Weather at Your House?

During the recent storms here parking is at a premium with no place left to put the snow. I always clear an extra spot in my driveway and told our mail carrier he's more than welcome to use it. He's used it daily ever since and has thanked me repeatedly. I didn't think it was big deal but I'm wondering if they're not supposed to park on private property without permission?

Upstatemax wrote: »

Last push of the cold before we get on a warming trend this coming week:

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Amazing!!!

TEAforONE wrote: »

motorstereo wrote: »

During the recent storms here parking is at a premium with no place left to put the snow. I always clear an extra spot in my driveway and told our mail carrier he's more than welcome to use it. He's used it daily ever since and has thanked me repeatedly. I didn't think it was big deal but I'm wondering if they're not supposed to park on private property without permission?

That’s awesome of you. As long a he doesn’t hit any of your vehicles,he’s probably fine.

He always backs in very carefully. No danger of hitting anything as he has 2 full parking spaces to do what he needs. Glad I'm able to help.

audioluvr wrote: »

We Had Sun! Oh wait. It's gone.

Ahh yes! The northwest "liquid" sunshine. I remember it well. I can remember racing at PIR and watching the sun play peek-a-boo all day, and watching the downpours coming in waves. If you could time them correctly, you could make a decent tire choice: wet or dry tires. Choose wrong and it could cost you a lot of $$$

Good luck to you guys in the path of this blizzard.

I hope you don't lose power.

Hope everything goes well out there.

Friend of mine was called out for storm work in Jersey, he's out of Tennessee.
The Lineman will be working 100-150 hours per week during restoration... Please just drop them off some coffee to show appreciation, a horn honk also works to lift the spirits to keep them going.
They'll charge hell with a bucket off water for you's guys.

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This was my profession.
Always loved it when folks would just say thanks for what y'all are doing. Meant a lot to us.

Hurricane Andrew (1992) was my last real crazy massive power restoration that lasted over 3 months. Saw things people shouldn't ever have to see!
We were on min. 16 hrs a day 7 days a week for 3+ months with sometimes going 3 days @ 24 hours a day. Many 2 week pay periods were way over 300 hours. Ended up walking zombies after the first 3 weeks. 28 Lineman lost their lives on the Andrew restoration.
On pay day though... lifted our spirits to keep going, never went off double nickel the whole time.

Official records had 3 Lineman kiled during the restoration but, we know of 8. The others weren't "officially" considered as they were not on the books and were just walk ons.
From memory... 28 people lost their lives from Andrew, don't hold me to that exact number as it was many years ago.
However, when we got down to Homestead FL we saw rows upon rows of semi refrigeration trailers being loaded with bodies. All were migrant workers and, were not "OFFICIAL" U.S. deaths.

Hot/Humid. Heat Advisories for the next 7 days at least from what I saw on the forecast this AM.

Hope all is well with you Ivan! I keep getting texts from ComEd saying "we will restore your power shortly," yet we have not lost power....

We had nasty weather here with large golf ball sized hail July 27 in Plainfield, IL. Minor siding damage, roof OK. Trees down in neighborhood. I snuck on the roof and inspected it before the wife could scream at me not to. She says "73-year-old men shouldn't go on roofs!" I respond with "73-year-old men shouldn't fall off roofs!" My back window on the Kia was shattered. The tint film along with safety glass sandwich film helped keep rear glass in one piece. A few dents in body.

I've done windshields at work and had tools to cut the polyurethane. Saved me some money at Safelite. I removed glass as it would have fallen in if I hit a bump. It was broken away at both sides and rainwater ran in. I had to remover rear seat, rear deck and side trim and all trunk trim as it and the insulation got wet. Water under hybrid battery where a space saver tire would normally be. Harman Kardon sound system survived.

Aug 11, three doors down, neighbors tree knocked down, we just lost some small branches.

While not weather related, August 4th at 1AM the ambulance took wife to hospital. The section where they removed part of her intestine flipped and caused a blockage. Got her out a few days later.





My BlackVue rear view camera survived.



I laid a tarp inside to first remove the big chunk, then reinserted it to cut the remaining bits stuck to the polyurethane. There were glass bits on the dash and front seats.







Shrinking away awaiting Uber...?



All dried out and reassembled. Glass was backordered, had to wait a week.




At least the lawn looks good for August...we don't water it in drought like we had in July.