d for the snow storm. (Per local TV’s weather closing bug.)
You would think that the staff at Snowmobiler would fire up the test drive units and bring everybody in.[:D]
Jeez… How much snow didja get?
Chico
There’d better be some good train-in-the-snow shots in an upcoming issue. If my office closed for snow, that’s what I’d do.[:-^]
Is the closure for snow, or for ice like a big portion of the rest of the country?
Well remember “dez ah native Wisconsonites” …which means the offices were only closed because the snowdrifts mustof completely covered them from site [:-^]
Its like the old joke, a guy in Milwalkee is trying to walk back to his hotel in a blinding snowstorm, as he’s walking across the street he sees a hat on the ground, perfectly fixed and not moving despite the howling blizzard, so curiously he picks it up, only to reveal a mans head! before he can gasp, the head says “vell donta justa standa der, start diggin’, I gotta loaded wagon anda full team o’ horse’s under me!” [(-D]
What’s snow?
As I write this, it’s 69 & clear in Nashville. High near 79 on one of those bank thermometers.
Official High 76. The state still needs rain to makeup for summer’s drought. Some communities still running short of water.
Snow’s that stuff I drove into and back out of tonight while “rescuing” my son-in-law. His car quit near here so I went to where they towed it to pick him up. Raining when I left work, drove into the snow, then back out of it and into the rain when I headed south to hand him off to my daughter.
Sheesh!
Amazing! California’s burning up and the south has a drought.
Y’all are welcome to the four days of rain and sleet we’ve had here, come get it.
Actually, big portions of California will be freezing tonight…
Waukesha was hit with “winter mix” and then 4 to 5 inches. Not a lot of snow as it goes around here, but the combination makes for a lot of fun.
I am about 45 miles to the southwest and we had mostly freezing rain. Not as bad as some of the other places in the storm’s path, still enough to bring down some major branches off the ancient white pines on meighboring property. Avoided the power, cable and phone lines so I am happy.
My Day -
Marquette High School this morning:
6 AM - Snow
7 AM - Hardcore Snow
At this point I undertake an excavation with a pick axe in the frozen ground above WE Energies 13 KV underground cables.
8 AM - Rain
Ground is frozen to a depth of about 8". Finally broke through the frost and can now swtich over to a shovel
9 AM - Nothing
Working in a ‘T’ shirt, I now have to dig with my hands in order to avoid driving a pick axe through the live primary high voltage cables.
10 AM - Snow, sleet, Rain
I expose the conduits to be repaired, the bottom of which are touching the 13 KV line. I will be throwing my beer at the company Christmas party at the person who so foolishly installed these conduits like a moron in August that I now must fix in December.
11 AM - Quarter sized snow flakes
Must continue to clean snow out of my hole. Water is now seeping into the bottom of the hole creating the need for a bucket to bail water in addition to a shovel to clean out snow.
12 PM - lunch
Conduits are repaired, ready for wire.
1 PM - Quarter sized snow flakes
It actually would make for a Chirstmas card scene, except there is a big guy buried up to his waist in a hole trying to fix some idiot’s work swearing up a storm in a ‘t’ shirt. Better turn the camera the other way.
2 PM - Sleet
Wire installed. Filled in hole: 3 hours to dig, 20 minutes to backfill
3 PM - Standard Snow
End of Day, by my tape measure 5 inches of snow has fallen.
4 PM - Snow
Arrive at home to find wife who did not have to go to hospital to work today on account of weather. Discover that all school systems in addition to Marquette have closed. Check Trains Forums to find that even the Kalmbach offices have closed. Wonder if I made a good career choice…
33 degrees in parts of Los Angeles tonight (Valley)…
I flipped a snowmobile on ice once…was making a turn in a shadow when the rear end shot up from under me…Lucky it didnt land right on top of me and I only paid for a new fairing…
I would recommend those in the area to stay home and build a fire, or turn on the heater and watch some train videos.
I highly recommend that you not build a fire unless you have a fireplace or woodstove in which to build it… [;)]
lol whenever we get snow at my work in Aurora/Montgomery IL we get 2-3 pages worth of employee’s calling off work for whatever reason. This last week has been the funniest! News keeps saying bad weather and people keep calling off but the bad stuff keeps missing us. People going to be out of sick days soon hehe
Security sucks though we allways gotta be here [xx(]
Well, we survived. We had freezing ran and ice early, and about 10 a.m. it switched to snow. It looks as though Waukesha fared better than my home about 20 minutes north of here where we got 5 inches. My husband snowblowed the driveway three times yesterday, mainly because it was the heavy, wet stuff that clogs snowblowers if you try to move too much at once. Five inches doesn’t sound like much, but that’s on top of the 7 or so we’ve already accumulated. Yup, it’s winter in Wisconsin.
Now to dig out the emails…
Kathi
As I write this, it’s 32F & clear in Nashville. Mon 45, tues 52. Santa comes via pickup. Had a lot of rain yesterday. Some counties are still too dry.
My sister lives in northern Vermont about 8 miles north of Montpelier. Notice that, when there is a blizzard covering New England there are no complaints or calls for help from Vermont? That’s because the residents are too busy lubing the ski lifts.
Jack
Weather is wet, cold, warm, fog, wet, cold etc.
Anytime the TV weather man whispers a hint of ice storm all chaos break loose as we bunker up for two weeks of no food, no power, no nothing even if it all a dusting.
Any time one should slip while walking to the car, we turn around and go back inside until temps get back above freezing. It aint our driving or tire,s it’s the other cars who we fear. And me, a master of mountain weather driving fearing other drivers on flat land. SIGH.