Ice storm

[Sanjay F]

Notice he runs into the 'action' and not away from it? Lucky and stupid, but not enough YouTube subscribers to be rich 

Makes you wonder if he bought all the kit merely to video himself getting injured? 

[CI]

The facebook group for backyard metal casting that I viewed briefly the other day stated "This group is not for people who make metal ingots".
There is a bumper crop of people on ytube who do nothing but make ingots.
Ingots are a good start, but there is a lot more one can do with the casting process.

Another clear sign of someone who is being careless is those who use channel lock pliers to pick up their crucible by the top lip.
Makes me cringe, and I don't watch those channels.

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[Twizseven]

Plus he only has shorts on and no protection for his legs (as he painfully found out).  It would be interesting to ask him what he thought was going to happen, although as Crueby says "brain discarded" so maybe he never thought at all.

Colin

[CI]

We have at least 8 inches of accumulated snow here, and by some combination of snow and mist, it has solidified into a hard mass.
It feels quite odd walking around elevated on top of the snow.
No warming yet, so we are playing the waiting game to see when we may get some melting.

Generally snow in this area lasts perhaps 1.5 days at most.
Prolonged snow and low temps like this are quite rare around here.
It looks very nice if you like all white.
It is very bright in the sunlight.
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[CI]

The major expressway that runs north-south through this area is shut down from ice and snow, and so lots of cars and trucks trapped.
They are bringing out the Mississippi National Guard with heavy equipment to try and get traffic flow restored.
This country operates using lots and lots of trucks.
When the trucks stop, everything stops.

Lets hope the roads thaw in the next week or so.
Still a lot of snow everywhere.
The problem seems to be that we got multiple layers of sleet and snow, perhaps 8 inches or more, and the temps remain well below freezing.
The city is saying that the snow/ice is so thick and so hard packed that neither salt nor snow plows can be used effectively on it.
The snow plows are reportely just bounding off the surface.

Glad I don't have to get out in it.
Everyone use to carry tire chains in their trunk, but I have not seen any of those in a very long time.

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[vtsteam]

Our local school busses have automatically mounted chains.

[bent]

Autochains are cool.  Our local school district has them on all of the buses.  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s5oHUR1RofA

Here in the PNW, we rely on mountain snowpack to supply water for the summer months.  But if no snow falls in the hills (we are currently at 40% of normal snowpack), we are in trouble and will probably have to ration water (no sprinklers, etc.) come July. 

We currently have enoughn snow to (barely) keep the cross country trails ski-able up at the pass.  The wife has need of her car a lot this winter, which was our ski vehicle.  So I have enlisted the Miata as a substitute, having figured out a ski rack for it (thanks to clever UK entrepreneurs Revo Rack who came up with the idea of a strapped-on trunk "boot bag".  Used the idea to put brackets on the roof and trunk lid, to carry my 2-meter long skis longitudinally.

[tghs]

oh well, this weekend we are getting the snow, grabbed the polyurethane strip I had ordered before the first weekend,, did a little cutting and countersinking.. all bolted up great,, should be great to go..

[john mills]

those auto chains look interesting haven't seen them before  only we don't get snow in melbourne but have used
ordinary tyre chains when going to the snow for skiing .
hope you are managing there it is a lot of work living in snow
john

[vtsteam]

Cold is something to deal with and all its effects. But heat is as well -- I just learned of a friend losing her house in Oz to a fire this week. She had planted her 4 acres with many kinds of native plants over the last 20 years. It was a very special place. She watched the fire move up the road towards her house, and then took shelter with others in her community in a church basement. The house and much of the trees and grounds work was gone when they re-emerged.

[mklotz]

I know you've all been worrying about me, what with all the ice and snow.  Just wanted you to know that things have returned to normal here.  Wife and I are going to celebrate by having lunch eating sushi on a restaurant patio overlooking the blue Pacific. 

[crueby]

I know you've all been worrying about me, what with all the ice and snow.  Just wanted you to know that things have returned to normal here.  Wife and I are going to celebrate by having lunch eating sushi on a restaurant patio overlooking the blue Pacific.

Glad you guys have weathered the storm okay!  Though that thermometer must be wrong - here it is more like 7.93, not 79.3!