Posted on 03/25/2013 1:24:47 AM PDT by Windflier
Few signs of spring are being found in parts of the Midwest as a snowstorm tracks eastward mostly along Interstate 70, bringing heavy snow and high winds.
Two people killed in weather-related crashes were identified, dozens of Palm Sunday services were cancelled throughout Missouri, and about 100 flights were scrapped at Lambert Field in St. Louis.
Winter storm warnings and advisories have been issued for Sunday and Monday as far east as Pennsylvania.
The storm dumped 7 to 9 inches of snow from eastern Kansas into central Missouri before tapering off Sunday morning, said Dan Hawblitzel, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in suburban Kansas City.
In the central Missouri town of Columbia, TV station KOMU was briefly evacuated Sunday morning because of high winds and a heavy buildup of snow on the broadcast tower next to the building.
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Has Al Gore been travelling again?
We really need to exile him to either northern Greenland or Antarctica. It’s for the *children.*
I have $50,000 that says that all the snow will end and spring-time will be in full bloom by May 1.
The last snow storms of the year range from late February to early April. Anything beyond the first week of March fills in a slow or lazy news cycle as cause for hysteria.
Knock on wood but it might finally be over here in New England. It’s 31 degrees right now going up into the fifties by weeks end. One good thing; the maple sugaring is still going on. It has been for a month or more and will for a while yet. That might drive the price down a bit. $16/qt is steep but the fake stuff sucks.
It seems the weather runs in cycles. After a couple of warm winters, we were due for a *normal* one. We burned 14 face cords, so far, which is just normal. Last year, I think we burned 9 and about 12 the year before. A severe winter can see us burn another full cord.
Same for summers. After not using the window a/c in our bedroom for 2 years,we had a killer summer. We switched to a portable room a/c that can be moved around as needed and got thru it. The nice thing about the portable is that when it cools down, you can still open a window and be comfortable w/a ceiling fan.
I just want all the ice gone. Slipped and fell hard 2 weeks ago and am still sore.
Velcro and a couple of cheap flashlights—then you can peel them off and take them in to keep them from getting too cold to work. The days are getting a little longer here now (North Dakota at ~48 degrees North Latitude), but even now, it’s still only half light out as I post this.
Interesting to learn that it's functionally right at home and superior to most in a tough environment like AK. But it remains perhaps the only vehicle on earth whose looks would be improved by the addition of a snow plow.
Sounds like you folks know how to deal with weather.
Actually I used a clampon led grill light but I need to install a shim around the bars as it kept slipping. So far its just light snow on the way to work, posting on the tablet at work, about to fire up the big bucket loader to move snow.
I use Amsoil in the engine, all tires are studded, HID converted headlights. Does not have the best awd but does a good job, always starts even at minus 25f. Of course it has a block heater. Wife loves it for getting in and out as she has MS.
Weird. I remember almost freezing to death one winter in Tampa-St. Pete. That was in the early 90s.
I used to b e a Civil engineer. Concrete is not going to gain much strength if poured in really cold weather. Do they have some super special secret additives up there?
I had a block heater, an oil pan heater, and an interior heater in all my vehicles. Synthetic oil certainly helps a lot too. What I was thinking of was the tires getting frozen solid. Two-wheel drive vehicles would often be hopelessly stuck. The 4X4s would always move; but the tires, and hydraulic shocks would remain frozen solid. You had to move very slowly for a couple of miles, until things started to warm up a bit.
An Alaska mix, first off we are using Type 3 cement with a 2% calcium chloride accelerator. Mixed with hot water this stuff licks off in only 30 minutes, or less If I agitate it too much. You do NOT dilly dally around with this stuff, it can flash over if you let it stay in the drum too long, its only 20F, they also cover the footers and heat them. We do this all the time up here.
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I have had manual transmissions with conventional gear lube in them that took a good fifteen minutes of feathering the clutch in and out to get limber enough to engage the clutch without killing the engine. The first couple of miles are always a shakedown in that weather, and every vehicle I have driven in such cold makes an entirely new set of noises they don’t make when it is warmer...
We went through that for a few years, then we had our vehicles winterized each year (new antifreeze, new transmission and transfer case lube, change oil, etc.). When it was -50 or lower, I would get up, get dressed, start the truck, then go indoors to have breakfast while it idled. It would be warm enough to move by then — except for the frozen tires and shocks. Naturally, the grille was covered, to prevent the radiator from over-cooling.
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On the older ones you could just drop a piece of cardboard in between the grille and the radiator. Later, I had to get a mite more sophisticated with snaps and fancier covers, but definitely a must--especially if you wanted the heater to work.
I remember driving 120 miles one day and the 1 liter bottle of pop froze on the engine cover of my old van on the trip....Dress for the weather and turn the heat down if you need to.
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