.....And we've had snow all afternoon and evening....Almost stopped now.
Can't tell just how much we did get during that time periond...guessing 3" or so, but more on the way overnight. Heard it could be 4 to 8" more inches by sometime tomorrow morning.
The ice stayed just south of us and understand lots of people are without power now....Not sure just where, but guessing parts of Kentucky and on east.
Quentin
ModelcarThe ice stayed just south of us and understand lots of people are without power now....Not sure just where, but guessing parts of Kentucky and on east.
Good Wednesday morning, everyone. Quentin, since yesterday afternoon, we've had off & on freezing rain, from Seymour, IN southward. Supposed to have some heavy snow showers on their way in. I've been awake since before 4 a.m. And Sarah went to the firehouse around 8:30 or so last night(got a run in) and I'm guessing she's still there. All night, we've heard the occasional thud or thump from branches coming out of the pine tree in the front yard. We are lucky: we still have power, and I don't think there are any power lines down in our immediate area. All the area school systems are closed, and even quite a few businesses, due to downed lines and all the ice.
Got plenty of coffee ready, along with juices, hot cider, hot chocolate, and hot water for tea.
On the warmer bar: bagels, bear claws, turkey bacon, sausage links & patties, scrambled eggs, homemade buttermilk biscuits, fried country ham, grits, oatmeal, and sausage gravy.
Let's hear from everyone this morning, so we know you are all o.k., (unless you lost power, then we won't be able to hear from you for awhile).
Everyone please be careful and take care getting out in this weather. If possible, just stay in your house and keep safe and warm.
Good morning, and thanks, CW, for breakfast. 51 degrees in Carolina an hour before sunrise. I woke up at 4 AM and have been killing time on the wireless and the computer. Haven't had much luck with either, it seems. The wife and I have been watching the heavy weather move across the country, and we feel for those in its path. Everyone take care and stay safe and warm
Tom
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Looks like we're in for it. Started about 3 AM. Not much snow yet, but it's showing a lot of "promise" (not to mention the winter storm warning).
Off to work.
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Morning! It feels downright balmy today at 3 degrees. I heard that we're supposed to get to ~27ish later this week! Better break out the shorts, lol. The last couple of nights were around -10 or so. Snow is fun (to a point) but the cold I'm done with. I guess it's part of winter and compared to some SE of us (Ohio River Valley) I really don't have cause to complain.
CN has been running trains with DPUs lately. I haven't seen it around here much as we don't have anything to speak of for grades (excepting Byron Hill which is almost 90 min south of me). I suspect they are trying longer trains to save on crew expense.
ln 4 weeks Misty and I will know what to expect with Sprout on 7/8/09: Almond Joy or Mounds (remember the commercial? LOL!). I guess I'll go lurk for a bit and see what I can find. Here's a mug with coffee for Mook!
Dan
I got out of bed barely a half hour ago and we have 4.8 degrees here in Sioux Falls. I stepped out on my front deck and we have a clear sky and the wind is not blowing. The temp here is supposed to get up to about 27 this afternoon, and it has been predicted that our warmest day this week will be Saturday when the temp will hit 40. I'm kind of like Dan, I don't mind the snow so much, it's the cold I could do without.
One of my co-workers at Wendy's treated everyone to donuts yesterday, and I think I will be taking a batch of cookies to work with me tomorrow, either chocolate chip or oatmeal. But first I will need to stock up on some key ingrediants, which I will do later this afternoon after I get off work.
Ray
Brian checking in with the Iowa report- we barely got dusted from this storm, now it's just plain cold. Negative 7 on the PC screen this morning. We're promised a "heat wave" for Saturday as well, if you call a high of 30 that anyway.
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Good Morning all from a very cold Central Valley in California this AM it is 32 degrees. Had to cover my outside cactus last night to protect them from the cold. I will remove the plastic before work as the temp is supposed to climb to 65 today. It is not easy covering cactus they have a tendency to bite when you cover them and uncover them. Tax season is here and I suddenly find myself with less and less time for watching trains. Did manage to get over to the newly restored former SP depot to see the southbound Coast Starlight go through on its detour heading for Tehachapi. That is due to work windows taking place on the trains regular coast line routing. Managed to ride it the last time it detoured over that route.
Al - in - Stockton
.....Yes, on the conditions in Louisville Paula. It's been a pretty massive storm over a wide area and is just now clearing our {Indiana}, border working to clear from west to east in our state.
To add what we had yesterday {Tuesday}, I am not sure how much we added overnight, but it's significant...Much...! I'm guessing 6" or so. In our addition the snow plow just went through but the driveway is loaded with a full cover rather significiant.
Should let up with the snow about noon and they say we might even see some sunshine later today. No ice here but southern Indiana sure as had it. Power outages in southern Indiana too.
Temps in the low 20's right now. Stay tuned......
Edit: 12:30 pm....Believe snow fall figure I used above should be revised to at least....7 to 8" {At least}.
good morning
well the amtrak capitol limited was on time today.saw it as I was brushing the snow off the van at work.Matt is closed today.They have used all thier snow days for the year.we had a nice drift in our driveway.after a nap matt and I will go back out and finish what mother nature left us.right now about 5 inches I suspect with 1-2 more on the way before it stops.
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Present. Cold. No snow and what we did get was hardly worth shoveling. Sun shining. I am chilled and miserable. House warm. It's me....
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She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Currently we have 23 degrees to 29 degrees, depending on your location around here. Not sure how much snow we ended up getting this morning. It has quit snowing, and Walt and Sarah are out shoveling the sidewalks again, along with taking care of the pine limbs and branches (sawing them up) in the front yard. Walt said the damage to the pine tree is much worse than it was back in 1994. Yeah, Sarah got home from the firehouse around 11:15.
I've got some vegetable beef soup on the warmer bar, along with some bean & ham soup, cornbread; also made some sloppy joes, and there's a little bit roast, taters & carrots left form Sunday.
Guess I'll go bundle up, and see if I can give the other two here some help outside. Everyone take care, stay as warm and dry as possible, and see you all later.
Still snowing.
Paula, I'm sorry you lost limbs off your pine tree. We have a maple in the back yard that lost some to snow a few years back when we had a heavy snow Christmas night (that time, we were without power for about a day and a half, and used, for the first time, a kerosene heater we had bought several years before), and last January it lost more in a heavy snow. The worst, in appearance, was when the company hired by the power company to trim limbs that were too close to the lines cut branches all the way back to the trunk. This maple was a sapling when we moved here in '74, and, now, it covers a large part of the back yard.
Below 20 this morning, no snow since Monday until just a few minutes ago--we expect 1-4 inches in the valley. May it snow deep in the mountains so we will have a good snowpack that will provide us with water next summer.
I'll take some of your good, warming lunch.
Al - in - Stockton--I had forgotten that the Coast Starlight was being detoured via Tehachapi, and when I was checking its arrival in Sacramento, I was wondering why it was listed as being due in at 9:30. I tried checking its due times at various stations south of Sacramento, and the messages were to the effect that it did not operate through those places on the dates requested. The detour explains it all.
Johnny
cherokee woman Yeah, Sarah got home from the firehouse around 11:15.
......This is the most snow we've received this season....The sky is very bright now and the sun is even peeking thru at times. The system is now exiting out the east side of Indiana. But it sure has left it's mark. With the several inches yesterday overnight and yesterday in daylight hours and now what we received overnight, it looks to be 10 to 12" on the ground.
Paula, you mention several times now of Sarah at the fire house, etc.....I was thinking she was employed at CSX.....
Morning all!
11:16 this morning we have partly sunny and 25 degrees. The wind is blowing upards of 30MPH, so that drops the wind chill to around -5. Overnight the temps hovered near 0 and the pilot lite in my heater went out because of the wind. Took me almost 2 hours to get the thing to warm up and re light.
Mookie - I read a while back that Wyoming and Nebraska are meeting for 3 games in the next few years!
From the Casper Star
"The Wyoming Cowboys and Nebraska Cornhuskers have signed a contract for a three-game football series to begin in Laramie on Sept. 24, 2011. The second and third games in the series are to be played in Lincoln, Neb., on Aug. 31, 2013, and Sept. 17, 2016."
Go Pokes!
RJ
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Deggesty Al - in - Stockton--I had forgotten that the Coast Starlight was being detoured via Tehachapi, and when I was checking its arrival in Sacramento, I was wondering why it was listed as being due in at 9:30. I tried checking its due times at various stations south of Sacramento, and the messages were to the effect that it did not operate through those places on the dates requested. The detour explains it all. Johnny
miniwyo Mookie - I read a while back that Wyoming and Nebraska are meeting for 3 games in the next few years! From the Casper Star "The Wyoming Cowboys and Nebraska Cornhuskers have signed a contract for a three-game football series to begin in Laramie on Sept. 24, 2011. The second and third games in the series are to be played in Lincoln, Neb., on Aug. 31, 2013, and Sept. 17, 2016." Go Pokes!
I also read that Wyoming, Nebraska, N & S Dakota and Utah are the states with the lowest unemployment rates - Wyoming being #1 and Neb # 2.
2 bright spots here in the true mid-west!
Go Huskers!
afternoon
well Matt and I finished up what mother nature and the plow driver left us.Cw Thanks for supper tonight.Matt and I are going to have our cookies and milk for our snack now.
Didn't do much cutting as we don't have a chainsaw,
was mainly concerned about getting main sidewalk and
one lane of the street cleared, (snow plow had to swerve
around them)
limbs got moved to parking lot next door where they
can be cut up later. (especially when it gets a bit warmer!)
Dan, know you have family at Ft. Knox; They're Closed Today!
Military spokesperson said nothing but Emergency Services was
going on today.
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
Everything is set out on the warmer bar for supper tonight: from the leftover roast, etc., to the sloppy joes, and the desserts. Maybe later on tonight, we'll pop some popcorn, and fix some hot chocolate.
locomutt Dan, know you have family at Ft. Knox; They're Closed Today! Military spokesperson said nothing but Emergency Services was going on today.
Actually...they are freshly retired from the Army and now live in Valley Falls, KS (bottom right corner). Haven't heard from them yet so I hope they're ok. Just got back from visiting my cousin in the Hospital. She was having trouble breathing and went in. Good thing: DR found a blood clot in the left lung. She's expected to pull through and recover but is being held for testing and observation. Kinda scary!
Mookieminiwyo Mookie - I read a while back that Wyoming and Nebraska are meeting for 3 games in the next few years! From the Casper Star "The Wyoming Cowboys and Nebraska Cornhuskers have signed a contract for a three-game football series to begin in Laramie on Sept. 24, 2011. The second and third games in the series are to be played in Lincoln, Neb., on Aug. 31, 2013, and Sept. 17, 2016." Go Pokes! RJ - Great news! I think by 2011 we will have our football team back to more "normal", so it should be a good game. I also read that Wyoming, Nebraska, N & S Dakota and Utah are the states with the lowest unemployment rates - Wyoming being #1 and Neb # 2. 2 bright spots here in the true mid-west! Go Huskers!
We just got a new coach. Hopefully this coming season will be a big turnaround and we can finally get into some bowl games. He will be there for at least the first meeting unless he gets fired or quits because he has a 4 year contract. Your guy's team can stay as they are. Then maybe Wyoming will have a chance!
One reason why the unemployment rate is so low here, is the oilfields, They are not slowing down much with the economy as it is. Some sectors are like infastructure construction as the stock is low so the transportation companies cannot borrow money like they want. And the sad thing is that gas prices (Natural gas, not the stuf that goes in your car. Unless it burns natural gas I suppose.) are pretty good considering what they could be. It should start slumping come late spring though when the need to heat is going down. But hopefully things will be in order and we can start building compressor plants again. The producers and drillers are slowing down like usual due to the BLM stipulations, but should be punching holes in full force again come May 1.
Hopefully they will lift the sanctions on the Oil Shale research. There is 1.1 TRILLION barrels of oil in the Green River Basin alone. At todays price(1-28) that is $45,452 Trillion worth of oil, more than Saudi Arabia ever had at thier peak. The only problem is getting it out. It is in a keragin wax and has to be heated to get it out. Mining is out of question because it is as deep as 8000' down. They are working on this Idea of Drilling a square and injecting nitrogen to freeze the rock as a wall, thne in side that drill more holes and inject steam to melt the wax and pump it out. But the problem is what kind of energy is it going to take to remove it that you get out of it, so it is really un economical. Infact at this point, you actually lose energy getting at it.
How many remember Jack Benny and his violin?
He was Emcee of the 1949 inaugural ball for Harry Truman. Arriving at the White House, he was stopped by a guard who asked what was in the violin case. "Its a Thompson sub machine gun" he replied. The guard answered with "That's a relief. I was afraid it was your violin!"
A great comedian.
grampaw pettibone"Its a Thompson sub machine gun" he replied. The guard answered with "That's a relief. I was afraid it was your violin!"
Tom.....That's the first post I read this morning.....A good start for the day. I had forgot about that one. And a really good one.
We are all shoveled and plowed out from yesterday.....Massive storm. We escaped the ice but not the snow. Total on ground now about 1 foot. Quite a bit for here. Temp now: 20 plus. Seems very calm out now.
Neighbors dug me out....Don't do much snow shoveling. And they won't take any green for when they do it either.
Both Jean and I will visit the dentist this morning....So that's our morning schedule.
Edit: Note the Avatar...That's my driveway and it's 70' long but next door fellows just won't take no for an answer and keep it clean for us.
Stopped snowing about 9 last night. Couldn't get into the forum for some reason, however.
We really didn't get a lot of snow - I probably cleared 5" out of the driveway, but it wasn't the nice fluffy stuff. It wasn't wet and sticky, either, just a fine snow that was a tad heavy. The snowblower made short work of it.
GP - that sounds like my driveway - about the same length. Just got it paved this past fall, so it's a lot easier to keep clear. If I use the snow blower it's about 7 passes and I'm done. If it's light stuff I'll just push the snow shovel up and down the driveway a couple dozen times. It's easier than throwing it all one shovelful at a time.
I have a neighbor with a snowblower mounted on a small farm-type tractor. He's been known to do my driveway, and usually clears near the road so I don't get as much snow pushed into the end of my driveway from the town plows. It's kind of a toy for him, so the more snow he gets to blow, the more fun he's having...
More snow in the forecast today. It is winter, however...
My bearclaw is ready on the grille, and my tea is steeping. I'll be over in the corner.
Good Thursday morning, everyone. As you can tell, slept in this morning. At 8:42, we have a temp of 26 degrees, give or take a degree on either side. Took the dog out, and managed to stay up (she slid a few times). Not much of a breeze, so didn't feel too bad. Supposed to get to 33 or so today.
I did hear on GMA awhile ago that Houston is to be back up in the 60s today.
Coffee, juices, hot chocolate, hot water for tea are ready, and on the warmer bar: bagels, bear claws, sausage, biscuits & gravy, grits, oatmeal,etc.
You all have a good day, and if anyone has any requests for lunch/supper, please let me know.
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