Murray Modelcar: Touch and go here weather wise....Frozen precip coming down, not sure what it should be called. Our concern is keeping the power on. So far, so good......Latest indicates this will become snow about 2 am, and we think that is less of the two evils. If our power structure can survive the night......and we're just getting snow tomorrow...{3 to 5"}, or so, and the snow doesn't bring down a limb at a critical location of a power line....{lots of if's}, maybe we'll hang in there. This area was certainly cleared of many, many trees / limbs with the ice storm of 2005, and then Asplundt worked in this area for 6 mo. to deal with all that damage....That cleared much of the limbs that were above power lines then, but now....that's been 6 yrs. ago and more growth certainly has {by now}, taken it's place....At least some of it. Hi Quentin: I have WBBM radio from Chicago streaming on the computer, and the weather there is horrible. Here is South Central Texas its bitter cold. The temp is currently at 25 and dropping. Expecting to be in the mid teens by morning. Thats pretty cold for this part of the state. We may even have snow ourselves by weeks end here. Be careful up there!
Modelcar: Touch and go here weather wise....Frozen precip coming down, not sure what it should be called. Our concern is keeping the power on. So far, so good......Latest indicates this will become snow about 2 am, and we think that is less of the two evils. If our power structure can survive the night......and we're just getting snow tomorrow...{3 to 5"}, or so, and the snow doesn't bring down a limb at a critical location of a power line....{lots of if's}, maybe we'll hang in there. This area was certainly cleared of many, many trees / limbs with the ice storm of 2005, and then Asplundt worked in this area for 6 mo. to deal with all that damage....That cleared much of the limbs that were above power lines then, but now....that's been 6 yrs. ago and more growth certainly has {by now}, taken it's place....At least some of it.
Touch and go here weather wise....Frozen precip coming down, not sure what it should be called. Our concern is keeping the power on. So far, so good......Latest indicates this will become snow about 2 am, and we think that is less of the two evils.
If our power structure can survive the night......and we're just getting snow tomorrow...{3 to 5"}, or so, and the snow doesn't bring down a limb at a critical location of a power line....{lots of if's}, maybe we'll hang in there.
This area was certainly cleared of many, many trees / limbs with the ice storm of 2005, and then Asplundt worked in this area for 6 mo. to deal with all that damage....That cleared much of the limbs that were above power lines then, but now....that's been 6 yrs. ago and more growth certainly has {by now}, taken it's place....At least some of it.
Hi Quentin:
I have WBBM radio from Chicago streaming on the computer, and the weather there is horrible.
Here is South Central Texas its bitter cold. The temp is currently at 25 and dropping. Expecting to be in the mid teens by morning. Thats pretty cold for this part of the state.
We may even have snow ourselves by weeks end here.
Be careful up there!
Thanks Murray......Surviving so far. These extremes in weather seem to be occuring more often...If our power structure can hang together overnight, I have hopes we'll feel a lot better of our chances to stay warm. Our temp now is 24. Snow is to start here about 2 am....
Anything to replace the ice....sleet...frozen whatever will be better....
That does sound rather cool for your area....I'm sure it will warm up in the near future. So hang in there.
Quentin
Well, they told us the winter storm would be here around 0100, and it looks like it's right on schedule. It remains to be seen how different it is from any other winter weather we get.
None of the schools appear to have decided to close in advance of the storm.
Picked a new toy for the fire department tonight (something we'd ordered) - a thermal imaging camera. They're really neat, albeit expensive.
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Modelcar Touch and go here weather wise....Frozen precip coming down, not sure what it should be called. Our concern is keeping the power on. So far, so good......Latest indicates this will become snow about 2 am, and we think that is less of the two evils. If our power structure can survive the night......and we're just getting snow tomorrow...{3 to 5"}, or so, and the snow doesn't bring down a limb at a critical location of a power line....{lots of if's}, maybe we'll hang in there. This area was certainly cleared of many, many trees / limbs with the ice storm of 2005, and then Asplundt worked in this area for 6 mo. to deal with all that damage....That cleared much of the limbs that were above power lines then, but now....that's been 6 yrs. ago and more growth certainly has {by now}, taken it's place....At least some of it.
Hello folks! I've finally made it back in here. Glad I put the soup and chili on this morning: at least you all have had something to tide yourselves over!!
We currently have moderate rain falling, and temps varying between 41 and 45 degrees locally in the Metro Louisville area.
We had 50 people show up for the Produce and Bread/Pastry trucks this morning. On the Bread/Pastry truck, it was mostly the Thomas English muffins, danish pastries, chocolate doughnuts and round small packs of 'sandwich' bread: no crust along the rim. On the Produce truck, we had: potatoes, 1/2 pints of orange juice, iceburg lettuce, oranges and the big bags of cole slaw mix.
Did manage to make a grocery store run, around 1:01, and got a few things for us to have here at home. Think I got enough to last us for a couple of days, when I have more moolah in the bank. (ha ha)
Everyone have a good evening, keep warm, and take care.
afternoon
work is cancelled for tonight.calling for 6-10 inches but we might see some ice creep into the snow as well here in nw ohio.matts snow mountain at the end of our street is going to be bigger.Cw thanks for supper.
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").
Well, the story did say that it was one of the three largest Shays built...
Moderate temps (high teens), light snow, a little wind - so far, so good. Then, again, the "good stuff" isn't here yet....
Off to Rome (NY) on Saturday to work on a railroad car...
Denver and the front range are finally catching up on winter. Minus-seven degrees (F) at noon and it won't go above zero today. The local railroads, including the light-rail/toy train technology, are struggling with switch adjustment and rail pull-aparts. Lurch even grumbled a bit when he got started at sun-up.
Think Cop-Car will be at one of his favorite haunts soon? : http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_17259439?source=rsssimplepiehome (narrow gauge Shay is a "monster engine"???)
It is so nice here today (relatively) that I feel bad posting here. Currently it is -2° F. with a high of 17° F. forecasted. It is clear and calm.
I checked around and I don't yet see any trouble for CN or CP, but based on the news, that is very likely to change this afternoon. Everyone stay safe and most importantly, warm.
Oh, by the way Johnny, you don't need to worry about converting Fahrenheit temperatures to Celsius, I was either 21 or 22 when we converted here in Canada, so I can still remember what the temperatures you nice folks post here feel like.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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Still have power.....Lucked out on that overnight. Received about an inch of frozen something, whatever it might be called. Power lines don't have a heavy coating on them....That's a blessing. But...we're not out of the woods yet....Some States west of us are in blizzard conditions. If we can get thru the next 24 or so, and not lose power, then we'll breathe a sigh of relief.
One can walk on top of the "old snow" now with the coating it received last night, without breaking thru. Our little pup finds that seems to be a hindrance to find just where she needs to be to do her outside business. Temp. right around the 20s now....and will gain just a bit today.
morning
matt is closed today.round 1 shoveled off the driveways.we are under a blizzard warning from 1 pm until 7pm wed.time for bed.cw thanks for breakfast.Soup,chili and cornbread all sound good for luch and supper.good night.
Joe
Good Tuesday morning everyone. 37 degrees currently here in Louisville, w/light rain. Those of you who are on track for this mess, please be careful. Want everyone to be safe and sound.
Coffee, juices, and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Good breakfast on the serving station.
Have put a couple of big pots to cooking/simmering on the stove. One has vegetable beef soup and the other has mild chili in it. I'm also open for any and all requests any of you may have for today.
Everyone have a good morning, and I'll see you all after Tuesday Produce/Bread, Pastry Truck are over. You all take care.
While they're predicting upwards of a foot of snow and some wind for us, it rather sounds like just another winter day, despite the winter storm warning. The kids'll probably have Thursday off from school.
Stores weren't bad tonight. Had to have a couple of things anyhow, so made sure I had enough to muddle through.
Mudchicken; does da boyzs lay on their side and go sledding by pushing with hind legs??
Some times , winter has a funny side .
Cannonball
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Johnny.........I've thought about purchasing one of the modern Kerosene stoves....The round one about 2 or 3 ft. high. I'm sure they are pretty safe, but just can't make myself purchase one. Guess I'm a bit on the caution side.
That would take care of our needs....Our house is total electric and well insulated, and we could just concentrate on one room....Might have to go ahead and get one if this kind of weather becomes more frequent.
I've got gallons of water drawed, for flushing....and we've plenty of drinks, food....just no back up for heat.
Quentin, ice storms were not good back when we were young, but at our home we did not rely on electricity as much back then as we do now. We used it for lights, the radios, and the refrigerator; even after we got an electric range, we could still cook on the dining room stove (wood) or on a kerosene heater. My grandparents did have an electric water heater--but it was still possible to heat water on a wood or coal stove.
The last time our power was out for a day or more, I had no connection to the internet or such, but Ricki did. We kept the living room warm (no electricity to run the gas furnace blower or to turn the furnace on) with a kerosene heater we had bought many years before and had not used. We also have a one-burner sterno stove (don't try to cook anything quickly on it). And we could warm the bathroom with hot water (gas water heater).
Johnny
Our weather predictions are grim: Any amount of sleet....ice....combination of both....and of course snow up to anybodies guess.
It's just started to put something down now....
If we get what they are telling us , computers in this area {might be / will be}, quiet....Power lines in peril.
We went thru "the ice storm" 5 years ago in January, and we'd certainly not like to even come close to repeating that....but that's the possibility.
Stores {all kinds}, were overloaded today.....Food we have....and have drawed many gallons of water....but heat we have no backup. Neighbor across the street has a wood burning stove.....
AgentKid Deggesty: gathered in strange ways on sidewalks–there would be clear places (both in shaded spots and in unshaded spots) and accumulations (both in shaded spots and in unshaded spots) Johnny, what you have there is Canadian Prairie style snow. It is so dry it doesn't stick to anything, and it drifts like fine sand wherever the wind blows it. We will get snow like that until mid-March or so, before the moisture content rises and it starts to stick in place where it falls. That is why it seems to people not from here that we are not getting huge accumulations of snow, but it is enough to create blizzards, and whiteouts. Drifting and blowing snow that will disorient you. Thanks, Bruce. First, when we moved out here back in '74, I was introduced to powder snow, which I have come to like much better that ordinary snow since it does not clog the exit of the mechanical snow thrower. Then, I learned all about lake effect snow, which comes from the Great Salt Lake (if the wind is right, we can get more snow than Salt Lake City gets, and perhaps as much as one of the ski resorts gets). Now, I have learned about Canadian Prairie style snow. The snowfall did continue into late morning, and covered our sidewalk and street completely--and after the sun came out while we were eating lunch it all melted away from the paved surfaces. A more reliable weather guesser says to look for + 10 (-12.22222) tomorrow morning--and 0 (-17.77778) Wednesday morning (I don't know how to produce the standard notation for the repeating decimal--a bar over the first part of the decimal that can be repeated into infinity). Do you have some warm weather you can send us? My former team did not do well in the Curling on the weekend. They failed to win a single game. So with the snow tapering off on Sunday morning and the roads still not fully plowed, I did not go down to see who won the event, but the team that was undefeated at the end of Saturday's games likely won the final playoff game. I'm sorry to hear that; perhaps with your support they will do better next season. The two fifty degree days last week didn't do the Curling Club any good. The roof sprung multiple leaks, and where the water would drip onto the ice it would form frozen mounds on the ice about 6" high. Just like little stalactites I think they are called. One lady said we could invent a new game, "Bumper Curling". It meant that some games were canceled because those sheets were unusable. You had to walk around pails set up in the viewing lounge. One fellow speculated it might cost $150,000 to fix the roof. The difference between stalaCtites and stalaGmites? I learned (when I was in grammar school, I think) that stalaCtites come down from the Ceiling, and stalaGmites come up from the Ground. I am not sure, but when they meet they become a column. Saw Larry on the video link. Looks like I will have to go out later to pick up some groceries. Bruce
Deggesty: gathered in strange ways on sidewalks–there would be clear places (both in shaded spots and in unshaded spots) and accumulations (both in shaded spots and in unshaded spots)
gathered in strange ways on sidewalks–there would be clear places (both in shaded spots and in unshaded spots) and accumulations (both in shaded spots and in unshaded spots)
Johnny, what you have there is Canadian Prairie style snow. It is so dry it doesn't stick to anything, and it drifts like fine sand wherever the wind blows it. We will get snow like that until mid-March or so, before the moisture content rises and it starts to stick in place where it falls. That is why it seems to people not from here that we are not getting huge accumulations of snow, but it is enough to create blizzards, and whiteouts. Drifting and blowing snow that will disorient you.
Thanks, Bruce. First, when we moved out here back in '74, I was introduced to powder snow, which I have come to like much better that ordinary snow since it does not clog the exit of the mechanical snow thrower. Then, I learned all about lake effect snow, which comes from the Great Salt Lake (if the wind is right, we can get more snow than Salt Lake City gets, and perhaps as much as one of the ski resorts gets). Now, I have learned about Canadian Prairie style snow. The snowfall did continue into late morning, and covered our sidewalk and street completely--and after the sun came out while we were eating lunch it all melted away from the paved surfaces.
A more reliable weather guesser says to look for + 10 (-12.22222) tomorrow morning--and 0 (-17.77778) Wednesday morning (I don't know how to produce the standard notation for the repeating decimal--a bar over the first part of the decimal that can be repeated into infinity). Do you have some warm weather you can send us?
My former team did not do well in the Curling on the weekend. They failed to win a single game. So with the snow tapering off on Sunday morning and the roads still not fully plowed, I did not go down to see who won the event, but the team that was undefeated at the end of Saturday's games likely won the final playoff game.
I'm sorry to hear that; perhaps with your support they will do better next season.
The two fifty degree days last week didn't do the Curling Club any good. The roof sprung multiple leaks, and where the water would drip onto the ice it would form frozen mounds on the ice about 6" high. Just like little stalactites I think they are called. One lady said we could invent a new game, "Bumper Curling". It meant that some games were canceled because those sheets were unusable. You had to walk around pails set up in the viewing lounge. One fellow speculated it might cost $150,000 to fix the roof.
The difference between stalaCtites and stalaGmites? I learned (when I was in grammar school, I think) that stalaCtites come down from the Ceiling, and stalaGmites come up from the Ground. I am not sure, but when they meet they become a column.
Saw Larry on the video link.
Looks like I will have to go out later to pick up some groceries.
Bruce - Bread (any kind) and 1% milk - overnite to Lincoln NE.
Sir C - We are going to win the lottery and then move to AZ - that seems to be where all our bad storms start. That way, we will be on the backside of any storms and won't have to go thru this mess.
So far, just glare ice, but next mess moving in from - see above -
Housebound until at least Thursday now.
Filed income taxes today. I hate that - I don't care if you write them out in crayon, e-file or send it by mental telepathy - it is a pain. Credit this, credit that, exempt that! Just keep the taxes and leave me alone!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Deggesty gathered in strange ways on sidewalks–there would be clear places (both in shaded spots and in unshaded spots) and accumulations (both in shaded spots and in unshaded spots)
I am getting in here late today. the temperature has risen to -4° F. in a cloudless sky. I was up earlier, about 5:00 AM, and it was -22° F. We ended up with a fair amount of snow over the last three days, but not as much as the guessers were projecting. After a snowstorm like that, when the clouds clear out and the new layer of snow on the ground, the temperature just bottoms out. So in the last 5 days, if you are keeping score, we have gone from a high of 54° to a low of -22°, with a three day snow storm in the middle.
Nothing wrong with that supper!
Going through my purchases from the show. Lots of work to do...
One fellow was selling etched brass kits - talk about impressive!
You could find just about anything railroad there, either in scale or real. You couldn't buy them, but the show was right across from the CSX Springfield yard...
The last weather update I heard, at noon: light rain beginning sometime later tonight, switching to heavy rain during the day tomorrow. Then, it may switch over to light snow. If we get any accumulation, maybe between 1/2 to an inch. Quentin, your predicament is exactly why I prefer gas for home heating and cooking.
Been busy doing laundry, so lunch/supper is going to kind of on the light side, in the way of:
Sloppy joes w/fries and garden salad.
Everyone take care, keep as warm as you can, and hope those of you in the path of this storm/blizzard have kept your snow shovels/snow blowers handy. It sounds like you will be needing them again.
MC, you certainly have changing weather. We woke to a gray day, with the temperature about 30oF. We received a light snow which, as I was out and about, gathered in strange ways on sidewalks–there would be clear places (both in shaded spots and in unshaded spots) and accumulations (both in shaded spots and in unshaded spots); I do not recall seeing such before. Perhaps this "storm" will clear the atmosphere of the muck that had settled in. We are promised, according to one weather guesser (who usually guesses lower that realized temperatures) a low of +8o in the morning.
I feel for the people who have been overwhelmed by the snow that they have received.
We are going on, from day to day. Ricki has been helped by physical therapy at home (I brought her home four weeks ago tomorrow), but it will probably come to an end soon, as Insurance will do only so much.
Mooks: Somebody opened the freezer door. Forty degree drop in temperature today. Went from fog to drizzle to cornsnow (gropple) and now snow in four hours.
Da Boyz are happily out rolling in the snow.
Tree - well, you are a star in our house. I played the video for the Driver and he knew right away who it was. Nice to have voice to go with picture. And no NY accent!
Looks to have gotten in the the mid-teens below zero here this AM. But the sun is out in full force!
The Amherst club show at Springfield saw an official gate of just over 20,000 for the two days - and that doesn't count the vendors and folks who may have slipped in. It's reportedly one of the biggest such shows in the country.
Now it's time to recover and sort stuff out.
.........Sunshine in the east office window now, and 17 degrees about an hour or so ago.
But....We're waiting, anticipating the eastward bound super Winter storm. Latest weather map projection, has the middle of it passing thru in upper Indiana, but they are still saying bad stuff for here, enough to bring down power lines, etc....It's too fresh in our minds yet what happened here back in Jan. of 2005....No power for 5 days here, and 125,000 without power in the Muncie area for up to 10 days.
Wouldn't mind the heavy snow, but ice, we {humans}, can't deal with that to keep utilities intact.
So we stand by...{after visiting the grocery}, yet this morning, probably with lots of other people.....Have all my stuff on "charge", now that is rechargeable. Cell phone, etc....12 vt. power unit...flashlights, and have several LED flashlights now, which last longer.....and have a fluorescent light powered by D cells that is ready to go to work. The problem is heat.....with an electric home.
red sunrise this morning.new guess for us is half ice half snow.I really don't want either.Matt is on time and on the bus.We heardf CSX and the Maw while waiting at the bus stop.time for bed.chores this afternoon.
Good Monday morning everyone. Larry, looks like a good time was had by all!
Coffee, juices, and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Usual breakfast menu on the serving station.
We currently have 30 degrees (at last check a few minutes ago), and supposed to drop another degree, then going for a high of 41 degrees. No supposed to get any precip today. Light rain for tomorrow, then heavy rain tomorrow night, into Wednesday morning. Then the rain will change over to snow. May see about 1/2 in to 1 in of snow.
Everyone have a good morning, take care and see you all later.
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