We have made it to balmy 20 today. Water came back a good 12 hours later after putting more heat in the pump house yesterday. The heat pump has started to cycle after running for well over 48 hours nonstop but we have stayed warm.
windy 72 combat if it aint broke fix it till it is switchbackcreek.com
im currently on the outs with the wife, so she's sleeping in the house, and im out in the warehouse with the motorcycles. its got 6 inches of insulation and double metal but its not heated
The news is all about hysteria or creating it if none is availble..we heat with wood, 75 degrees inside, about 28F outside, sunny....
61 hot rod A10, 89 Honda 650NT .On a bike you can out run the demons "I don't know what the world may need But a V8 engine is a good start for me Think I'll drive to find a place, to be surly" “
im currently on the outs with the wife, so she's sleeping in the house, and im out in the warehouse with the motorcycles. its got 6 inches of insulation and double metal but its not heated
20 F last night, so things are looking up!
Sounds like its even colder in the house for you. You might think about some heat in the warehouse even if you make back in the house.
windy 72 combat if it aint broke fix it till it is switchbackcreek.com
Not anywhere near as bad cold or snow wise as in the past. I did notice that some of the counties are using a snow fence technique when clearing roads with bigger drifts.Instead of pushing the snow off the road in a mounded berm, They give the bank a shear face. It causes a low pressure area where the wind blows the snow over it, dropping the snow out like a snow fence would. It kept the drifts off the roads for a longer period of time. The drive back from Appleton last night was nicer than the drive up that morning. Lights on because the white outs were just like driving in heavy fog. It helped others to see you coming.
With a bit of research, my knowledge of the American lingo has increased further.
@ Kevin. Too late for this year, but perhaps you need a separate building with a forge, to keep you warm when sleeping out next winter? Is there not a lot of coal in Appalachia?
UK news media reporting that driving is now banned in various areas of New York State.
With a bit of research, my knowledge of the American lingo has increased further.
@ Kevin. Too late for this year, but perhaps you need a separate building with a forge, to keep you warm when sleeping out next winter? Is there not a lot of coal in Appalachia?
UK news media reporting that driving is now banned in various areas of New York State.
Driving sort of bans itself when there's 6 feet of lake-effect snow on the road!
Lannis
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
Furnace had been running for an hour and a half, shut off for 4 minutes , then back on. Gas bill should be large. Weathers much better now so back to normal.
UK news media reporting that driving is now banned in various areas of New York State.
Ha,NY state is 55000 square miles, driving ban is part of Erie County,less than 1000 sq miles. Nothing unusual about temporary driving bans to allow plows to clear the roads..
Driving sort of bans itself when there's 6 feet of lake-effect snow on the road!
Lannis
. Tell that to the ciry born liberals that run the state....
61 hot rod A10, 89 Honda 650NT .On a bike you can out run the demons "I don't know what the world may need But a V8 engine is a good start for me Think I'll drive to find a place, to be surly" “
UK news media reporting that driving is now banned in various areas of New York State.
Ha,NY state is 55000 square miles, driving ban is part of Erie County,less than 1000 sq miles. Nothing unusual about temporary driving bans to allow plows to clear the roads..
Driving sort of bans itself when there's 6 feet of lake-effect snow on the road!
Lannis
. Tell that to the ciry born liberals that run the state....
I don't know anything about New York intramural politics. All l know is that if there were 80 inches of snow on the ground, no one would have to implement a legal ban on driving in order to keep me off the roads!
Lannis
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
30 minutes from Me and Hillbilly the Interstate is closed from Rochester to the Pennsylvania border as of today. Buffalo area will have received over 100" since Friday. More forecast for today. Artic air moving over Lake Erie picked up warmer moisture from the lake and dumps it. Wind is coming from the west so we are getting none of it. We're used to snow, the high winds made everything horrendous.
30 minutes from Me and Hillbilly the Interstate is closed from Rochester to the Pennsylvania border as of today. Buffalo area will have received over 100" since Friday. More forecast for today. Artic air moving over Lake Erie picked up warmer moisture from the lake and dumps it. Wind is coming from the west so we are getting none of it. We're used to snow, the high winds made everything horrendous.
I'd have to move, I'm just either not motivated enough or not tough enough to live my daily life in those conditions.
No snow here in Virginia, temps in the 50-60 degF range this week coming up. Shop heater is on, working on the Moto Giro bike this week, always slow going being the first one in 60 years to love on and caress a bike rather than just whipping and abusing it.....
Lannis
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
Yes, this intense blizzard is not common around here...It's bad made far worse by people caught unprepared.. No matter what, earthquakes, fires, floods tornandoes etc are much worse...
61 hot rod A10, 89 Honda 650NT .On a bike you can out run the demons "I don't know what the world may need But a V8 engine is a good start for me Think I'll drive to find a place, to be surly" “
It got pretty cold here but nothing out of the ordinary. We never got the winds and rain/snow they predicted, and power never went out. Best Christmas present we got.
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I live 14 miles south of Sun Valley Idaho to us the heavier the snow the more $$ in the local economy. We will get crazy amounts of snow most winters here but when it is out of my driveway and the sun comes out at 6,500 feet it is off the charts beautiful here and I love it. For 8 months of the year I am in the middle of miles of curvy two lane black top with minimal traffic . I'm not going anywhere.
Always a conundrum. We get some real shitty weather and the taxes are high but western and central NY is beautiful and very rural. The summers here are a bit cooler than Virginia and allow for similar riding time to Idaho. Of course your mountains are bigger. I guess that's why there are so many snow birds.
Here in Ottawa, we have about 50 cm of snow on the ground. My train got cancelled to get back to Toronto, and unfortunately spent Christmas alone. Having said that, we have no control over the weather, and it took a lot of holiday pressure off! Spent Christmas Eve polishing fork legs with a pint, and it was lovely! Hope everyone else affected is ok.
I don't know anything about New York intramural politics. All l know is that if there were 80 inches of snow on the ground, no one would have to implement a legal ban on driving in order to keep me off the roads!
Precisely! Those Buffalo residents have plenty of experience with this sort of weather but they still think they can drive in anything. Don't blame politics if you can't stand to run out of beer during a weather emergency. Yes, we dumb southerners stay home when it snows!
We had four days of single digit temperatures and nothing over freezing. Light snow on Friday and again on Monday, nothing really but it didn't melt until today. I rode down to the lake yesterday, first time I ever saw it frozen. Really more of a slush, but firm enough to show the snow on top. I left my skates in the closet.
"> Those Buffalo residents have plenty of experience with this sort of weather but they still think they can drive in anything.<"
In the UK, it doesn't take much snow to stop the traffic, the wide summer tyres on many cars don't help. Even proper offroaders with decent tyres can only keep going until a snowdrift lifts the chassis up and the wheels spin. Escape by shovelling is possible, but not if the snow is driftng quicker than the shoveller can clear.
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