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Not much to complain about here on the Oregon coast. We had an ice storm warning last night, but the rain was simply cold and it didn't freeze as expected. Inland though they had it pretty bad, with black ice causing numerous accidents and shutting down major highways and roads. I know a few people who live inland and were stranded overnight here on the coast because the roads were closed.
Just talked to a friend in Chicago -40 windchill, all that AND living in Chicago... LOL
My Uncle Ben was a truck driver, and we owe them a debt, we cannot repay.
In cold waves like this, truckers still deliver the goods we all need to stay warm and safe at home.
Sing one, Dave Dudley:
As I was finishing errands this afternoon in Connecticut I watched the temperature drop 10 degree in 40 minutes (49 to 39F) . It started raining the stopped. Currently 32 F but with high winds so feels like below 20F. I heard on the radio that the swampy area of southern New Jersey got flooded and lost power because of downed trees and they were completely taken by surprise by the storm ! 
(This happens there every time it rains and every time they are completely caught off guard and surprised !). I think they need to interview new people !!
(This happens there every time it rains and every time they are completely caught off guard and surprised !). I think they need to interview new people !!
As I was finishing errands this afternoon in Connecticut I watched the temperature drop 10 degree in 40 minutes (49 to 39F) . It started raining the stopped. Currently 32 F but with high winds so feels like below 20F. I heard on the radio that the swampy area of southern New Jersey got flooded and lost power because of downed trees and they were completely taken by surprise by the storm !
The problem any power cooperative has is trying to keep the trees back from the lines.
Here’s a wonderful alley for helping eradicate pestilential deer populations on our place, near the entrance to Spout Spring Hollow.
You can see where the line crews keep limbs back from overhanging the lines, but blizzard winds fell old trees, that knock out the lines.
Currently 10 degrees (F) here in the North GA mountains, wind chill below zero. Coldest we've seen in a long time. Farm duties have been a blast.
My dog just brought in a frozen piece of shit. Never thought I'd have to say that.
It’s insane to me that there is a 100 degree difference between here and there.
Also amusing picture
Also amusing picture
Nice clean right of way, Power Company's are allotted so many feet on each side of the pole to cut tree's, 15ft for single phase as pictured or 30 ft for 3 phase where I live, the problem is in certain areas and power utilities, is the cost of maintenance, and the bitching of customers who complain about outages, then bitch about their trees being cut, to the point they call law enforcement, and then the incident goes to trail, and the company wins the case, but yet nothing is done because they are kissing the customers butt, our biggest outages have to do with vegetation, drunks and drugs, and cell phones, or a combination of those mentioned. It's a never ending battle to make the customer happy, it's called the Catch 22 in my opinion.
Sitting at -9 right now, not much snow but it's drifted into some interesting patterns. Winds are not much stronger than they have been, maybe 50mph tops, but they've been increasing in frequency. Had a few hours this afternoon where it was ten or so minutes between gusts, now they're nearly constant. Wind-chill is something like thirty below.
Just north of me, on the shore of Lake Erie, they're having a rougher time. Lake Erie is having 20ft+ waves, all the water on the western side at Toledo is being pushed 400 miles to Buffalo, record low water at Toledo, record high at Buffalo. 75+ wind gusts, freezing spray. Waves are bigger on Lake Erie tonight than they are in the Gulf of Mexico or anywhere 200 miles offshore in the Atlantic!
Lake Effect snow is gonna start soon, too. Glad I moved thirty miles south of there, what a difference it makes in winter!
Just north of me, on the shore of Lake Erie, they're having a rougher time. Lake Erie is having 20ft+ waves, all the water on the western side at Toledo is being pushed 400 miles to Buffalo, record low water at Toledo, record high at Buffalo. 75+ wind gusts, freezing spray. Waves are bigger on Lake Erie tonight than they are in the Gulf of Mexico or anywhere 200 miles offshore in the Atlantic!
Lake Effect snow is gonna start soon, too. Glad I moved thirty miles south of there, what a difference it makes in winter!
That line, according to my father, was built in 1948 by Southwest Electric Cooperative, and his old home place is the last customer in Polk County, before it stops at the home where my great aunt Eva had her new husband build her in Spout Spring Hollow, in sight of her father’s where my father grew up.
There is no way the Ozarks would ever been electrified without the REA. No corporation would in a million years build a five mile line to serve a handful of customers.
This fall I ordered my Amish renter to cut every tree and sprout back from that line as it turns to go towards Spout Spring Hollow. Next spring he’ll cut every tree in that alley that might possibly fall into the line.
There’s a propane dealer who’s built a mansion to replace Eva’s down in there, and if a tree falls over and puts his line out of service, it won’t be on my place.
He has plenty of propane, but without electricity no fans to blow the heat.
I've just read a couple of articles regards the weather in the US on the BBC News website and it was scary reading.
Some of the numbers they are talking about I really can't imagine being that cold, it just beggars belief.
I would guess the coldest weather I've ever experienced would be about -10c back in about 1977 when I lived high up in the Derbyshire Peak District. We had snow drifts reaching up to the upstairs windows & father had to dig a tunnel through the snow the other side of the front door.
But that's nothing compared to some of the pictures I just saw in Elk Park, Montana and the appropriately named town of Hell in Michigan.
My thoughts are with you guys suffering the proper severe weather.
Regards,
Jay.
Some of the numbers they are talking about I really can't imagine being that cold, it just beggars belief.
I would guess the coldest weather I've ever experienced would be about -10c back in about 1977 when I lived high up in the Derbyshire Peak District. We had snow drifts reaching up to the upstairs windows & father had to dig a tunnel through the snow the other side of the front door.
But that's nothing compared to some of the pictures I just saw in Elk Park, Montana and the appropriately named town of Hell in Michigan.
My thoughts are with you guys suffering the proper severe weather.
Regards,
Jay.
I had some frost on my windshield… so we canceled Christmas. 
Linemen and related power people don’t get enough thanks, so let me Say this THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO
most of the winter I don't even put on shoes to get the mail. Just pants (trousers for you Brittish people) and a t-shirt. F that noise as my old friend I haven't seen in years Jeremy used to say. Yeah bundling up to get the mail. -33 with wind here which is actually cold enough to delay my freaking next pipe smoke.