More snow....

[RVTRKN]

You have your delima, and I have mine! 90*+ yesterday, and our phones are blowing up, including a 5PM emergency service call on Sunday night fixing an AC for a Senior center. The whole family was in room, while the patient didn't expect to make it through the night. I felt bad when they had to leave the room while I worked on it, but in the end was able to bypass bad PC board and keep them comfortable.

 

[mwilson]

You have your delima, and I have mine! 90*+ yesterday, and our phones are blowing up, including a 5PM emergency service call on Sunday night fixing an AC for a Senior center. The whole family was in room, while the patient didn't expect to make it through the night. I felt bad when they had to leave the room while I worked on it, but in the end was able to bypass bad PC board and keep them comfortable.

I'm glad that you were able to do that and keep them comfortable, they had enough to worry about as it was.

 

[GAmes]

Yesterday I suffered through 75 degrees, light breeze. Took my grandson fishing, then gave him a boat driving lesson (he is 10). Water temp is 58-62, the bass spawn will be starting soon if the weather stays nice. We found them staging on the points. Saw several new nests, but they were empty. I'm glad my parents left MN when I was two.

 

[Jim W]

Hey,
Mike; I read in the Chicago tribune that Boston set a record yesterday for the most snow fall ever over 9'. Did your area also set a record snow fall amount? If you did than at least you can brag about this to the grand kids some day saying; I had to go to work in so much snow (XX) both ways.

We had 74 F yesterday in Oswego IL.

Jim W.

 

[mwilson]

Yesterday I suffered through 75 degrees, light breeze. Took my grandson fishing, then gave him a boat driving lesson (he is 10). Water temp is 58-62, the bass spawn will be starting soon if the weather stays nice. We found them staging on the points. Saw several new nests, but they were empty. I'm glad my parents left MN when I was two.

It's snowing again today. I'm no virgin to winters but this one has been a bear.

Everyone says the same thing, no sun at all and can't get outside even for normal winter activities. Too cold to go out on snowmobiles, lakes are frozen but a lot of slush on top. It has stormed I think almost every weekend since the first of January. Try to get away for a few days and you are driving when you really should not be. Cancelled flights are the norm in Bangor. Our neighbors were stranded in DC for two days trying to get home from the Bahamas. We had to keep checking their house as it was running -20 below at night and you don't have a lot of time to react when the heat goes out before a pipe is going to split.

Spring has got to be just around the corner.

Jim, we set the record for the coldest February on record. Some areas in the State did break records for snowfall, I'm not sure if we did.

Got a solid foot Sunday. My snow blower will no longer throw the snow over the banks in the dooryard, it was just sliding back down Sunday night. It's a 13hp 33" version and it is no slouch.

 

[JR]

It has been a brutal winter for sure. There are much colder areas than Ohio but being on the lake we typically get much worse weather than the rest of the state. February was the coldest on record for us as well. We have a weather station at work, which records temp, wind speed, and humidity. You can also go back in the history and see any particular days high/low temp, avg temp for the week and month.
Avg. Temp for the month of February was 11.2 degrees. We had 14 days where the weather was below zero for at least one hour or more with a low of -32 (it actually hit -39 at my house which is 25 miles south of the lake). We spent 28 hours the entire month above 32 degrees.

The Coast Guard is generally able to keep the shipping lane open for year round use of the port in Ashtabula but this year they got stuck out on the lake trying to break free a cargo ship and spent quite a few days "on ice". The CG dropped them some supplies via helicopter to get them by. Our big brothers up north had to come rescue us with some real ice breaking badness...

 

[BIGNASTY]

And It wasn't that long ago that I was asked " ARE YOU GOING TO BE ABLE TO DEAL WITH THE COLD? " when we retired to MT. I haven't looked at the amounts and temps but I think that we have had a very mild winter (normal really) compared to the rest of the snow bound country parts.

 

[mwilson]

Hoopty is still apart in the garage, had to abandon that project so I could clear the driveway. Probably be the weekend before I can get back to it.

So after turning my nose up at the Town And Country's I dug the '97 out of the snowbank.

Seems to be rolling easier and running better with a couple hundred fresh miles on it. The frost heaves are more apparent with it vs. Hoopty...

 

[JR]

^^^^3.55s eh?

 

[mwilson]

Yes, obtains a nice cruising altitude at about 73 mph...

 

[mwilson]

Best thing that the Feds and the State Of Maine did was to finally raise the speed limit to 75 mph north of Old Town a couple of years back.

In the late '70s to the early '80s it was 55 mph. It took literally forever to get to Houlton in a legal fashion.....any speeding ticket (with the exception of 1) that I ever got was on that stretch of highway when it was limited to 55 mph.

 

[fest3er]

... Got a solid foot Sunday. My snow blower will no longer throw the snow over the banks in the dooryard, it was just sliding back down Sunday night. It's a 13hp 33" version and it is no slouch.

It isn't working hard enough. Adjust the governor to get 25-40% more RPM.

 

[mwilson]

BOMB the snowblower. I like it.

 

[mwilson]

The commute home tonight, no driving like this morning..Yuck, very slippery stuff.

 

[fest3er]

BOMB the snowblower. I like it.

I did that with a rented log splitter.

Hit the lever. Wait a minute (a loooong time) for the blade to split the log and return. This ain't gonna work; got too much wood to split.

Load a chunk of wood. Finger the governor and engage hyper drive. Hit the lever. Split/return time down to 4 sec. Much more efficient. My brother (it was his wood we were splitting) couldn't load it fast enough.

You might need a lower gear on the snowblower.

 

[The patriot]

Was 68 here yesterday, expecting snow ...a little anyway, Friday. North jersey might get an inch or two.
Windy as hell! Almost took off the screen door!

 

[GCroyle]

Low to mid 80's yesterday, cooler today.

You can spend A WHOLE LOT of time on YouTube looking at log splitters, homemade, commercial, industrial, cork screw, widow makers and a novel push me/pull you that splits on each stroke from each side of the frame. Also look for the spring counterbalanced fingerchopperoffers, wild stuff.

 

[BIGNASTY]

The commute home tonight, no driving like this morning..Yuck, very slippery stuff.



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This REALLY!! brings back some Maine Memories. We get snow but I can honestly say that I have NEVER!! seen it snow in MT like I did in Maine. Even in NON blizzard snow's Maine had 0 visibility at times it was snowing so hard.

 

[DonFitzwater]

Send some of that snow up my way! We finally have a few feet on the ground.......just enough to ride snogos.........

 

[mwilson]

Need to share something....

I have been running vehicles with 4 wheel ABS for some time now. As a result I use the ABS for road surface checks with no worries. If I suspect that it has frozen a quick jab on the pedal results in the ABS pump engaging, while still going perfectly straight. No worries.

WELL, on the snowy, nasty, slippery night shown above I do a brake check as described before I get to my off ramp to see what I might be up against before committing to taking said off ramp. Guess what?? I don't have the Cadillac, I am driving the '97 and it's in 4WD at 55 mph.

Not such a good idea because everything locked and I started to slide and began to go sideways. Got my act together and put the fuel to it just before that point of no return where the 360 degree spin begins.... and yes I have been there before...

Called myself a Dumbass a couple of times.

Note to self....Try and remember what you are driving before doing that again....