The big winter storm....

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  • silvertuner
    silvertuner Posts: 496
    edited February 2011
    finally said the hell with it and turned on the amp and cd player, time for some Tom Petty

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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited February 2011
    silvertuner wrote: »
    finally said the hell with it and turned on the amp and cd player, time for some Tom Petty

    They put new wiring, poles ect. in on my "line" all summer long..
    I was cursing them the whole time until now!
    Guess it is all paying off now!:biggrin:
    17 degrees now, high winds (-1 tomorrow), and still have steady electricity!:smile:
    Not even a "flicker" so far (knock on wood:cool:).
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  • silvertuner
    silvertuner Posts: 496
    edited February 2011
    in the 3 and a half years ive been in this house i have lost power maybe 2-3 times that i can remember, and its always been for a good reason. the flickering appears to have stopped for the time being so i should be good. thinkin about gettin the 4 wheeler out again tonight at 1am to wake everyone up since i just took the exhaust off of it lol

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  • indyhawg
    indyhawg Posts: 1,642
    edited February 2011
    My power just came back on. I was without it for about 2 hours. In just that short time, it makes you appreciate things you take for granted.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited February 2011
    indyhawg wrote: »
    My power just came back on. I was without it for about 2 hours. In just that short time, it makes you appreciate things you take for granted.

    Mine was off for 2 weeks (16 days) in 2000!
    I TRUELY appreciated it when it came back on!:wink:
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  • ViperZ
    ViperZ Posts: 2,046
    edited February 2011
    Our retarded weather people screwed up again... We were promised close to 12" of snow by now... What do we have?? ZERO! NOTHING!! I am not complaining though. :biggrin: Our southern neighbours can keep it all.
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  • dee1949
    dee1949 Posts: 1,425
    edited February 2011
    ....us easterners want to know? In Dc we are going to miss this one. Sure others in Pa. and North want to know what to expect. Flash pics at night come out "AWESOME".
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited February 2011
    It's sleeting like the f'n Devil right now... Looks like a fog outside, but it's all the sleet coming down. I'm not sure if you can say that it's "pouring down" sleet... but it is. Who knows what it'll do the rest of the night... I've got the heat in the bedroom cranked as high as I can stand it to sleep, so if the power kicks, I'll have a bit of a head start. Time for bed!
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • thebluemonkey
    thebluemonkey Posts: 190
    edited February 2011
    nadams wrote: »
    It's sleeting like the f'n Devil right now... Looks like a fog outside, but it's all the sleet coming down. I'm not sure if you can say that it's "pouring down" sleet... but it is. Who knows what it'll do the rest of the night... I've got the heat in the bedroom cranked as high as I can stand it to sleep, so if the power kicks, I'll have a bit of a head start. Time for bed!

    Same here sounded like buckshot hiting the windows
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited February 2011
    thebluemonkey wrote: »
    Same here sounded like buckshot hiting the windows

    Yessir... Unfortunately, I have to go to work tomorrow regardless of the situation. I live a mile away from work, and we service salesfolk all over the Eastern seaboard. Not like the days when I worked for the local schools :frown:
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • silvertuner
    silvertuner Posts: 496
    edited February 2011
    this is all ice, not snow. started with freezing rain (looked like glass) yesterday, then today it was sleet and freezing rain. snow hasnt hit us yet.

    looking southwest from my garage...
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    looking due north...
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    93 s-dime keeping the rust and oil leaks warm. neighbors are jealous it appears lol
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    aaaaaannnnnd for **** and giggles since this is an audio forum...
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited February 2011
    11.7" on the ground with 50mph wind gusts and another 7-12" to fall before it's over sometime tomorrow afternoon.

    H9
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited February 2011
    I blame Canada for ALLLLL of it!
    If they could keep their "winds", "systems" and "weather events" to theirselves, non of this would have happened!:cool:
    If they ever get the internet, we are all in trouble!:biggrin:
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  • silvertuner
    silvertuner Posts: 496
    edited February 2011
    definitely shouldnt watch this at work...

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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited February 2011
    fungg.jpg
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • silvertuner
    silvertuner Posts: 496
    edited February 2011
    sweet, hopefully i can get out of the house tmrw, im going crazy being stuck in the house and watching daytime television

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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited February 2011
    silvertuner wrote: »
    sweet, hopefully i can get out of the house tmrw, im going crazy being stuck in the house and watching daytime television

    Oprah's on!:biggrin:
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  • silvertuner
    silvertuner Posts: 496
    edited February 2011
    pepster wrote: »
    Oprah's on!:biggrin:

    no, just... no /o/ for me. thankfully i do have other projects i can work on, but u can only paint your entire house so many times before your eyes cross and you start wanting to eat the paint

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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited February 2011
    hey you slackers who have the day off from work.. get out there and shovel some snow... :tongue:
    PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
    Vancouver, Canada Sept 30th, 2012 - Madonna concert :cheesygrin:
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited February 2011
    we don't have any snow.. but we are in the single digits tonight.

    check out these cool pics from a newspaper photographer friend of mine

    http://www.spokesman.com/picture-stories/frozen-time/
    PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
    Vancouver, Canada Sept 30th, 2012 - Madonna concert :cheesygrin:
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  • BuckeyeTim
    BuckeyeTim Posts: 483
    edited February 2011
    This is ugly here! Lost power at about 9:00. I left work at 11:00, 2 hours early so that I could get the generator running. Some of the trip home wasn't bad, I ran 50mph. You just had to stay in the tire tracks. But the back roads, which is half my drive....nothing but a sheet of ice about an inch thick.

    So, while I am attempting to drag the generator across the yard with the 4-wheeler, I hear all kinds of limbs crashing down in the woods around me. I think I even heard a few trees come down. Hellacious crack and crash. Off in the distance you could see the occasional flash. Assuming it was transformers going up in sparks. It has me nervous enough that I took the 4-wheeler and made a path into the field and moved the vehicles away from all the trees.

    The Hickory dont worry me too much, they are pretty flexible, but this one Red Oak has a nice lean to it and it is close enough to catch the house. I can only hope that if it does come down it snaps off part way up the trunk rather than fall over intact.
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited February 2011
    At work again. Less than 50% of my associates are here, leaving those of us loyal enough to come in to pick up the slack as our reward for risking our hides.

    Oh yeah. They're getting PTO for calling in, too. Awesome.
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

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  • HHStuart
    HHStuart Posts: 263
    edited February 2011
    It's turning into sleet here (NE of Boston) and I hope the screened in porch can handle the weight on top of the 3 feet of snow we already have on that roof. The other parts of the house have steep enough slopes that they won't be a problem. We've got icicles all around the house, some 6 feet long.
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  • indyhawg
    indyhawg Posts: 1,642
    edited February 2011
    I am working from home again today since my office is closed. My neighbor worked for an hour this morning trying to get the ice off his windshield and windows. I did not envy him at all.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,006
    edited February 2011
    Look who is complaining about the weather now......:biggrin:

    Not us.....
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  • McLoki
    McLoki Posts: 5,231
    edited February 2011
    Work is closed and my driveway is clear. (only about 45min - I love my snow thrower) I can drive back and forth in my driveway as much as I want.

    Not a plow in sight though, so the 24" wall of snow at the end of my driveway will probably keep me off the streets for awhile.
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  • silvertuner
    silvertuner Posts: 496
    edited February 2011
    total non-event here. we got a bunch of ice, very little snow (if any), and to be honest a bit disappointed. oh well

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    denon 1610
    3.1 channel because i hate cables ran across the living room like that
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,006
    edited February 2011
    I can't wait to get home and use my snowblower!! :biggrin: This will be the first time this year it gets a real workout!! I say...bring it on!
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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited February 2011
    Most of my friends and coworkers have been caught off guard by -4 wind chill. They don't have the attire to deal with such temperatures here in the DFW metroplex. I'm guessing folks are running to the local Dick's or Academy if they can get through the ice. If this keeps up, maybe LL Bean will open a store down here.

    110+ in the late summer/early fall, -4 in the winter.
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  • silvertuner
    silvertuner Posts: 496
    edited February 2011
    HA, we get both extremes here. 96+ in the summer, -10 in the winter. i have coveralls and insulated boots, insulated gloves, etc etc etc for this ****. i suppose i should wake up and get the driveway cleared off

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    denon 1610
    3.1 channel because i hate cables ran across the living room like that
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