This winter is kicking my ass. Cant get moving, cant get anything done. Hope you're all fairing better
I'm just south of you are people here are calling it a bad winter. Really? Its actually pretty nice and we've only had 12" of snow once. I'm out in the Ford all the time, a bit of a chore with the cam, air-gap intake and manual choke, but I drive it. The heater works well. So we get a few days in a row where it gets below 10.
The weather is about the only thing I miss about Colorado Springs. It really is very mild through the winter and you can enjoy your Hotrod year round. My garage there wasn't big enough to work in but it was usually nice enough to work out in the driveway. Sent from my A521L using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Perhaps a CD shaped scraper housed in a broken CD case... in honor of Ryan's South Texas tribulations? But seriously, remember those vintage plastic scrapers with advertising on them? That might be cool.
Experienced outdoor drinkers know that plunging them in a snowbank will keep them from freezing. They will lock up in the open air like that.
A friend told me that our first snow was Oct.26th which is early for this art of Canada. That snow stayed and has been piling up and likely won't go until April. That is going to make for a longer than normal winter. A Canadian perspective is good insulation & heat is a good friend. I have 100 below Sorel Glacier boots and a down parka that makes winter comfortable for the really cold days. My truck has antifreeze, 195 degree thermometer so it gets toasty warm in a couple minutes and a set of BFG All Terrains that will push through snow up to the bumpers. Winters seem to be warmer than when I was a kid but now it is unpredictable in the extremes that it throws all across the continent all year round. 2 years ago there was torrential rains that caused flooding in my town where the probability of that would be in the negative numbers. Back to heat & insulation being your friend. The insulation also keeps it significantly cooler and easier to cool if so inclined. I was in Atlanta about 20 yrs ago when it was super humid and black skies. There was a tornado that hit on the edge of the city with minor damage. The windows in the hotel were single pane and with the A/C the waters was condensing so it was difficult to see outside. Felt a little uncomfortable in severe conditions with a tornado watch. I was in Houston when a hurricane was bearing down on it at a category 5 and I flew out about 3 hours before it was to hit landfall. As luck would have it the hurricane hit a patch of cold water and spun off towards Louisianna as a bad rain storm. The pilot turned the airplane so the passengers could see the hurricane that looked like the top of a nuclear mushroom cloud laying on top of a field of black clouds. Uncomfortable being on the 14th floor of a glass walled hotel with a hurricane bearing down. I was at a papermill in New Bern NC & while I was there an employee was tagged in the mill yard by a water moccasin. I was in Texas for a couple weeks in the summer where it seemed incredibly hot and glad to get home. Happy to stay up where it is cold & go where it is warm when I want to. I guess weather is relative to what a person is used to & not used to.
This is from the shit ass weather Ryan was talking about. Complete horseshit! It's rad if you live in a "cold" climate. 4 seasons. All that junk. F the snow. Colder in the shop than outside. And in Texas February is usually worse. Bring in Mother Nature you *#^~€£>#%^.
I was a RCAF pilot stationed in Laredo TX for 3 years, 70-73, and we had snow down there a couple of times. What a disaster, with all the cars and their bald tires, there was a car wrapped around every pole. It was hilarious for a northerner. Last night, on the wet coast, we had rain that turned to 6 inches of sloppy snow that is as heavy as water. I have been out shovelling all day, and I am willing to bet that if I hadn't shovelled, it would snow some more, and because I did shovel, it will rain and all be washed away by Monday. I can't win, but it is mild, about 45 F. Bob
A little cold and snow is good for ya. Helps to enjoy every summer day that you can get out and go for a drive.
philo426 It's not a Fairchild they were C-123. It's a DeHavilland Caribou The majority of Caribou production was for military operators, but the type's ruggedness and excellent STOL capabilities also appealed to a select group of commercial users. US certification was awarded on 23 December 1960. AnsettMAL, which operated a single example in the New Guinea highlands, and AMOCO Ecuador were early customers, as was Air America (a CIA front in South East Asia during the Vietnam War era for covert operations). Other Caribou entered commercial service after being retired from their military users. In later years, some civilian Caribou were modified to turboprop standard, with varying successes. Today only a handful of Caribou, in any variant, are in civilian use.
Flying Boxcar was a C119 built by Fairchild some times called C82 Packet also referred to as a Dollar Ninteen. It was the plane used in the Flight of the Phoenix. Paul Mantzflew the plane in the movie and died when it crashed onJuly 8 1965. Frank Tallman was suppose too fly the plane but had a broken leg and got Paul Mantz to take place. If you remembered the older movies where they flew airplanes thru bill board, under bridges, thru hangers these were the men doing it.
I think those are some great pictures especially the Xmas trees at night, and I could stand the cold to see it in person.Frank
I'll say it, I LIKE winter! But like Racer29 mentioned we get 50s-70s off and on all winter long. Should get another arctic blast next week tho. Right now, a sunny 18 degrees and I just did a pizza on the grill for LilT and his friends and am now BBQing some yardbird
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