The Official Great Christmas Blizzard of 2022 Thread

[Magyars]

Other than a couple trips a day out to the barn to feed the livestock...
This is my happy place, just add a beverage of your choice.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Naw, we just have a poorly insulated home in one section and need to be as frugal as we can.

So we keep the house hot in the summer and cool in the winter.

We are used to 67 now and 57 is fine for sleeping.

I could do that but DoggyMama's arthritis and fibromyalgia make her miserable when it's that cool.

 

[bwframe]

I always say I'm gonna do it, this time I actually did. When it's really cold out, is a great time to get double duty out of "cooking" that needs done. I loaded up the dehydrator with celery and carrots from the fridge. Set out a pork loin for the Instant Pot later...

 

[tcecil88]

I always say I'm gonna do it, this time I actually did. When it's really cold out, is a great time to get double duty out of "cooking" that needs done. I loaded up the dehydrator with celery and carrots from the fridge. Set out a pork loin for the Instant Pot later...

Uhmmmm..... pork.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

Friend in Franklin, TN woke up to frozen pipes. He is from Fort Wayne and is planning on driving up tonight. I told him that he might want to wait until tomorrow afternoon when the wind dies down.

 

[dudley0]

Snow not bad, wind and temps are tho. Went in to take a shower and no hot water. My tankless gas water heater was barking an error code 90.

Looked it up, then put on all my warm clothes and went out to the exhaust pipe. I had installed a cover on it this summer to keep rodents out. Well, it froze shut. Popped it off and all is working again as it should.

My happy moment was not getting any calls about frozen water from tenants or family. Instead I took the day off and did some honey-do stuff around the house.

 

[littletommy]

I decided to get up and go in to work for a few hours before our company party today. The roads really weren’t that bad, and traffic was almost non existent. By the time I left work around 11:30, roads were much better, only a few turning lanes with some built up snow. Wind was crazy.

 

[Sigblitz]

Should I go get the onion now or wait untill Friday when my wife suddenly needs an onion.

No union, but I got a jar of relish. It better be some good relish.

 

[Bigtanker]

They're closing some roads in St. Joe county due to drifting snow.

I'm on vacation so I'm glad I'm not working. The trucks are running some local stuff though. SW Michigan is getting pounded. I94 is pretty much closed.

 

[Bigtanker]

Here's why. Lake effect.

 

[Frosty]

Got out this morning for groceries and some last minute gifts, roads were coated but easily passable, just really cold, more than a few minutes out and bare skin was aching!

 

[mom45]

Our county is shut down. Emergency vehicles only. The wind is making the roads impassable.

 

[KellyinAvon]

High of -2, low of -3. I was outside for a VERY short while around 5p. I ain't been that cold in a while. We're showing -24 wind chill now, it was -35 this AM.

I remember the Sunday morning January 1982, -61 wind chill. Don't want to feel that again.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

I was good until about twenty of six. Got sucked into a ditch and spent the next three hours waiting to be pulled out. Came home, defrosted my tootsies, and have been firmly ensconced in the old recliner ever since.

 

[Cameramonkey]

I was good all day. Only two iffy moments were the trip out the back deck and down 6' of stairs to get the propane heater, and then the 2nd trip to take the lock back out that was too gummed up with ice to close. (I had to literally hang on it to open the shackle) There were icecicles coming out of the weep holes on the bottom.

 

[flyingsquirrel]

Weather weasels are just as easy as politicians to pick on. A young lady was showing 1' drifts at someone's deck steps and pointed to a hot tub stating, "They won't be using their pool today". Idiots!

 

[Bigtanker]

How's about that 7 day forecast...

 

[Frosty]

How's about that 7 day forecast...

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I’ll take 55 and rain over -11 and 50 mph winds any day!

 

[Cameramonkey]

Moron driver of the day. Compact car pulls out in front of the guy in front of me. We are in the right hand lane. Person is doing 25 in a 50 on State Road 67. I assume they’re getting over so they can turn left at the next intersection and they do get over. But they don’t get into the turn lane.

They continue driving 25 and those of us in the other lane accelerate past them.

I get past and see that all of the windows are fogged up, the front windshield is completely iced over and opaque, the wipers are sprung up so that they didn’t freeze down and they are rotating back-and-forth doing nothing.


So this idiot is doing 25 in a 50, and they can’t see where they’re going. Genius

 

[Frosty]

Moron driver of the day. Compact car pulls out in front of the guy in front of me. We are in the right hand lane. Person is doing 25 in a 50 on State Road 67. I assume they’re getting over so they can turn left at the next intersection and they do get over. But they don’t get into the turn lane.

They continue driving 25 and those of us in the other lane accelerate past them.

I get past and see that all of the windows are fogged up, the front windshield is completely iced over and opaque, the wipers are sprung up so that they didn’t freeze down and they are rotating back-and-forth doing nothing.


So this idiot is doing 25 in a 50, and they can’t see where they’re going. Genius

Doing 50 in a 50 on 67 is almost a deathwish!