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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, December 31, 2014 7:22 AM

This Property Condemned!

Go to new address!

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Wednesday, December 31, 2014 7:07 AM

We've had a surprisingly tame winter so far, only a trace of snow for the entire month of December.  This is a major improvement over last year.

As far as cold, I noticed that the weather map on television last night showed a temperature of 36 degrees in Lost Wages.

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 8:34 PM

Mookie
Norm - does it ever really get warm in Michigan? 

Ms Mook - Norm lives about 15-20 miles from my old hometown in Michigan.  And I can assure you it gets plenty warm, albeit not like the desert southwest.  But +90F with 90% humidity is an experience, nonetheless.

The same goes for the wilds of northern New York.  While I've never bothered with an air conditioner here, lots of people do.

And so it begins.  Looks like most of the snow will stay south of me, though.  There's a light dusting outside right now.

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 8:10 PM

Norm - does it ever really get warm in Michigan?  You are pretty far north, so I never think of you as exactly beach front property.

Tree - ditto to you!  And it is nice to see a little east coast humor!  

Laugh

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 5:49 PM

No snow here yet - but Tug Hill may see a couple of feet of the stuff...

Brazenly borrowed from FB:  "To all my forum friends - I will be taking a bit of a vacation from the forum.  December 31, 2014 will be the last day I will be posting for a while.  I will return on January 1, 2015..."

I had to read it twice, too...

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Posted by Norm48327 on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 5:19 PM

Not quite that cold here Mookie, but not exactly beach towel weather either. Crying

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 4:40 PM

Guess we are going to "Tupelo" (-2) tonite.  Not very warm!  Grumpy

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 4:35 PM

Hey Texas:  Weather Channel sez you are going to be one big ice cube for the New Year!  It is nice you could join the rest of us.  Now we can all look for a warm place in the nation to thaw out! 

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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 4:12 PM

cold and getting colder with snow flurries.ns had an autorack train in the siding when I left work.One more day this year to work.Matt gets to go shopping with Mom tomorrow.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by Deggesty on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 2:05 PM

Well, the winds from Wyoming are here--up to 79 mph up at Farmington, but only up to 60 mph at the University. The worst part is not the action on 18-wheelers whose drivers are foolish enough to be out on the highway, but what power linemen must go through to restore electric power north of here. I doubt that they feel secure when up in their buckets as the wind gusts.

Our expected low tomorrow is about 8, with the high not making it to freezing.

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Posted by samfp1943 on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 8:11 AM

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-11 in South Dakota.  Waiting for greedy Nebraska to send us some of their warm air.

 

Woke up to 6 deg this morning, it now all the way to 17deg ! Grumpy  Wind is out of the NE at 20.  Walked the dog yesterday in shirt sleaves.... Winter really sucks!  Bang Head

Not much going on over on the neighbors an erastbond stacker about 0430 and just now one going westbound.  Guess they are getting into their holiday schedule?  Sigh

Have a great day, all!

 

 

 


 

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 7:32 AM

-11 in South Dakota.  Waiting for greedy Nebraska to send us some of their warm air.

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 6:52 AM

Tree:  So you can "see" it better, I will bundle it all up and send it to you!  We sure don't need it.  And the humidity is still @ 72% - insult to injury. 

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 6:49 AM

+4F.  That is all.

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, December 29, 2014 11:03 PM

Mookie
Attention Paul of Covington:  You turned on your air and we now have 7 above, with a 22 mph wind (N) and 70% humidity. 

Ms Mook - I'll see your cold and raise you some lake effect (advisory until Friday - up to two feet in persistant squall areas...).  For a bonus, we'll get some stiff winds as well...

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Monday, December 29, 2014 10:43 PM

  Mookie, too bad we can make a deal: swap a little bit of your air for a little of ours.   And I'm not the one sending you cold air; it's probably those Canadians.

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Posted by Mookie on Monday, December 29, 2014 10:28 PM

Paul of Covington

   Attention, northerners:  our air conditioner just cycled on as I was reading about your weather.   My big worry is that last year I made a similar comment, and a couple of weeks later we were hit with record cold.

 

Attention Paul of Covington:  You turned on your air and we now have 7 above, with a 22 mph wind (N) and 70% humidity.  Turn it off!!!!  Grumpy

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Monday, December 29, 2014 9:16 PM

   Attention, northerners:  our air conditioner just cycled on as I was reading about your weather.   My big worry is that last year I made a similar comment, and a couple of weeks later we were hit with record cold.

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Posted by CShaveRR on Monday, December 29, 2014 9:07 PM

We're already miffed here, but not for the reasons you may think.  You see, we would have welcomed a bit of snow over Christmas, for our California daughter who misses winter and wanted to educate Linus on how much fun snow can be.  Despite some promising forecasts (even going as far as a winter storm watch), we were skunked.  Now the temperatures are supposed to drop tomorrow (their last day here), and the winds will rise, so any snow that falls won't be fun to play in.  No worries, though...no snow to speak of in our forecast.

We made a quick up-and-back trip to Michigan today, for a "power lunch" with a dozen or so folks that I attended high school with.  That was fun enough to be one of the year's highlights for me.  But it wasn't the only thing that happened on our day on the road.  Forecast called for lake-effect snow, but we saw plenty of menacing clouds, and that was it.  

--There was a derailment on December 19 on the SouthShore at Michigan City (at the west end of the tracks to the NIPSCO power plant).  I hadn't heard anything about this, so it was surprising to find about a dozen coal gons on their sides.  They had been pulled away from the tracks, so things could be repaired.  There was a NICTD train sitting near the site this morning, for some unknown reason; I figure they were waiting for some repairs to be done before they could go through.  When we went past it again this evening, it didn't appear that anything had been done, but the NICTD train had disappeared.  After finding out how long ago the wreck happened, my theory is that the cars were pulled away and tipped so the coal could be unloaded from them.  Some were in pretty bad shape.  From pictures, it appears that the switch between the main line and the lead to the power plant was involved--and possibly the cause.

--Gasoline in west Michigan:  $1.679!

--A big book on Michigan railroad history was discovered and purchased.  Can't wait to get into it!  The author is probably the authority on Michigan railroads; I have a couple of his other books that I consider to be amazing references (I'm proud to say that we've met once, and I was able to provide some information that fit into one of his books). 

I miff da cat.  If what happenf whn muh mouf if full.

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Posted by Deggesty on Monday, December 29, 2014 7:52 PM

mudchicken

Shut the freezer door Johnny! You folks and the crowd in Lost Wages are doin' it to us again! If it keeps goin east, you might miff 'da cat.

 

MC, are you the one who is going to push cold air from Wyoming into Utah tomorrow? It's close to zero in Evanston, and we are going have strong east winds tomorrow. BRRRR! We expect single digit temperature Wednesday morning. Or, is Miniwyo sending us a gift?

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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, December 29, 2014 6:39 PM

Shut the freezer door Johnny! You folks and the crowd in Lost Wages are doin' it to us again! If it keeps goin east, you might miff 'da cat.

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by Deggesty on Monday, December 29, 2014 6:08 PM

This morning, I shoveled about four new inches of snow out of the walk to the street--this was in addition to about the same that I cleared Christmas morning--and we had close to that more before Christmas afternoon.

I just saw on the news an item about a twenty car wreck on I-80 on the other side of the Oquirrh Mountains. It may well have involved people going home from work.

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, December 29, 2014 5:59 PM

tree68
 
 

And so it is with weather forecasting in general - if I forecast a 50% of showers, (the editorial) you'll complain if you're on either side of that line.  On the dry side because you altered your plans because of the possibility of rain (and it didn't), and on the wet side, because there was "only" a 50% chance of rain and you got wet.

Having lived in and out of Florida - there are two different understandings of 50% chance of rain.

In Florida it generally means, in the forecast area 50% of the area 'may' get some rain during the forecast period.

Outside Florida it generally means everywhere in the forecast area will get rain for 50% of the duration of the forecast period.

Both will claim success.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Monday, December 29, 2014 4:33 PM

work is busy.Ns had an eastbound train with 2 csx units this morning.Tonight they had an ns unit and a former up 90 mac going east.There is a train waiting to go west as well.chores to do.

stay safe

joe

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, December 29, 2014 4:32 PM

jeffhergert
TV weather forecasting, one of a few jobs where you can be wrong so often and still get paid.

Some years ago, whilst attending the local community college, I was standing on the balcony of the student union building as a rainshower came through.

The parking lot was virtually empty, so there was a nice "canvas" for the rain to paint.

After the shower passed through, you could see a defined line in the parking lot - wet on one side, dry on the other.

And so it is with weather forecasting in general - if I forecast a 50% of showers, (the editorial) you'll complain if you're on either side of that line.  On the dry side because you altered your plans because of the possibility of rain (and it didn't), and on the wet side, because there was "only" a 50% chance of rain and you got wet.

At least one of the weather apps for smartphones, etc, now gives nearly minute-by-minute forecasts for exactly where you are.  And those same weather apps let you see what the weather radar shows for your location.  

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, December 29, 2014 3:09 PM

jeffhergert

Does anyone, other than the weather channel, use those winter storm names?  I can't say I've heard them used by local or other national news/weather outlets.

TV weather forecating, one of a few jobs where you can be wrong so often and still get paid.

Jeff  

 

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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, December 29, 2014 2:27 PM

(Those flurries and snow showers here just turned into 4 inches and countingMischief)

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Posted by jeffhergert on Monday, December 29, 2014 1:33 PM

Does anyone, other than the weather channel, use those winter storm names?  I can't say I've heard them used by local or other national news/weather outlets.

TV weather forecating, one of a few jobs where you can be wrong so often and still get paid.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Monday, December 29, 2014 7:06 AM

blue streak 1

anyone know if the stranded skiers due to snow in Europe were victims of a polar vortex?

 

   Perhaps they were victims of the current fad of naming winter storms?Dead Storm "Avalanche" or storm "Cold as a witch's.......train" Mischief?

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