Heat Wave 2014

sheepherder · 01-07-2014, 08:59 AM

This is for all you surf bunnies in SoCal and you octogenarians in Florida...

I posted a similat pic a year or two ago...

Pic taken at 8:00am Tuesday; Gov Cuomo implemented a state of emergency for Western New York state last night. Blizzard conditions; no unnecessary travel; Thruway closed; National Guard called out.

Just for S&G...I let my Weimaraner out and she pooped as usual; let her back in, fed her, put on my parka and went out to collect the poop...I had to chip it out...It froze solid in about 10 minutes...(She's a fast eater)...

I'm waiting for it to stop blowing so I can go out and put a battery charger on my car battery...and hope it'll start...

I live about 20 miles NorthEast of Buffalo NY, known as the "Miami of the North"...

Yeah...Not quite...

Sergio Natali · 01-07-2014, 11:32 AM

Goodness, I'm not envying you.
I would say that I suffer more in Summer than in Winter, but I've reached the point when I'm starting to think that I can't stand neither Summer heat nor the cold days of January ... :-)

Well according to an old sayng here in Italy the coldest days of the year are supposed to be the so called "i giorni della merla" (the days of the hen-blackbird) i.e. the last three days of January, in fact according to a legend the blackbird used to be white, then in those cold days she went on top of a chimney to look for some warmth and since then she became black.

Not too much to do with Lugers this time, still, take care

Sergio

sheepherder · 01-07-2014, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by luger.parabellum

...according to a legend the blackbird used to be white, then in those cold days she went on top of a chimney to look for some warmth and since then she became black.

Sergio -

Cool legend! There's a parable about a bird migrating South that gets caught in a snowstorm...I'll have to look it up...

Buffalo & southtowns got 2 to 3 feet of snow on top of blowing drifting snow...One city controller in Hamburg actually pulled the snowplows off the streets last night...I guess they got tired of getting lost & plowing empty fields...

Buffalo Airport was closed; all flights cancelled...My mailgirl hasn't shown up yet, I'm wondering if mail delivery was cancelled today...

I've never been to Italy; like to go someday...And Spain and Portugal too...

Ben M. · 01-07-2014, 01:09 PM

notice al gore is not around banging the global/warming drum?

John Sabato · 01-07-2014, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sheepherder

This is for all you surf bunnies in SoCal and you octogenarians in Florida...

I posted a similat pic a year or two ago...

Pic taken at 8:00am Tuesday; Gov Cuomo implemented a state of emergency for Western New York state last night. Blizzard conditions; no unnecessary travel; Thruway closed; National Guard called out...

3 Degrees here in Virginia when I woke up. Most likely the coldest January on record for us.

No problem starting the car though, and went to work in DC as usual. It was 5 degrees when I got to work. I was dressed appropriately... fortunately, I once got to spend a couple weeks above the arctic circle... so I learned real quick how to stay alive in cold weather... dress in LAYERS... cover your head, and your mouth and nose when breathing... wear insulated boots and good gloves/mittens.

... Rich, your inside temperature was only 60 degrees? Do you wear lots of sweaters, and flannel pajamas? or was your heat pump having a hard time keeping up with the cold weather?

rhuff · 01-07-2014, 04:27 PM

Rich,

That is just TOOOOOO Damn Cold!!! I gripe about our summers here in So. Az.(a blast furnace), but the winters are paradise. No one in their right mind leaves So. Az. in the winter.

sheepherder · 01-07-2014, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by John Sabato

... Rich, your inside temperature was only 60 degrees? Do you wear lots of sweaters, and flannel pajamas? or was your heat pump having a hard time keeping up with the cold weather?

I sleep in my shorts...With a Weimaraner against my legs...

That thermometer is on an outside kitchen wall...Right now [5:00pm] it's 62º/9ºF...My nighttime cycle is at 68º with a +- of ~3º...And it hadn't kicked in yet...(8:00am transition from 68º to 72º)...

It's still cold...Dog just went out again; I gotta get my shovel and chip some more poop...

Edit: No mail delivery...With the airport closed, there was probably no mail...Roads closed; no truck traffic...All our mail/parcels come through Buffalo or Rochester...Thruway closed...Bah!!!

DavidJayUden · 01-07-2014, 05:30 PM

Here in Nebraska today seems like a heat wave. Probably 15 degrees, but sunny and no wind. Sweatshirt weather...
dju

cirelaw · 01-07-2014, 06:00 PM

Finally we can open the doors and windows during the day and turn off the AC!! Eric in Port St Lucie, Fla! http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/

gunbugs · 01-07-2014, 07:21 PM

We got done with some -35 to -45 below here about a week or so ago. No big deal, just dress for the cold, happens every year. I would expect more within a couple weeks. But it is Alaska, after all.... I'll do my 2+ mile run down to 20 below. And we don't do "wind chill" here, just air temp.

DavidJayUden · 01-07-2014, 08:46 PM

Well I feel like a real ***** now...
dju

sheepherder · 01-07-2014, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidJayUden

Well I feel like a real ***** now...
dju

Me, too. I guess we can all thank the Almighty we don't live in that frigid Hell, Alaska...

0º seems balmy now...

Geo99 · 01-07-2014, 09:53 PM

I was only in Buffalo once in the winter. 3ft of snow and -30 wind chill - no thank you.
But I would take Buffalo over Alaska in the winter.
Winter weather here this week is same as always, 42 deg and raining (boo hoo).

lugerholsterrepair · 01-07-2014, 10:23 PM

75 here today's high..palm trees swaying in a light breeze..had the garage doors open most of the day and walking around in shorts & T shirt. Yup..cold sucks. I go where the weather suits my clothes...and that's South Western Arizona!

gunbugs · 01-07-2014, 11:34 PM

Well, we say that 30 below keeps the "riff raff" away.....But in all honesty, I've been here since '69, and consider it home. The winters don't bother me. And like most folks who love where they live, I think of it as "God's country". I will take my "frozen hell" over the overpopulated lower 48 any day of the week. Every time I go down, I'm very thankful to come back. I was just enjoying a meal of silver salmon that we caught down in Valdez this August. Things like that make it very worthwhile. Plus, no stupid gun laws......I can enjoy my M-2 browning anytime I want.

lew1 · 01-08-2014, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by gunbugs

Well, we say that 30 below keeps the "riff raff" away.....But in all honesty, I've been here since '69, and consider it home. The winters don't bother me. And like most folks who love where they live, I think of it as "God's country". I will take my "frozen hell" over the overpopulated lower 48 any day of the week. Every time I go down, I'm very thankful to come back. I was just enjoying a meal of silver salmon that we caught down in Valdez this August. Things like that make it very worthwhile. Plus, no stupid gun laws......I can enjoy my M-2 browning anytime I want.

You do make a couple of good points.

My grandmother had a saying --- Home is where the heart is.

sheepherder · 01-08-2014, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by gunbugs

And like most folks who love where they live...Every time I go down, I'm very thankful to come back...

I guess I'm the minority, then...I've always thought New York sucks...One reason why I enlisted back in in '69...I was stationed in SoCal for a year; loved it...But the traffic was bad even then...Then I spent 10 weeks in Philadelphia...Great town; people are pro-military, even then [Viet Nam]...Since then, I've been to/visited/stayed for weeks in Nevada, Texas, both Carolinas, as well as a couple other states and foreign countries...Right now, I'm counting the weeks until my mortgage is paid off...Then, I think it's either Arizona or Texas...I have good friends in both, and really enjoyed my time in that area...

There is at least one service out there that rents RVs by the week; you can fly out, drive around, and fly back home...Or, I suppose, stay...

Sergio Natali · 01-08-2014, 02:50 PM

In these days every time I watch the weather forecast on tv and they report about this flippin' cold weather in the States I think of you all "Luger mates", and sincerely hope that nobody has too many problems with those unusual temperatures. Let's keep our fingers crossed and let's wait for Spring.

sheepherder · 01-08-2014, 09:18 PM

Second day of no mail delivery...No pickup...No delivery...I drove to the small-village PO near me and mailed a couple letters...Money Orders actually...Weather is improving, 19º today, supposed to be 43º on Saturday...That should be fun...There's an ice jam in the Niagara River, flood warnings out already...

aldo35 · 01-08-2014, 10:09 PM

Guys,

It's pretty cold on the Cape 8 or 9 this am when I got up. 18+ snow on Fri, light fluffy stuff that blew all around Sat, then Sun and Mon it went up to +50, really, rained and now most of that white stuff gone.

Back in a cold streak but heading to FL till spring.

Aldo35

01-07-2014, 08:59 AM	#1
sheepherder Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: ...on the 'ol Erie Canal... Posts: 8,195 Thanks: 1,414 Thanked 4,462 Times in 2,336 Posts	Heat Wave 2014 This is for all you surf bunnies in SoCal and you octogenarians in Florida... I posted a similat pic a year or two ago... Pic taken at 8:00am Tuesday; Gov Cuomo implemented a state of emergency for Western New York state last night. Blizzard conditions; no unnecessary travel; Thruway closed; National Guard called out. Just for S&G...I let my Weimaraner out and she pooped as usual; let her back in, fed her, put on my parka and went out to collect the poop...I had to chip it out...It froze solid in about 10 minutes...(She's a fast eater)... I'm waiting for it to stop blowing so I can go out and put a battery charger on my car battery...and hope it'll start... I live about 20 miles NorthEast of Buffalo NY, known as the "Miami of the North"... Yeah...Not quite... Attached Thumbnails __________________ I like my coffee the way I like my women... ...Cold and bitter...

01-07-2014, 11:32 AM	#2
Sergio Natali User Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Somewhere in Northern Italy Posts: 2,646 Thanks: 1,087 Thanked 1,783 Times in 1,007 Posts	Goodness, I'm not envying you. I would say that I suffer more in Summer than in Winter, but I've reached the point when I'm starting to think that I can't stand neither Summer heat nor the cold days of January ... :-) Well according to an old sayng here in Italy the coldest days of the year are supposed to be the so called "i giorni della merla" (the days of the hen-blackbird) i.e. the last three days of January, in fact according to a legend the blackbird used to be white, then in those cold days she went on top of a chimney to look for some warmth and since then she became black. Not too much to do with Lugers this time, still, take care Sergio __________________ "Originality can't be restored and should be at the top of any collector's priority list.

01-07-2014, 09:53 PM	#13
Geo99 User Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Whidbey Island WA Posts: 400 Thanks: 102 Thanked 127 Times in 75 Posts	I was only in Buffalo once in the winter. 3ft of snow and -30 wind chill - no thank you. But I would take Buffalo over Alaska in the winter. Winter weather here this week is same as always, 42 deg and raining (boo hoo). __________________ "Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggie, until you can find a rock." - Will Rogers

01-07-2014, 10:23 PM	#14
lugerholsterrepair Moderator Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Arizona/Colorado Posts: 7,775 Thanks: 4,995 Thanked 3,133 Times in 1,439 Posts	75 here today's high..palm trees swaying in a light breeze..had the garage doors open most of the day and walking around in shorts & T shirt. Yup..cold sucks. I go where the weather suits my clothes...and that's South Western Arizona! __________________ Jerry Burney 11491 S. Guadalupe Drive Yuma AZ 85367-6182 lugerholsterrepair@earthlink.net 928 342-7583 (CO & AZ) Year Round 719 207-3331 (cell) "For those who Fight For It, Life has a flavor the protected will never know."

01-08-2014, 02:50 PM	#18
Sergio Natali User Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Somewhere in Northern Italy Posts: 2,646 Thanks: 1,087 Thanked 1,783 Times in 1,007 Posts	In these days every time I watch the weather forecast on tv and they report about this flippin' cold weather in the States I think of you all "Luger mates", and sincerely hope that nobody has too many problems with those unusual temperatures. Let's keep our fingers crossed and let's wait for Spring. __________________ "Originality can't be restored and should be at the top of any collector's priority list.

01-07-2014, 01:09 PM	#4
Ben M. User Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Retired to Naples, FL. Posts: 498 Thanks: 96 Thanked 145 Times in 90 Posts	notice al gore is not around banging the global/warming drum?

01-07-2014, 04:27 PM	#6
rhuff Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Az. Posts: 2,305 Thanks: 2,736 Thanked 991 Times in 727 Posts	Rich, That is just TOOOOOO Damn Cold!!! I gripe about our summers here in So. Az.(a blast furnace), but the winters are paradise. No one in their right mind leaves So. Az. in the winter.

01-07-2014, 05:30 PM	#8
DavidJayUden Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4,047 Thanks: 578 Thanked 1,414 Times in 887 Posts	Here in Nebraska today seems like a heat wave. Probably 15 degrees, but sunny and no wind. Sweatshirt weather... dju

01-07-2014, 06:00 PM	#9
cirelaw Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: PORT ST LUCIE, FLORIDA Posts: 12,216 Thanks: 6,209 Thanked 4,138 Times in 2,176 Posts	Finally we can open the doors and windows during the day and turn off the AC!! Eric in Port St Lucie, Fla! http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/

01-07-2014, 07:21 PM	#10
gunbugs Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska. Home of the best moose. Posts: 672 Thanks: 371 Thanked 1,202 Times in 407 Posts	We got done with some -35 to -45 below here about a week or so ago. No big deal, just dress for the cold, happens every year. I would expect more within a couple weeks. But it is Alaska, after all.... I'll do my 2+ mile run down to 20 below. And we don't do "wind chill" here, just air temp.

01-07-2014, 08:46 PM	#11
DavidJayUden Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4,047 Thanks: 578 Thanked 1,414 Times in 887 Posts	Well I feel like a real ***** now... dju

01-07-2014, 11:34 PM	#15
gunbugs Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska. Home of the best moose. Posts: 672 Thanks: 371 Thanked 1,202 Times in 407 Posts	Well, we say that 30 below keeps the "riff raff" away.....But in all honesty, I've been here since '69, and consider it home. The winters don't bother me. And like most folks who love where they live, I think of it as "God's country". I will take my "frozen hell" over the overpopulated lower 48 any day of the week. Every time I go down, I'm very thankful to come back. I was just enjoying a meal of silver salmon that we caught down in Valdez this August. Things like that make it very worthwhile. Plus, no stupid gun laws......I can enjoy my M-2 browning anytime I want.

01-08-2014, 09:18 PM	#19
sheepherder Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: ...on the 'ol Erie Canal... Posts: 8,195 Thanks: 1,414 Thanked 4,462 Times in 2,336 Posts	Second day of no mail delivery...No pickup...No delivery...I drove to the small-village PO near me and mailed a couple letters...Money Orders actually...Weather is improving, 19º today, supposed to be 43º on Saturday...That should be fun...There's an ice jam in the Niagara River, flood warnings out already... __________________ I like my coffee the way I like my women... ...Cold and bitter...

01-08-2014, 10:09 PM	#20
aldo35 User Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Northern GA Posts: 390 Thanks: 2,295 Thanked 184 Times in 91 Posts	Weather on Cape Cod Guys, It's pretty cold on the Cape 8 or 9 this am when I got up. 18+ snow on Fri, light fluffy stuff that blew all around Sat, then Sun and Mon it went up to +50, really, rained and now most of that white stuff gone. Back in a cold streak but heading to FL till spring. Aldo35