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Post by variable on Feb 17, 2015 17:48:38 GMT -6
OK, so I lied. I used the hammer. More leaks in that window. I dumped a crapload of CaCL on the ice to try and loosen it up. Maybe by tomorrow I can break it apart. This winter sucks.
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Post by DigDug on Feb 17, 2015 21:46:16 GMT -6
First sign of spring! (always like seeing these at a store i do maintenance for)  |
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Post by Mattbert on Feb 18, 2015 14:38:07 GMT -6
Oh man, clearing ice dams. Do I ever NOT miss that shit.
I have been free of serious winter weather for most of the 15 years since I flew the ancestral coop. Of that branch of my family, there are just three of us (out of close to 30 people between the various aunts, uncles, cousins, and all) who now live outside of New England. The other two made it as far as NYC and north Jersey, respectively.
I catch grief at family gatherings for being the wuss who ran away to live in California and now Florida (they conveniently leave out the intervening stops in Seattle and London; not exactly the friggin' riviera). And to that I say ... yup. Who's laughing now, suckers?
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Post by Mattbert on Feb 19, 2015 20:10:44 GMT -6
Well, it's getting ready to dip below 40F here tonight for the first time all winter. I've got a fire in the fireplace and the first whisky of the season in my glass. Brrrrrr...
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Post by DigDug on Feb 19, 2015 20:53:39 GMT -6
Well, it's getting ready to dip below 40F here tonight for the first time all winter. I've got a fire in the fireplace and the first whisky of the season in my glass. Brrrrrr... $&#% you Mattbert  I'll be up on a 3 Decker roof removing 4 feet of snow and foot thick ice dams. |
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Post by Winterland on Feb 19, 2015 22:46:19 GMT -6
Well, it's getting ready to dip below 40F here tonight for the first time all winter. I've got a fire in the fireplace and the first whisky of the season in my glass. Brrrrrr... 40 below F without windchill in Northern Minnesota last night. We had -15F last night in Minneapolis. Warmed up quite a bit now 7F. 40 above people would be putting the tops down.  |
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Post by Mattbert on Feb 19, 2015 23:31:05 GMT -6
Well, it's getting ready to dip below 40F here tonight for the first time all winter. I've got a fire in the fireplace and the first whisky of the season in my glass. Brrrrrr... 40 below F without windchill in Northern Minnesota last night. We had -15F last night in Minneapolis. Warmed up quite a bit now 7F. 40 above people would be putting the tops down. No kiddin'. When I was in college, the first day of late winter or early spring when the temps finally made it into the 40s was when everyone would bust out the shorts. I also recall (vividly) what -40 felt like when I was on a research icebreaker down in the Antarctic many years ago. That is serious shit right there. After experiencing that, I've never had a problem remembering the bit of trivia that -40 is where the F and C scales converge. So you can tell anyone around the world that you had -40, and they'll be equally impressed. Unless it's some weirdo who thinks of everything in Kelvin, in which case he'll either nominate you for a Nobel or think you're a complete idiot. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2015 8:51:57 GMT -6
Been riding my bicycle to work all winter.
yes, it's been cold, yes my fingertips have gone numb.
love it.
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Post by DigDug on Feb 20, 2015 14:03:54 GMT -6
This winter sucks  |
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Post by variable on Feb 20, 2015 15:19:47 GMT -6
Roof shoveling moonscape for the MF'ing win. I have to chisel ice when I get home.
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3# mini sledge + 8" rock chisel = busted ice. If only there was more light in the day.
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Post by Mattbert on Feb 23, 2015 13:01:43 GMT -6
My great-grandfather at the family farm in Vermont, circa 1950-something. Getting ready to shovel out his Jeep. It's in there somewhere.  |
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Post by brentkuz on Mar 5, 2015 13:30:43 GMT -6
Man I'm so done with this snow. My day off today. 5". We got 3" the other day. Solid 2ft of standing snow around.
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Post by variable on Mar 5, 2015 13:43:13 GMT -6
Didn't get squat north of I90. I'm not complaining, if any more water comes through my roof...
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Post by usctroll on Mar 5, 2015 21:56:17 GMT -6
They cancelled school here in Austin because of an ice storm warning. Turns out it was sunny and 48 Deg by 2 pm and there never was any ice. Hard times here in the south.
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Post by brentkuz on Mar 5, 2015 23:05:58 GMT -6
They cancelled school here in Austin because of an ice storm warning. Turns out it was sunny and 48 Deg by 2 pm and there never was any ice. Hard times here in the south. Yeah just stay out of this thread. I can't open my fence gate...since jan 22nd. |
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Post by variable on Mar 5, 2015 23:08:47 GMT -6
I have to remodel my bathroom. Ceiling's shot, window framing is soaked and the drywall is all done.
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Post by DigDug on Mar 6, 2015 2:21:09 GMT -6
And it's still Wicked Cold (5degrees right now)
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Post by brentkuz on Mar 6, 2015 7:24:40 GMT -6
Driving down to philly today. Well 30 minutes west. Maybe I'll get a cheese steak. Heard they got 8" of snow yesterday.
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Post by variable on Mar 6, 2015 8:07:32 GMT -6
Driving down to philly today. Well 30 minutes west. Maybe I'll get a cheese steak. Heard they got 8" of snow yesterday. Remember to do the Philly Lean when eating your cheese steak, or you may end up wearing some.  |
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Post by variable on Mar 16, 2015 4:59:26 GMT -6
So looks like Beantown beat it's prior snowfall record. 108.6 inches of snow for the 2014-2015 season.
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Post by brentkuz on Mar 16, 2015 5:10:07 GMT -6
I think we're done with snow. Knock on wood.
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Post by variable on Mar 16, 2015 6:31:42 GMT -6
I sure hope so.
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Post by DigDug on Mar 16, 2015 8:42:40 GMT -6
We could get April Fools storm. But even if we do get another storm, it'll all be melting in a few weeks. Now bring on the mud and flooding.
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Post by brentkuz on Mar 16, 2015 8:54:13 GMT -6
We could get April Fools storm. But even if we do get another storm, it'll all be melting in a few weeks. Now bring on the mud and flooding. Jeeping weather. Then that leads to vette and harley weather |
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Post by davelewis on Mar 16, 2015 9:25:31 GMT -6
Its been a strange Winter. Mt. Baker to the north of me, is the world record holder of annual snowfall at 95 feet, and they aren't even open now for skiing, and I have turned in my corporate ski tickets for this year, as I've already started mowing the lawn.
You guys are getting hit with our usual Winter, with your own.
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