maybe getting into the mid-20's today, but the windchill will probably push that back down near zero again, if not lower.
Oh, and I feel a cold coming on.
As I type this, the Weather Channel's website says it's 20 here, with a wind chill at 5 above.
The Heiress hates to wear a hat and mittens. I've been thinking about duct-taping them to her (when we go to day care).
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It was a nice chilly 91F here today - presently sitting on 86F (@2100 hours).
:fuelfire:
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It was a nice chilly 91F here today - presently sitting on 86F (@2100 hours).
:fuelfire:
I'm very tempted to make a trip just to punch you in the yam bag.
2 PM here, high of 24, wind chill of 8, when it's "only" blowing 25 mph and not gusting to 40 mph.
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Yeah, we're freezing down here....
God, don't you hate obnoxious Floridians.... :evillaugh:
Yer mean.
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What is this "weekend" you speak of?
Teens this morning, maybe getting into the mid-20's today, but the windchill will probably push that back down near zero again, if not lower.
Oh, and I feel a cold coming on.
I had a friend flying in for a mini-vacation. She ended up with the flu and had to cancel at the last minute. I tweeked my schedule to accomodate my downtown Las Vegas motel reservations. It just wouldn't be right going without her.