Thread: What lousy weather!!!!!!

Tweet

Originally Posted by 61bone

Why blame us? We're just the middleman. It is really a problem with those dang Canadians. It''s all their fault. I think there aught to be a law about them letting their weather out without a leash or at least a fenced border. We don't let our tornados run all over their country so why should we have to put up with their weather coming down here and taking a big ol snow dump in our country?

C'mon 61, were just one big happy family.....we love to share.

I think I was in Boonies once. Is that just north of Williwags or maybe just West of Tulliess. Ont.?

That's the place.

Turned to rain overnight. At least the ice is off the trees & power lines now. 36.9°f. We'll see how long we get rain before the temps drop. Spoz. to get precip. until early evening.

Originally Posted by ford2custom

Power Outage

Just when you think it’s cold and things are tough, the power goes off. Thursday night we went to the grandkids Christmas play. The roads were covered with ice, and it was cold we had planned to have one of the grandkids come over for the weekend. Friday morning I was hearing what I thought was ice, and snow falling from the roof. I got up early and could not believe what I was seeing. Trees had fallen down from the weight of the snow, and ice. I wanted to move a couple of cars that were under some heavy branches; I didn’t want to take a chance on the roof’s caving in.

Richard that sounds pretty bad. How did the new tree fort/car port do?
I'm greatfull that all we get is rain, rain and more rain. It still seems to kill the power every other year or so. We definately need a small generator to run things like the furnace, fridge and on demand water heater. The stoves gas so we are good there! I wanted to get one this year, but just couldn't seem to do the 500.00 price tag! I wanted one with a Honda engine, that will work when ever wherever! My neighbor bought two less expensive types on line, but both arrived damaged, niether would start. His son in law bought one from the autozone, it too never worked, some voltage regulator problem, when it comes to needing it, I just want a good quality generator!
Sorry to hear about your troubles but sounds like you guys came thru ok! About 7 or 8 years ago we lost power for 5 days, since then we have kerosine lamps, and coleman stoves etc.., just need the generator!

You must have done something wrong Richard. I put in a back-up gen two years ago because we were getting 5-7 day power outages every second or third winter. As often happens, now that I'm prepared the outages aren't happening. Whatever it takes I guess.

Originally Posted by stovens

Richard that sounds pretty bad. How did the new tree fort/car port do?
I'm greatfull that all we get is rain, rain and more rain. It still seems to kill the power every other year or so. We definately need a small generator to run things like the furnace, fridge and on demand water heater. The stoves gas so we are good there! I wanted to get one this year, but just couldn't seem to do the 500.00 price tag! I wanted one with a Honda engine, that will work when ever wherever! My neighbor bought two less expensive types on line, but both arrived damaged, niether would start. His son in law bought one from the autozone, it too never worked, some voltage regulator problem, when it comes to needing it, I just want a good quality generator!
Sorry to hear about your troubles but sounds like you guys came thru ok! About 7 or 8 years ago we lost power for 5 days, since then we have kerosine lamps, and coleman stoves etc.., just need the generator!

Steve, I didn’t get to finish the tree house/carport yet but one car was safe. I had two others sitting under the trees, and got concerned. I was able to move them to a safe area.
It could have been a lot worst; some people have been without power for weeks. That would really be tough. We were lucky it was just for a couple of days.

I really like the sears generator that we bought last year under different conditions, extreme heat. We were able to get a window air unit hooked up plus we had a lot of berries in the freezer. I waited along time before buying one but I'm happy I got a good one. They really take a work out running constantly.

I’m like Bob, if I plan things out they usually don’t happen but since I had the generator a good distance away it figured I would need it.

The heat is number one then everything else is just a bonus when it’s so cold, I’m betting there are a lot of broken pipes since it was so cold for so long.

We take for granted the electricity, and complain about the high cost but feeding the generator puts that thought to rest. I’m happy gas was not $4 a gallon when we lost power.

Richard

carport.JPG

I was going to respond, especially to those wiseguys from the south, but you guys in Canada win hands down. I am in NW Indiana where we can get that lake effect snow, but we have not been nearly as cold as you guys in Canada. Bring on the summer, I am tired of shoveling snow.

I know other parts of the country get lots of snow. In Portland (Oregon) it comes rarely and it's even more rare for it to stick around. This my backyard over the past few days - check out the birdbath!

Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California looks real good to me!

And it won't even stop for Christmas. Compare with the earlier picture and you can see it just keeps piling on. Doesn't look like much, but we did have a very slight thaw of an inch or two the previous day, so.............

Just glad we didn't do the fuel price panic thing and get rid of the Tahoe. We had three family/friend gatherings yesterday and wouldn't have been able to do a one of them without the 4X.

Bob wrote:

I put in a back-up gen two years ago because we were getting 5-7 day power outages every second or third winter. As often happens, now that I'm prepared the outages aren't happening.

We did the same in 2004 and haven't had an outage over 5 hours since. My wife said it was the best money spent, just to ward off those lengthy outages. A similar happened in 1996 when I got tired of shoveling snow and bought a 48" wide snow blower for my tractor. No more blizzards for 4 years, and only had two since then. Sometimes you just have to invest some money to get real life rewards.

maybe if we all invest in air conditioners presto no more al gore ...ted

Originally Posted by ted dehaan

maybe if we all invest in air conditioners presto no more al gore ...ted

If only it were that easy..............

No more Al Gore????? Who the heck would we have to pick on if 'ol dumb Al wasn't around??????

Yesterday it was a beautiful day with 60 degree temps. Today it was cold and snowed. Tomorrow is supposed to be 50. I don't care if it gets cold, but I'm tired of the temps going up and down like they have been.