**** freezing rain

Where is that pic from? We didn't get any ice in KC.

"I like winter"


https://i.gifer.com/jge.gif

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fielding phone calls this morning from southern meteorologists who don’t have to forecast wintry weather all that often to confirm what they’re seeing. Conclusion: freezing rain is THE WORST.</p>&mdash; Cody Matz (@CodyMatzFox9) <a href="https://twitter.com/CodyMatzFox9/status/1360983309019406343?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Had to share. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Snowmageddon2021?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Snowmageddon2021</a> <a href="https://t.co/bOlgmbzGf6">pic.twitter.com/bOlgmbzGf6</a></p>&mdash; #TodayInSports (@TodayInSports3) <a href="https://twitter.com/TodayInSports3/status/1361137904899211268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Oregon. My cousin's car.

LMAO this fat husky gives no ****s

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuPaO0dW...jpg&name=large

I’m at 17 and it’s snowing. Odd weather for here. It’s funny watching people freak out.

Mine either.. He was out all day and yesterday. Finds some sun, then plops down, right there

As for me. Its so cold out,I cant sleep.

It's currently zero here in Northern Illinois and -7 in Kansas City.

OTOH, it's 20 in Buffalo and 25 in Juneau.

:spock:

It's a balmy -14 this morning on the front range. Breezy enough for the weather guys to issue a wind chill warning. I think the wind chill is about -25 to -30 right now but will get worse when the sun comes up and the wind picks up.

Lots of thoughts and prayers for you guys last night.

Hang in there!

-24. Not much else to say about it.

Hope the brass monkey has thermals on.

I pay people to do the snow too, if we get enough. If it's less than 1.5 inches I just don't really worry about it.

Yeah. I can actually drive on snow even though I don't seek it out. In Ice you have no chance. We don't have near as much ice storms up here as they do in Northern Texas and Oklahoma. They have ice storms all the time and they are BRUTAL. I was in OKC 5 years ago and it iced, you couldn't really see it, it came on fast and you couldn't go over 20 mph without sliding. It was insane and the most difficult driving conditions I've ever driven in. It's more than a - they don't know how to drive in wintery conditions deal. Most Oklahoman's probably know how to drive on ice better than KC residents do because they encounter it more.

www.poweroutage.us

Click on a state and you can see who's ****ed

We've been shutting down sites and cancelling orders and drivers like crazy on sites in Texas the past two days here at Amazon.

I bet Amazon has sold millions of space heaters.

We’ve been out of power since 1 AM. House is pretty well insulated so we’re still in the 60s but I’m seeing reports it won’t be on until tomorrow.

In February 2007 180K Iowans lost power because of a Ice Storm.
I remember because all my extended family stayed with me, under candlelight and home heated by wood for about a week.
It was a zoo and all my food quickly disappeared.
At least we didn't need a freezer.
My kids still call our house the Apocalypse House.

I think Breda Iowa did not have power for 2 weeks. Dad was on REC board in Calhoun County. Some lines had 20 breaks per mile. They replaced a lot of lines. Dad put in a line switch and bought an 8000 watt generator. So he can stay warm and watch cowboy movies. He used it once or twice. It had 80 hours on it when I took it.

Reading your stories it makes me happy knowing we have a gas furnace that will run without juice.

How does the fan and pilot light work? Sounds like the thing to have where I live lol

What about the blower or electronic igniter?
Just curious, because it has been so long since I have had a furnace. My backup heat is a electric mini split system and I only use it to cool my place, rarely for heat.

-6 at home right now with drifting snow unfortunately I am in Nashville at my daughters looks like bout 1/2” of sleet on the ground.

It is an old floor furnace that only radiates heat.



We have mini-splits for A/C, and they have heat pumps but we never use them. The floor furnace is a monster.

Floor furnace......Coleman? Looks like a grate.
We had one in a house- ran on LP. It was awesome.

It's old-school.

I light the pilot with a stick lighter or blowtorch through the basement. It can be set to run continuous if the electricity goes out and the thermostat/solenoid doesn't have juice to activate the gas flow valve.

Similar to this, only larger.

https://www.allstateplumbingheatingc...ir-experts.jpg

Almost every house built before 1950 has them out here.

https://media.improvenet.craftjack.i...%20Furnace.jpg ?????

Genius!

Genius is developed through survival. The tough settlers out here had to go through some rough shit so they figured it out. :D

YEP!

We shut down sites in Nashville too.....

Yeah, **** that.

ASSHOLE!

We need our amazon shit!

Bezo steps down and the place goes to hell

I can see it ,looks slick outside and more to come

If we don't get our season 3 of Yellowstone by the weekend, so help me God...

Our first order just "disappeared" a week ago.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bands of heavy snow possible within the I-80 corridor in Iowa. Heaviest rates will generally be near 1 in. per hour and will diminish by 2-3 PM CST. <a href="https://t.co/gNTHKrKyE8">https://t.co/gNTHKrKyE8</a></p>&mdash; National Weather Service (@NWS) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWS/status/1363506307081396227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I can’t handle more snow

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">the &quot;cool&quot; video of the day... <a href="https://t.co/Es1NStoHwO">https://t.co/Es1NStoHwO</a></p>&mdash; ian leonard (@ian_leonard) <a href="https://twitter.com/ian_leonard/status/1364048706350288900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I was in TX (Ft Hood) for work last week when the Winter storm hit and blackouts started happening everywhere.

Sat 2/13 I was on base, Freezing rain started to hit hard. Base shut down early as roads were closing/getting bad due to the weather. So it was about a half day, left to return to hotel around lunch. Tried to order some togo food, stop in a drive thru, everyone was leaving/closing due to weather. Luckily HEB store behind my hotel was open and so I go a bunch of groceries to last a few days since I assumed nothing was gonna be open the next day, including the base.

Sun 2/14...base closed down, sat in hotel all day and day drank. Sun night it snowed pretty good.

Mon 2/15 Actually made driving conditions better as the snow packed on top of the ice for better tread. Worked on base all day. By this point, HEB was a madhouse, lines going outside doors and around building, people fighting. Insane. Mon night power got knocked out in area. It was late so I just finished watching a movie on my phone as I dozed off. Our work project was set to complete on Tues, so I had set to check out Tues morning.

When I woke up 2/16, I still didn't have power and other places around hotel were without power. At the time I thought it was just my area, called my coworker who said base shut down again lol. He was staying at hotel down the road, they did have power. So I checked out and made my way over there to see if I could get a room because I didn't think every hotel in area would be booked up due to rolling blackouts and people without water.

I just wanted a room with power. I drove back south towards Austin to see if I ran into anything avaliable. There wasn't. I tried about 20 hotels on phone app and stopped in about handful of places as I saw them on the way.

Finally by accident found a Comfort Inn in Georgetown TX, about halfway from Ft Hood to Austin. A guy was checking out when I walked in and asked if I could get his room. Luckily there wasn't anyone ahead of me so she said if I could wait a couple hrs they would clean it and have it ready for me to use. She gave my room key to me and I went to get something to eat. Luckily Applebees was open for togo orders down the road, about the only place that was open by this point.

So I'm thinking the days gonna turn out ok. Got warm food in my belly. Had to toss out some of the frozen microwavable food I bought at HEB because of the fridge/microwave being without power the night before at the other hotel. So I was down to some snacks, candy..shit like that. 2hrs later I'm watching TV, damn thing goes out and the lights go off.

****.

This hotel also lost power, and would be without power for Tues, Wed, and Thur am when I checked out. Got dispatched out to Kerrville TX which is about hr west of Austin, about a 2hr drive in normal conditions. Shit still coming down, and most of the way was shoulderless back country roads that look like ice rinks. A 2hr drive look me 3.5hrs avg about 30mph passing every 4x4 SUV/truck in my Nissan Altima rental lol. Do my thing in Kerrville and drove back to Georgetown, made sure to keep my room this time because no guarantee I'd get another one somewhere. So about 7hrs worth of driving in shit conditions to do about 30min of work...stupid.

Thur drive to Austin to fly home, my logistics dept books my flights. Snow coming down hard again. All flights to KC out of Austin are either cancelled or booked. Same with San Antonio airport. Only flight available is out of Dallas...it was about 1030am at this time. 3hr drive in normal conditions form Austin to Dallas.

Took me almost 6 ****in hrs to get there due to traffic/wrecks. Most of the time was just getting out of Austin. Once I got to about Waco, the skies parted, got sun and blue skies and roads had melted...although Texans still avoided the left hand lane as the hogged middle and right lanes...fine by me...it was like an expressway...again...passing all the scared 4x4 with jacked up lift kits in my little Nissan.

I was lucky to have made it to DAL, got to gate as they were boarding. It was a good thing I got gas the day before (premium was only option available. Otherwise I wouldn't been able to find gas anywhere...that was another big problem.

Gotta little taste though what it's like to live in countries like Venezuela. At home I have storable foods, and tons of meat in the deep freeze, pasta and canned goods to last if shit does hit the fan, I can feed myself for a year easily...my only problem would be eventually water supply.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Time to stay off lakes as seen in the most northern lake of Minnesota today (400 miles northwest of Twin Cities). Upcoming weekend in Twin Cities brings 50s Saturday and 60 Sunday. <a href="https://t.co/81GX2Ll1Dq">https://t.co/81GX2Ll1Dq</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/KSTP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KSTP</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC</a></p>&mdash; Jonathan Yuhas (@JYuhasKSTP) <a href="https://twitter.com/JYuhasKSTP/status/1366908740172136449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


BTW It was 50 today and I grilled

Talked to a second realtor yesterday. We may be out of here before spring is over.

YAY!

I found 2 Amazon packages in the front yard yesterday after the thaw that had likely been out there for a week or two.

Good news is the access door to my garage is closing flush again. Thing had to of shifted an inch or so under the weight of the snow. Trash and recycling pick ups are back on schedule. Now just need my mail to be delivered but that's likely a separate topic altogether.

Ouch
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It's been in the 60s and 70s the past couple of days here in Colorado, but we have a very unpredictable set of multiple fronts coming in. The snow forecast along the front range is "15 to 60 inches of snow" over a four-day system. It sounds like it's likely going to be on the lower end, but 60 inches would be an interesting experience. In 27 years of living here, the most I've ever seen in one front was 32.

https://www.outtherecolorado.com/new...cf86c5a13.html

Nice, landed on anywhere specific then?

Enter Shia LeBouf DOIT GIF

Send it my way, fool.

46" fell at my place in March 2003, in just over 48 hours. That wasn't fun at all.

Possible severe weather

NE Iowa, SW Wisconsin, SE Minnesota

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Updated SPC Day 1 Outlook for us has not changed the situation up here all that much, a couple of storms and rumbles of thunder are ongoing already, this will increase into the afternoon. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mnwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#mnwx</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wiwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wiwx</a> <a href="https://t.co/921JdgJzBw">pic.twitter.com/921JdgJzBw</a></p>&mdash; NWS Twin Cities (@NWSTwinCities) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/1369694194114072578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


DSM
https://www.weather.gov/images/dmx/w...8c54eaaa459721

LaCross WI
https://www.weather.gov/images/arx/w...8253368205bb32

There are whispers of a possible return of snow in KC next week.

Screams here about the one to four feet of snow we're going to get. I'm going to the grocery store later to watch all the new arrivals (mostly Californians) ripping the place apart.

Where's this?

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And if you could deflect the blizzard towards Buehler's place, he would likely appreciate it greatly.

He's in Denver, I believe

Still snow on the ground and they're talking hail and wind.

Yep, I'm still moving.

Denver metro.

Heh. That actually happened to me during the March 2003 storm. Had little ones and needed stuff. Got sent to the store on foot. Each step was up to my stomach.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/winte...ce-1885/912929

LMAO

Watch your power grid, bud.

All the remaining ginormous snow piles have finally melted. Temperature is in the upper 60s. :thumb:

I live in an area which thankfully has below-ground utilities, including electricity. I've never had even a brown-out in 20 years.

Now we've entered the every other street is under construction portion of spring

The forecasts now show Denver getting just a normal snowfall, but you do not want to visit Estes Park this weekend.

https://kdvr.com/wp-content/uploads/...resize=876,492

Is that from Katie LaSalle? If not, a pox on that. Only Katie. All Katie. Sweet Katie.

Weather finally creeping up above 0, still lots of snow, time to tap the Maples in my yard.

Just 11.5 feet. No big deal.

Tell me about it. Also, they're expanding the main road outside my subdivision from two lanes to four this year, including redoing a nearby railroad trestle, so I'm going to be in construction hell for the foreseeable future. Absolutely no way to avoid it. :banghead:

But, it's needed to be done for a long time.

Typical March snow storm. We routinely get blasted during either the boys or girls high school basketball tournament like clockwork.

And now we're under a tornado watch.

I'm sure it will roll through here, tear up a bunch of shit, and then snow on the back side.

God I hate it here.

Well aren't you entitled. Around here they try to box you in completely.

#covidhail Rosemount, MN March 10

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Now that is some hail! <a href="https://twitter.com/ian_leonard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ian_leonard</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/svensundgaard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@svensundgaard</a> <a href="https://t.co/iZ2RmrhAJb">pic.twitter.com/iZ2RmrhAJb</a></p>&mdash; Will L. Gerten (@willgerten) <a href="https://twitter.com/willgerten/status/1369797213891801093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>.

The wife and daughters just got back from St. Paul tonight. Normally it's about a 3 hour drive, but tonight it took them over 6 hours to get back to Fargo. She said 94 was terrible.

I am not aware of this woman. Is she knowledgeable about weather?