~~**-- The Weather Thread --**~~

[Road Guy]

lol, are they blocking the road?

 

[FLBuff PE]

Prior to yesterday, morning temps have been below zero here.

 

[blybrook PE]

+42F in FAI. Love winter chinooks.

And according to the newsminus (local paper), this was warmer than Las Vegas!!!

 

[Road Guy]

Enjoy it while ya can!!!

Experienced -18 last weekend, car didnt much care for it, took a while to even be able to just open my doors...

Wasnt "that terrible" in the daytime but would be tough to deal with that for several weeks/ months...

 

[snickerd3]

lol, are they blocking the road?

nope.  they backed it up to park it right next to the driveway/garage in the grass and they didn't keep going they just stopped with the front tires in the ditch...i don't know if the angle was such that the front was scrapping and they couldn't move it further back or what but they left it instead of trying a different spot.  now it will be there until it dries up or they hired a tow truck i guess, which will suck with the weather getting colder and the road freezing over in the rain.  glad we turn the other way out of the driveway and avoid it...but about 4 neighbors aren't so luck.  

 

[P-E]

The night was humid 

 

[MetsFan]

I was not expecting this much snow.

 

[P-E]

Actually broke out the snow blower for the first time.   Downtown didn't get as much. 

 

[Road Guy]

By snow blower do you mean your teenagers?

 

[MA_PE]

Actually broke out the snow blower for the first time.   Downtown didn't get as much. 

me too.  I had taken out of storage and drained all the oil and greased it all up ready to go but no gas or oil as we didn't need it yet.  Fortunately I believed the reports enought to get gas and oil on Sunday in time for Monday.  It was light fluffy stuff so shoveling wouldn't be the end of the world, but it's always better when you can use an internal combustion engine to do the work.

By snow blower do you mean your teenagers?

I wish.  I got one season where my kid was home to take care of snow.  That was last year when my college graduated, job-seeking, son was home full time.  Prior to that they were too involved in scholl activities or gone off to college so I ended up doing it myself.  I got a couple of times when they helped out but for the most part it's on my shoulders. 

 

[snickerd3]

we got about 3 inches overnight...the roads seems ok, but people are stupid and cars in the ditches caused a lot of traffic slow downs on the commute to work this morning.  Those stupid 3 wired barricades along the highways don't help matters either...cars would have kept going into the ditch instead of being bounced back into lanes of traffic.

 

[P-E]

By snow blower do you mean your teenagers?

He's only 6. Got a few more years to wait. 

 

[matt267 PE]

On January 18, 2016 at 11:39:34 PM, Road Guy said:

By snow blower do you mean your teenagers?

He's only 6. Got a few more years to wait. 

Bullshit. They sell kids size shovels. I bought one for my 7 y/o last year.

 

[P-E]

Good thinking.    "Here you go mini P-E.  If you need anything, Daddy will be inside having a beer.   Don't be too long out there."

 

[NJmike PE]

 

[Road Guy]

Make sure you all plan ahead and take work home so you don't lose productivity during the storm

 

[matt267 PE]

I'm not allowed to work from home.

 

[NJmike PE]

I'll have plenty of work scheduled over the weekend.

 

[matt267 PE]

I'll have plenty of work scheduled over the weekend.

And I can't think of a better man to get that work complete.

 

[Ship Wreck PE]

I'm not allowed to work from home.

Do they think you would sleep on the clock??