James K
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I'm really sorry but it's going to hit 72 today and 78 on Christmas day in Costa Mesa, CA. A bit warmer inland.
So how cold is it outside?
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There were ice cycles on the pier this morning.
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Heat wave! It is above 0, first time in 3 days. Plows went out at daylight to get this mess cleared up. Big problem is vehicles stuck and left on the roadways.
The CPD have been patrolling to look for the homeless out in the elements. They found a man frozen to death in an enclosed bus stop.
The warming stations and drop-in centers are packed. Heartbreaking.
Aggie1906
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Lotsa reasons to love Lake Michigan. It makes a great thermal buffer when the winds, as usual, are from the West. OK, the West shore guys get the Lake shore snow. Up to 13 today, from a low of 6. Better than most.
Merry Christmas to all!
Merry Christmas to all!
Ya, tthe cold kills around here every winter. Alcohol is often involve. Here is a winter weather injury. Joe booze, buts a 5th of Snaps behind the seat of the truck. It gets 20 or 30 below and he goes out and fires up the truck and while warming it up takes a pull off his bottle. -20 liquid going in your mouth and down your throat and into your stomach is not a good thing.
Kid I went to HS with was found dead by his snowmobile with a Schnapps bottle. They figure it wouldn't start and instead of starting a fire he had a few and waited for someone to come along.
Kid I went to HS with was found dead by his snowmobile with a Schnapps bottle. They figure it wouldn't start and instead of starting a fire he had a few and waited for someone to come along.
One word: ICERS (or equivalent)
In the construction business around here, we just take some little Panhead screws and drive them into the soles of our boots with our battery powered drill. Walking on ice is no problem at all but you definitely want to pull those screws out of your boots before you go walking on someone’s nice Wood Floors.
We had several cities/towns go without power for 3-4 days. It's one thing after a storm down south, but a whole other ball game when temps stay below zero for a while. Fortunately we got new water/sewer mains this year, and they are much deeper and not freezing. They set up numerous warming stations, and we have a lot of oldsters. Am thankful for having steady power/water.
Continuing the thread drift from my post #177 above, the diesel heater just got pressed into use to thaw out a gutter & drain line where the basement extension joins an addition I put on. It's rocketed up to 35º now so the thaw is on. Hard to see in the pic but I suspended the end of the flex duct underneath with some wire. Air temp. is around 138º so no chance of burning anything.
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It's 13 degrees here in southcentral PA. I had a generator installed 5 years ago. I told my aunt and uncle if their power went out to come over here.
I have a whole house battery backup system good for about 4-6 hrs., plus an old Onan diesel genny, which will recharge the batteries and power the house. When an ice storm knocked out the power for 84 hours a few years ago, my neighbours came over to have a shower.
Looking at the local outage map, although we have none around me (yet), a local township is peppered with them. No way will I have a house without backup power!
I've been wondering all day about homeless folks, and how they're surviving in this brutal cold. When it's below zero, there aren't enough blankets in the world to keep you warm...
Continuing the thread drift from my post #177 above, the diesel heater just got pressed into use to thaw out a gutter & drain line where the basement extension joins an addition I put on. It's rocketed up to 35º now so the thaw is on. Hard to see in the pic but I suspended the end of the flex duct underneath with some wire. Air temp. is around 138º so no chance of burning anything.
Slick! How do you handle the exhaust?
Yep,hex heads or yaktrax for me
Well, in this case it just vents into the air through the chrome muffler and pipe in the pic, so no problem. Installed in an enclosed space like a workshop, you need to vent it outside. The vid I posted above is really useful and exceptionally well done. I did some mods to it, fastening 2 x 2 "feet" underneath so the inlet air pipe would clear the base. I also replaced the flimsy bit of flex tube for the inlet air with some copper pipe, which required some shimming as the fittings are all metric.
They're not built to the standard of Webasto of course but for the price are pretty decent and nice and quiet. Lots of online vids on them. They are also available as individual component installs (like the Webasto) for trucks and campers, but in this case I wanted an "all in one" that I could lug wherever needed. Comes with wire connectors to clip onto a 12v battery, but I bought a 120-12v PSU and just plug it in to an AC outlet.
They come in various heat levels. Can't remember what this one is but I think the biggest can put out 8000 BTU at max.
Doug M.
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Back in the late 80s, when I was a baby prosecutor, a deputy picked up a guy who was out in the cold. It was well below zero, and this guy was akin to an old school hobo. This was obviously long before the resources for homeless became a thing. We did some legally questionable finagling to keep him in the jail for a few days. I could live with that far easier than letting him freeze.
8 degrees here at 6 am, with a howling wind, twigs and small branches littering the yard. By midday, a heatwave took it up to about 14 and the wind backed off, so I decided to change a burned out bulb in a porch light.
I had to doff the gloves to manipulate the bulbs, the old bulb broke off in the socket, had to get long nose pliers to get the base out, and by the time I got back in the house, I thought my hands were frostbitten. Geez, did my fingers hurt! It took a good 20 minutes in lukewarm water to make the hurt go away.
Maybe on the next sub-freezing, windy day I'll do something wiser outdoors, like change my car's oil in the driveway. I dunno what I was thinking.
Merry Christmas to all!
I had to doff the gloves to manipulate the bulbs, the old bulb broke off in the socket, had to get long nose pliers to get the base out, and by the time I got back in the house, I thought my hands were frostbitten. Geez, did my fingers hurt! It took a good 20 minutes in lukewarm water to make the hurt go away.
Maybe on the next sub-freezing, windy day I'll do something wiser outdoors, like change my car's oil in the driveway. I dunno what I was thinking.
Merry Christmas to all!
