Got Ice?

[Bibbyman]

I got out and did some sawing this afternoon.  The temperature gage said it was about 20 but the sun was out and the wind light so it felt comfortable.   Sawing went as I expected – slow and not very productive.  I was sawing blocking out of low grade logs and even then some didn't yield half of what they should have. 

Everything gives you more problems when it's cold.  Right off the dust hose connected to the mill broke.  Rather than fix it,  I left it off and let the sawdust just spill on the floor.  I had windshield washer fluid in the water mix but it still didn't want to flow right.  I'd turn it up to a flood and it would flow but when I turned it down where it should trickle,  it would stop.

It just kept getting progressively cloudier,  and there was a light snow in the air.   The wind picked up to a light breeze and made it even more uncomfortable. But,  I pushed on and got 50 pieces made – my goal for the afternoon.

As I was walking to the house a few minutes before sundown,  the sun broke between the cascade of dark clouds and provided an orange backlight to the trees behind the shed to the west.  It made them look like inverted crystal chandeliers.  I figured it was nature's way of paying me for my hard work under difficult conditions. 

I thought of getting the camera and taking a picture but the batteries are dead and I'm sure the site wouldn't have lasted long enough for me to get it and get back out there in any case.

[breederman]

We never went below freezing untill this morning,  so no ice sounds like some areas west of here got hit and north east of here got it pretty hard.  Spodda be about 5 degrees here in the morning,after the winter we have had so far that is gonna be a shock.

[farmerdoug]

Yesterday we received a 1/4 inch of ice glazing.  Enough to make the roads slippery and the trees a crystal forest.  Very pretty in the sun today.  Not much damage to the trees but around here some people tend to forget from snowstorm to snowstorm on how to drive in the winter. :  The glaze of ice sure makes it tough to handle things outside though.

Farmerdoug

[woodmills1]

went to go work..........fell.....got up...................fell............hmmmm still on the grass so inside rest of day for me. :D

[tcsmpsi]

We are about 30 miles below Houston and the temps are forecast to be @ 32 tonight.  You'd think that the world was coming to an end!  Every news program focused almost the whole program on the cold and how dangerous it was going to be.  Few people know how to drive in freezing weather down here so I guess it is dangerous because of that.  If we applied the same rules that are used here to our roads in WV, no one would go anywhere most of the winter. 
Quinton

I reckon you're down in the industrial complex instead of WV currently.

Well, way up here north of you   :D, it's been in the mid to high 20s with rain/sleet for quite a while.  It was still dark when I left the house this morning, but could see light shining on icicles all over. 
And certainly, these rapscallions around here are every bit as 'productive' driving on ice/snow as they are around Texas City.  That habitual hauling a** to and from redlights doesn't work out for them too well.   :D 
One just has to learn to give them very wide berths.

[Qweaver]

TCS, you are far enough north of us that you actually get some real winter but the influence of the bay helps us alot.  I'm just amazed at how the media in Houston just goes over the edge here when winter weather threatens.  Every tv station pre-empts everything else to focus completely on a few icy overpasses.  They even pre-empted the networks this morning just to give the same weather reports and closings over and over and over.  How stupid :
Quinton

[PineNut]

Have you ever noticed how these media types seem to think they know everything about everything and expect you to believe them? Some of their advice may be realistic but much of it is much to do about nothing. Take part of it with a grain of salt and the rest of it with a whole box of salt.

[solodan]

I can't figure out how the media and National Weather Service gets their info. Just the other day I checked the weather for my zip code on weather.com, and it said that the low and high for the day before had been 28° and 48°. : Well the ground does not freeze at 48°, neither does a bucket of water freeze solid for two weeks, or does the pond freeze 3" thick. Everyones thermometer around me read more like 14°- 28° ???  I have read the reports that it will be 55° and raining, and I go outside and it is 28° and dumping snow. One day I was watching the Weather Channel and they said the storms had already pasted through the west and it was sunny everywhere out west. Well I was looking out my window watching it snow while they were saying this. It snowed for three more days and we got about 3 more feet of snow. I realize that in a geographical region like California where we have so many micro climates, it may be more difficult to forcast the weather, or even report it, but it is still aggrivating. Is it this bad everywhere. ???

[beenthere]

Nope
Pretty darn accurate here (within a few minutes anyway  ).

But with no wind, a few hundered feet in elevation can make a big difference in temperature.

[tcsmpsi]

We haven't actually had sure enough winter here since around '90.  Since we don't get piped in television, I don't have to put up with it.   :D

Still been holding in the 20's and yet percipitating.

[Furby]

Yeah, the weather service around here really sucks.
They really can't even come close.

Kinda like two of our local newscasts.
One is based in a town further South, but picked up around here.
The other is based right here in town.
Neither one gets the weather right, but the one in town is closer to being right then the other.
Ask anyone what the forecast is......... they will most likely be wrong because they were watching the station South of here. :

[solodan]

I know what you mean Furby, cause the local station here comes from 150 miles away. : 10 miles away from me can mean 30° difference in temp. Big difference from 30° and snowing and 60° and sunny.