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Makes me smile when I see this and now live in Florida. Stay warm y’all.
I remember going ice fishing many moons ago when it was 15 below. The propane froze. Could not light the heater. We still fished and caught a mess.
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Holy cow, that -52 is exactly 100 degrees colder than right now here. No way, nope, yall can have all that to yourselves. Stay warm fellas, somehow, some way. Protect your family and critters from it.
Saw that on news last night. Was wondering if Wilbur could get that diesel truck of his started so he could haul gravel today.
I believe that's wind-chill temps,not actual temps, still a chilly day though.Quote:
Originally Posted by huntinslabs
Ya Slab I to remember them days. Getting up to go to work at the dealership. Ice fishing on lake lindenhurst, Deep lake. Living in NC for 30 years now, mom and dad are living down in Champaign.
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Spent some time in the Navy's "A" school back in the 60's in Chicago. Tough place to live in the wintertime! They don't call it the "windy city" for nothing. The "P" coats weren't worth much to keep you warm. We're suppose to have -5 degrees here tonight (after that storm), with a high in the low teen for Thursday. That's plenty bad enough! :)
We hit 15 below this morning without the windchill. Wind currently is gusting at 30mph from the west with a real feel tempurature of minus 32!
The other night in northern Minn, a buddy of mine had minus 33 ACTUAL tempurature!
I totally get it!!! As a military dependent growing up I had the vivid recollection of living in Fairbanks Alaska, Anchorage Alaska and Grand Forks North Dakota (among other places) where these types of paralyzing conditions and temperatures were all too prevalent in the winter months. Even later in life, after joining the US Navy, I did a year at (the Chicago area) Great Lakes Illinois for basic training and "A" School during which time I had the great privilege of being snowed in by blizzard conditions at O'Haire Airport for two days that I thought would never end. I also got to go out on the ice on the great lakes where people drove all manner of cars, trucks, snowmobiles and ice skating contraptions of all descriptions. I remember that it was S-O-O-O-O freaky to hear the way the ice was always cracking and how you could hear the cracks running across the lake... making a sound that I cannot even begin to describe. Wishing safety for all who are in the way of these dangerous winter conditions.
Just got off the atv from plowing snow for the last 2 hours. -27 wind chill, -2 real temp. It didn't feel that cold but the chin whiskers had a nice ice berg when I was done.
Slab, I feel the same way when it's 95 down there during the summer and 75 up here. I'll do -2 over 95 any day. I can always put on more clothes but there's only so many I can take off.:yikes
Jerry,
I always says that I'm not built for heat or speed!
It was a rather warm 1 degrees in Lansing and due to the city emergency, not a car on the streets. You could have drove a zamboni naked the wrong way down Michigan and no one would notice.
It is a more tolerable -7 at the house now! At least the mosquitoes aren't out.
Man and i thought 0 degrees was bad today in kansas city:cheers2
I live in Batesville, Dad is in in Elizabeth IL, my youngest is in Minneapolis, and my oldest is in Indianapolis. After seeing this early this morning on my phone, I realized I don't really miss them as much as I used to think... :biggrin
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My son lives there now. They are planning to sell everything move back south as soon as they retire. Even his wife agrees with that now and she was born in Chicago and years believed there was no place to live other than Chicago.
They tried to get me to move there and live with them when my wife died. Told them thanks, but no thanks. I will come and visit you in the summer and fall but I will never in a place that cold again.
I heard on the news today that a gas company was telling people to turn their thermostat down to 50* or lower and not use hot water from gas heaters. Yea, it's -20 outside and I'm turning down the heat! They said there may be gas outages. If a NG company in a town that has a monopoly on NG service, they should be required to be able to supply gas in such situations. It is life and death under these conditions.
We got warnings on our phones from the energy company to turn thermostats down to 65. I believe they are concerned with power usage.
Everyone is running supplemental electric heat just to help keep up. It is taxing the grid.
Minus 14 right now with real feel temps at minus 29.
I believe the issue was a gas producer in Michigan had a failure and had to stop pumping ng. They provided roughly 30percent of the ng for Michigan.
Around here we're being told to set our thermostats and leave them. Take them off program mode. The HVAC system isn't designed to maintain temps in the house when the outside temps get below 0. Yesterday it was -22 plus a wind chill. -44 degrees. I heard all sorts of unusual popping sounds during the night. This morning it was -17 degrees actual temp. I'm in Central Illinois. Sunday it's going to be 50 degrees. A 90 degree temp swing in less than a week.
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That should turn the crappie bite on.:banghead
Shorts weather in Michigan. Not for me, but you will see it.
Thankfully, I don't run NG or propane. Geothermal has advantages however, when it is this cold, it runs non stop.
We survived it, my wife works for the county government and they closed for 2 1/2 days, so we got our basement project almost done. I heat my house primarily with wood pellets/corn with propane as a back up. Wednesday night the pellets bridged up in the hopper so nothing flowed into the auger to feed the furnace. I woke up at 4 am because I was cold. Discovered the house was 62 degrees inside. I quickly was able to knock the pellets loose so they would flow again, but with -15 and a wind chill around -35 it took a while to bring the house temp back up.
Not as bad as the winter of 95 when I lived in Michigan’s upper peninsula......5 days no heat, no power, extreme cold. We had nowhere to go except plug in my portable generator to power a few lights and the microwave. Luckily I had a propane heater and several tanks to keep us a little bit from freezing. When the power came on I had 11 broken water pipes to fix...... then decided to move 300 miles south
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Moved 300 miles! I woulda done what I did if I was you, add about 1000 miles to that figure! :yikesQuote:
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Four more years and Judy retires, then we can become snowbirds!Quote:
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Minus 30’s two days ago, Sunday maybe 60. Old saying “. Just wait and it will change.” Well, I can’t wait for the change, :cheers2:cheers2:cheers2
I am 100 miles from Chicago. There is actually an upside to it being -50°. It keeps MOST of the criminals inside too. [emoji6]
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Originally Posted by silverside
Best statement of all time!
My son is a police officer. Says he gets bored on cold days lol
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I came out of Home Depot today and thought "man it's warm" and took off my heavy jacket. Got to the truck and the outside temp was 4 degrees. The sun is out and shining bright and the fact that there is no wind sure made it feel warm.