Re: Hope all are fine in the South
[Re: snowy]
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02/16/21 02:16 PM
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So every ten years or so, when they get a cold snap, stuff won't work. Then, there's no snow equipment, salt, spreaders etc. not even a snow shovel. Not to mention they can't drive when it's raining much less in the ice..Different world there...
Catch22. Can't just have crews and equipment sitting around idle for 9 years waiting for a10th year event.
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Re: Hope all are fine in the South
[Re: snowy]
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02/16/21 02:29 PM
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Was like a water dept. just up the road, were going to have to shut off water last night for some reason. Alabama Power loaned them a generator so they could keep the water on. Always amazed at what poor planning this bunch down here does.
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Re: Hope all are fine in the South
[Re: snowy]
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02/16/21 02:49 PM
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What are yous gonna do when the sun starts to burn out and it gets real cold?
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Hope all are fine in the South
[Re: snowy]
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02/16/21 04:15 PM
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Thank you for askin that is very considerate of you. I am fine, in fact the women usually say I am finer than frog hair split 3 ways! Well they don't actually say that but they think it I can see it in their eyes. Especially if they were really thirsty and drank more than usual LOL.
But I'm cold. Very cold. I cant feel my fingers or my toes and my stache and my beard are both icicles. I need to pee too but I dont think this will go very well. My bladder is about 45psi but I might have to go inside and squat when I pee like a woman opps I mean Canadian to pee on this cold day
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Re: Hope all are fine in the South
[Re: snowy]
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02/16/21 04:21 PM
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^ that is funny. Just don't leave it out to long it might just fall off.
Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
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Re: Hope all are fine in the South
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02/16/21 04:22 PM
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Hope everyone is ok in North Carolina!!!
Heard a tornado went thru. Yeah me too! Just don't hear much on how bad etc. it was.
Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
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Re: Hope all are fine in the South
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02/16/21 04:32 PM
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Pipes froze 3 days ago at temps well above zero... Caught me completely off guard because they didn't freeze 10 years ago when it got down into the -20's. Our city water tastes horrible at the best of times so we usually keep a good supply of bottled water on hand... And we've been running out to the farm to fill jugs for flushing toilets and washing dishes.
So other than the frozen pipes, we're fine. We put central heat/air in the house last year... but knowing our vulnerability to major ice storms and power loss I was adamant about keeping the wood burner as a backup. Wood supply was a little lower than I cared for it to be but we will get by.
At this point I'm more aggravated/inconvenienced than anything.
I try to live by "two is one, one is none." And so far it has pretty much paid off.
Mike
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Re: Hope all are fine in the South
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02/16/21 04:40 PM
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Too bad yous guyz don't have some good fur to wrap up in. Maybe yous could double or triple it up to stay warm. 😙
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Re: Hope all are fine in the South
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02/16/21 04:49 PM
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^ that is funny. Just don't leave it out to long it might just fall off. Oh crap you had to say that? I am gonna just pee my Carharts for safety reasons
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Hope all are fine in the South
[Re: Allan Minear]
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02/16/21 04:49 PM
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Thank you, Sir. The information is very helpful White gas lanterns and camp stoves will work when propane won't if your nervous about a water line freezing let the hot faucet drip and that will help keep your water going in your house .
The old single or double mantel lanterns will emit a lot of heat just be careful filling them with fuel I always started with 2 lanterns one running the other as backup , then remember these need to have the fuel pressurized so if it starts to go dim pump it up carefully so the mantels don't become damaged. Or melt snow just not the yellow stuff ! Hang in there and if all else fails take turns licking a flag or clothesline pole ha ha humor helps is weather like this trust me ! Allan
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Re: Hope all are fine in the South
[Re: Deerhunter51]
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02/16/21 06:39 PM
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I cannot remember seeing sparrows and what looks like a big wren eating on other dead birds but I have now. Both male and female red birds and spanish doves, then mourning doves were freezing to death and the others birds are eating them.
A neighbor called yesterday and said he had found several black buck antelope froze to death.
I left water faucets running slow in the house and it still froze somewhere plus the septic system is frozen. I have a small heater going in the well house, so still have water there.
Water troughs have frozen solid so I am having to get water out of the well house and get to horses.
I have slipped and fell every day for the last three days. We have a solid sheet of ice under snow and have to be really careful getting around. My feet went out from under me yesterday afternoon and I landed flat of my back. I was lucky that my head didn't hit. Sure does hurt today.
Pretty tough when you are pushing 80. I can remember one time in the 1950's, once in the 1970's and once in the 1980's it was really bad cold similar to now but I was a lot younger then and it wasn't as hard as now.
Sit on your horse on top of a ridge, look out across the country and tell me there is no God.
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Re: Hope all are fine in the South
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02/16/21 06:47 PM
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Hope everyone is ok in North Carolina!!!
Heard a tornado went thru. Yeah me too! Just don't hear much on how bad etc. it was. EF3 with 3 confirmed fatalities and 10 more injured is what the news is reporting. Struck a little after midnight and did not appear to stay on the ground for a great distance but it laid waste to everything in it's path while it was on the ground.
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