Clean kitty box?------ Check!
New furnace filter?----Check!
Plenty of cooked turkey?---- (almost done) Check!
Full tank of gas?----- (nearly full) Check!
Pets all fed and asleep?-------Check!
Ice melt and snow shovel handy?----Check!
Drip water?---- (Oops be right back!) Check!
All utilities paid & working?----- Check!
And I am as ready as I will ever be; this looks like a booger of a storm. We are now under a blizzard warning and the predicted high for Wednesday is 10 degrees. You all be careful out there, yah hear? ;) ;)
Thanks Edie, same to you.
As I was expecting to wake up to white stuff, I was hoping to be disappointed........NOT.
Scooter just about stood in the door to do his business............and of course, both of them objected
to having to wear that darn coat, again.
I plan on facebooking it and then will hit the couch with a book and I want to order some bulletin blanks
from a catalog place and that will be my day.
Of course, every few hours Scooter will have to be forced outside again.
Sassy is piddle-pad trained and Fred (my cat) has a cat box.
He is getting fiesty this morning and I may have to shove him outside to cool him off.........HE he He!. I am a mean mama!
Thank God for a computer and a chance to commune with other people. It gets so lonely around here.
Hugs.
Lots of snow, wind, and record-breaking low temps in OKC! Definitely a day to stay in and enjoy a "snow day".
Told Kjell I would go out and shovel this time.. and it is sooooo cold.. I thought my fingers were going to break off.. up side is.. the snow is still very dry.. so it shovels away from the doorways and sidewalks easily.. but it's getting deep out there.. with the drifting..
Have I told anyone how much I hate this crap? Hmmmm I thought I had.. but just in case you didn't hear it the first 100 times I said it?
I hate the snow and the cold!
So there!
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I have been out three times opening and closing the gates and shoveling around them. Having the gates snowed shut is a lot of work when it is all over. Then it finally occured to me that the little dogs are not leaving the porch, let alone the yard. they are just scurrying over to the other side of the car so they can poop and pee in the carport, under the illusion that I will never find it. So the gates are staying open and I'm just going to enjoy the storm.
I'm sorry you all are getting hit so hard. Our end of this same huge storm has been an icy mix which has made things very slick. The worst of this early part had passed just north of us, but we are supposed to get more tonight into tomorrow as the cold air slumps down over us too. Wrap up warm and hang on to the bedpost! ;D
I have cabin fever! I do NOT need or want to go out, but when I get this way, I seem to find work that needed done.
I got a batch of cookies done and have talked to a couple people on phone. Watched snow fall sidewise I might add and then sat and played another game..................
and now I am watching a couple of young men (managements kids) shovel a path between apartments. The guy across the way had snow half way over his door. He wasn't going anywhere................and last time I shoved Scooter out, I had to push the door past a foot of drifted snow.
I am ready to wave white flag.............if it is going to snow, make it warm enough it melts fast and the kind we like to play in, I might have played with dogs outside.............Not.............today.
Stay warm.............we are one day closer to spring............I think! ::)
Ain't no groundhog gonna see his shadow here tomorrow, even if the sun shines 'cause the little critter can't get thru the snowdrifts. ;D
You know it astounds me to look at the weather back in Kansas. I don't remember it being as bad as I see it is today. Maybe ignorance is bliss. I have been totally ruined by the California weather. Today it is 65 degrees where I live. Warmer than normal. My point is I feel your pain. Back when I lived in the midwest I had no idea how bad it was. When I lived in Alaska I loved every moment. Now I am not sure I could pick up another shovel of snow. If it gets down below 50 degrees I think it is cold. I have been totally ruined by the weather in California. Thank god the groundhog is not here, because he would see his shadow and we would have 6 more weeks of winter. Because, I am a good "Kansas Boy" if I do see a groundhog here in California I will promptly dispatch him with my Winchester Model 70 .243 before anyone know he saw his shadow. Please do not give PETA my address. :laugh:
David
Diane... at least we don't have the ice..YET!!
The snow is easily shoveled.. it is pretty dry.. but the drifts are horrendous!
If any of you remember 1983, we had a lot of frigid temps in January and February. I remember well. We were moving into a new house (for us) and I had to spend a night in the house without heat and wore longjohns, sweats and coveralls to bed with a stocking cap and socks and had to get up to pee twice..............talk about miserable...........not sure of temps but comparable to this week.
I am waving a white flag
I'm wearing sweats and a zip up jacket sort of tonight when i go to bed, my poor electric blankee isn't going to handle the -7 tonight i am afraid. :( woke up this morning to 8 degrees in my bedroom
Three dog night at my house, two under cover and one on top. Probably a tomcat beside my pillow, plenty to keep me warm with my fleece pj's. I do not set my furnace upstairs very high as it gets too warm for sleeping. I will set the downstairs one at 63 for the night. Steve, I would be sleeping in the room with the stove, even if I had to sleep on the floor. :P
Don't forget to let your faucet's drip tonight so your pipes don't freeze. I don't want a repeat performance of my last month's episode.
It is not nearly as cold here as it is there but my feet are cold. I did give in and let my grandson's dog in the house, hope he doesn't get on my bed during the night. He is a big dog, very friendly and my grandson thinks I need him for protection. When someone comes around he tries to get between my legs so I can protect him. Probably weighs at least 60 lbs and could probably knock me over if he jumped on me.
Come on warm weather.
David, you are a good man! Make sure you aim good. ;D I turned my furnace off 'cause it was running almost full time. The faucets are dripping and thewood stove will be crammed full when I head off to bed.
Sally, that ol' wood heat is pretty good stuff! I have seen the snow plow, ( Moline version), going past here several times this evening. Hopefully somebody will break the drifts in the alley behind the firebarn and then I can get out from the carport. It is 9 degrees right now, brrrrr------!!!
How is everybody doing? Phil did not see his shadow this morning. But truth be know he was seen sneaking out of town in his limo last Sunday. By now he's in Cancun under a palapa drinking something with a little umbrella in it. Phil had hired a double for this morning. Hope you all did OK through the night. We got more ice than anything and it has suddenly melted. Can't complain.
Diane, I'm not suprised to hear that about Phil. Sooner or later, all this attention was bound to go to his head. I hope he chokes on a pineapple ring. Ha, ha. Okay I have been locked up in the house too long.
Anyway, for all of you freezing at night I will share one of my eccentricities with you. A couple of years ago I bought my first sleeping bag, $10.00 one at WalMart and loved it. It was like sleeping on silk sheets and so warm and cozy that I sleep in it all the time. Zip it across the bottom and a few inches up the side and your feet have plenty of freedom to move and they stay warm. I just put it between the top sheet and the bottom sheet with whatever covers I want on top. But...you don't need a bunch of heavy covers with this setup. I also bought a second one, which in this cold weather, I unzip and put over the top of the other covers. I was just toasty last night. The pets absolutely love them because they sink down into them and stay warm. Easy to wash and dry. Cheap and Easy....I love it. The best $20.00 I ever spent.
I thought Phil looked smaller than usual. So that was a ringer?
The right sleeping bag is just wonderful for keeping you warm even outdoors in cold temps.
i just plain outright give up...... I just repaired the broken lines in my house and last night all theones i repaired shattered again. EVEN ran the water in a small stream only created a ice mess untilit froze solid.
Tonight its going to -13. Not going to be good.
Sorry Steve, how frustrating for you. I am really concerned about the house in Moline. I haven't been able to get down there and I don't think Dana and Ed have. I know they left the furnace on, but sure worry about the pipes freezing. I just pray that the house will be okay until I can get moved there.
Somewhere just inside Mexico, the temperature was 9 below last night.
Yesterday, we were considerably colder that Elk County.
Today we are at 23 right now while the Elk County temperature, shown above, is 6.
Al Gore says there is very good explanation for the devastating cold weather as it is perfectly consistent with his theory of global warming.
Waldo,
I wish Albert Gore had an icicle shoved up------never mind. I got to quit on the negative rhetoric
Wellllll 43 dollars later i have the stuff to kinda solve my freezing problems I HOPE!
Bought two 5 inch iron pipes to screw into the iron pipe under the floor, two brass ball valves to screw onto the end of these pipes so i can turn water off. HOPEFULLY this will stand up better than the PVC. So when it drops below 20 i'll just shut off the pipes.
Quote from: jarhead on February 03, 2011, 12:56:39 PM
Waldo,
I wish Albert Gore had an icicle shoved up------never mind. I got to quit on the negative rhetoric
Well I pulled apart my drain pipe from the kitchen sink and had a 8 -10" piece of ice plug tha you could use!
Steve,
Is that 10 inches in length or diameter" If it's diameter we might need a bushing !!! :)
We are up to 32 but a surprise snow has appeared out of nowhere. About an inch has fallen so far.
You guys are being awfully rough on the one man who single handed invented the modern technology that has allowed the Elk Forum to even exist.
You too? Please look up the thing about Al Gore and you'll see what really happened. He never said he "invented" the Internet in the sense people took it to mean. He was instrumental in taking what was being used by the military and some upper echelon universities and worked to make it available to everyone as it is now. It's really a shame it turned into a big joke.
One might say I made that statement in jest.
From what I understand: In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer at CNN, Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Speaking of being prepared: A friend of mine who lives in Taos, NM called another friend here in town and told her that they are out of natural gas in New Mexico. I have never heard of such a thing, but did find an article about it on the internet. Rose said that due to the drain of gas from Texas and California, from the cold, NM is out. She blames their governor for selling to much of it to other states. The article states that when the gas pressure is up enough, that each house and business will have to be turned on individually by the company. As she was talking to my friend, she said the power had gone off and all of a sudden she has no electricity. Has anyone else heard anything about this?
Quote from: Diane Amberg on February 03, 2011, 06:42:09 PM
You too? Please look up the thing about Al Gore and you'll see what really happened. He never said he "invented" the Internet in the sense people took it to mean. He was instrumental in taking what was being used by the military and some upper echelon universities and worked to make it available to everyone as it is now. It's really a shame it turned into a big joke.
Diane, Gore is a fraud and has been long before he made the statement. Secondly, The INTERNET was around long before he made that statement. I was using it in the early 80's and around 92, it was available to everyone if you had 85.00 per month to get it. Furthermore, you could dial into any college and University if you were a student and access it from there.
Internet explorer, firefox, netscape, and opera were not the first browser. The first Graphical one was mosaic developed in 1992. It was preceeded by mosaic in 1987 i think. And Gopher as well as lynx i believ e was used to serve up web pages before then.
Gore didn't have much to do if anything to do with the web. The web was running along fine before he got there.
He's a fake a farce a fraud. He has always been. You should see what his rental properties are like. Slum lord gore is what they call him around tennessee.
Hes definately the senators son that CCR sang about.
Supposedly, from what I read long ago, Al Gore had a lot to do with the expansion of the internet so the average person would be able to afford it ,and not at such a heady price per month. UD had it early too, the father of a friend was part of it back then. I remember wondering what the heck a "floppy disk" was. Al got his first one fairly early, around 1986 or so I think.
RJ, I heard the same thing. Apparently the extra cold weather has everyone using more gas and the delivery system can't keep up.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on February 03, 2011, 10:30:23 PM
Supposedly, from what I read long ago, Al Gore had a lot to do with the expansion of the internet so the average person would be able to afford it ,and not at such a heady price per month. UD had it early too, the father of a friend was part of it back then. I remember wondering what the heck a "floppy disk" was. Al got his first one fairly early, around 1986 or so I think.
RJ, I heard the same thing. Apparently the extra cold weather has everyone using more gas and the delivery system can't keep up.
I had one in 1985 i think, maybe it was 84. Don't quite remember. Had 40mb hard drive on it, and 2 5 1/2 floppy drives and a 3 1/2" floppy along with a 1200 and 2400 modem. I bought my first US Robotics 9600 in 86, and ran a BSS from 84 - 98.
Mine was 16 lines incoming and had internet access through my board. IT was Operators like me and others that ran the fidonet that gave internet the jumpstart and it was out of our own pockets and users that it took off. FINALLY in 95 corporations made it so the cost dropped. MCI was the main one that built the OCR3 network that brought it to what we see today. If i am not mistaken they operate at OC128 now. Hmm think its 1 TB per sec transfer rates.
Roma, I have a cousin living in New Mexico. Residents who use gas have been asked to turn their heat down 10 degrees, according to my cousin. She has electric heat so is not having any problems. She has electricity and the internet at the present time.
It is 5:00 PM Friday evening, and it is snowing like a fool. Weather guy says there is a chance for flurries from the backside of the storm that passed through Dallas earlier today. I did get out and made it to the post office after some kind soul plowed the alley in back of the carport. There was a huge drift there, more than I knew I could negotiate. I went out yesterday and tried to break up some ruts cut earlier. :P :P One of Teds' ggranddaughters has posted pictures on facebook of a snowman she built in Austin Tx. It is obvious that she woked very hard to scoop enough snow together to construct this thing that is maybe five inches tall. :D :DHappy winter everyone! I think this is groundhogs' revenge.
Heard from my neice today. She and hubby checked on the Moline house and it was fine. No broken pipes. What a relief. Thanks to Merle Hey for shoveling the snow in front of the house. We all really appreciate it.
OH GOODY MORE SNOW! I CAN HARDLY WAIT! :P ::) My legs are killing me from walking in this stuff last week...NO MORE! >:(
Yep! Here we go again. Stay safe and warm.
How far south must we go to get out of winter? Map looks like it covers a lot of the USA
Hang in there, we are ONE DAY CLOSER TO SPRING! YIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEE!
Its really coming down... UGH~~~
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