Posted on 12/26/2023 6:57:04 AM PST by Red Badger
My wife removes precipitation from her truck before going to work. Her shift is 10 hours. While at work, it is not uncommon to accumulate more before returning home.
My truck gets started about once per month. It remains encased in snow for long periods. Removal takes 20 to 40 minutes. My truck lacks remote start...a feature that my wife's truck always has. Hers is toasty inside before she steps out the front door. Mine is iced shut.
“She retires tomorrow”
Awesome!! Tell her congrats for making it to the finish line in one piece. Now she can relax and reduce stress. It’s wonderful!
Nearly 30 years of police/fire/EMS dispatch. My wife is ready for a well earned retirement. Hoping for better health with proper rest.
That must have been a very stressful job and always on, too. Tell her “thanks” for doing a great job all those years.
Good description. They do act like used car salesman trying to get people to go along with their scam.
Not the only science they dislike and deny.
Chromosome 23 for example, shrieking hysterics when that gets mentioned.
We had a huge area of colder than average Pacific Ocean water pressed against the west coast of North America. At times, the cold water extended from Vancouver Island in the north to the Baja Peninsula in Mexico.
Southern Argentina and Chilly (aka Chile) had similar Pacific and Atlantic Ocean cold water issues, and Argentina had several all time low temp records broken.
Curiously, in between the two areas of cold Pacific Ocean water, the warmer than average El Nino current was smacking into the northwest coast of South America.
Hah!
29 years of dispatch comes with lots of "war stories". My favorite one for my wife comes from the night of the Harmony Grove fire in North County San Diego. My wife was working "Coast" radio for the San Diego Sheriff's Office that night. As the fire progressed, the San Marcos radio tower burned down. The loss of that tower left the only communication to North County via my wife's radio. She worked "coast" and "north county" all night supporting sheriff and fire communications. From my vantage point in Mira Mesa, the north sky was a brilliant reddish/yellow.
My wife earned her "Tech" class ham radio license on the last day Morse code was required. She did it to have communications in the field as a master falconer. This was well before cell phones became ubiquitous. My wife tagged up the Amateur Radio Emergency Services, RACES and Animal Rescue Reserve. My wife was doing service support work at the Miramar Air Show when someone at the San Diego Sheriff's Office recruited her to dispatch at SDSO. Over the many fires that occurred, my wife would work in the field where she had both radio responsibilities with the Sheriff's Office and used her ham radio license to provide active liaison to ARES/Animal Rescue Reserve hams rescuing horses and people. After her radio shift, she was out in the field with the hams rescuing the horses in harm's way.
Same here, a sucky heat pump in NE Huntsville.
I got the propane fireplace prepped for this winter. Haven’t used it so far.
I remember that. Thanks.
Yes, I remember the “EVIL REPUBLICAN” administration that was in power at the time, had to kiss Mexican ass for a place to go.
Yeah they worked that one in too
A lot of folks don’t seem to understand; even in foul weather the work still needs to be done.
Yep- we worked 5 days a week- rain snow or shine- I only did that work for about 5 years- loved it- but moved on to other work- My uncle- 75 years old- still working outdoors in Maine- every day, building log homes- done it all his life- He’s one tough cookie- cut part of his finger off- finger got infected- but kept on working while it healed lol- They are out on the coast- and the weather is really bone chilling as it is often damp with winds off the ocean-
Me too. Got the same as you. We have the fire place for power outages, which we seem to have along with those danged surges that knock the TV off and reset all the danged clocks, microwave and stove ones. Also for an extra cold like last spring when it was 78 one week and we had two straight nights at 7 or 8 degrees and killed all the buds on the trees that had to start to bloom two months early because it had been so darn warm in Jan, Feb, early March. Nearly killed my large Japanese Maple which would cost $10,000 to get one the same size replacing this one!! Large mature ones are expensive.
One Christmas Day, my father was determined to have a fire going in the fireplace. Houston about 1972. He turned the AC down to 65 to make the house cold to justify the fire.
it was 54 degrees in Providence on Christmas Day!
We had 2 nights when the temp was windy and below 30... Super High Tide at the same time!
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