Posted on 02/18/2021 9:45:20 AM PST by Red Badger
Things are really real down in Texas rn.
Here's just a sample. Too many to post see link for many more:
I’ve never seen ice that bad. And, as a kid, I lived thru a Wisconsin BSA camping trip...during the worst ice storm in 50 years. We just abandoned the campsite and went home. Came back the next day and found trees & limbs down thru our tents.
Heck...back home we were ice skating on sidewalks and in people’s yards.
I watched a video on that. Seems one end of the blade is fixed to a rotating pedestal on one car, and the other end of the blade slides in a rotating cradle that lets it slide back and forth as the two (or three?) flatbed cars negotiate the turns.
I grew up in SW Portland (to the extent I can claim to have grown up), in the hills north of Hillsdale, and then my parents moved near Hillsboro after the kids had all moved out. Plenty of ice storms over the years, but I don’t know if it’s still pretty much an annual event.
I remember being without power for about 2 weeks after the 1962 Columbus Day storm. The next street down the hill got power back after only a couple of days, so my dad and the neighbor down through the woods ran a bunch of extension cords about 200 yards to our place, and we could at least keep the freezer running.
Anyway, I hope you get everything straightened out soon.
The vortex or whatever is passing us. We’re above freezing today.
“Snow is pouring down”
I knew what happened. But there’s that commercial now with the piglets flying.
Graders, front end loaders would be a start
I would imagine they have Bobcats and tractors
I just looked at the weather in San Antonio. It is below freezing and expected to snow. The commentary said to wrap or insulate water pipes and then mentioned inground sprinkler systems and their pipes that come above ground. I never thought about inground sprinkler systems in a place that could possibly have a severe cold snap like Texas is having. I doubt they’re insulated for temperatures like 10.° I feel so bad for all the people of Texas who are without power in this extreme cold.
Busted pipes in multi story apartments. Hell freezes over.
I saw the county out with a road grader today doing some good. Major melting tomorrow.
Thanks, that sound delicious...I passed it on to them
We should have a bunch of cattle catchers!
Yeah, that’s the way to go around here. A lot of transplants from warmer climes don’t quite get why it’s necessary to trench your water lines 4 feet deep. Eventually they do. Sorry to hear about your barn, but at least you got some firewood out of it. Looks like the three cords I put in last early October will get me through the rest of the season. Smartest thing we did was to replace all of our plumbing with PEX A.
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