Global warming in SE PA this AM

[skeets]

I dont have any fancy pictures but Alexa said it was -9f this morning, some are colder, but to me -9f is RFC !

 

[GreensvilleJay]

Look on the bright sides

Snow is free nitrogen....
and

58 days until Spring !!!!!

 

[RCW]

-8 degrees F in upstate NY this morning.

When it gets past 1/1, I start counting heating days and # bags of wood pellets.

I figure 135 heating days after 1/1. Gets us to mid-May.

We're about 115 heating days left.

125 bags of pellets left. These cold real cold days we go through almost 2 bags/day.

Looks like I'll be re-stocking at some point this year. Started with 4.5 tons. Normal is about 5 ton, so makes sense. Had years used 6.5.....hope we don't get there.

A friend of mine is tapping maple trees this weekend......

 

[jyoutz]

By noon today my grandson was learning about the

historic snow fall in Baton Rouge, LA.

 

[GreensvilleJay]

dang you got MORE snow than me here in southern Ontario
GREAT picture !!! print it, put date on back

 

[WFM]

Minus 13 below here this morning and currently-1* below at 8pm.
Another cold night ahead.

 

[jyoutz]

dang you got MORE snow than me here in southern Ontario
GREAT picture !!! print it, put date on back

That’s at my son’s place in Louisiana. We only got a few inches in New Mexico. But I agree, that photo is a keeper.

 

[RCW]

At 8:26 PM, we’re at 1 degree, but 75 degrees inside.

Geddy has a buddy.

He knows what side his bread is buttered on…..

He has a bigger and thicker bed a short distance away in the same room.

He’s not leaving his “Dragon.”

 

[Ryeder]

 

[Flintknapper]

 

[DustyRusty]

Reminds me of the trip to Costco on Sunday. It was snowing and a bit slippery. Quite a few drivers had their flashers going and they kept their speed between 15 and 20 MPH.

PSA: if you need flashers and have to keep your speed under 30MPH --STAY HOME!

Some of those people might have been EMTs, doctors, nurses, firefighters, and a lot of other people who don't have the luxury of staying home when the weather turns bad. I remember a number of days when I was called in on my day off to man an additional ambulance. I would have loved to stay home, but that is what you sign on for when you took the job.

Now the question is, "Why didn't you stay home instead of going to Costco?" As you said, "It was snowing and a bit slippery." What did you need that couldn't wait until the roads were cleared and the snow stopped falling?

 

[GreensvilleJay]

Probably no crowds at Costco providing they WERE open ,so really GREAT time to go there !!
As long as it's daylight, no big deal a few flakes and a bit slippery.
Used to drive my '67 Mustang in that weather, yawn, jes another day, no big deal.....
Nowadays seems most have 4WD 4 door pickup with lots of 'computer help' to drive YET they do NOT know HOW to drive...they are the problem.

 

[chim]

......................Now the question is, "Why didn't you stay home instead of going to Costco?" As you said, "It was snowing and a bit slippery." What did you need that couldn't wait until the roads were cleared and the snow stopped falling?

Filet for supper.

 

[Moose7060]

 

[chim]

Probably no crowds at Costco providing they WERE open ,so really GREAT time to go there !!
As long as it's daylight, no big deal a few flakes and a bit slippery.
Used to drive my '67 Mustang in that weather, yawn, jes another day, no big deal.....
Nowadays seems most have 4WD 4 door pickup with lots of 'computer help' to drive YET they do NOT know HOW to drive...they are the problem.

Yep. No crowds. It was worth the trip just to experience that. For a while now the crowds looked like it was a week before Christmas every time we went there. We called ahead to make sure they'd be open. I don't need to go fast, but don't care to get behind road warriors going 15MPH with flashers a-flashing.

Wifey loves trips in snow on the back roads, so we took the "scenic route" as much as we could. Told her there's no need for it but took the Warn 9k along just in case. Pretty much overkill since I never got the Trailblazer stuck. Been driving 4WD's since '70 and only stuck twice. Once with a Silverado (winched myself out) and once with a K5 Blazer (dug myself out with a canoe paddle).

When we were dating in the late 60's we'd make trips like that in a souped-up Camaro with bias ply snow tires

 

[GreensvilleJay]

The very best tires I ever had were Goodyear Suburbanites, bias ply of course, on my '73 CJ-5, has 40,000 miles on them, plowing snow, real off road and daily driver,never had a flat. Traded the submerged Cj in on a BNIB Landcruiser and had 4 flat tires in 500 miles.sigh....