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Laundryroom David

Laundryroom David

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Looks like the next 24 hours around the Great Lakes will be super blizzard happy fun time. My fellow “weather bomb” riders, how will you pass the time while we wait this one out? I’m going to drink too much coffee and drill some enclosures. Other ideas?
 
It's like 19° here which is pretty unusual for the pnw. I keep having to pour boiling water on a little rubber tube around the side of my house. It's coming from a drainage pump on my heater. Suddenly my house takes a piss and the heat kicks on again.
 
Robert said:
We're expecting 16° here on Saturday, which I know, is nothing to you folks up north, but down here in the south?

Folks are going to be buying up all the toilet paper again like it's 2020! :ROFLMAO:
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In December 2019, Costco started to phase out "Marathon" TP in the 48 pack. My wife took the truck to the warehouse outlet and bought 18 of those suckers 'cus it's all they had. She told me this one guy just kept checking her out as the costco guys were loading up the truck. Fast forwards 4 months and we heard about the lock down (on MY BIRTHDAY March 20th) and the shortage of TP and she said something like "I bet you anything that guy is thinking HOW DID SHE KNOW?" lol......

So we sold TP to our friends and neighbors, and still had some all the way into like the beginning of 2022. The irony here is that Costco changed their mind and didn't phase out that brand. She no longer walks this earth, but I bet she's still giggling about that in heaven :cool:

I'm planning on rototilling the garden over the weekend, there was a frost last week that finally killed the tomatoes, darn it.....

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RetiredUnit1 said:
In December 2019, Costco started to phase out "Marathon" TP in the 48 pack. My wife took the truck to the warehouse outlet and bought 18 of those suckers 'cus it's all they had. She told me this one guy just kept checking her out as the costco guys were loading up the truck. Fast forwards 4 months and we heard about the lock down (on MY BIRTHDAY March 20th) and the shortage of TP and she said something like "I bet you anything that guy is thinking HOW DID SHE KNOW?" lol......

So we sold TP to our friends and neighbors, and still had some all the way into like the beginning of 2022. The irony here is that Costco changed their mind and didn't phase out that brand. She no longer walks this earth, but I bet she's still giggling about that in heaven :cool:

I'm planning on rototilling the garden over the weekend, there was a frost last week that finally killed the tomatoes, darn it.....

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That's a great story!
 
Currently an even 50° rn, with it expected to have a drop to the single-digits by late-afternoon. Super windy and rainy rn, so the roads are gonna be hell. Surely not gonna be good for the potholes either 😂
 
I hope you guys are doing ok. We see the news down here about the storms and it looks terrible - I can't imagine what that must be like. I would want an open fireplace with a ton of firewood and a fridge full of beer.

Christmas day was 30C and clear blue skies here. Beautiful day. Boxing day has been much the same. Right now it's just starting to get dark and we have the front and back doors open with a breeze gently blowing through the house. Perfect. Hardly any snow or blizzard to be seen.
 
Safe and sound here, but I feel genuinely bad for folks in Buffalo, NY. They are true winter warriors. Eye-watering snow totals there.

@HamishR that sounds lovely. I’d take 30, a light breeze and a beer right now for sure!

Cheers
 
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The “blizzard” that we were supposed to get ended up being about 2 inches. It’s still friggin cold, but it’ll be back in the 50’s next weekend. That’s Indiana for ya
 
Feral Feline said:
-11ºC* here, but it feels balmy after going through a deep-freeze just before Christmas.

During said cold-snap LOTS of records broken around the province, some previously set 100 years ago.

I'd taken to calling the province "Albrrrrrrta".








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My little corner of Ontario has been cold and messy, but nothing compared to the deep freeze you guys got.

We get a week or two a year with a couple days in a row of sustained temps around -15. Windchill below -25 is relatively rare. Don’t know how you westerners do it! Everything is different in that deep cold. Materials don’t necessarily behave the way one might expect!

Edit: all numbers in celsius, although the scales converge around -40 and I’ve found little practical difference between F and C when it’s that cold.
 
Feral Feline said:
Damn straight.

Car batteries die, wires break, metal snaps... My friend once had his drive-shaft fall out for no particular reason other than it was so fricken cold.
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Yep. When I lived in northern Vermont and worked at a well known ski area running the parking lot crew we had one day so cold that ski edges froze to the snow even on the steepest trails, which are pretty danged steep at that place. It was a very bizarre feeling, you could just face up to the fall line and let 'em run and barely even move. Boots and even bindings would break up, just crazy stuff. I can remember friends putting hibachis under their oil pans because the usual electric block heaters wouldn't cut it...what could go wrong? ;)

I lived in Buffalo for a year too, trying to keep a '59 VW porthole window van heated was a whole other story!
 
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