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balloonshark

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It got -5F last night with a wind chill of -25F. That's -20.5C and -31.6C for the communists on the board. Right now it's 3F and I have to go visit family tonight. Not much snow but the roads are white and look slick.
 
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JEDI

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Bills vs bears today in Chicago.
Wind chill is -25f.
Luckily both teams are from cold cities.

Imagine Miami dolphins in Chicago now?
(Dolphins play Packers in Miami. Dolphins lucked out and not playing in almost as cold green Bay)
 

Pohemi

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Look at lake Meade in Vegas.
3 bodies found because water levels low because drought
Lake Meade is not a great Lake. The Great Lakes water levels rise and fall, but they do not drop like Meade has, and likely won't until into the distant future.

You can't really look at the Great Lakes as lakes. They are fresh water seas. They were created 20K years ago by melting glaciers, and they will not likely 'dry up' for thousands more.
 
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sdifox

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Lake Meade is not a great Lake. The Great Lakes water levels rise and fall, but they do not drop like Meade has, and likely won't until into the distant future.

You can't really look at the Great Lakes as lakes. They are fresh water seas. They were created 20K years ago by melting glaciers, and they will not likely 'dry up' for thousands more.

Nestle begs to differ
 

MtnMan

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Lake Meade is not a great Lake. The Great Lakes water levels rise and fall, but they do not drop like Meade has, and likely won't until into the distant future.

You can't really look at the Great Lakes as lakes. They are fresh water seas. They were created 20K years ago by melting glaciers, and they will not likely 'dry up' for thousands more.
I think that is understood, plus those bodies didn't surface because they had been stuffed in 55 gallon drums.
 
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Still got a couple of cold days before the warming begins Tuesday, but the bulk of the threat is over. Winds and precip are done for the most part.
 
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MtnMan

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Listening to the fire department dispatch on a scanner, now that it is warming up a bit, relatively speaking, it's now 18°F, and the wind has backed off a lot, after a night of below 0, water pipes that froze are thawing and flooding apartments, houses, and businesses, in addition to sprinkler systems that are causing water flow fire alarms.
 

Iron Woode

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The term for it is "fetch", that is the distance that the wind can act on a body of water. When the direction is just wrong, really bad things can happen.
@brianmanahan I never considered the effects of ice on lake effect snow. That might prove to be a real ah heck.
don't get me started on Lake Effect snow!

Those snow squalls are nightmares here. Whiteouts from nowhere with snow like a blizzard, no thanks.
 

skyking

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it is raining heavily now and melting the snow/ice. We'll have some local river flooding and I'll take that over those snowstorms. Besides, I am at 500' elevation
 

96Firebird

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I'm stuck in the northtowns of Buffalo, supposed to go to my parents house outside of Rochester today but that's not happening with the travel ban. Right now there is a lake effect snow band just sitting above where I am, with wind gusts of 50mph+. Hopefully I can get out tomorrow.
 

Exterous

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We lucked out with much less snow and ice than expected. I was expecting it to get much worse or get shifted to Sunday since we take off in 3 hours
 

Red Squirrel

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Woah that's pretty crazy, I imagine that ends up doing lot of damage, but it does look cool. Going to be a fun time chipping away at that for the next couple weeks lol.

The storm seems to be over for us now, I have people over at my house tomorrow so need to do the driveway again but at least there won't be wind blowing it back in my face.
 

96Firebird

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I'm stuck in the northtowns of Buffalo, supposed to go to my parents house outside of Rochester today but that's not happening with the travel ban. Right now there is a lake effect snow band just sitting above where I am, with wind gusts of 50mph+. Hopefully I can get out tomorrow.

Tomorrow (yesterday) didn't happen, and today isn't looking good either. Driveway is clear, but still no plow down the street. Stuck with my future in-laws, but not terrible since we have heat, power and food. The county driving ban was lifted, however the town still has a driving ban.
 
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I ordered a couple of SSDs from the 'Zon on the 16th. Orginal delivery date was supposed to be the 23rd ... the day the sky fell in across much of the country. No deliveries, not even mail. Roads were a mess. Delivery got rescheduled, then rescheduled again. 'Zon put a flag on the order that it it isn't delivered by today, I can 'come back for a refund'. Roads are still a mess and I don't know if there will be any deliveries today. Tomorrow should be OK and I imagine trucks will run.

I will not request a refund, but if they issue it automatically, I won't gripe.
 

Pohemi

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I will not request a refund, but if they issue it automatically, I won't gripe.
Not to rain on your parade, but I want to point out that Amazon is not going to gift you SSDs because shipping was delayed. They might issue a refund, but once that package arrives, they'll know and they will still charge you for it. They're not going to refund you and say, "well he can keep the items for free since it took a few extra days."
 

[DHT]Osiris

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Not to rain on your parade, but I want to point out that Amazon is not going to gift you SSDs because shipping was delayed. They might issue a refund, but once that package arrives, they'll know and they will still charge you for it. They're not going to refund you and say, "well he can keep the items for free since it took a few extra days."
I've literally had that happen. Stuff never arrived, they sent a new item, original item came, they just said to keep it. Amazon cares far more about customer satisfaction than any individual item (as they should).
 
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Pohemi

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I've literally had that happen. Stuff never arrived, they sent a new item, original item came, they just said to keep it. Amazon cares far more about customer satisfaction than any individual item (as they should).
I've had it happen a few times as well with low ticket items, just never anything worth more than maybe $20-25. I didn't think the value of an SSD would be shrugged off, since it happened to me with a $60 NVMe drive I ordered from Amazon a few months ago. They refunded the charge after it bounced around my state for an extra week before being delivered, and Amazon did re-charge my card from the order after I got it.

It could depend on which rep looks at it, I suppose.
 
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