Ice & Snow!

[Brian Krashpad]

This may help you Brian...woke up to this mess this morning

That's beautiful!

But why are the trees bare, and how did that lovely whte sand get up on the rooftops and cars?

 

[bigoldron]

That's beautiful!

But why are the trees bare, and how did that lovely whte sand get up on the rooftops and cars?

What he said... :messedup:

 

[marnold]

I actually like snow quite a bit (despite our record amount this December). Ice is a different matter. Ice storms are particularly nasty up here because if we get one, the ice will stay for months. Down there it will at least warm up enough to get rid of it.

Did I ever tell you about when I lived in Minnesota? It was pouring rain right after supper--so much that the parking lots were flooding. Then an Alberta clipper came through and the temperature plummeted. The lows that week were around -35F. My car froze to the parking lot and was encased in over 1/4" of ice. I just kept hitting around the outline of my door with my elbow until I was able to get in. I started the car and let it warm up. Since the ice melted close to the car, I could push it off in these huge sheets. I carefully rocked my car back and forth just using the transmission until my tires were freed.

 

[ZMAN]

A little tip from a Northerner. Always get a car with a remote starter. After a rain/ice storm start the car and let it warm up with the blowers and heaters on. When you go out to scrape, the ice will fall off. To get into the car a jug of lukewarm water poured around the door frame and latch will work as well.

 

[bigoldron]

Did I ever tell you about when I lived in Minnesota? It was pouring rain right after supper--so much that the parking lots were flooding. Then an Alberta clipper came through and the temperature plummeted. The lows that week were around -35F. My car froze to the parking lot and was encased in over 1/4" of ice. I just kept hitting around the outline of my door with my elbow until I was able to get in. I started the car and let it warm up. Since the ice melted close to the car, I could push it off in these huge sheets. I carefully rocked my car back and forth just using the transmission until my tires were freed.

Way too cold for me!

 

[peachhead]

I like snow but we never get it. Although the beauty of it wears off when the limbs start snapping and the power goes out.
Good luck to all those who are dealing with snow and ice at the moment.

 

[marnold]

Well, in the almost 41 years I've lived in the midwest I can only remember losing power one time due to winter weather. On the other hand, I remember losing it multiple times due to summer weather (lightning, tornadoes, straight-line winds). We don't even get any of those big ol' storms that you southerners name. Or at least by time they get here, we call them "drizzle."

 

[Childbride]

Rocket... would be a nice gig. could help finance my GAS. Shiner could help. [o, no, that could be potentially dangerous]

Marnold... i agree completely. drizzle. pathetic, really, compared to what y'all go through.

we just have the tornado alley thing and the 115 degree summers to deal with.

and i deeply am sorry for those with power outages, wrecks, and destruction from the storms. i was only trying to speak of my inner child jumping up and down hoping for the rare 'snow day' down our way.

 

[street music]

Hey Fretters, Just got back home and from another 16 hours of getting power on. I HATE ICE STORMS- UNDERSTAND ! Snow can be pretty but deadly to power lines and those who work on putting the lines back up. I'm tired right now and need to get to sleep. Hope everyone enjoys power why you have it because we are suppose to get hit again Monday & Tuesday, we will be weeks getting power back on.

 

[just strum]

Wow, looks like a lot of fretters got walloped. We got hit pretty hard and I just finished plowing the driveway about an hour ago. I came home from work at lunch during the storm to switch cars and found my son stuck in the driveway. After getting him out, I had to plow to get the other car out. I got back to work around 2:30 and then when I got home I plowed one section of the drive (we have two entrances). We missed January record snowfall by about an inch as a result of the storm. I would guess we received about 18" (45.72 centimeters). It was a real heavy snow, so it made plowing tough to deal with.

There's another storm coming up the east coast that may or may not hit us. Tomorrow is suppose to be 40 degrees (that's right, thong time), so I will try to move snow around so it will melt faster. I've run out of places to plow the snow and resorted to putting it out on the street.

 

[street music]

I only worked 12 straight hours today, we still have 75-100 poles broke and about 1200 without power. They are getting a dozer in tomorrow to help my crew get the poles back on the hill side. Hope everyone is warm and safe, we are suppose to get more snow Monday and Tuesday.

 

[mcgreggor57]

How's the progress? We were blessed and never lost power in our neighborhood, but we sure felt the impact. 90% of my co-workers were without for 4+ days. I believe they are all back on the grid now, although some still can't move back due to broken pipes and trees on their homes.

My hats off to anyone and everyone involved in restoring power. Many thanks!

 

[Ch0jin]

Tomorrow is suppose to be 40 degrees (that's right, thong time),

Umm I thought in your part of the word "thong" was underwear?

In other news it's finally dropped under 100 around my place thankfully. I can actually spend 10 minutes playing without covering my guitar in sweat. It was so bad I went around the house turning off anything that generated heat (and I'm looking at you plasma, HTPC and tube amps...)

Props to you and your crew though SM. We have the same issues further up the coast as a result of massive winds following the heatwave. Seems those poles don't like hot or cold huh

 

[piebaldpython]

Ice & Snow

Damn, we just got hit with 6" overnite and the Philly schools are closed today. Oh well, time to shovel the sidewalk and trudge off to work (I take public transit; the bus and the EL) in Center City Philly.

 

[street music]

It is 8 degrees this morning, 4 more inches of fresh snow, we still have near 80 poles broke but have less than 600 customers without power now. It's tough to get anywhere right now.
I haven't picked up a guitar in over a week, still working 16 hr on and 8 off.
I have a crew of 5 men from Ashboro, NC and a 4 man crew from Cumberland Valley RECC in southern KY, great guys working their tails off to get power back on, blizzard conditions forced us to quit last night.
Hope to get back to normal by March.

Later Nathan

 

[Tynee]

Through it all, I we ever lost power. The furnace chose a really poor time to quit last week, and I missed a day of work getting it sorted out as well as working on vehicles, but never lost power.

Now I remember why I left South Dakota.

 

[just strum]

The odd snowfall around here.

At my house and the trip to work, less than an inch of snow. However, just west of here (probably 6 or 7 miles) 10+ inches of snow and even more 20 miles north of my house.

 

[Brian Krashpad]

I want to be clear. I think snow in general is beautiful, but I feel badly for any weather hardship people are experiencing.

+1. I hope no one took my joshing the wrong way.

It got down to about 20 F here last night, but snow is rare.

Mojo to those dealing with power outages and being house-bound and such.

 

[street music]

I HAVE SURVIVED, finally came home long enough to sit till I go to the doctor for x-rays. As i was trying to remove a pine tree from the power lines it broke loose and came down on top of my right hand, that was two days ago, it hurts like heck and I have kept ice packs on it to help ease the pain. We got almost all of our consumers back on last night, so I'm taking a few hours to go get my hand checked out. It was great to have the last one that restored power to last night, a retired widow school teacher, she just cried from joy after having been without her electric for 13 days. It's been hard and tough but I hope for things to improve over the next few weeks. Missed chatting with THE FRETTERS.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Sorry about the hand but glad you are ok! I don't want any ice storms, but would love a good foot and a half or so dump up here in our mountains!

 

[just strum]

I HAVE SURVIVED, finally came home long enough to sit till I go to the doctor for x-rays. As i was trying to remove a pine tree from the power lines it broke loose and came down on top of my right hand, that was two days ago, it hurts like heck and I have kept ice packs on it to help ease the pain. We got almost all of our consumers back on last night, so I'm taking a few hours to go get my hand checked out. It was great to have the last one that restored power to last night, a retired widow school teacher, she just cried from joy after having been without her electric for 13 days. It's been hard and tough but I hope for things to improve over the next few weeks. Missed chatting with THE FRETTERS.

My dad was a lineman - it beats electrocution.

Hope you heal fast and you are back in the swing of things real soon.

 

[Brian Krashpad]

Continued prayers and mojo. Hand, get well soon!

 

[street music]

I got my x-rays of the hand, it appears to have chipped a piece of knuckle but there is still a lot of inflamantion around the joints. I'm able to use it and they are going to get a second opinion on the chip in question.
My back is the worse part of the accident , it will take sometime to get it straightened up. So I'm going to be right back on the job tomorrow, we have 60 MPH winds forecast for tonight.

 

[helliott]

We should all raise a glass and salute the folks who do this sort of work to keep the rest of us relatively safe and warm. God bless 'em and keep 'em.

 

[just strum]

We should all raise a glass and salute the folks who do this sort of work to keep the rest of us relatively safe and warm. God bless 'em and keep 'em.

+1

I remember by dad going to other States as they called in crews to assist in getting power back up. The job is dangerous on a good day, add to that wind and/or snow - tough job!!!

 

[street music]

Thanks for the fine remarks, our co-op has built power lines in areas that others would not attempt. As a co-op we are non-profit and are owned by the consumers, so our responsibility is to provide for them. I choose this as my profession and like Strum's Dad it is just part of the regular life we work at.
I hope you remember the workers in your area the next time you see them out risking their life to keep power on.:bravo:

 

[Brian Krashpad]

We should all raise a glass and salute the folks who do this sort of work to keep the rest of us relatively safe and warm. God bless 'em and keep 'em.

+1 and good onya to all of 'em. Take care Street Music!

 

[sunvalleylaw]

+1 :aok:

 

[just strum]

It's about 60 degrees here and rain is pounding the side of the house. It's the same front that caused all the tornadoes a couple of days ago, but has weakened. We are still expecting 40 mph sustained winds and gusts up to 60 mph tonight and reports of power lines down are already being reported.

Tomorrow the high is 35 and snow.

Correction: it's 52 degrees right now.

 

[street music]

I"M HOME AT LAST. WE got 70 + MPH straight line winds from that horrible storm and it took much of what we had gotten back up from the ice storm. Now I wonder just what the spring tornado season will bring us. Didn't get tospend anytime with the wife yesterday. So today is just us two out and about. Catch you all later. Thanks for all the great thoughts and wishes.