Snowmageddon on the way

a reply to: JAGStorm

Holding, that's about it. Still got water and power, even though it never got above 20°F all day. It's back to 9.7°F on the porch, but holding. The critters all survived last night; hopefully they can handle one more night of it.

Had a couple of instances where the lights dimmed today, but never went out. There's one county near me that is begging people to curb electrical usage to avoid outages. Kinda hard to do... my heat strips in the heat pump are running about 80% of the time. This is gonna be one heck of a power bill!

Christmas was supposed to be today, but it has been postponed till next Saturday. My son couldn't get out of his neighborhood for the ice. He watched his neighbor try it and decided no way.

It's supposed to start a slow warm-up after tonight, actually getting up to freezing by Sunday and 60°F by Thursday. I hate winter!

TheRedneck

a reply to: MrNewWorldOrder

Gonna remember that when you start complaining about 110°F in the shade with no shade in sight...

TheRedneck

a reply to: TheRedneck

To be fair, I've never seen people complain so much about some cold weather, wind and snow (in winter of all times!). YOu are making it out to be worse than COVID, like the world is ending. Don't worry, snow and ice does tend to melt. As IO daid, we call the phenomenon 'weather'.

originally posted by: MrNewWorldOrder
a reply to: TheRedneck

To be fair, I've never seen people complain so much about some cold weather, wind and snow (in winter of all times!). YOu are making it out to be worse than COVID, like the world is ending. Don't worry, snow and ice does tend to melt. As IO daid, we call the phenomenon 'weather'.

The educational aspect of this thread is revealing how really strange this weather event is.

Even on Windy, it looks like a giant bowl of spaghetti with huge meatballs rolling around. A person in one county can be fairly comfortable but next to them trees are going into peoples houses and the next town over, semi trailers are jack-knifing all over the highways.

there are temperature differentials of 20-50 degrees within as little as 10 miles. Crazy - and it fits rather perfectly with this Crazy F....n year. Good Riddance.




[Addend] If you have program "Windy" (or not, just bring it up from windy.com) , fill the screen with the US and Canada and then take a look at the overall temperature and wind overlays. Really incredible. Look at the temps being sucked out of Canada and the clockwise and counter clockwise cloud vortices on each coast in satellite view.

a reply to: MrNewWorldOrder

I'm not sure where you're at, but I'm betting it's somewhere far north of me.

People get acclimated and effect infrastructures based on the normal weather where they live. Here, it is rare for the weather to drop below 20°F, but summertime temperatures can run over 100°F regularly. Both are hazardous to human life. and both require some amount of mitigation. You probably use a furnace to put out enough heat to keep you comfortable. Down here, a furnace would be a stupid idea; we need as much cooling in the summer as we do heating in the winter. We use heat pumps that provide both. Heat pumps are just notoriously inefficient at temperatures below freezing, which we rarely have.

Mine right now is using the heat strips continuously, which is damn expensive. The temperature is showing two degrees below set point anyway. It's 9.9°F outside, far below what we normally experience, and this house is well-insulated for this area.

I also have animals I have to consider. They need shelter from the cold during this as well, but only during times like this. We don't need special heated shelters normally, so we don't have them.

You probably have a few dozen at least salt trucks, and you have experience driving through snow. We have one sand truck for the entire county and most people here have never driven in snow. Those who have, have spent maybe a couple hours in their entire life doing it.

Your homes are built with 2x6 walls and R-19 or better insulation. Ours don't need that, so we use 2x4 exterior walls and R-13 or better insulation.

On the other hand, every summer I hear about people up north complaining about the heat, including some people dying from heat stroke. Down here we know how to handle heat, and we get along just fine. The heat stroke victims we have are displaced Yankees who shouldn't be here in the first place. On the other hand, we will have a lot of deaths from hypothermia before this is all over.

So take your holier-than-thou attitude and shove it, Yankee.

TheRedneck

a reply to: MrNewWorldOrder

By the way, I've had the Chinese virus. 24 hours and it was gone, and I'm high-risk: 61 with heart failure.

My wife had it the same time. She's 59 with Type II diabetes, so also high risk. Took her 36 hours to shake the damn thing off. No hospital or even doctor for either of us... didn't need it.

This is far, far worse for us that the Chinese virus ever could have been.

TheRedneck

Another app for the wind.

zoom.earth...=42.1,-88.8,5z/model=icon

originally posted by: LSU2018

originally posted by: Bloodworth
Looks like rain for NY.

Weather today is broadcasted to the extreme and people act like this has never happened before.

I can count, on one hand, how many times I've experienced weather this cold where I'm at. Once in the early 90's, 2021 and now 2022. Very cold down here is 20°, rarely we'll get temps in the teens.

How you holding up?

originally posted by: MrNewWorldOrder
a reply to: TheRedneck

To be fair, I've never seen people complain so much about some cold weather, wind and snow (in winter of all times!). YOu are making it out to be worse than COVID, like the world is ending. Don't worry, snow and ice does tend to melt. As IO daid, we call the phenomenon 'weather'.

For areas that don't normally see it, southern Arctic snaps are a BITCH.

If you are like me and have transplanted yourself from one climate to another (FL to MI for us) then YOU ACCLIMATE. As in, over time, you learn to manage the weather of your new locale.

That does not fly when it's a 2 or 3 days long bottoming out, but only every decade or two.


Disengage yo head from yo ass.

a reply to: mikell

Buffalo and New York State

Gov. Hochul: 'I'm sending in the National Guard'

I now live 20 miles West of downtown Columbia, South Carolina. As of 11:00am Saturday 12-24-22 its 14 degrees. Its sunny and the winds have slowed down but still cold as hell.

In Buffalo, New York my brother says their sewer line connect froze. The entire county is under a state of emergency. Its around 12 degrees now as it was at zero last night. According to a sister in law its as bad as The Blizzard of 1977. The North Towns are being hammered with 70 mph wind gusts. Snow near 6 feet!

The mayor of Buffalo is without power. Entire region getting slammed.

Here in NE indiana it been a coldmegeddon.. Windchills in -30 range and temps typically -5 on Friday..a balmy 0 today still some steady wind so far.

Many accidents

Just extended the blizzard warning to 7 tonight, Saturday, Christmas eve and everyone wants to go and the roads are closed.

People just do'n't get it. They are asking if the roads are open and everyone online says no then one idiot says he heard they are fine and that makes them happy and away they go.

Local wrecker service is posting he's shutting his phone off at 5 this afternoon and everybody is having a fit. He's telling everyone to say home.

Cooollldddddd and windy still here. SE MI more or less.
A balmy 10 degrees.
House is colder today, as the earth around here is frozen.

Good thing we didn't get anywhere near the snow forecast.
Drifting snow on all roads.
Salt doing the best it can.

Some stores and businesses closed early yesterday.

a reply to: mikell

It takes 4 years to get acclimated to the climate of a certain area.
I actually think cold weather is easier to acclimate to than very hot/humid.

I’ve moved all over the world from one extreme to another. It takes exactly 4 years to dress similar to locals and get blood adjusted.

When I first moved back north from Florida it was 60 and I was FREEZING. Now that I’ve lived here a while, 60 is almost too warm. The high schoolers only started wearing coats this week, and that is not an exaggeration.

So for my Southern friends, I feel for you, I know this cold is so much colder for you than it is for us.
So when we have 90 degrees in the summer, feel some empathy for us too

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: mikell

It takes 4 years to get acclimated to the climate of a certain area.
I actually think cold weather is easier to acclimate to than very hot/humid.

Took me a full 5 years to acclimate to the heat of the Sonora Desert. And the "tricks" you learn to cope.

Now I don't want to live anywhere else.

I hope everyone is safe and warm.

I have family in Alaska. Haven't heard from them in a couple days, but they've been there many years -- I'm sure they're OK.

It's called weather. Happened since the dawn of time. I am surprised you people belive in it, like the climate change. When I was small there was a lot more snow and ice in winter. Either you young or you well forgot with the fake media.

Well Merry Christmas to all and congratulations on surviving the Christmas Blizzard of 2022.

Lots of lake effect snow coming off from Lake Michigan. The wind has slowed enough it's sitting on the ground and building a couple of inches an hour!

Most main roads and expressways are open, but snow covered. The back roads are still plugged with stuck cars and Amazon trucks.

originally posted by: MrNewWorldOrder
It's called weather. Happened since the dawn of time. I am surprised you people belive in it, like the climate change. When I was small there was a lot more snow and ice in winter. Either you young or you well forgot with the fake media.

The thing about the past.

Selective memory.

I'm so lucky my pipes busted now my kitchen ceiling is raining and the fricken plumbers I called 6 hours ago are still not here must of blown in my upstairs bath now It really just blew downstairs also sounded like a hydrant going . Got the cold water to upstairs turned of but the hot water turn off is stuck so I had to shut the hot off for the whole damn house - Merry Christmas !

OH I consider myself kinda on the smart side but who knew hot water freezes faster then cold ?

Well, I'm still here...

Critters all survived. No pressure leaks in the house (won't know until Thursday about the outside plumbing). But it's been an experience! We got hit, for the first time in my life here, with a "rolling blackout." Planned cutoff for 30 minutes (turned out to be more like 45). My house temperature dropped 7 degrees, the resulting surge when it came back on almost messed up my heat pump, and it took my Internet out for four days.

Icy, bitter cold from Friday through Sunday, still cold but on a more normal level for the area. Then Monday night we got hit with snow on the frozen ground... much nastiness ensued on the roadways Tuesday morning. The entire county was shut down, as was a neighboring county. The larger cities were just one big pile-up until the weather warmed.

Now they're warning about rolling water outages... "Everyone leave your faucets dripping so your water doesn't freeze!" turned into "Everyone conserve water! We're running out!" Then, as soon as the temps got high enough, all those inevitable pipe bursts came to life. So far they haven't actually shut off my water. This summer, I have got to finish getting my well back in operating condition!

TheRedneck