What's under your lip/in your nose right now? - Part 2

[firechick]

I'm not looking forward to it, roth. They are expecting windchills around 25 to 30 below for the next 2 days. My factory job has only ever sent people home when the whole state pretty much lost power several years ago. It's been a very long time since we've seen temps like this with a lot of wind. Praying that we don't get much snow with it.

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[Doffy]

I want to join in the weather discussion. But i get called mean and that imI rubbing it in

 

[hittman]

It’s all in good fun. Jump right in.

 

[rothenbj]

FC, we're going down to the -10 wind chill tonight so I know how cold you guys are going to get. I'm trying to get the snow cleaned up before the temps get too low today. We're currently to 15 and after cleaning up the 100 yards to the road, some of the parking area and raking the snow off my 20 x 10 tarp covered wood supply my feet were froze. We only got about 4 inches but that was enough.

 

[hittman]

We were at -5 when I got up and supposed to maybe hit 6. I'm glad we didn't get any snow with it. The boomerang weather is still in effect. Supposed to be 30's tomorrow and hit 50 this weekend.

 

[Waho]

We're at -4/-27 F wind chill (-20/-33 C for our Aussie friend ) currently. It looks deceptively nice with the sun shining bright.

We got a handy email from GM with tips on how to survive our drives in and out today. Better load up my truck with blankets, jumper cables and road flares before I leave!

 

[rothenbj]

I bought one of these Snow Joe's last year. Best investment I've made for awhile. On deeper snow you'd have to run it over the top and cut it into layers but up to 6" it just blows it out of the way. I did my front deck today, with no effort at all, in about 5 minutes after I ran the extension cord from the garage. I also cleaned away the snow around the garage door and stuff bear the cars where I really don't like to run the beast blower too close. I didn't bother with the back decks but the last time it was so much easier than pushing it off as I had in the past. If I had a little drive it would be all I needed.

Snow Joe 11 in. 10 Amp Electric Snow Blower Shovel with LED Light-324E - The Home Depot

*** Forgot, They have a rechargeable one for and extra $100 or so that eliminates the chord but I'm glad I got this one because of its simplicity.

 

[hittman]

I remember looking at that last year when you mentioned it. I would get the corded one simply because rechargeable stuff doesn't last. I go through a new cordless weedeater about every three years.

 

[Waho]

I sent that link to my brother. His driveway is maybe 20'x30' along with some sidewalks. Too little to justify a snow thrower but a pain to shovel, so that looks perfect for him.

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[Doffy]

Rain! We are in drought here. Unfortunately it didn't fall on farmland or water catchment areas. Just south coastal suburbs. Still good for my lawn

 

[Waho]

Good to hear. I heard a report on the radio about mass fish death due to a river there being overly used for cotton farm irrigation. Hopefully y'all get some more rain soon!

I put a new battery in my truck two weeks ago and it still barely started this afternoon. -6/-32 windchill now, brutal.

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[Doffy]

Good to hear. I heard a report on the radio about mass fish death due to a river there being overly used for cotton farm irrigation. Hopefully y'all get some more rain soon!

I put a new battery in my truck two weeks ago and it still barely started this afternoon. -6/-32 windchill now, brutal.

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Misery. Coldest I have ever experienced was minus 12 Celsius. I think that is still positive F territory. And it was dead still with no wind.

Our houses don't tend to have insulation or double glazing though.

 

[rothenbj]

Yeah Waho, for the price you can't beat it. I didn't have it too bad on my decks since when we built them we made the railing illegal (nice avoiding township inspections) so that I could push the snow under the railing rather than having to lift it all. No babies around to crawl under the rails although the kid would still need to be real small. With my big deck off the BR, shoveling was a pain because on a decent snowfall, the snow would get heavy before getting to the rails. With this it just shoots the snow out.

 

[hittman]

I thought about getting one of those for the times I don't want to get the snowblower out. I still might some day.

 

[The Rebel]

Got an alert on our phones last night from Consumers Energy asking everyone to turn their thermostats down to 65. Seems they had a fire at one of their facilities near Detroit and coupled with the cold weather it's putting a huge strain on their system. Some GM plants shut down to help out along with Ford scaling back some of it's production facilities.

Consumers Energy, DTE ask customers to turn down thermostats

 

[hittman]

I've never heard of anything like that before. I doubt if my wife would comply with that request. Luckily we're headed back up to warmer temps today and should be around 50 by the weekend.

 

[Waho]

Consumers thought they could keep up with demand with reserves, but quickly realized they couldn't. They started shutting down industrial users and it didn't have the effect they were hoping for, so they sent that alert out.

Apparently Consumers told GM to shut down and GM said they'd shut down everyone but Flint Assembly (my shop). Then a half hour later Consumers called back and said that's fine, but we're turning Flint Assembly's gas off at 8pm. So we left at 8pm haha.

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[Waho]

Energy crisis over, back to work.

The timing of having a day and a half off was unfortunately decent. My Wife's grandpa had a stroke Wednesday afternoon. Thankfully he was in the hospital having one of his chemo ports cleaned at the time so they were able to get him to the ICU within minutes. When we went to visit him yesterday he was alert and talking as well as he could through some pretty violent stomach spasms that they hadn't quite nailed down the cause of yet. They're stuck in a catch 22 where they need to stop the spasms so he can be still enough for an MRI, so they can figure out whats causing the spasms.

I'm not entirely sure how this whole thing will turn out as he's very much "quality of life" oriented when it comes to medical care. If they can't control these spasms I can see him giving up as he's very adamant about not being on life support machines/feeding tubes etc.

 

[rothenbj]

Sorry to hear that Waho but I fully understand his quality of life issue. I'm probably as positive about that subject as anyone. Having watched my poor father suffer through months of lingering on, fast is very positive.

 

[hittman]

Waho, I hope they figure out what’s going on and he can move on from there.