Ready for Winter?

[Ottercove]

The days are getting shorter and cooler.  I can hardly wait until it's time to go get some snow/train photos.   So I'll have to be content with looking at last years.    How about this one: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=250492

 

Steve Carter

[Transr]

Hmm...

Winter Steam!

 

 

[Transr]

The days are getting shorter and cooler.  I can hardly wait until it's time to go get some snow/train photos.   How about this one?

Steve Carter

Nice Steve, but with Fall just around the corner, I'm in no rush for snow.

click here

 

[carknocker1]

The snow and bitter cold can wait . I hate working in it .

[Modelcar]

....Rarely would I try to hurry winter along.

[edblysard]

Really wanting our second season, "Not Summer" to arrive....

[eolafan]

I'm not a fan of really hot and humid weather, but neither do I particularly like sub-zero wind chills and snow/ice/sleet, etc.

WINTER CAN WAIT IN THE WINGS A WHILE LONGER AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED!

[tree68]

We don't get many "opportunities" to run in the snow, since our line becomes a snowmobile trail in the wintertime.  We also run on a short line's tracks, though, for Polar Express.  Knee deep in the snow trackside is not exactly the most fun way to spend an evening, even if it does contribute to the atmosphere for the event.

[wjstix]

I'm OK with winter, in fact on my new two-deck layout I'm working on, one deck is going to be set in winter. My modelling schedule is a little different from most people, who spend the summer outdoors and don't go back in the basement until cooler weather sets in. My 'busy season' at work is January - April, so I try to get my modelling projects done during the warm weather so I can just run operate the layout during the winter as a kind of stress relief.

Plus of course I hate hot humid weather so spending the summer in a nice cool basement is nice.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Really wanting our second season, "Not Summer" to arrive....

Having been in Houston in July, I can understand why you'd want "Not Summer" to show up.  The hurricane threat might be a problem, though.

[ChuckCobleigh]

Really wanting our second season, "Not Summer" to arrive....

Having been in Houston in July, I can understand why you'd want "Not Summer" to show up.  The hurricane threat might be a problem, though.

Doesn't that at least blow the bugs away for a few days? 

[trainboyH16-44]

Personally, I want to try fall colours first!

[edblysard]

Clean air and no "skeeters" for a few days, then back to normal baking temps.

Got the Coleman lanters and cookstove all ready just in case.

As a side note, the new media has managed to do a fantastic job of whipping the public into a panic...freeways are all bumper to bumper, grocery stores are cleaned out, hardware and lumber stores are out of plywood...and no offical evacuation order for the city has been issued...most of Galveston Island has been evacuated, and all the low laying areas along the coast have been officaly evaced, but all we expect here in Houston is tropical storm type stuff.

 

[Ted Marshall]

I'm not a fan of really hot and humid weather, but neither do I particularly like sub-zero wind chills and snow/ice/sleet, etc.

WINTER CAN WAIT IN THE WINGS A WHILE LONGER AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED!

Jim,

I'll take your sub-zero wind chills and snow over my sweltering heat and humidity any day of the year. As soon as I win the Lotto I'm moving to Illinois. You can keep the ice and sleet though.

[Modelcar]

.....Ed, as you mentioned, just expecting "tropical storm stuff.....", and I hope and pray it is no more for you.

Just a few minutes ago the weather channel was mentioning a bit more than that...let's hope it's not.

After it makes landfall and starts north west and continues to bend in a curve east....it looks like {by projections}, the left over rain will be finding us.  We certainly need rain, but can do without storms.

[Anonymous]

I spent 3 winters in central Ohio: Marion and Columbus.  The other 42 winters have been spent in the upper-Midwest, and I'd dare say I can tolerate -20F a lot better than +33F with freezing rain down the back of your neck like in Ohio. 

I've got my winter projects lined-up for the N scale model railroad:  Custom-painting/decaling a brand-new Atlas GP38 in Chicago Central livery, building a Bar Mill's Earl's Oil Co. kit, and I'll have another bash at getting some pictures of the Minnesota Prairie Line on some frigid day out on the old M&StL (one of the hardest RR's for me to catch in action - last year I caught 'em but they were using a Red River Valley & Western CAT-powered Geep, not one of the MPL engines, dang it).

[Anonymous]

Clean air and no "skeeters" for a few days, then back to normal baking temps.

Got the Coleman lanters and cookstove all ready just in case.

As a side note, the new media has managed to do a fantastic job of whipping the public into a panic...freeways are all bumper to bumper, grocery stores are cleaned out, hardware and lumber stores are out of plywood...and no offical evacuation order for the city has been issued...most of Galveston Island has been evacuated, and all the low laying areas along the coast have been officaly evaced, but all we expect here in Houston is tropical storm type stuff.

 

I sure hope you don't take any chances with this one Ed - from the looks of the satellite imagery, Ike means business.  I've never been through a hurricane or even a tropical storm, but I lost a friend once to a blizzard (car accident due to ice) - Mother Nature ain't someone to under-estimate.

[edblysard]

Problem is its more dangerous on the freeways trying to fight traffic out of town that staying put...we live on a high spot, Carla didn't get us, so...really we are ready, been through this before.

Thanks for the concern; I will keep you posted as long as the power last.