Think you got bad weather???

[SwampDonkey]

I always take gloves and hat and dress warm enough when I drive someplace. Some folks dress for fall weather when they strike out in them storms. No wonder some freeze when they have to walk. Take and walk a mile with a north wind in your face, even on a sunny day and 0 F there is always a slight breeze here and that's dang cold. In the winter I drive up to the woods to walk out of the wind and I don't need to dress for the north pole.

[fuzzybear]

   With my wife being pregnant with twins we have to go to the city for doctor visits. Only problem is that It is in Whitehorse. Thats about 360 miles away. Up here the weather can turn in an instant.
   When we head out I look like I'm heading on an expedition into the great unknown. :D  I always take food, water, extra winter gear, 2 spare tires,chains, 2-5gal. cans of fuel, matches, snow shoes, chain saw, flares, first aid kit, and anything else that happens to pop into my head we might need.  like I said an expedition.
   My wife always laughed at me until our last trip when we had a very large moose change our direction of travel from south to west in an instant. She was very glad I had brought the winch along to pull us out, and the 2 spare tires to replace the ones on the front of the truck. Not a fun thing to do at -35c.
   I always believe that it is easier to load and unload all the gear than to leave it behind and be very sorry later.

[Coon]

fuzzybear, I would be doing just the same in your neck of the woods.  Heck even around here I always have two spare tires, jackall, some blocking, extra food, matches, the saw, an axe, etc.  The weather can change in an instant here as well.  I have seen it change drastically while driving home from the farm.  Was clear as a bell when I left the farm and by the time I drove 3 of the 6 or 7 miles it was a complete whiteout.  We ended up stuck in the middle of the road but had bush along the road that blocked the wind.  No cell service so we found some firewood and lighted a fire and took turns shoveling out the 1/2 ton.  Only took us 5 hours or so to get out and back home. 

Our cold snap is warming a bit already.  The night before last we had temps that went down to -37C before the wind.  With the wind it was down to about -50C.  Warmed up through the night last night.  Was -27C at 11 pm last night and by 9 am this morning it was up to -17C with a slight wind.  They say it is supposed to be up to -8C by Monday.  Guess I will be able to get more firewood cut and work on Critter.  Oh yeah and snow shovelled.

[tdelorme]

Well its not "bad weather" cause we need the rain, but we have sure had alot of it today.  This is the road over our pond dam heading up to the house.  If it keeps up much longer we won't be getting out to the road for a day or two.

[Tom]

Is that a dirt dam?   What kind of damage does the overflow cause?

[SwampDonkey]

My house and driveway would be on the highest dryest knoll. ;D :D

[tdelorme]

Is that a dirt dam?   What kind of damage does the overflow cause?

Tom what we have around here is iron ore gravel.  So, the dam is dirt if you call iron ore dirt.  I paved the road with asphalt three years ago and since then we have not had much rain.  It has been raining all night and is really coming down right now.  We may lose the asphalt but I think the dam will survive.  This is a big deal to us getting all the rain. We have never had any problems with our well water and it is just as good as it gets quality wise, but I was starting to worry about the water table droping to the point of having problems.  If we lose the road, well darn.  If we lose the dam as well, I lose all my big fish and the dirt work will be big $, but we do need the moisture.

[Coon]

Swamp, did you get that nice cold weather I sent you?  I sent some snow as well.  I could see you are having to easy of a time walking through the bush. :D   If you really want to exercise just come on up and walk through our knee to waist deep snow.  You'll definately sleep good at night.

[SwampDonkey]

It got down to +5 ° F and now up to 16 °F. We've only got 2 inches if ya stretch the tape. Yesterday morning it was raining when I got up and by 7:30 a snow squawl came through and only a trace of snow fell.

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[leweee]

Hold on to your hat Swampy we're getten freezing rain right now and we are sending it your way.

[SwampDonkey]

Yeah Lewee, the weatherman says an inch or less from that.  : :

[Coon]

Just remember frigid temps are coming behind that freezing rain.  Get your woolies on. :D :D

[SwampDonkey]

I got'm Coon. Three or 4 pairs of heavy wool pants and some wool Stanfield underware.  It ain't so cold in the shop, and sure ain't in here. Gotta open a window before I'm a grease spot. ;D

[Radar67]

Get your woolies on.

WOOLIES? I've got the AC on.  ;D

Stew

[Coon]

I don't need one of those this time of year.  You wouldn't either if you were here.  Heck I could put you to work all day and you wouldn't even overheat. :D :D ;)

[tdelorme]

Get your woolies on.

WOOLIES? I've got the AC on.  ;D

Stew

I did too on Friday but tonight its 35 and falling.  Hang on cause your next.  :D

[Swede]

Electricy is back!
Phone is back!
Even the cellphone is back!

Therefore I´m back. The sunday-storm felled some trees, I think 10-15% of what the storm Jan-05 did in this area.

Swede.

[SwampDonkey]

Here ya go Coon. 





That's a total of 5 inches for mid-January, we only got 3 inches last night.  ;D

[Fla._Deadheader]

Looks like the Swede is back to sawing for $$$$$  8) ;D :D :D

[slowzuki]

Us southerners got a bit more, we had nearly 5" last night.  At about 2 am the whole roof unloaded and woke me up.  It hit almost 15 ft away from the building.  And the building inspector was worried about snow load!

I'm worried about this cold that is coming.  I've got no vapor barrier on and a mess of air leaks at my peak and around all my windows (site built).  It can go from 85 F to freezing in about 20 hours once the fire dies out and thats when its warm out.
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Here ya go Coon. 

That's a total of 5 inches for mid-January, we only got 3 inches last night.  ;D

[Swede]

Looks like the Swede is back to sawing for $$$$$

Get payd in $ will make me rich in short time. SEK.7,3=$1

SEK.350/hr x 7,3...............DANG!!!! Why didn´t I think about that?  :

;D Swede.

[Coon]

Hope you easterners are enjoying your cold frigid temperatures.  I have had my share.  It is nicely warming up out there.  They are calling for a high of around -9C for today and -5C for tomorrow.  Guess I will finally be able to get some work done again.

[SwampDonkey]

Actually, it ain't really what I call frigid yet. It was forecast to drop below 0 °F, but the coldest it got was 5 °F and now it is 10 °F. Still cold enough if standing out in it for any extended period. But, for me it's just sweater weather. The most I wear is the Forum jacket with a scarf and sweeter under it when I'm in the woodlot. 

Time to go to the shop to work on the jigsaw puzzle. :D  :

[Bill Johnson]

SD
You better get an extra thick sweater, if you get the stuff we have right now. 

It's almost 1pm and still -23 with a windchill of -34.  Good news we're supposed to warm up tomorrow its supposed to be -8 and -2 by Thursday.

[SwampDonkey]

Coon and Bill J. , It's cold. -5 °F now. 

Hard on the walnut trees.  ;)

Gotta throw more wood in the stove. ;D