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Hey! I finally tracked down the problem with the Blazer that had been plaguing me.
Had to rip wiring harnesses apart and found a bad piece of wire in the middle of a harness.
Used my oscilloscope to track it down.
Had a big celebration, went to Taco Hell and got a #1 combo
There's a thread for that kind of BS?
Lot of politics involved, as you know.....
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Oh, the political thread... I stay away from there because I really don't want to find out how many people I like are really idiots.Lot of politics involved, as you know.....
11:30 PM and it is already -20 ºF (shit!)
I'm gonna crawl into the blanket pile now. Good night everyone.
I'm gonna crawl into the blanket pile now. Good night everyone.
This morning's weather report: Currently -25F and the wind chill (according to the TV weather) is -50F. Wind chill warning until tomorrow afternoon. High today should be (if we're lucky) -2, then -11 tonight and shooting all the way up to PLUS 7 tomorrow. Winds 25 to 35mph through tomorrow afternoon, when they should subside into the teens. Woo. Hoo.
This morning's weather report: Currently -25F and the wind chill (according to the TV weather) is -50F. Wind chill warning until tomorrow afternoon. High today should be (if we're lucky) -2, then -11 tonight and shooting all the way up to PLUS 7 tomorrow. Winds 25 to 35mph through tomorrow afternoon, when they should subside into the teens. Woo. Hoo.
Wow! That's really, really messed up.
Slight modification to Lannie's weather report (due to the fact she relies on those TV idiots and I use the actual formula) Our temperature this morning at Oh-Dark-Thirty was -25 ºF with a wind speed (from the Northwest if you care) at 20 mph, so the wind chill was -55 ºF . Now I want you folks to ponder, for a moment, that big steel box you probably have somewhere around your place that you call a "freezer." No, not the one that sits on top of your refrigerator, but a stand-alone freezer, the kind that often has a side of beef, pork, ham, bags of peas and other veggies... this is typically set at a temperature of -20 ºF to guarantee the roast is hard as a rock and we call that unit a "deep freezer." Go back up to the second line of this paragraph and note our temperature (not including windchill) and you will see that you could go sit in your deep freezer and you would be warmer than standing outside in the fresh air here.
Right at this moment (11 AM) the temp has made its way up to -12 ºF (no way in hell will we get all the way up to -2 ºF today) and the wind is 30-35 mph, so the current wind chill factor is -44 ºF. Believe it or not, none of the cows, chickens, horse, dogs, feral cats were lying around dead. I did note that Jasper (our big male Pyr) was huddled in the horse barn with several chickens (he is responsible for keeping all chickens safe). Because they were so close to him, I suspect he was sharing his body heat with them as there is no heat lamp in the barn like there is in the coop. I really was expecting to find all or most of the barn chickens (the ones who refuse to roost in the coop) dead when we went out for morning chores (yes, we had to wear face masks), but clearly Jasper saved them. Good doggie...
Right at this moment (11 AM) the temp has made its way up to -12 ºF (no way in hell will we get all the way up to -2 ºF today) and the wind is 30-35 mph, so the current wind chill factor is -44 ºF. Believe it or not, none of the cows, chickens, horse, dogs, feral cats were lying around dead. I did note that Jasper (our big male Pyr) was huddled in the horse barn with several chickens (he is responsible for keeping all chickens safe). Because they were so close to him, I suspect he was sharing his body heat with them as there is no heat lamp in the barn like there is in the coop. I really was expecting to find all or most of the barn chickens (the ones who refuse to roost in the coop) dead when we went out for morning chores (yes, we had to wear face masks), but clearly Jasper saved them. Good doggie...
gonna get a little wicked for driving here in a while.
33 deg snowing big time and slushy roads.
Temp dropping supposed to be 16 in the morning.
Not complaining though. Got my milk, bread and cat fud.
33 deg snowing big time and slushy roads.
Temp dropping supposed to be 16 in the morning.
Not complaining though. Got my milk, bread and cat fud.
Well, hell, I blew that forecast. It actually did make it all the way up to -2 ºF, but only for about 30 seconds. Otherwise, I think it was -4 º., Right at this moment (9:30 PM), it is -10 ºF and the wind is 25 mph with gusts to at least 35 mph, so the current chill factor is -41 ºF, The wind has been pretty nasty all day, so it was nearly impossible to get the Doberman to stay outside long enough to pee (no way would she stay long enough to poop) and all the pathways have drifts in them deep enough that we both almost fell over trying to trudge our way to the barns (16-20"). Not only will the bobcat not start, but what would be the point? I mean, jeez, they'd fill in again in a matter of minutes. Sigh...
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Really. And the 10-day forecast still doesn't have us above freezing. Wasn't Spring supposed to happen soon? The very next person who tells me we're having Global Warming, I'm gonna punch him in the mouf.
Yeah, they should, but I'm still trying to find my trees under all this white shit.
Yes. We have now exceeded a whole month where the high temps never even got up to freezing, and this morning's low is the lowest we've had for an actual temperature (not counting the wind chill) that was not during a blizzard. The "average" high for this date is about 40 ºF -- NOT minus two fucking god damn degrees!!!
P.S. Lannie looked at her weather records for this date and last year, our LOW was +27 ºF. Today's low was 52 degrees less than that.
Can't say much except....unbelievable.
Friend of mine from up in northern NY was here today, he's wondering how he's going to get into his driveway when he returns in the morning.....I guess it's a steep long driveway, can't find anyone to plow it. He always did the plowing. He sure hated to leave this evening for the night flight back to hells creation.
Seems the jet stream is way south of where it should be and everything north of that line (about half the country) is within what we call a "Canadian Blue Tongue" (arctic air mass), AKA we're all in the deep freezer. Under normal circumstances, jet streams do not stay in one position for so long, but whip around a lot (low pressure centers typically ride the jets). This is why you (Arizona) got that nasty weather a few days ago when shit that should never have been farther south than northern Nevada invaded you.
Gonna be another shitty garden year.
Yup. And if you remember last Spring, I was complaining that the weather was too bad to get the garden started on time. And it is twice as bad this year. Can you say, "The beginning of a new ice age"?
I hear you Rich. It's still to cold at night here to plant anything too.Yup. And if you remember last Spring, I was complaining that the weather was too bad to get the garden started on time. And it is twice as bad this year. Can you say, "The beginning of a new ice age"?
It's fucked up when you depend on the garden to provide for the winter months, then the winter lasts through the spring and it just culminates things into a real cluster fuck.
I know I already answered this, but I have to backtrack a tad. Yes, for cold temperatures. No for total snow amounts. We have had a couple years where I wasn't sure we could even get out of the house and we could not get out of the driveway for many days (a neighbor brought his big front loader over to clear us a path) and power lines were down for a week here and three months just a few miles down the highway.
100% agreement.
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Good night, Dale. Have a good sleep. More BS tomorrow.
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Very similar to China quality control.....zip-zilch-nada
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TODAY'S WX REPORT:
Sunny. Temp got all the way up to +6 ºF. The nasty part is the high winds that caused thick blowing snow (blizzard class). The weather dudes said the wind was 35 mph with gusts to 50, but the reality is that all day long the wind was 50 mph with rare lulls to 35. And now that the temperature is 0 ºF, that makes the chill factor -31 ºF There is a four foot high drift extending 20 feet across my driveway and there was no snow there yesterday. I need a troop of Boy Scouts with shovels (right, bob is not starting and it would be stupid to try to move these drifts until the wind stops).
Sunny. Temp got all the way up to +6 ºF. The nasty part is the high winds that caused thick blowing snow (blizzard class). The weather dudes said the wind was 35 mph with gusts to 50, but the reality is that all day long the wind was 50 mph with rare lulls to 35. And now that the temperature is 0 ºF, that makes the chill factor -31 ºF There is a four foot high drift extending 20 feet across my driveway and there was no snow there yesterday. I need a troop of Boy Scouts with shovels (right, bob is not starting and it would be stupid to try to move these drifts until the wind stops).
in-credible......
Pffftttttt (Is that the right way to spell me sticking my tongue out because you get to do this?)
You got it right.Pffftttttt (Is that the right way to spell me sticking my tongue out because you get to do this?)
I was just wondering how long it will be before I even find the soil again..........
By the looks of the (projected)-(guess), not for a couple more weeks.
Friend of mine called me from Kansas today, said it was 15F with the wind blowing like no tomorrow. He also said the new buds on the trees fell off. Claims he's never seen anything like it in his life, and has lived there most of it.
The "reality" is that maybe (MAYBE) the snow will stop by then, but then how long after that does it take for snow drifts 8-feet deep to melt so I can do something with the soil underneath?
You prolly have two feet of frost where the snow is thin....really incredible.
I would suggest that yesterday and today count as the worst winter days I have ever experienced, anywhere. Seriously, the view was more like watching a storm ravage Antarctica than being in South Dakota (or Kansas).
Can't like this. That really sucks.
There is no question about that. This is why all outside water pipes here are buried eight feet down so we can be guaranteed to have running water all year. And the "on/off" valve for all outside hydrants is down at the eight-foot level so they can still be turned on in the winter.
Pity trees are so scarce...I'd suggest building bonfires all over the place, or buy-rent a flamethrower.
Hmmmmm... in that case, maybe I should invest in some flood insurance because that would turn this place into a roaring river.
