Dan
Can i get a cup of coffee this live railroad scanner is going to keep me up all night
bnsf/up metrolink Los Angeles (inland empire) CA. is really busy
www.railroadradio.net
Random, but just saw that I'm outta eggos fer breakfast tomarra. Guess I'll have to get up eariler and hit the waffle house. Hope the workers there got 4x4 like me cuz it seems to be a bit icy as of now...
adrianspeeder
USAF TSgt C-17 Aircraft Maintenance Flying Crew Chief & Flightline Avionics Craftsman
JoeKoh wrote: willy and chadcheck your emails/hotmail.hope it worked.off to work we go......stay safejoe
willy and chad
check your emails/hotmail.hope it worked.off to work we go......
stay safe
joe
Joe - Got the email. Very nice photo. On Friday in Fremont, I saw 4 SP units, but all were patched. That must have been quite a treat seeing that unpatched engine. I keep hoping that someday I'll manage to see one of the few remaining unpatched SP units; that photo gives me hope!
Willy
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").
Normally I would respond that I wouldn't be watching them either, but tonight our son is doing a podcast about the Oscars while they are being handed out. Knowing him, it should be hilarious. If anyone else is interested, their podcast site is here:
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=8230
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Oscar who? Nevermind.
Meatloaf certainly hit the spot! Never made it enough to develop any real personal touch, besides maybe adding onion soup mix...
Looks like a band of snow from the big storm will touch us overnight, but from what I hear, it won't amount to much.
When I was headed to VA last Sunday, I stopped to help out a motorist whose car had quit. Actually ran into her today while shopping - turns out her catalytic converter was plugged. That'll do it every time.
Time to catch up on some chores left undone whilst on the road.
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...
Joe, got a big ole plate ready for you to take tonight. It's in the cooler, with your name on it, as always. Glad your temps are going up; our temps are starting to slowly drop.
For everyone else, you will find everything out on the warmer bar.
To heck with the Oscars on TV tonight. Never watch them, and won't be tonight. Will probably call it an early night tonight, and try to catch up on some of the sleep I lost last night. Like around 9:30, 10:00.
will take a plate for work tonight please.our temps have steadily rose melting the ice from the storm this morning.according to our extended forcast march is coming in like a lion.
Joe
Willy as level-headed as you come across on here you should do fine IMHO!
CW I'm looking forward to dinner...gotta love the meat loaf!
Weather is rather difficult to forecast at times... that's all I can say about this winter storm. We had thundersnow and very heavy snow yesterday evening, but then dry air wrapped into the thing and really cut into snowfall rates. My official forecast was for 5 to 7 inches and most areas across Omaha measured 4 to 6 inches, so I was not too far off. However, I got my hopes up yesterday evening that it would snow more. Fortunately, I left my forecast on my web site alone and didn't change anything.
I believe there are two reasons the heavy snow in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa didn't last long: 1) The massive area of rain, mixed precipitation, and thunderstorms to Omaha's east and southeast really took away a lot of our moisture. 2) This storm was so powerful that it wrapped dry air into its circulation, which cut back our snowfall amounts.
The knowledge that surprises like these can happen really make me keep my forecasts conservative. While I kept my prediction at 4 to 7 inches, the NWS increased our totals way to 6 to 12 inches and that obviously did not happen. I figure it's better to be conservative and possibly have a forecast that is a couple of inches under what happens, rather than go all out and have a forecast that is 6 inches above what happens. Weather is tricky, but if you stay level-headed, you have a decent chance at foreseeing its tricks and not letting them bust your forecast.
About four to six inches from the blizzard early last night, then a light mix for a short period as temps starting rising. Got the driveway cleared, so the 35º temperature and and the light rain will do the final clean-up if this hold for a bit.
Wierd storm. The long distance doppler radar shows the warmer air and rain partly surrounded by "mix" and snow. One would expect that the weather bands would have rain to the south, then heading north, icy mix and then snow. The radar shows bands in central Illinois going the opposite way-rain to the north then mix then snow heading south.
If it's Sunday, I am taking a nap.
Jay
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
Good Sunday morning, everyone! Joe, thanks for making the coffee and juice this morning. I took a nap around 8:30 last night, and after awaking 1 1/2 hrs later, couldn't go back to sleep until 3:50 this morning. Looks like our rain is over, at least for now. Haven't heard any news this morning, and we don't have any noon news on Sundays. So not sure what our forecast is for today, yet.
Nightrain, I think you've got the right idea this morning: we're having brunch, and then I'll fix SUNDAY DINNER a little later this afternoon.
On the warmer bar you will find: country fried ham w/redeye gravy, grits (not the instant ones, either), turkey bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, homemade buttermilk biscuits, and sausage gravy, fried taters, and, if you want, you can cut open a couple of biscuits, and pour sorghum molasses or real maple syrup over them.
For SUNDAY DINNER I am preparing meat loafs, green beans w/onion cut up in them, cream style corn, cole slaw, choice of biscuits, dinner rolls, crescent rolls, fresh sliced tomatoes. And for dessert, we've got Ray's brownies and ice cream (what was left from last night's Pizza Fest), chocolate cake, peach cobbler, blackberry cobbler, and apple pie.
Everyone have a good afternoon, and stay inside, if you're where all the snow and ice hit!
Message From:The Cook
I just finished shoveling out my sidewalk, so I know that we got at least 5 inches of the white stuff during last night's storm. Had I waited long enough, my neighbor to the north of me might have cleaned my sidewalk with his snowblower..........and I would have rewarded him with perhaps a loaf of my bread, fresh from the oven. There are some apartment buildings to the north and northeast of me and a gentleman was clearing their parking lot with a bobcat front end loader. He stopped in front of my house and offered to clean my driveway, which was a nice gesture on his part. I actually have no driveway, and I told him so.
I am now thawing out both my toes and my fingers, and will stay inside for the rest of the day.
Ray CANADIANPACIFIC2816
I love the snow...especially when I have four neighbors with snowblowers that love to run them and always do my long sidewalk and driveway apron after the plows go through! The other thought this morning is that Brandi, our little dog (Plothound mix), needs to get taller or we've got some big snowdrifts in the back yard. I let her and Jasmine (the German Shephard-62lb lapdog!) out to go #1 and #2 and Brandi took off like a shot-and then disappeared! She jumped into a snowdrift in the backyard and vanished inside it. I laughed so hard when she poked her head out the side and didn't move...she just sat there with a look on her face that said 'Great, now what do I do?'
On another...train...related note (What you ask? Talking about trains in here? ) I had to drive the GF to work because her car wouldn't have cleared the driveway at that time and happened to go past the CN mainline. There were 4 UP SD40-2's at the head of a train just sitting there. I didn't get r/n's because I was driving and when I came back they were gone! They did look kind of neat covered in snow and it would have made a great shot. Anyway it was nice to see something other than red/black/white. Ok, I'll shut up for now...lol.
CHAD! nice to see you back!
Anything hot, I think I caught another bug. just a sore throat and stuffy nose though, more of an annoyance.
Coffee, and grits sound good this morening
Every day is a beautiful day, it just depends on how we look at it. I see God's beauty in a raging thunderstorm or a winter blizzard, and in dense fog.
Good morning, everyone. It is another beautiful day. The ground is wet, but it isn't currently raining. I have a lot of walking to do today, so I hope that I don't get too wet.
Today's focus will be Psalm 89.
A good, frosty, cold Sunday morning to everyone out there. We have a temp of 24 degrees here in Sioux Falls and the wind chill factor leaves us sitting at 11 degrees above 0. I've been up for roughly an hour and have not yet been outside, but it looks like we got a minimum of four to six inches of snow out of last night's storm.
I decided to stay home this morning, rather than go to church. I'm going to bake a few loaves of bread , and you can bet my house will smell good, and work on a 750 piece jig saw puzzle that I started on a few weeks ago, "Rio Grande Southern" by Ted Blaylock. I figure that I've got about a third of it finished.
Hi all,
I can't sleep tonight so I thought I would drop in and say hi, I'm still alive. Been real busy lately and when I do get time I am trying to get use to my new camera (Thanks Chris, this thing is awsome). Hope everyone is doing well. Mabee I'll try andupload and post some pix.
morning
juice and coffee are ready to go.everything is a glaze with ice right now.we dont really have to go anywhere today.tonight is a different story.
Good evening everyone.
Thank you for the calzone!
We're going to have some ugly weather coming into Sacramento very soon. It's supposed to be windy and raining by late tonight.
CNW 6000 wrote:Thus far for the storm tonight we've got....nothing! It's late! I have had time to build a breakfast nook, table, and benches. Now I'm starting on some cabinets...I'll snag some more 'za and then get back to work for now.
Dan - Don't worry. The snow has almost made it to you.
Earlier this evening we had thundersnow and 1 to 2 inches an hour. Things have lightened up quite a bit, at least light snow should continue through the night. I'm heading to bed. Anxious to see what morning brings.
And it gets worse.......
Watching the news, all of south-central Wisconsin is essentially shut down, Madison Metro buses have been pulled off the roads, county sheriffs are saying stay home, haven't seen a car go by the house in hours. About four inches or so of snow on the ground, storm total has been recalculated to about 14-16 inches by tomorrow evening. Need to be farther south, Dan!!
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
I'm very glad you all are liking the different choices of pizzas tonight! It makes this cook very pleased.
Well, we're still getting rain. Supposed to continue until early morning, then stop. After the rain stops, the temps will start to drop, and we may have snow coming in tomorrow night. Guess we'll take what we get. They said some places around here today heard thunder, but I never heard any around here.
All of you getting the snow, ice and sleet, PLEASE take care.
I've put all the leftovers in the cooler, so if anyone comes in, that's where you'll find pizza and calzone.
See everyone in the morning!!
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