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Privateer · « **Reply #120 on:** January 21, 2025, 07:06:18 PM »

We have about 1 inch of snow here in my area. There's a young kid that was able to buy a NEW John Deer yard tractor with a plow blade and plows driveways! 1 inch of snow and people pay him to move it!

It's got to be 8 inches or more before I shovel or break out the Snow Blower. Sometimes We just switch to 4 wheel drive and wait for it to melt.

avator · « **Reply #121 on:** January 21, 2025, 07:47:56 PM »

We got the snow first and now it's like freezing rain on top of it. Yeah, that's going to make some interesting travel for the locals. The Nissan Titan is FWD. It would just be fun for me to get out in it.

avator · « **Reply #122 on:** January 21, 2025, 07:51:34 PM »

Won't be long it will just be a memory.

Blowpipe Sam · « **Reply #123 on:** January 21, 2025, 08:48:19 PM »

Sold all three sets of chains. Even the set I was missing a chain from! Got $33 and a mason jar of "Apple Pie".

avator · « **Reply #124 on:** January 21, 2025, 09:07:40 PM »

Quote from: Blowpipe Sam on January 21, 2025, 08:48:19 PM

Sold all three sets of chains. Even the set I was missing a chain from! Got $33 and a mason jar of "Apple Pie".

Score ! That jar might last as long as the snow.

Hoosier Daddy · « **Reply #125 on:** January 21, 2025, 09:15:00 PM »

Stoopid Tom Cat is crying to go out to prowl for the night as he always does.
He must have a "hot date".

Blowpipe Sam · « **Reply #126 on:** January 21, 2025, 09:20:05 PM »

Mix of rain and sleet. The ground is pretty wet so I don't think we will get any accumulation of snow. If we get any snow!

Looking forward to driving to work tomorrow. Shouldn't be any traffic!

42 F and drizzling right now.

avator · « **Reply #127 on:** January 21, 2025, 10:14:35 PM »

It's really strange looking up at the security cam and seeing the blanket of snow out there. Boss won't even go out unless we sweep off the ramp. Then she goes right to the bottom, takes a leak and comes right back it. But she's a dummy... she goes right to the water dish and reloads.

Ronno6 · « **Reply #128 on:** January 21, 2025, 10:22:26 PM »

We got about 4" of snow.
Tonite the temps could dip to 10 deg. or so.........
Strange days indeed.........

avator · « **Reply #129 on:** January 21, 2025, 10:25:49 PM »

Dang global warming messing everything up...

Ronno6 · « **Reply #130 on:** January 21, 2025, 11:30:12 PM »

Quote from: avator on January 21, 2025, 10:25:49 PM

Dang global warming messing everything up...

Thanks, Uncle Al...........

mobilehomer · « **Reply #131 on:** January 21, 2025, 11:35:13 PM »

My sister-in-law in Gulf Shores has about 5" of snow.

Blowpipe Sam · « **Reply #132 on:** January 22, 2025, 12:04:48 AM »

Well the "Big Snow" of 25 never made it here. There's some accumulation of sleet but it's all melting.

Well we dodged another one!

airgunaut · « **Reply #133 on:** January 22, 2025, 12:23:27 AM »

Meanwhile, southern CA is not getting its normal winter rains, and this corner of CO is getting virtually no snow.

A.K.A. Tommy Boy · « **Reply #134 on:** January 22, 2025, 07:18:05 AM »

Nice, the intense cold is gone and the warm weather is here !
It is +19°F right now

I didn't even need to wear a jacket this morning when I took the dog out, just a sweatshirt.
There is an 8 mph wind coming from the south and the wind chill is around +10°F
The revised forecast for today says we might reach + 26°F
The long range forecast says we could reach +34°F by Tuesday.

Best Wishes - Tom

avator · « **Reply #135 on:** January 22, 2025, 08:10:59 AM »

Boss woke up from her cryogenics sleep and wanted to go out to take care of business. But she wouldn't go unless I went with her. I stood at the top of the ramp waiting for her and noticed the snow on the handrail was at least 4" thick. Pretty good little snow event we had there.

Blowpipe Sam · « **Reply #136 on:** January 22, 2025, 08:16:47 AM »

Flash lived up to his name for once this a.m. He was out and in like a flash! Belle is a Labrador retriever. She is inured to cold. She and Bon Bon, mom’s duck toller, love this kind of weather.

No snow here. It’s wet and there is still a little sleet lying around in sheltered spots but it’s melting fast.

Storm in a teacup!

The memsahib lost the bet about snow. She owes me ten bucks. I said I’ll take it out in cuddles!

Back_Roads · « **Reply #137 on:** January 22, 2025, 08:58:48 AM »

It warmed up enough to get weather again, light snow flurries and +5 out, I better make sure the wood boiler is still going as I let it go 4 hours since last check.

avator · « **Reply #138 on:** January 22, 2025, 09:53:49 AM »

More lessons learned...
Drip the hot water faucets as well as the cold..

We got cold running water in the kitchen and the bathroom but no hot in either. So much for the morning shower. Fortunately we hit the low of the lows and we'll begin the warm up today. I'll have to remember that in 5 or so years from now when we get the next snow and freeze.
Next lesson learned...
When I built the top hat for the woodstove chimney I used a piece of fine expanding metal around the inside to keep critters out.. the problem is that the metal I used was aluminum or something with a low melting point and I think it kinda collapsed in on itself and choked some of the draw off. It's still drawing but not like it should. I'll need to wait for the ice and snow to melt before I can set the ladder and get up there to fix it. Adding to that I may have burned some wood that wasn't as dry as it should have been.. that probably sooted it up even more.
Both issues are going to wear on my nerves because there ain't no quick fixes. Wait for the water line to thaw and wait for the snow and ice to melt.
Good news is the sun is out and shining brightly and is expected to for the next several days. Yep, that's all the winter I want for this year. Hard to believe I dealt with this kind stuff for months every year during my entire life in the north.
I used to say that I could just put on more clothes when it's cold but I can only take off so many when it's hot... I'm beginning to rethink that logic.

Moke · « **Reply #139 on:** January 22, 2025, 11:47:20 AM »

ahhhhh!!! (screams!,.....)

So sick of these farkin' Santa Ana winds.
The weather services are so clueless about them, and other weather. Their calling for possible rain over the weekend. My prediction,... a comet will take us out, which is likely as accurate as the weather folks guesses.

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