Going to be 50 here Friday, our second covid shot was just cancelled cause it's too cold for the outside vaccination site. Pussy's. And we don't even have any of the snow. Raised in Michigan, 50 is a fine spring day.
Warm, Thoughts your way Hoodlums suffering the effects of the deep freeze and snowmageddon...that surely sucks Bigtime...
Been colder than shit here for a couple of weeks. I may be used to it, and our stuff is generally built for winter, but I sure don’t enjoy it! Best of luck to all you folks having to endure this.
I remember walking home from high school mid terms , 1.5 miles through 3’-4’ snow drifts. School was not cancelled. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I was on the big old John Deere tractor all day today, clearing snow. My toes still haven't fully thawed. But with thoughts of so many with cold houses right now... ...piece o' cake. Good luck to everyone.
Feel bad for you all going through all this...at some point cold is cold no matter what you're used to. It'll get better! I can recall being in Ottawa, ON one winter when it hit -45°C...that'll get your attention. The day I left Kansas City seven years ago to move to Scottsdale it was -11° with 8" of snow on the ground. I got here and it was 88°! I feel I made the right decision. As they say around here, you never have to shovel sunshine...
I feel for everyone going through hell right now. If you aren't used to the cold, it can be deadly, especially for the elderly. I hope this isn't the new normal, but if it is we had better learn to work together and help each other out all across this country, instead of states fighting states when these disasters occur. Living in South Dakota, you learn how deadly winter can be. I grew up on a farm west of Sioux Falls in the 50's and 60's. I'll always remember a small overgrown cemetery four miles north of our farm on a lonely gravel road on a hill all by itself. We explored it one day and found most of the graves were little kids with some adults. I asked my Dad about it and he told me about the Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888, where 178 people, just in South Dakota died from a blizzard that arrived suddenly on a warm January day. Students and their teacher had left their one room school house for home but never made it. Even farmers who tried to go from the barn to their house lost their way and died. Herds of cattle died and were frozen standing up when the freezing the snow blocked their noses and mouths, suffocating them. That little cemetery is still there and I'll never forget it. Local folks pitched in and restored the gravestones and cemetery, and it is called Bethel Cemetery today. I can't imagine how tough it was to survive in those days out there like my grandparents did. We went through some pretty bad blizzards in my 57 years in South Dakota, but nothing like that. In late 2010, we had had enough of the winters and the humidity and bugs in the summer in South Dakota, so we moved to Prescott, Arizona. It still has four seasons, but nothing like what we were used to. Mild 50 degree winters and tolerable summers in the 80's and 90's with low humidity and cool nights. So we never got the blast everyone else got this week. For some reason, we never seem to get our weather from the east, it seems to stop in New Mexico. Everything we get come from the west, so if it hits California we usually get it a day or two later. Since we live at 5500 feet that can mean snow, so just a few weeks ago we got 20 inches of it but not that cold so it melts quickly and was gone in a week. I don't mind it the one or times we do get it in the winter. It really was coming down fast and heavy. After three days of snow this was the fourth time we shoveled this in three days. Thank God for my very reliable 67 year old snow thrower Janet. She can shovel snow as fast as I can and never quits After shoveling the front and rear driveways I cleaned off my 6K solar system on the roof of the shop so that free electricity from the sun was flowing again. This is what's left after about a week later. That damn Arizona sun is good for something! The good old days in South Dakota with snow in May in the Black Hills on one of our Lake Area Roadster Reliability runs with our roadster.
Hey A, Well, for that Northern California location, 48 degrees is not bad. We hit 49 degrees for the last two days in the early morning, so it is not a walk in the park for our little dog going outside. But, it does keep the coyote troop inside their lair. The daytime temps are mid 60s and if one stands to long in the shade, a jacket is necessary. Those winds we get off of the ocean just make seem a lot colder. Jnaki For those guys/girls elsewhere, there is another wave coming soon. It is in the PNW and we will all feel its effects one way or another. 1956 OKC Hey G, I used to hear stories from my wife of "having to walk to school in the snow..." all of the time. She went to Putnam Elementary in OKC and lived about a block or two away. But, in coastal So Cal, it was virtually unheard of, so I usually nodded...OK. Then she showed me the photo of her family in their last snowy times in OKC. By 1956, her dad got a better job in the So Cal climate near Knotts Berry Farm, Buena Park and then headed West in the 55 Chevy Sedan. But, there is snow on the ground in OKC and she did have to walk to school. Jnaki These days there are no "snow days" in our So Cal area. It is all virtual education for our granddaughter in high school. There is the option of going to some classes, but the teachers will still be on a Zoom type lecture. So, she is staying home for the time being. That is good and bad both rolled into one. I cannot imagine our old days of high school in Long Beach being a virtual locked in place situation. Our whole hot rod/drag race history would have been altered. The daily/weekly cruising in the high school era would also have been altered. Wow. Take care and wait for the next round of storms from out in the Pacific Ocean moving in on us quickly. Then it moves East, as it normally does and hits the Midwest with a vengeance. So, get ready... I can just hear that storm laughing at all of us saying: (altered from The Temptations...) "So get ready, so get ready 'cause here I come (Get ready 'cause here I come) I'm on my way (Get ready 'cause here I come)"
I'm really sorry about your ceiling and glad everybody is ok. Reminds me why I don't have pipes in the attic-or an icemaker in my refrigerator for that matter. Hope it all gets better soon.
Brutal temps in Nebraska but very little problem with power loss, we are staying close to home. I am worried about my truck freezing up as it is outside, but I am pretty out of the scene anyway and prepared to part the truck out come spring. I loved my hot rod lifestyle while it lasted.
I thank my father, for my preparedness! I was raised on a ranch and was always in tune with the weather! As a kid in the fifties we had the privilege of TV and weather forecast. My Dad always, without fail watched the weather report! And I knew not to say a word during this time! Two lessons right there! But on the ranch bad weather moving in meant a whole days work preparing and then long days of work during! But if we hadn’t prepared for it, those days would have been longer! In this storm we actually had a weeks notice it was coming and was going to be a whopper! But a lot of people, in my area, just ignored the warning and did not prepare! Then started blaming everyone but theirselves! It was kinda comical! Thanks again , Dad! Bones
The general lack of what my parents & grandparents called "" life skills" seems very apparent these days .We live in a coddled society !
**Your 'On The Spot Reporter' with a Flash Weather Report from south-central Texas, midway between Austin and San Antonio: The second wave of snow is occurring throughout the day. (Thursday) Looking forward, the prognosis is for a thaw with a high of 60-f and above freezing temps overnight on Saturday. Then spring will start about two days later.** Most of the local problems in my area have been because the city is ill-prepared for the ice/snow/cold conditions so we have experienced rolling blackouts (one night), "rolling water outs" (periodic loss of city water), and unsafe water that must be boiled. We also have had "rolling hoarders" and long lines if and when stores are open.
I was a coddled kid, living in Southern NJ. but, four years of school in Iowa and 10 years of living way back in WV taught me about backups: a generator for electricity, a hand pump for the water system: stocking up food in October, extra gas cans, an axe to back up the chainsaw. Dry socks. Still learning,too. Best of luck to all who are having issues.
Jerry, that Blizzard of 1888 was a bad one. Our little Cemetary in Hermosa also has several graves of kids and adults caught off guard that day
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