Weather? I apologize to all Texans!

[Dgd6mm]

Woke up to a nice 30 something degrees this morning. Ten deer feeding in the front yard. North Florida.

 

[Adam in WI]

You'll get used to the cold. When I walked out this morning and jumped in the truck I thought it was looking like a nice day; the sun is shining and it feels a little warmer....


In the dash the temp reads -10°

 

[GotRDid]

 

[ronsatspokane]

Coming down harder now...all is well.
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Just trying to keep ahead of it and watching for yotes.
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and hanging out with the boys.
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Stay warm.

Nice looking healer. I miss ours.

 

[jr600yd]

My dog is so confused. He’s a Texas rescue mutt and never before seen snow. I let him out to take a crap and all he does is whine and look back at me. He can’t find any grass to crap on. Wonder if he’ll explode in a day or so? I think it’s funny
Yeah cabin fevers setting in.

 

[skeeljc]

Look to Texas as the bellwether for the Liberals Green New Deal!

 

[1911nut]

How do the windmills in North Dakota and Canada work in the winter?

 

[yotehater]

Nice looking healer. I miss ours.

We just buried our 13 year old before this ice storm hit. We rescued him at 1 yr old and he was deaf as a post. We called him Lucky. He started having seizures and passed away on the way to the vet after a bad one last week. He always hated the Christmas photos and this was his last one.

 

[snakepit]

Ho hum....just another balmy Iowa day. 20" of snow on the ground....10 below.

Later
Dave

I grew up in Iowa so I know how brutal the winters can be. I have lived in Texas 43 years and when people in Iowa ask me how it is to live where it is so hot I just tell them that the difference between Texas heat and Iowa cold is that the heat can be uncomfortable but that cold can be painful.

 

[Brians356]

Consider that Texas is nearly 90% snow-covered, with up to 9 inches in E. Texas. Of course the far SW US has largely escaped the freeze and snow. But, here's an oddity: Despite the extreme cold, about 1/2 of N. Dakota, 1/3 of S. Dakota and part of E. Montana are completely free of snow cover today. (The olive green in this NOAA map.) This region as simply been bypassed by the series of storms crossing the continent.

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[Grimstod]

Is God telling Texas to Succeed?

 

[geralton4]

 

[nmkid]

Mean while in Wyoming:
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Ahhhh. Memories of my 16 years in Wyoming!

 

[Medic505]

Remove the greentard, government subsidies from those foreign turbines and you won't see so many!

That's a fact.

 

[LHSmith]

How do the windmills in North Dakota and Canada work in the winter?

Don't know -wondered myself. Not enough wind to keep them moving? I do know they catch fire and there is no way to put it out. In my neck of the woods, there is an ever increasing resistance by residents to local plans to install wind farms. When Nancy , Chuck, and lil joe have them in their neighborhood, them I know the real SCIENCE for their use has been sound and they have been perfected.

 

[FNSafari]

You Texans want to get on top of this snow? Visit this website in Maine and order yourself one of the best personal snow moving devices on the planet....no kidding, really! I have nothing to do with the company but know the owner. He bought an old Cincinnati Millacron injection moulding machine, refurbed it and the rest is history.

Mt Waldo Plastics | Made in Maine Products

 

[KMart]

Had a good laugh today. Tried to log into my Credit Union last night and it said they were having trouble with the weather. Today still can't log on,but was able to get through with the phone finally. She said the trouble was in Texas! And I'm in VT. .

During my working years, located on the Texas gulf coast, our company Credit Union headquarters was located in New Martinsville, Wv. All loan requests etc had to go through them. That equated into a day or 2 delay in approvals. After retiring, a 20 mile phone call to my CU office had to be routed through New Martinsville. I am no longer a customer.
I feel your pain.

 

[Texas10]

"largely due to market forces"? Pure BS from the left. It's due to massive government expansion and intrusion, driven by leftist agenda.

And to suggest that they don't have a "huge financial risk"? Total excrement. The world's largest -- at the time -- windpower installation, in the Altamont Pass of Livermore, California comprised more than 8,000 windmills. That was in the mid-1980s. Ten years later, more than 75% of the windmills were inoperable and not cost effective to repair. And the Sierra Club was complaining about the bird kill caused by the technology. Nowadays, the windmills out there are about as commonplace as in the Netherlands, i.e. not very.

Solar not a huge financial risk? Somebody has a short (or conveniently-selective) memory. Ever hear of Solyndra? But maybe you don't think that $500M is huge financial risk.

As to wiring your generator to your breaker panel, does it run on icky gasoline? Or icky propane? Or is it a solar or wind-powered generator?

You are a true warrior in the tribal warfare that has degenerated our political process. No longer can we simply disagree and move on to a compromise, we must name call and fight to the death anyone who does not fall in line with the tribe. Facts and compromise is not longer important, giving way to anger and confrontation. Lies become fact when repeated often enough, or so said Gingrich. Many seem to have an insatiable hunger for those lies.

I happen to know quite well the wind turbine farm on Altamont Pass. I've lived in the area for 40 years and know people who were working in market, and I often drove or flew past the ever changing landscape there. That whole first of its kind foray into wind energy was instrumental in the development of the technology. I saw new designs go up, only to fail within minutes of being turned on, blades literally flying off seconds after starting up. A friend of mine started a business of repairing blades that failed. He was in business only a short time, going bankrupt after the customer couldn't pay the bill for the dozens of blades he repaired and strengthened.

But some lasted months and years, eventually being replaced by newer, bigger turbines. Amazingly the ugly vertical axis turbines lasted decades, or a least if they quit generating they still appeared to operate. Don't know.

Today's turbines are much larger, much more powerful and robust against mother nature's ills. That could not have happened without the political will that enabled the Altamont Pass wind field, the first attempt at tackling that technology, and one now accepted world wide as a reliable generator of electricity. They continued to work in the Texas cold as gas and coal fueled power plants failed. That is a fact!

 

[KMart]

You Texans want to get on top of this snow? Visit this website in Maine and order yourself one of the best personal snow moving devices on the planet....no kidding, really! I have nothing to do with the company but know the owner. He bought an old Cincinnati Millacron injection moulding machine, refurbed it and the rest is history.

Mt Waldo Plastics | Made in Maine Products

A waste of money and effort. They will be brittle and break by the time we next need them. It would be one more thing i would have to add to my will.

 

[joshb]

Sorry! I’m an old farmer. I would never buy a plastic shovel. Time was, I’d buy a new spade and drop it off at the welding shop so they could weld a section of 2” steel pipe around the shaft, from the blade to the handle. Otherwise, it would break the first time I used it.