Wicked Cold Weather This Week

[dryhumor]

What I don't get is exactly why drama is now the top of the agenda in weather forecasts.

???

Just give me some facts and I'll decide for myself if panic is a sound reaction.

Hint - panic is NEVER a sound reaction.

That bread, eggs and milk ain't gonna do you no good if the power is out.

The drama probably has to do with the limited availability of common sense nowadays. And even with the drama and reminders, people still freeze to death or die from carbon monoxide poisoning. Or end up in ditches, upside down, or hit trees thinking a little snow isn’t that bad.

You can tell a lot by various NOAA radar profiles, Windfinder, a site that shows realtime wind data, humidity and barometric pressure readings at the closest airport or weather station, and temperatures. I have two analog barometers here at the house, one outside RH and thermometer.

 

[CJ6]

What I don't get is exactly why drama is now the top of the agenda in weather forecasts.

???

Just give me some facts and I'll decide for myself if panic is a sound reaction.

Hint - panic is NEVER a sound reaction.

That bread, eggs and milk ain't gonna do you no good if the power is out.

They call it camping.

 

[dellet]

They call it camping.

I’ll take things you can cook on a gas stove with a skillet for $1000 Alex.

 

[joshb]

What I don't get is exactly why drama is now the top of the agenda in weather forecasts.

???

Just give me some facts and I'll decide for myself if panic is a sound reaction.

Hint - panic is NEVER a sound reaction.

That bread, eggs and milk ain't gonna do you no good if the power is out.

Ya wanna know what really ticks me off? My wife bought a new gas stove a few years ago. I got up to make coffee and the power was out. No biggy! I put a pan of water on the stove. The gas wouldn’t flow without power! THAT’s JUST STUPID!! I had to go outside to the gas grill.

 

[DShortt]

They call it camping.

The fluorescent green-haired-gender- confused idiots with toilet paper and perishables falling out of the heaping cart before storms know NOTHING about camping.

 

[LPToes]

In Wayne County, West Virginia, the residents are without potable water for nearly three weeks now. Some people may have wells, but most are using bottled. I'm not in that county, but have experience similar a dozen or so years ago when a bunch of coal cleaning liquid leaked into The Kanawha River, and was sucked up into the municipal water system.

We have a campground a few miles from my home. There, many of the campers come to rough-it in luxury suites on wheels. A few have tents, all bring toilet paper (at least I hope).

We all depend on technology.

 

[GotRDid]

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Ya wanna know what really ticks me off? My wife bought a new gas stove a few years ago. I got up to make coffee and the power was out. No biggy! I put a pan of water on the stove. The gas wouldn’t flow without power! THAT’s JUST STUPID!! I had to go outside to the gas grill.

Crazy!

 

[Will Henry]

Ya wanna know what really ticks me off? My wife bought a new gas stove a few years ago. I got up to make coffee and the power was out. No biggy! I put a pan of water on the stove. The gas wouldn’t flow without power! THAT’s JUST STUPID!! I had to go outside to the gas grill.

When I built our house, we searched pretty hard to find a non-electric gas stove. Same for the hot water tank. We got the stove 30 years ago and it still works fine. 100 pounds of propane lasts about six months. Prior to that, we used a wood cookstove.
Now, if we are without power, we can still cook and still heat the house (we heat with wood) but we now have an electric hot water tank so we only have 40 gallons of hot water. The longest we have been without power was about 36 hours. Much longer than that and I have to run a generator for the freezer and fridge.
Last year, I bought a new Kubota SSV75 skidsteer. I was feeling pretty cocky as winter approached. We have a 1/2 mile long driveway and I was going to be able to clear snow from the comfort of a heated cab. We barely got enough snow to turn the driveway white. The new Kubota has just been sitting in the drive. WH

 

[Fuj]

There's been times I had to make coffee and cook on the wood stove.
New digs, I do need to put a wood stove in, but do have an old school
gas stove, so good there. We do have a small generator in the garage,
so there is always that in a major emergency, and can run it on NG.
Were on well water so no power no water, thus the generator for that
also. Feels like I'm camping every day.....LOL

Joking with my son about leaving the plow truck on the lift and the
power goes out. the following week he wired in a cut off box with a
220V extension cord to plug into the generator......Sh!t happens !!

 

[dryhumor]

Coffee is one thing I will absolutely not go without in the mornings.

Best case, have power. Worse case, propane bottle and fish cooker. Really worse case, dig out my 40+ year old copper ghillie kettle and get it going.

 

[fx77]

Longest without power and internet was 15 days after Hurricane Sandy.
But
Have a natural gas powered generator ( as do many in my area) with a transfer auto switch. It's heart is a small block Chevy 350 engine which can run forever it seems.. Flawless electricity heat and how water. . The kitchen ovens are not on the circuit but the gas /indiuction cooktop and microwave are, as well as the garage door openers and security system lights alarm etc.
Had no problem. but could not believe how dependent I and the business were on the internet.

 

[rjtfroggy]

I haven't been this cold since the early 90's when I was servicing furnaces and working on the fire dept.
Day time temps the last 3 days have reached 30-32 degrees but the nights are still in the single digits and the forecast is even colder. This weekend is calling for single digits and winds in the 50 mph. range so feel like temps are looking to be -25 or less (won't be leaving the house), I might have to fire up the wood stove.
My shoulder will not be happy, but it will get over it, I have just over a cord of cut wood, but I'll need to snow blow a path out to it. Will probably live in the living room for a few days.
I've lived in the northeast all my life and there was a time I was out in this crap all the time, now that I'm 74 and more screws and metal joints in me, I can't stand it anymore. This being cold all the time started 5 years ago when my bladder and prostate were removed, they say (doctors) there is no connection I say BS.
Too old to move south so I guess I'll just become a HERMIT.

 

[Fuj]

This all reminds me that long ago, there was one certain Minute Man gas
station in our area that had a pump for white gas. Everyone had several
Coleman lanterns and stoves for backup survival, and normal use for the
hunting camps. Anyone still have the old pump up stove or the newer
propane models ??

 

[Dgd6mm]

I can remember pulling into the 76 station with my Dad in the early 70's to get some white gas for our Coleman lanterns for camping. I miss those days, and my Dad.

 

[DogBuster]

The west is basking a large high pressure dome

Sunny and 55* today in Utah at 6200’

28* overnight

We’ll pay for this come spring…until then

Today’s hike

 

[CJ6]

This all reminds me that long ago, there was one certain Minute Man gas
station in our area that had a pump for white gas. Everyone had several
Coleman lanterns and stoves for backup survival, and normal use for the
hunting camps. Anyone still have the old pump up stove or the newer
propane models ??

We have 2 old Coleman stoves and a lantern too.

 

[fx77]

This all reminds me that long ago, there was one certain Minute Man gas
station in our area that had a pump for white gas. Everyone had several
Coleman lanterns and stoves for backup survival, and normal use for the
hunting camps. Anyone still have the old pump up stove or the newer
propane models ??

Yes I have lanterns and a stove to boil water from a previous hurricane in about 1981 in my AO

 

[joshb]

Today, we almost hit 80! You northerners should think about moving down! Maybe some of you Floridians (ebb & Ggmac) should move over. We need more gun toters around these parts!
Woulda been a great day at the range, but I was stuck inside doing plumbing and drywall.

 

[Dgd6mm]

At the range today in North Central Florida it was 65* for a high with 15mph winds. I did some ammo testing for my wife CZ457 American 22lr. It was a great day. I woke up this morning with ice on my Nissan Rogue and frost covered ground. Next week should be nice to head to the 850 yard range at Bradford Sporting Farm.