Heads Up on Artic Blast Early Next Week

[Right_in_Virginia]

Nothing worse than ice and burst water pipes.  If you lose heat, you may want to shut off the water and open the spigots to keep frozen water from bursting your pipes.

This IS good advice --- and worth repeating.

[roamer_1]

This IS good advice --- and worth repeating.

Far better to have redundant sources of heat, and be capable of at least short term power generation, as the whole rural north knows well

[Wingnut]

Snow is cyclical.  78 and 79 was a mother for the midwest.  Best skiing and sledding we ever had.  Bring on the snow.

[GtHawk]

Snow is cyclical.  78 and 79 was a mother for the midwest.  Best skiing and sledding we ever had.  Bring on the snow.

Had a good friend whose sister and her children were dragged by her husband to Ohio just in time for the worst winter in a very long time, as a matter of fact I think they called the blizzard of 1978 the storm of the century. Anyway it also blew up their marriage, you just don't take a SoCal girl into a situation like that and expect her to adapt.

[deb]

Had a good friend whose sister and her children were dragged by her husband to Ohio just in time for the worst winter in a very long time, as a matter of fact I think they called the blizzard of 1978 the storm of the century. Anyway it also blew up their marriage, you just don't take a SoCal girl into a situation like that and expect her to adapt.

That’s a brutal thing to do to someone who has only lived in the perfect climate (SoCal).
It’s -19 this morning. I’m officially starting my hibernation.

[jmyrlefuller]

That’s a brutal thing to do to someone who has only lived in the perfect climate (SoCal).
It’s -19 this morning. I’m officially starting my hibernation.

Darn shame that that perfect climate is in the hands of a sociopath like Newsom.

[mountaineer]

Snow is cyclical.  78 and 79 was a mother for the midwest. 

Lived in St. Louis at the time. It was brutal!

[Wingnut]

Lived in St. Louis at the time. It was brutal!

It was 5 days to flatten the curve.   er plow everyone out!

[catfish1957]

It was 5 days to flatten the curve.   er plow everyone out!

We have my wife's childhood home up near there.  This SE Texan endured his first and last blizzard up there in '13-'14.  Not going to happen again.

[GtHawk]

Darn shame that that perfect climate is in the hands of a sociopath like Noisome.

He's just the head sociopath, we have a whole slew of like minded sociopaths running our once fair state. I often dream of all the democrats including Noisome and Lt. Gov in session in Sacramento and Capitol sized SMOD punctuating them out of existence.............Does that make me a bad persson?

[Cyber Liberty]

Lived in St. Louis at the time. It was brutal!

I was a college student in Michigan for that.  My college closed for the better part of a week, and they had never closed before that, ever.  I worked at a college radio station, and I skied to work.

[Wingnut]

I was a college student in Michigan for that.  My college closed for the better part of a week, and they had never closed before that, ever.  I worked at a college radio station, and I skied to work.

Skied or skitched?

[Cyber Liberty]

Skied or skitched?

No cars on the road to skitch behind.    

I had Cross Country skis.  They were ideal in the city of Kalamazoo.

[roamer_1]

No cars on the road to skitch behind.    

Ah... hookey-bobbin, translated into Western.

[Cyber Liberty]

Ah... hookey-bobbin, translated into Western.

[Wingnut]

Ah... hookey-bobbin, translated into Western.

Same country. Different languages.

[roamer_1]

-31 last night, -66 with the wind chill. Not just here either... Points east of the hump too.

In case y'all don't get how cold that is, my kid, who is more prepared than any of us, lost power at 1 am, in the height of it.

Jenny wouldn't start.
Propane dried up because at that cold, it contracts enough in the can that it's minimal pressure is defeated.
Truck wouldn't start.

Just all done. All his preps for nothing.

Luckily the power came back on in 3 hrs, And all he had to deal with was a frozen wellhouse.

Lessons.

[roamer_1]

Same country. Different languages.

Yeah. Didn't know the word. @Cyber Liberty supplied the gist. 

Hookey-bobbin.

[Wingnut]

One time we were Hookey-bobbin/Skitchin behind a city sand/salt spreader (which seemed like a good idea at the time) when the driver flipped on the spreader.  I was spittin that crap out for hours!

[Bigun]

-31 last night, -66 with the wind chill. Not just here either... Points east of the hump too.

In case y'all don't get how cold that is, my kid, who is more prepared than any of us, lost power at 1 am, in the height of it.

Jenny wouldn't start.
Propane dried up because at that cold, it contracts enough in the can that it's minimal pressure is defeated.
Truck wouldn't start.

Just all done. All his preps for nothing.

Luckily the power came back on in 3 hrs, And all he had to deal with was a frozen wellhouse.

Lessons.

@roamer_1 Below -43 deg. F propane will remain liquid forever. No vaporization at all.

Back in the old days all of us rural southern folk had Butane tanks buried in the ground because butane does the same thing propane does but at +33Deg F.  Now they have learned how to turn Butane into gasoline, and everyone had to switch to propane. (Every once in a while I run across an old, above ground, Butane tank that has, or once had, a vaporizer built in. They used an open flame to vaporize the butane.  YIKES!)

[roamer_1]

One time we were Hookey-bobbin/Skitchin behind a city sand/salt spreader (which seemed like a good idea at the time) when the driver flipped on the spreader.  I was spittin that crap out for hours!

 

Not to mention, instant traction. 

You and me are evidence of armies of angels protecting believers and fools. 

[Hoodat]

Send some of that snow south of Tennessee, y'all

[bigheadfred]

Send some of that snow south of Tennessee, y'all

I think you would be better off having an orange creamsickle and calling it good.

[roamer_1]

@roamer_1 Below -43 deg. F propane will remain liquid forever. No vaporization at all.

Back in the old days all of us rural southern folk had Butane tanks buried in the ground because butane does the same thing propane does but at +33Deg F.  Now they have learned how to turn Butane into gasoline, and everyone had to switch to propane. (Every once in a while I run across an old, above ground, Butane tank that has, or once had, a vaporizer built in. They used an open flame to vaporize the butane.  YIKES!)

I went away from butane long ago - It's worse than propane in the cold, so I stepped off from butane for camp heat and stoves and lanterns. But yeah, in extreme cold, propane will stop working. Either keep a bottle inside with you, or make sure it's buried deep. So I have life-long eschewed propane too in camp, untill recently with the advent of Buddy Heaters.

Old lessons come back to bite... because the boy's buddy heaters wouldn't pop on, no matter what

The ONLY thing that starts in 30 below is a match... Wood works, no matter what.

[DB]

@roamer_1 Below -43 deg. F propane will remain liquid forever. No vaporization at all.

Back in the old days all of us rural southern folk had Butane tanks buried in the ground because butane does the same thing propane does but at +33Deg F.  Now they have learned how to turn Butane into gasoline, and everyone had to switch to propane. (Every once in a while I run across an old, above ground, Butane tank that has, or once had, a vaporizer built in. They used an open flame to vaporize the butane.  YIKES!)

I didn't know that (the specific temperatures). So I assume that a buried propane tank pretty much works anywhere where there is civilization.