2 hour delay for us today - snow blowing so bad a couple of the towns pulled their trucks off the roads for a while until it lightened up. So, I went to the sawmill & got some lumber. Time to build a 12x8 foot wall outside (rough cut lumber - 1x10's), with a sub-zero wind chill.
How long does it take to get frostbite when the wind chill is negatives, e.g. -30?
another state of emergency in NW Indiana
$2500 fine if you're out on the road starting an hour ago
No work tomorrow and all the schools were closed today and will be tomorrow. There's been so many snow days at the schools that President's Day is now a school day, and they have to extend the school year.
Man...I wish they would do that here. The roads are shit. No chance of the salt melting anything and the snow isn't letting up. It's bad out there.
another state of emergency in NW Indiana
$2500 fine if you're out on the road starting an hour ago
No work tomorrow and all the schools were closed today and will be tomorrow. There's been so many snow days at the schools that President's Day is now a school day, and they have to extend the school year.
That sucks. I know we get a bit more lake effect snow down here but this storm wasn't really in that area, so it still hit you bad.
During the first storm we had a shit load of problems at the plant because we shut down, and the bitter cold froze a bunch of lines and we couldn't start up easily. This time we were planning on running through the storm, except with this travel restriction we don't have the personnel to keep running so we'll shut down again. Tonight will get down to -11F (-31 wind chill) so I'm sure we'll be fucked again. Probably rupture another fire line.
Worst of it is that half of the plant was down for a major maintenance outage, so a lot of work that REALLY needed to get done will probably get postponed.
Fucking weather
Yea...we are running on a skeleton crew. Whoever can make it in does, no one gets in trouble if they don't. Luckily a lot of our folks can work from home. Unfortunately I cannot.
I stopped watching the weather. There was no good news on there. Right now I'm just wondering how many jugs of windshield juice I'm going to go through this winter!
I'm just cursing myself for not getting a cheap snow blower in November when I had the chance
After shoveling I feel like I have the back of an old man
I'm just cursing myself for not getting a cheap snow blower in November when I had the chance
After shoveling I feel like I have the back of an old man
I want to get a snow blower some day. If I get one, I want to get a good one though, so I'd be paying over a grand. I don't want one that will break down on me. There is no way I want to troubleshoot something in -30's.
I widened my driveway the other day. Took at least an hour. To think, with a snow blower, it would have taken like 10 minutes, not even.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Most of us own clothing. It's not that hard to dress appropriately for the weather. I was outside from 3:30 to 5:30 with a very strong wind blowing across the field at me; single digits, plus a negative wind chill factor. I just got in from finishing building a wall to keep goats contained. Just got back in the house - and I was as comfortable as could be outside.How do you guys live in places where you can't even go outside during winter?
they shut us down back in 2010 when we got over a meter of snow. Everything was shut down and the city/police ordered everyone off the roads.Wow that's crazy, I can't think of any time where they actually shut things down here because of snow. I've had to drive in nearly a foot of snow just to be to work on time, not fun at all when your small car is also the plow. Terrible gas mileage too. Takes several days to plow all the streets usually. They do the busy ones first but side streets can take a while. People complain, but there's only so many plows and so many drivers, and so much time. I'm sure they do their best.
No big snow storms here yet though, most we've had is maybe a bit over a foot. In the past years our storms have been later in the year. March to May was pretty bad last year. By June I was really fed up of shoveling.
holy hell the roads are terrible. It was made even worse because every half mile or so, someone was stuck half in a driveway, half out. I was finally clear of all the traffic at a signal and.....no traction. Spun my wheels through a light.
15 minute drive took me an hour this morning.
That's the one complaint I don't have about this winter so far, shoveling. We usually get that really thick heavy wet snow that's like cement, a couple of inches can break your back. This year it's been so cold the snow it super powdery and light. Even half a foot you can just push it out of the way with the shovel.