One of you northern types left that door open again and are causing us warm blooded southerners no end of grief. It's 26 degrees here right now and the the state has just announced mandatory rolling blackouts for today. Green Bay and Pittsburgh are asking that the roof be left open for the Stupor Bowl, which no one will be able to attend because Dallas is coated with ice and the airport is closed.
So, if one of y'all would please do something about this, it would be much appreciated and we won't have to secede from the union again.... :disturbed:
Oppp's Sorry Jaimie!
I mighta only left it open a crack!
We were blessed with a just a touch, 13" with 3-4' drifts.
Nothing like what Stetto has been getting.
But enough to send the Weather Authorities into Drama hyper-drive.
If you bought what they were selling we would be in a Mini-Ice Age......
Hey, we got severe clear for three days now...And -20 for lows.
I'd heard there might be snow for the superbowl...cool... :devil:
Yeah we hit -26 last night, but thankfully the wind never came up like they said it would.
Aw heck, balmy and sunny up here...we got comfortably above freezing for a change...actually a pretty darned nice day with a few more to come, before the glaciers roll in again......
We're expecting an ice storm and possible ssssnnnn.......ssnnnnnn.......sssssssssn...(well, you know) tonight. It's a balmy 30 right now, with the wind chill down to twenty something. That damned groundhog better be right..... :sadness:
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhHr7LCVQRw&feature=player_embedded)
Boy, do I feel left out. It's 48 degrees with the usual liquid sunhine today. :eusa_think:
Maybe I should move to the sunny south.
Frank
No snnnn....ssssssssn.....last night, but there was 1/8 inch of ice on the truck this morning. Had to use the heat gun to defrost the door so I could get in. All the bridges are iced over, and we ran out of deicing fluid here at the airport about ten minutes ago.
The best part is the sun will be back and it'll be 60 degrees on Sunday!! :eusa_clap:
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Ha ha...that IS funny!!!
Looks like someone got the door shut. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and the icicles are melting. Still had to scrape ice off the windshield this morning. Temp is 51 degrees and rising. If y'all will keep the door shut for the rest of the winter, life will be good! :icon_mrgreen:
Hey Jaimie,
Can you crack that door open just a tad bit more?
We're sposed to hit 50 tomorrow and Thurs.
I'd kinda like to get a jump start on my tan lines.
Now if I could just remember where I left my fish net speedos......
QuoteNow if I could just remember where I left my fish net speedos......
TMI
Yeah, we had a couple 60/60 days. 60 degrees and 60 miles an hour wind. :disgust:
Kind of makes it hard to test fly the new used WACO E bipe!
Yessir, a week of above-40 temps in February has been a nice break. We go into the twenties day after tomorrow, but that's ok; The groundhog declared an early Spring, sobeit.
f-f-f-f-f-fr-fr-fr-fre-free-free-free-fr-freezing up here !!!!!
I'd like to thank whover it was that closed the door and returned our temp to a more seasonal level. 72 degrees and sun sure beats 20's and ice.....
But you still got your digs in. Wally and I went flying the other day. Took his truck, a diesel Ford F350 with the eight foot bed, into which we can cram lots of airplanes. Got to the field, started backing in to unload and noticed that the truck was traveling downward faster than it was traveling backwards. Thought it might be a good idea to see why...we were stuck! The wet weather turned parts of the field into the swamp that it originally was, and we found one of those spots. After an hour of trying to dig out, I called another friend and while we were waiting for him, went flying! Nothing like having a stuck vehicle full of airplanes and batteries.... :icon_mrgreen:
Rick arrived and had us out in ten minutes, so we celebrated by flying a little more. I hate getting stuck at the flying field.
Oh, and to whoever takes care of such things in the Great White North, please leave the door closed..... :icon_lol:
oh sure, off gallivanting around, rearranging the landscape, and - dare I say it? - enjoying yourself flying.......no thoughts or concerns for your northern bretheren who may have their tongues stuck to metal flag poles for another 6 months!!!!!
Yep, cold here again too. Nothing like getting spoiled to tropicals temps (in MN that would be anything above freezing) and thrown back into the dregs of below zee-row.
well, at least the sun is out.....but....somebody left the frikken frakken front door open....we are getting a wicked cold wind from the SOUTH.....30 below here. That wind just cuts right thru you, no matter how many layers of clothing you have on ......
Eh Wayne..... bet that ole caribbean tan is whitnin up a tad?
,,yeah <sigh> fading to white....
Back to a breezy 72 here in the swamp. The sun is shining, Nony. Pack up your sunscreen and come on down!
You, too, Stetto! David runs the sound board at church, and they have a huge music room with all the goodies. Grab your guitars and the groupies and head south.... :icon_lol:
..are your interline benefits any better??
Quote..are your interline benefits any better??
Nope. It's still cheaper to buy a ticket on orbitz than to go on one my buddy passes (assuming you can get on, because those are standby tickets). And it looks like they will get worse once untied takes over. Apparently, they charge their employees on certain routes, and that includes the international ones.... :sadness:
Don't worry Jaime. We are headed for a national airline, the name will not matter.
37 below this morning.....I'll let y'all know if I see any glaciers going by.........
Ugh, and I am complaining because its 3 degrees. I do have to say I think I have had enough winter wonderland for the year already though..
double ugh... I think we have had more snow and cold weather than the last 5 winters combined!
Good news though...It has warmed up by 57 degrees over night...from 37 below to 20 above.......the bad news is that we now have a near blizzard happening....
Blizzard warning for this afternoon. Not a word about till this morning, then BAM! Panic! Run like little girls! Hide! We're all doooooooooomed...!
Then 40s on Monday.
Good ol' fashioned wild-ride Spring.
Golleeeeeeeeeeee It got above freezing, the sun is shining, and the cat is molting (shedding or whatever it is called..).....spring must be on its' way!!!!
Must be, the sun came up late, stays up longer and my to do list is about 10 times longer than last week. :icon_confused:
My to do list only has one item on it, and it never goes away no matter how much effort I expend towards that goal....
"Fix it !"
Uh, it's raining here...
Is that like when water falls from the sky?? ...and not the usual white stuff??? If so, we have that rare phenomenon happening right now..... Windy as heck too!!!
That was LAST week, Nony.
Today it's snowing. Again. :eusa_wall:
The slo-o-o-o-o-o-o-w thaw we're having has had our sump running about every 5-10 minutes. I hate to think how far downstream the house would have floated had we not installed the sump when we moved in. The previous owner had a plugged-up french drain that couldn't possibly have kept up.
Robins are here, geese are back, as are the finches and skunks...I took the Ruger 10/22 to one of the stripedy bastiges a few days ago...25 shots and I don't think I hit him even once...He just stood there, about 150 yds away, staring at me. I took the scope off last summer because most of my targets were 50 yds or less...The open sights are pretty close to dead-on, but the with the combination of elevation (He was down-slope), windage (around 20 mph and swirling) and the ever-present human error... :disturbed:
...Now I'm thinking .17...Any you guys got one for sale? :eusa_pray:
For the price of ammunition, it would be really hard to beat some kind of .223 caliber, even if a bolt action. You can buy factory loaded ammo for 20-25cents a round.
For the steel cased stuff, which is not all that accurate its around 25 cents. A 17hmr will definitely be better in the accuracy dept for the cost per round. But its limited to easy shots to about 150 yd, after that you have to start watching wind drift and drop. Get much over 250 and you start testing yourself.
A cheap but decent 223 is the single shot handi rifles staring around $225, an AR is going to set you back about $600 minimum. A 17hmr like a Savage 93r17 is going to start around $200, but will get to 300 quickly if you want a bull barrel and anything other than synthetic stock. And close to 400 for a Henry Lever action in 17hmr.
But heck, I would just scope the 10/22 again. I usually take mine out since its so cheap to shoot and have been known to hit Pdogs 200 yrds or more. Maybe try a see through mount or rings so you can use both.
Yeah, the see-through is a good idea. Most of what I shoot at is well within 100 yds, it would do me a lot of good to do some target shooting at 150 for those rare occasions that a skunk or cat strolls past the back...Or I could just pick up a 50 shot mag... :icon_redface:
After a day of rain (I suspect one of you left the door open just a bit), spring has returned. 73 degrees outside now and all the humidity seems to be at Stetto's place right now..... :icon_lol:
hey, can some one remind me again what that other season is??? I know there is winter, then winter, followed by more winter.....but now everything is unfreezing...a situation I have not seen for eons.....I'm sure there is a proper name for it........ :icon_razz:
Think eet eez all zee el hotto airo froma the Canuckistans :eusa_think:
hot air?? We don't got no steenkin' hot air !!!! :eusa_angel:
whoa! fast forward a few weeks and now, today, I had to turn my air conditioner on!!!
Heh, we ran the wood stove the last couple days because its been so cool.
Hah, and my son is headed down to Denver for a week...and he thinks he is going to enjoy it!! (actually he will be sweating ice cubes in the simulator..)