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Posted by tree68 on Sunday, February 14, 2016 9:31 AM

Well, the balloon launch went well, and right on time.  By the looks of it, it reached 80,000 feet plus before the balloon burst east of Wheelerville, and by how has landed somewhere near Glenville, NY.

But, boy was it cold.  

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Posted by CShaveRR on Sunday, February 14, 2016 12:40 PM

So there will be six more weeks of winter wherever its shadow was seen?

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Sunday, February 14, 2016 1:45 PM

CShaveRR

So there will be six more weeks of winter wherever its shadow was seen?

 

    I don't remember the exact words, but Trevor Noah asked "What would people in Africa think if you told them that people in America pull a rodent out of the ground and asked him to predict the weather?"

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Posted by rvos1979 on Sunday, February 14, 2016 1:59 PM
Larry: And here, we see Swift in it's natural habitat, a ditch........

Mid teens here in Sheboygan, WI, with occasional light snow. Sitting here today, there was a mix up at the shipper this morning, hard to pick up product when they're not open. Will figure out who's at fault later........

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Posted by edblysard on Sunday, February 14, 2016 2:10 PM

Would it be rude to mention it is 78 degrees, with a gulf breeze and sunny skies down here in the swamp?

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Posted by Deggesty on Sunday, February 14, 2016 2:25 PM

I don't know what the temperature here is now, but when I left for church (five hours ago), I did not need an overcoat.

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Sunday, February 14, 2016 2:35 PM

   I get a kick out of people up north having to put a + or - in front of their temperatures.

   I get a kick out of people in Houston referring to their high, solid ground as swamp.

    People up north might get a kick out of us down here sweltering day and night from May through September.

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Posted by tree68 on Sunday, February 14, 2016 2:38 PM

edblysard

Would it be rude to mention it is 78 degrees, with a gulf breeze and sunny skies down here in the swamp?

Only to the fellow who was trying to heat up under his modular/mobile home with a salamander and set the insulation on fire.

Geez, that was a stubborn fire.  Not big, but stubborn.  I was on the first due engine...

It's up to zero now - a thirty degree swing since 7 AM.

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Posted by mudchicken on Sunday, February 14, 2016 3:17 PM

tree68
 It's up to zero now - a thirty degree swing since 7 AM.

Cowabunga! Head for the beach! (enjoying our good fortune - Winter will be back in seven days, probably with a vengence...)

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Posted by JoeKoh on Sunday, February 14, 2016 4:31 PM

evening

snow has started here in Nw Ohio.waiting for Matt to get home.Csx q 091 with SP heritage came through today.Foam everywhere.Time to get my stuff around for work tomorrow. Might even read the paper yet tonight.

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Posted by edblysard on Sunday, February 14, 2016 4:39 PM

Paul of Covington

   I get a kick out of people up north having to put a + or - in front of their temperatures.

   I get a kick out of people in Houston referring to their high, solid ground as swamp.

    People up north might get a kick out of us down here sweltering day and night from May through September.

Devil

 

4 feet above sea level isn't exactlly "high"....your talking abut the first season we have, the summer season, as opposed to the  "not summer" season of October to April, when it sometimes gets way down to 40 or so! 

Course, you Georiga boys have some serious swamp too!

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Posted by Mookie on Sunday, February 14, 2016 7:04 PM

mudchicken

 

Cowabunga! Head for the beach! (enjoying our good fortune - Winter will be back in seven days, probably with a vengence...)

 

 

 you have noticed that phenom - you get a couple of days of sunshine and warmth and then 8 feet of snow and sub-zero follow.  I knew I wasn't imagining things!  

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Posted by CShaveRR on Sunday, February 14, 2016 10:04 PM

We've been getting snow all day.  Not very dramatic, though--we might wake up to four or five inches tomorrow morning.

Joe, thanks for your call about the SP Heritage unit headed back (we were still in church).  I was hoping we'd see it this evening, but no such luck.  Nice pictures and video over on Facebook!

My Valentine got to go to a baby shower without me this noon.  A good time was had by almost all.  While she was gone I decided to dust off the ceiling fan in our great-room and surprise her.  Well, I surprised her, all right--the step-stool came out from under me and I landed on the floor, somehow cutting myself near my left eye.  Surprise!...a half-shiner!  (But a clean fan, thanks to a better step-stool.)

We then went out to our favorite Italian restaurant in Elmhurst...a few of you may remember which one.  Good variety there while we were...an auto train, a coal train, two scoots, a manifest, and a stack train, all in about an hour.  After we left, the place was dead...nothing lined up at either Park or Grace.  What was really neat was being able to look west down the tracks at a crossing in Elmhurst and see three sets of signals with all of their lights showing the default aspects:  green on the nearest one by the gravel pit, flashing yellow at Villa Avenue, and solid yellow at Addison Road (so you know the home signal at Grace was going to be all red!).

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Posted by Mookie on Monday, February 15, 2016 2:55 PM

Went out to breakfast and then made a stop trackside.  Sunny - very, very sunny with a temp of 47 degrees.  A perfect train watching day.  Caught about 6-7 coal trains - going both ways in about a 3 hour window.  No freight at all.  And nothing going south - all east and west.  No coal crisis here.  During that time, made a fast trip to DQ for my first and only for 2016 - strawberry shake.  

What a great day!  

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Monday, February 15, 2016 3:16 PM

Mookie

Went out to breakfast and then made a stop trackside.  Sunny - very, very sunny with a temp of 47 degrees.  A perfect train watching day.  Caught about 6-7 coal trains - going both ways in about a 3 hour window.  No freight at all.  And nothing going south - all east and west.  No coal crisis here.  During that time, made a fast trip to DQ for my first and only for 2016 - strawberry shake.  

What a great day!  

 

You limit yourself to one strawberry shake per year?  Talk about willpower.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Monday, February 15, 2016 3:49 PM

no one can have just one......

Ns local was working uptown when I left work.Chores to do.

stay safe

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Posted by Mookie on Monday, February 15, 2016 4:22 PM

Murphy Siding

 

 
Mookie

Went out to breakfast and then made a stop trackside.  Sunny - very, very sunny with a temp of 47 degrees.  A perfect train watching day.  Caught about 6-7 coal trains - going both ways in about a 3 hour window.  No freight at all.  And nothing going south - all east and west.  No coal crisis here.  During that time, made a fast trip to DQ for my first and only for 2016 - strawberry shake.  

What a great day!  

 

 

 

You limit yourself to one strawberry shake per year?  Talk about willpower.

They were so much better way back in the 60's.  So one is enough to cure

me for them for at least a year.  Maybe they make these on one of those new-fangled printers....  Mischief

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Posted by CShaveRR on Monday, February 15, 2016 5:05 PM

Of the traditional three flavors of shake, strawberry is my favorite.  But some people use real strawberries (I'm surised if DQ doesn't), and some use some sort of powder with imitation flavoring.  Portillo's, my favorite hot-dog/chocolate-cake/rib place does the latter; that's the only menu item I will not recommend from there.

At DQ, I'll go for a cherry shake...especially on President's Day!  I cannot tell a lie...

 

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Monday, February 15, 2016 5:41 PM

Mookie

 

 
Murphy Siding

 

 
Mookie

Went out to breakfast and then made a stop trackside.  Sunny - very, very sunny with a temp of 47 degrees.  A perfect train watching day.  Caught about 6-7 coal trains - going both ways in about a 3 hour window.  No freight at all.  And nothing going south - all east and west.  No coal crisis here.  During that time, made a fast trip to DQ for my first and only for 2016 - strawberry shake.  

What a great day!  

 

 

 

You limit yourself to one strawberry shake per year?  Talk about willpower.

 

 

They were so much better way back in the 60's.  So one is enough to cure

 

me for them for at least a year.  Maybe they make these on one of those new-fangled printers....  Mischief

 

Now, I'm no expert on strawberry shakes, and have no inside knowledge of DQ milkshakes from a historical perspective, but leyt me suggest that maybe the problem is your local DQ.  If they're using a printer to make strawberry shakes, trust me-they're doing it wrong.Whistling

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Posted by Mookie on Monday, February 15, 2016 10:45 PM

Trust me - the food in this town all tastes like it was made on a printer.  And it isn't me cuz we ate at the Egg and I and it was delicious!  Only about 2-3 places in town - even sit downs are very good.  Unfortunately - BBQ place is a good one. And we can't eat at those two places every week.  I don't think....

Sigh

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 7:55 AM

It was a reasonably mild day yesterday (the snow stopped and it was in the mid-20's) so my wife let me get out for pictures after I cleared the walks, which went quickly since the snow was mostly powder.  I had a pretty good outing and was able shoot an entire 24-exposure roll.

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Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 8:46 AM

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Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 8:48 AM

Rocks & Boulders jumping off of canyon walls here. Beware of flying rocks (!). Glenwood Canyon is shut down after two major rockfalls. I-70 is closed and UP's Glenwood Sub is restricted with extra patrols during the extreme swings in temperature being experienced here. Waiting to see what Amtrak does with #5 and #6....

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Posted by Deggesty on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 9:55 AM

mudchicken

Rocks & Boulders jumping off of canyon walls here. Beware of flying rocks (!). Glenwood Canyon is shut down after two major rockfalls. I-70 is closed and UP's Glenwood Sub is restricted with extra patrols during the extreme swings in temperature being experienced here. Waiting to see what Amtrak does with #5 and #6....

 

It's a little late for #6, but #5 could be run across Wyoming? (act fast!)

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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 10:53 AM

Yesterday started out with temps in the teens and 4 inches of snow, temps up to 28 in the afternoon and early evening with rain - main highways well salted and slushy - overnight increasing temps and increasing rain - now 45 and pouring.

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 12:52 PM

BaltACD

Yesterday started out with temps in the teens and 4 inches of snow, temps up to 28 in the afternoon and early evening with rain - main highways well salted and slushy - overnight increasing temps and increasing rain - now 45 and pouring.

 

Trade you a whole lotta sun for some of that rain?  

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Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 2:15 PM

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mudchicken

Rocks & Boulders jumping off of canyon walls here. Beware of flying rocks (!). Glenwood Canyon is shut down after two major rockfalls. I-70 is closed and UP's Glenwood Sub is restricted with extra patrols during the extreme swings in temperature being experienced here. Waiting to see what Amtrak does with #5 and #6....

 

 

 

It's a little late for #6, but #5 could be run across Wyoming? (act fast!)

See where two semi trucks got nailed by the last slide, thankfully nobody got hurt.

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Posted by Deggesty on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 2:23 PM

We expect  a hig in the mid-fifties tomorrow, with rain and/or snow later in the week.

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Posted by Deggesty on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 2:29 PM

I just checked on #5 and #6; #5 is past Glenwood Springs, and expected in Grand Junction on time; #6 is expected into Fraser two minutes late. So the track seems to be clear.

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Posted by Deggesty on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 2:30 PM

I just checked on #5 and #6; #5 is past Glenwood Springs, and expected in Grand Junction on time; #6 is expected into Fraser two minutes late. So the track seems to be clear.

Sorry, no opportunity to see any Wyoming jackalopes today.

Johnny

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