Weather Sucks!

[Ratickle]

I will never understand why people live in the frozen north and complain about it. Move south or quit your whining!

Talking with Speros a few minutes ago, 24 in Austin. I wonder if Clay is complaining now?????

[phragle]

They had lifted the ban, but reinstated it at 4:00 this morning because of the cold.

Being out is now illegal again. Waiting for contact from work.

Im such the rebel fugitive. In flagrant fashion, forgoing frozen folly felonies, I got in the explorer and went hunting for breakfast. Grace's closed, River diner closed, Bob Evan's OPEN!!!

I haven't even cleared the driveway, just drove right thru the imposing drifts.

[fund razor]

I went out this morning in the diesel and when I got on the AW trail and gave it some rpms I threw a code. It was around -11 at the time.
It runs ok, not sure what the code is yet. Brought it home and switched to the car until I find out. Thinking something obscure and obviously cold related.

[rschap1]

good luck with the diesel

My garage door opener looked as though it was struggling when temps reached below zero
few degrees warmer, still single digits, and it seemed better
hopefully it will warm up and door will get better respectively

[Bobcat]

Lake Erie Lighthouse

[fund razor]

good luck with the diesel

Thanks. I had put fresh diesel and a generous amount of additive in the tank a few days earlier. I am sure it is something obscure like turbo spooling speed or something. It runs fine. Just has a little outline of an engine lit up on the dash.

My garage door opener looked as though it was struggling when temps reached below zero
few degrees warmer, still single digits, and it seemed better
hopefully it will warm up and door will get better respectively

Mine did the same thing.

[Ratickle]

Yesterday our temp with wind chill was minus 35. Today it's 55 degrees warmer, but it still seemed really cold in my gym shorts and tee shirt. You'd think 55 degrees warmer would mean swim suit weather, wouldn't you?

[poncho]

Gauge in the Cayenne says 5° today. Its amazingly raining here.

[poncho]

Being a Canadian market Cayenne 5° is in Celsius.

[fund razor]

Gym shorts and Cayennes in the same thread. Go figure.

[rschap1]

Saw -10 on the car's thermometer this morning.
DaMn Polar Vortex anyways...

Used to be Artic Clipper and other catchy phrases too....

[Ratickle]

They are talking an inch of rain here tonight, after the freezing rain for awhile.


Didn't the Polar Vortex stuff come out of that stupid movie a few years back where Al Gore said that was a legitimate concern of what would happen under Global Warming or some idiotic thing like that? I'm trying to remember who was in it, but it was a giant Polar Vortex deal and the entire northeast was in some frozen artic wasteland deal and only a few survived by burning books in the library or something?

I'll see if I can figure it out.

[Ratickle]

The movie was The Day After Tomorrow, it was scenes that Gore plagiarized from the made up stuff in the movie and then he used them in his movie he won that nobel prize from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow

[rschap1]

HE can have all his terms, phrases, and BS back.
Take them all.
Shove them.
And if he wants to believe his own $hi+ he is welcome to it !!!
Al Gore. He sure F'd us all.
Inconvienent for us, PROFITABLE for him....imagine that.
Hope the freezing rain does not materialize!
I hate to say it, but YEP going from the negative teens to 30 now makes it feel warm.
Not summer like, but WAY better than earlier this week.
I shoveled the neighbors roof off since she was scared it was going to give in.
May do a little off mine during the "heat wave"
Going to move some snow banks away from the garage too.
Afraid that may flood when the melt down happens.

[Ratickle]

I think flat roofs are the only worry with a couple feet of snow, then rain. Any slope at all should be fine unless there is a major dam at the edge.

[Ratickle]

10-Day Forecast for Holland, MI

High / Low (°F) Precip. %

Today Jan 19 Scattered Snow Showers / Wind 31°/22° 50 %
Mon Jan 20 Snow Shower 22°/4° 60 %
Tue Jan 21 Snow Shower 13°/4° 40 %
Wed Jan 22 Snow Shower 16°/10° 40 %
Thu Jan 23 Snow Shower 16°/14° 40 %
Fri Jan 24 Snow Shower 22°/22° 40 %
Sat Jan 25 Snow Shower 27°/12° 40 %
Sun Jan 26 Cloudy 18°/8° 20 %
Mon Jan 27 Cloudy 19°/16° 20 %
Tue Jan 28 Cloudy 21°/20° 20 %

[rschap1]

LAst week I saw that forecasts were showing lows in the negative teens...
this morning showing single digits but on the positive side at least.

COME ON SPRINGTIME ! ! !

[poncho]

Dang on my desktop so degree thingy doesn't work!!!! Its been hitting 50 all week last week. Looks like this one will be more of the same. Partly cloudy mostly sunny, so its kind of nice. Wont be too cold at the Vancouver boat show outdoor displays this week, good news for me.

[Ratickle]

Holland, MI Forecast

High - Low - Snow Amount

Tue
1/21/2014
14° 8° 0.8 in Very cold with snow showers

Wed
1/22/2014
16° 7° 3.1 in Frigid with occasional snow

Thu
1/23/2014
16° 7° 0.5 in Frigid with snow showers

Fri
1/24/2014
23° 21° 1 in Snow showers possible; windy

Sat
1/25/2014
27° 7° 3.6 in Lake-effect snow; breezy

Sun
1/26/2014
13° 10° 2.1 in Colder with snow showers

Mon
1/27/2014
18° 12° 0 in Cloudy, snow possible; frigid

Tue
1/28/2014
17° 12° 0.7 in Cloudy, flurries; frigid

Wed
1/29/2014
19° 16° 2.2 in Frigid with clouds and sun

Thu
1/30/2014
23° 21° 2.9 in Cloudy with some snow

Fri
1/31/2014
28° 27° 0.2 in Times of clouds and sun

[Ratickle]

Austin, Texas for Jim and Clay. I wonder if Clay will complain and move south??? Jim will have three sweatshirts and a coat on.....


Thu, Jan 23, PM Showers / Wind, High 44°, Low 28°, Chance of rain: 40%, Wind:NNE at 22 mph

Fri, Jan 24, AM Snow Showers, High 42°, Low 33°, Chance of snow: 30%, Wind:N at 11 mph