evening
Ns sent a westbound when I got off work.Chores to do.
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").
work still busy.Ns sent a short stack train east and had cars uptown when I left work.Heard some Csx while I was cleaning off our dusting.Matt was able to go back to school today.Chores to do.
BaltACDSeems as if it followed me to Northeast Florida
One of our local hams winters in Florida, but checks in to a morning net each day via the 'Net. Yep - it's cold there, and they certainly aren't used to it.
We actually stayed above zero last night, as did the wind chill. The lake effect machine set up long enough to dump a foot of new snow in the usual band. Got about 3-4" here at the house.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
It's 28 at the Crossroads of the West right now, with the sun showing itself from time to time.
Balt, are your sins finding you out and keeping you cold?
Growing up 50 miles south of Charlotte, we occasionally had freezing weather at night--and turned the water off and drained the pipes so they would not freeze. The worst weather was ice storms--keep your kerosene lamps handy.
Johnny
I am playing snowbird this year to get away from Winter Maryland weather. Seems as if it followed me to Northeast Florida. Right now it is 34 and raining - a little further North it is freezing rain and some snow. West of here they are reporting about 60 miles of I-10 have been closed account iced over bridges and the resulting accidents.
In fact since I got down here this past Friday the temperature has only been above the 40's for several hours on Sunday. Heading further South over the weekend to Homestead - forcasted for the 50's & 60's....time will tell.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
CSSHEGEWISCH---I've been a crazed Blackhawks fan since 1957-58 when Bobby Hull rubbed my head with his glove and said "Hey Kid"...back in the St. Catherine's Tee-Pees days. The Blackhawks have always been special and magical.
As for this year, hopefully they are playing "rope a dope" right now.
Then I found out how big a deal Chicago was to railroading. That completed the deal for me.
BaltACD All sports are boring when you don't understand the game and don't want to understand it.
All sports are boring when you don't understand the game and don't want to understand it.
CSSHEGEWISCHAmerican football can be boring with about 10 seconds of action with 25+ seconds getting ready for the next play, even longer if one of the seven officials indicates an infraction.
Can't forget "television time-outs." Wait - that's basketball.
Don't watch a lot of football, but I do know that it seems like the last two minutes take a half hour of "real" time...
Baseball is another "slow" game, especially if the pitchers are sharp and hits are hard to come by.
I think I'd prefer a hockey game to soccer - especially the pro version of soccer. Lots of running around and kicking the ball, with the final score of 1-0 determined by a shootout.
GraniteRailroader You can have the Cup back. Hockey is about as boring as watching paint dry.
You can have the Cup back. Hockey is about as boring as watching paint dry.
I would hardly call hockey boring. American football can be boring with about 10 seconds of action with 25+ seconds getting ready for the next play, even longer if one of the seven officials indicates an infraction.
Anyway, the Black Hawks will take home the Cup this year.
There may be some concern about the electric grid. this prolonged cold could put a strain that will break some where ? Noted is that there is a small 20% spike in natural gas prices. Some one may get his coal wish ?
BTW for some reason cannot delete any mistakes on original posts. Have to post then use edit function .
Miningman Give us back the Stanley Cup or more to come!
Give us back the Stanley Cup or more to come!
PS: Your Maple Syrup isn't as good as Vermont's either.
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Had enough? We have giga tons of cold in Canada all along your border.
Here you go....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...and some more ...hoooweeee...plenty more to come.
I got a bit of surpise when looking at weather forecasts at various places, my birth town of Tallahassee is forecast for a high of 41F tomorrow and 27F for tomorrow night, while Brian Head Resort's forecast is a high of 41F and a low of 29F. (BHR is about 8,000 or so feet above msl and ~15 miles NE of Cedar City UT).
OTOH, it was a nice 76F at work today.
We still put the car on the lake, but everything hazardous has been stripped out, and a long cable is run to shore. Lake isn't even four feet deep..........
Haven't shut off the truck since Sunday, and the way the forecast looks for where I'm going, might not shut it off until Friday night, when it gets plugged in at the drop yard..........
Randy Vos
"Ever have one of those days where you couldn't hit the ground with your hat??" - Waylon Jennings
"May the Lord take a liking to you and blow you up, real good" - SCTV
MookieI seriously doubt any more than 4 people even noticed.
We notice, but we're discreet about it...
I seriously doubt any more than 4 people even noticed. But thank you!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Welcome Back El Heffe Gato All hail the cat (chocolate paw prints and all)
JoeKohMight need to borrow Mookies mittens soon.
For what its worth, it's warmer on Mars than many of our posters are experiencing.
As of writing, Weather.com lists the temperature as -2 degrees Fahrenheit with the wind chill making it feel like -18 degrees Fahrenheit outside the XRT studios in Chicao..
The latest readings from NASA’s Mars Rover Environmental Monitoring Station indicates the ground temperature on Mars at -6 degrees Celsius (21.2 degrees Fahrenheit) and the air temperature at -19 degrees Celsius (-2.2 degrees Fahrenheit).Yikes!
If you’re looking for a silver lining, just know it won’t get nearly as cold in Chicago as it can get on the Red Planet. According to NASA, the temperature on Mars can drop to as low as -225 degrees Fahrenheit.
However you measure it, it's COLD here.
Back to work.Work busy.Ns was clear when I left work.Matt was off from school today.Seems the ice has a problem coming off the backroads for the school buses.Going to get colder.Might need to borrow Mookies mittens soon.
tree68 Norm48327 Only once did I take my GTO on the ice, and when I heard it cracking I made a beeline for terra firma. Ah, yes, Lake St. Clair... An uncle was a diver with the Oakland County Sheriff's dive team years ago. One recovery they did was a Corvair. All the occupants (four teens) got out just fine, but the ice turned into a bowl under the car, with the only way out being uphill, clearly a non-starter traction-wise. The car ended up on the bottom. I remember seeing cars/trucks on the ice on Kent Lake, where they oftimes used a tractor to clear the ice for the skating rink at the marina. The vehicles were usually parked next to a shanty, dragged out onto the lake and left there for the season. For a good number of years a car was placed on the ice of the St Lawrence River and a pool was run when it would go through. It was secured with chain/cable, so it could be recovered. Today that would get you a daily fine for every day it was in the water. Today's incident included not only the stranded ice fisherman, but his tent and snowmobile. The fisherman is now safely on-shore, but USCG expressed an interest regarding whether anything was left on the ice, so now they're working on bringing the rest of his stuff in.
Norm48327 Only once did I take my GTO on the ice, and when I heard it cracking I made a beeline for terra firma.
Ah, yes, Lake St. Clair...
An uncle was a diver with the Oakland County Sheriff's dive team years ago. One recovery they did was a Corvair. All the occupants (four teens) got out just fine, but the ice turned into a bowl under the car, with the only way out being uphill, clearly a non-starter traction-wise. The car ended up on the bottom.
I remember seeing cars/trucks on the ice on Kent Lake, where they oftimes used a tractor to clear the ice for the skating rink at the marina. The vehicles were usually parked next to a shanty, dragged out onto the lake and left there for the season.
For a good number of years a car was placed on the ice of the St Lawrence River and a pool was run when it would go through. It was secured with chain/cable, so it could be recovered.
Today that would get you a daily fine for every day it was in the water.
Today's incident included not only the stranded ice fisherman, but his tent and snowmobile. The fisherman is now safely on-shore, but USCG expressed an interest regarding whether anything was left on the ice, so now they're working on bringing the rest of his stuff in.
When I was a kid and our family transferred to Garrett, IN from Baltimore. I remember we were driving down US 27 from the Indinana Turnpike and went past a lake that had a car in the middle of it with a sign on it to guess the date and time it would go through the ice. I don't know what the cost was to 'play'. Had never seen anything like it in Maryland.
Norm48327Only once did I take my GTO on the ice, and when I heard it cracking I made a beeline for terra firma.
Larry,
I'm sure you, being raised in Michigan you've heard many stories about fishermen getting stranded on both Saginaw Bay and Lake Saint Clair. Seems to be a common occurence on both ponds.
The ones that are amusing as long as no life is lost are those who drive their pickups to their preferred fishing hole, and soon realize they are not only stranded on an ice floe but their insurance will not cover their losses when their truck sinks simply because they did something stupid.
Only once did I take my GTO on the ice, and when I heard it cracking I made a beeline for terra firma.
Norm
Well, up to +21F - but the wind has arrived, with a 25 MPH gust just making its way through. So the wind chill is still in single digits or less
Neighboring emergency services are currently dealing with an ice fisherman somehow stranded on the ice. Can't work out all the details from what I'm hearing on the scanner, so I don't know the exact situation. Wind (this is on a bay off Lake Ontario) seems to be a factor.
While the ice should be fairly stable after our prolonged cold snap, the wind could be a destabilizing factor. A few years ago a couple of ice fisherman were stranded when the ice sheet they were on broke away from shore... The were saved. Their equipment wasn't, as there wasn't room in the airboat to carry them and their gear.
ChuckCobleigh Murphy Siding Our only consolation is knowing that the other, Northern Dakota is probably 20 degrees colder. Brrrr. That would be Upper Freezistan, then?
Murphy Siding Our only consolation is knowing that the other, Northern Dakota is probably 20 degrees colder. Brrrr.
That would be Upper Freezistan, then?
Canuckistan is the real Upper Freezistan!
Having grown up in Illinois, and then rescuing a lovely young lady from Wisconsin by marrying her, and then living in W. MI (Gr. Rapids) for 9 years of Lake Effect, I finally got smart, and 30 years ago moved us to Marietta, GA to escape all that. Or so I thought. An unexpected foot of snow 2 weeks ago, and this morning it was 12 degrees as I left for work. Feels like I never left the frozen north!
-ScottM
Murphy SidingOur only consolation is knowing that the other, Northern Dakota is probably 20 degrees colder. Brrrr.
Warm streak here - only down to -22F overnight.
Kinda looking forward to that winter storm that'll be making its way up the coast. Might bring some warmer weather with it.
Of course, we could be in Florida, which is seeing temperatures in the 30's, with wind chills into the 20's...
Coldest in three years here. Weather guessers blew it last as this morning already 5 degrees lower than forecast ( 14 F ) . When we saw the dew point at 5 F called it probably going to 11 F .Guessers be dammed. Moon looks even more beautiful in crisp cold.
Our worry is that last week of Jan - 1st Feb is usually coldest time around here.
Heard run on anti-freeze here. You in the north may have to put in concentrate to lower the -34 of 50 / 50 mixes. have fired up our block heaters for first time in couple years. Makes going out so much better especially mrs Streak.
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