I hope Spring comes early this year

I'm getting tired of dealing with this stuff already...

 

Pretty cool pics...thanks for sharing.

 

Looks pretty but it becomes a pain dealing with it everyday.

 

what is that stuff? J/K

 

I agree Robert.....winter sucks!

 

The worst part is that we're really anxious to start working on the brown Maverick, but I've gotta build the garage first. I'm going to be building a two level, 4-car garage.

It's just frustrating, because you can't do much to the car outside in this weather.

 

We haven't had any real snow to spreak of yet this year. Instead, we got hit with two major ice storms within 2 days of each other. Here were I live, we had about a quarter of an inch of ice on the trees, but it never froze to the roads or sidewalks. But just a few miles north of us it was just terrible. The ice was over an inch thick in areas. As of Sunday there were 50,000 people without electric since last Thursday due to trees and branches snapping off and taking out the power lines. A friend of ours said even the telephone poles were snapping in two from the weight of the ice. I'd rather shovel the snow than have to pick my way through all that ice. This picture was taken about 15 miles north of us where they got snow and then an inch of ice on top of that.

 

"that is the reason i live in Ga" .
i lived in Ind. for eight years. i takes it till i couldn't takes it no mo...
maybe that is why i only scored 91% on the test the other day. ...frank...

 

Jean just described my weekend. Inch thick ice on the trees. Tree's snapping off dropping huge limbs all over town...blocking streets....snapping power lines. This was on top of the flooding going on days earlier....and the tri-fecta was waking up to 5" of snow Saturday morning. Poles snapping off at the ground. What a mess. Lost power Wednesday afternoon. Just got it back Sunday evening.

Bit of advice.....if you don't own a generator....buy one!!! When it comes to needing one....you'll wait in line for two hours to pay double the price from one of the "transient" dealers that set up shop in town.. Luckily....I had a very small one to keep the sump pump running. Kept my basement from flooding....wake up every four hours to power up the generator....pump out the sump pump hole for a half hour....go back to sleep. Daytime comes....run the refrig for an hour, then switch to the deep freeze for an hour, then switch to the computer to get online for an hour. Small generator would only run for an hour at a time....and only power up one device at a time.

Finally Saturday I went to rebutable dealer and got a huge generator...waited in line for 5 minutes to pay a fair price. Wired the gen directly into the breaker box and could fire up half the house!! Still.....no cable.

 

I think here in New Jersey we went from Fall to Spring with 2 days of winter. It is suppose to be Sunny and 53 here today. This is not winter. I keep thinking of a cheap heating bill this year.

 

... and ya'll live up "there" for what reason .

high for today... 75 ...frank...

 

Right now, you can't find a generator within 100 miles of here. Two people from a neighboring county died when the generator they were using filled the house with deadly fumes. It was not properly ventilated. Several others are sick for the same reason. If you use a generator, make sure it's got ventilation. As bad as the storms were, we must have been the lucky ones. My town and the next one over were the only ones to not lose power. If we do lose power, I take all the perishable food, stick it in coolers and put it outside in the cold. We,ve never lost our food that way. We can do all our cooking on the gas grill. As for heat, our garage is heated with coal. It never gets cold in there. Last I heard, the temps are supposed to get in the upper 50's by mid week. Very strange weather patterns indeed. I'm guessing we will have a blizzard in Feb. or March.

 

Craig thats why you get a satalite dish. Here in the Pacific Northwest we loose power regularly due to weather. Big gen to power the fridge, computer and the dish.

 

Craig and others, sorry to hear about the ice and weather problems.
We get more ice here in the Carolinas than snow typically as far
as big problems.

For those reading your post Craig about wiring your generator directly
into the fuse box, I have some advice:
Unplug everything. Things like TV's, stereos, computers, microwaves and other
electronic devices are generally protected from spikes, surges and the
like, but are not friendly towards less than standard voltage or amperage.
A light bulb reacts differently than these devices.
My Dad was a generator specialist in the National Guard for years.
They lost power after a hurricane 2 yrs. ago. He told someone else who
lives in the house with him-she will remain nameless, to turn off those such
appliances, etc. while he wired the generator into the fuse box. She forgot!

His generator was big enough to run the fan and controls on the LP gas pack and several other things but was weak on many of the 110 circuits with everything else running.

They lost the TV, stereo, and microwave. The computer pwr. pack
had to be replaced as well.


Good luck digging out of that guys.

Seth

 

I know all too much about the cold and snow. Born in central PA...raised in western NY....live in Maine now.....lived in NC for 4 years before moving to Maine, still wondering why....But come spring, we'll forget all about the snow, till next year.