I know it is off topic, but I have to vent somewhere while I am stuck at work. YIKES!!!! I am originally from the San Antonio, so I ain't used to stuff like this.
Of course if I wasn't stupid enough to come into work, I probably would have been stupid enough to try to railfan a little (get some of those cool shots of trains busting through drifts). The BNSF/UP joint line is just a little ways from the house, so I may try to get some shots once this lets up.
I definately wouldn't try to model this kind of scenery. That would be a lot of WS snow!!
It's more than a little unsettling to think that places one would normally consider to be pretty snow-savvy (like Buffalo, NY and Colorado Springs) have already been brought to their knees by winter weather this season, and it's not even winter yet! Makes you wonder what might be in store later for a tenderfoot area like here in the Midwest, where a 6" snow can shut down the city for a day or two.
Stay safe. Hope you stocked up on your survival gear (milk, bread, and Blue Box kits).
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mononguy63 wrote: It's more than a little unsettling to think that places one would normally consider to be pretty snow-savvy (like Buffalo, NY and Colorado Springs) have already been brought to their knees by winter weather this season, and it's not even winter yet! Makes you wonder what might be in store later for a tenderfoot area like here in the Midwest, where a 6" snow can shut down the city for a day or two. Stay safe. Hope you stocked up on your survival gear (milk, bread, and Blue Box kits).
Actually I stocked up with a partially built Tichy tank car (I gotta get that thing finished). Tomorrow it will be 47F and sunny, and by Saturday it is supposed to be in the mid 60s.
csmith9474 wrote:I know it is off topic, but I have to vent somewhere while I am stuck at work. YIKES!!!! I am originally from the San Antonio, so I ain't used to stuff like this.
This is nothing, Wait till we get "The Big One" happens every few years, when we end up with 4 feet of snow. Most of this will be gone tomorrow. What I am worried is all the idiots who dont know how to drive when it gets Icey tonight.
Curt
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curtw_944 wrote: This is nothing, Wait till we get "The Big One" happens every few years, when we end up with 4 feet of snow. Most of this will be gone tomorrow. What I am worried is all the idiots who dont know how to drive when it gets Icey tonight. Curt
We have that much snow out here. We live east of Parker and we barely got home. Probably 4 feet of snow out here right now and it is still snowing.
-dekruif
fiatfan wrote:I've been watching it snow through some web cams. My daughter and her husband are in your area for eye surgery. Tom
The roads are starting to get "decent". It got a touch above freezing, so that helped out a lot. As mentioned above, it will be a mess again once it gets well below freesing tonight.
grayfox1119 wrote:SMITTY: That's what they make Blue Boxes for, so that you can sit be a wood burning stove, with a pot of coffee on top filling the room with a great aroma of hot coffee, while you assemble a box car. Every now then you look at the windows from your nice warm room, at the snow and listen to wind howl, but it doesn 't bother you at all as you sip your coffee and enjoy your work in peace and quiet. It just doesn't get any better than that, trust me !!!! Relax, enjoy the stress free day...you could be on the Interstate, stuck in traffic.
I am at work now, but after reading your post, I think I am about to go home and get to work on one of my kits!!
Back in the mid '80's, the California Highway Patrol closed Highway 58 over Tehachapi Pass for snow that didn't even reach the railheads on the Loop. If that was the standard for road closure in the Buffalo - Niagara Falls area you could garage your car in mid - October and come back for it in May!
Chuck (native New Yorker)
I like it here in Lewiston ID. Mild winters and very litttle snow...........so far
dekruif wrote:We have that much snow out here. We live east of Parker and we barely got home. Probably 4 feet of snow out here right now and it is still snowing.
P.S. Now I am wondering why you didn't snarff up all those Southern locomotives sitting on the Caboose Hobbies clearance shelf the other day? $32 for an Atlas Master H16-44.
Texas Zepher wrote: dekruif wrote:We have that much snow out here. We live east of Parker and we barely got home. Probably 4 feet of snow out here right now and it is still snowing. East of Parker! That puts you right on the fringe of the blizzard area. From all the "Southern" and "NASCAR" stuff I had you figured as living in the real South somewhere. Not in "Southern" Denver Yuppieville. We'll have to figure out somehow and sometime to get together. That goes for csmith and curt too.
Sounds good to me!! Today wouldn't work out too well, though.
Snow?
A little cool today, low 70s, but supposed to be around 80 over the weekend.
Jeff But it's a dry heat!
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Texas Zepher wrote: dekruif wrote:We have that much snow out here. We live east of Parker and we barely got home. Probably 4 feet of snow out here right now and it is still snowing. East of Parker! That puts you right on the fringe of the blizzard area. From all the "Southern" and "NASCAR" stuff I had you figured as living in the real South somewhere. Not in "Southern" Denver Yuppieville. We'll have to figure out somehow and sometime to get together. That goes for csmith and curt too. P.S. Now I am wondering why you didn't snarff up all those Southern locomotives sitting on the Caboose Hobbies clearance shelf the other day? $32 for an Atlas Master H16-44.
Texas Zephyr,
Don't you go the club in the Union Pacific basement?? I've been trying to visit there.
I've met Curt. He came to the club one saturday right after he joined the forum.
How was I supposed to know they has a sale??? I don't get downto caboose very often. Are there any left???
GEARHEAD426 wrote:wheres global warming when you need it? GEARHEAD426
Uh Huh Sure... I am glad to see the moisture it has been so dry! I find it hard to believe that there is 4 feet in parker though. Mabye drifts up to 4 feet... Most of the snow here in lakewood has turned back to water and the main streets are wet side streets slushy, 3 inches left on the grass.... I really dont look forward to the black Ice in the AM though.
I dont mind getting togeather with any one just give me a place and time I will see if we can fit it in the scedual.
dekruif wrote:Don't you go the club in the Union Pacific basement?? I've been trying to visit there.
This Saturday is the Youth In Model Railroading Expo (attempt to make some funds so they can go to the national convention) in Westminster. First Presbeterian<sp?> church - near Mizzell's Hobby. I'll be heading up that way with the kids. As dekruif says, Friday night I'm almost always down in the basement of Union Station. This week is open house so I am expecting to be busy with lots of public. I'm thinking train video night some time after I get my MR layout contest entry done and after the Great American Train show....
Texas Zepher wrote: dekruif wrote:Don't you go the club in the Union Pacific basement?? I've been trying to visit there. Yes. How was I supposed to know they has a sale??? I don't get downto caboose very often. Are there any left??? You don't make the daily pilgrimage? But don't feel bad. I just realized you were N scale, these were HO so nothing lost.
I dabble in HO scale. Still might have bought one. My goal for this/next year is to paint a modern day engine(8-40c4,c44-9w.ac4400cw) in Southern's Tuxedo
Here is a picture of the snow.
This is a picture of my sister's fountain.
Bet I had you fooled.
on30francisco wrote:Today it's sunny and almost 80 degrees in the San Francisco Bay area. I moved out here over 20 years ago because I was tired of those cold winters back in Cleveland.
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