Northern weather

[John Webster]

Saturday about 5000 people (including a brass band) showed up at Cleveland Stadium in -10ºF wind chill weather to celebrate/protest the Cleveland Browns winless season.

The doors on my SUV freeze shut when the temperature gets below 15ºF. The last time I drove it was on Christmas day.

[E7]

It's been colder (Feb 1976, -17F) but never this cold for this long.

What makes it particularly evil is that it is early on in the Winter. There was a bad stretch in February a couple years back with an extended stretch of cold, but this one seems worse. We have been lucky here in Southern PA not getting any real amount of snow, while the South took it on the chin. Seldom happens that way.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The doors on my SUV freeze shut when the temperature gets below 15ºF. The last time I drove it was on Christmas day.

Hopefully your battery will still start it,

10 degrees here in No. VA., but the sun is out and it looks like a nice day................until I go outside to restock the firewood boxes in the garage.

[rrjjf]

All,

It is indeed nasty outside here in Maryland. Maybe it is the fact that I am older but I have never been this continuously cold. I have been hibernating in my basement shop and assembling an original 1946 Varney B&O Ten Wheeler kit that I picked up on ebay a month or so ago. I have had these B&O Ten Wheeler models a few times in the past and always wondered how the original kit in the blue metal box compared with the later All Nation and other kits. Not much different. The kit was stored in a damp location and it took some cleaning up to get past the crud that was forming on everything but it all cleaned up and the Zamac castings are still solid. Mechanism is completed. I don't think this kit would have lasted many more years in its storage box. It has been an interesting way to spend a few days.

I will not use the wound field motor that came with this kit but will fit a small can motor to the original motor/worm drive assembly.

Tomorrow it is supposed to be in the mid 30s here. I hope so! I have some 3 rail to 2 rail conversion work coming in that will keep me busy for the remainder of January. If I did not have this hobby I would be climbing the walls by now.

Joe

[robert.]

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[healey36]

Tomorrow it is supposed to be in the mid 30s here. I hope so! I have some 3 rail to 2 rail conversion work coming in that will keep me busy for the remainder of January. If I did not have this hobby I would be climbing the walls by now.

Joe

Sounds like time well spent, Joe. I have a couple of prewar Flyer 314X-series coaches I've been working on. The one is in nice original shape, just a clean-up required. The other, not so great. I think I've convinced myself that one is headed for a trip through the bead-blaster. I hate doing that anymore (repainting stuff) but this one is pretty far gone. Trying to track down a nice 3142 Observation to complete the set...ah, the thrill of the hunt.

I'm hearing we'll make it to fifty degrees by the end of the week.

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Sleeting now.......and probably freezing to the roads - tomorrow is going to be a real mess..........

[robert.]

I just got back from trying to teach my daughter how to ice skate. It's like an icy M&M out there. I think we slid more on the road then the pond.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I just got back from trying to teach my daughter how to ice skate. It's like an icy M&M out there. I think we slid more on the road then the pond.

Wife bugged out from work and got home just a little before it started, too. Schools got closed...

Rush hour tonight ought to be interesting....and tomorrow morning after the air temp drops below freezing.

[healey36]

Chiseled the quarter-inch of ice off the Beetle and the Vue this AM...streets look clear. A few days respite, than temps drop back down to near-normal for mid-January. I'll take it. It's January 9th and I'm already worn out, lol.

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Chiseled the quarter-inch of ice off the Beetle and the Vue this AM...streets look clear. A few days respite, than temps drop back down to near-normal for mid-January. I'll take it. It's January 9th and I'm already worn out, lol.

Was a little slippery here, but not a real problem for the competent driver; if we could find a few things would improve,

Supposedly going up to 60 on Fri!

[healey36]

Supposedly going up to 60 on Fri!

Would be like Miami-in-June if true!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Supposedly going up to 60 on Fri!

Would be like Miami-in-June if true!

Last night's weather forecast - if it breaks 40 I'll be happy. This has been way too cold to soon and too early this winter.

[healey36]

Forty-six here at mid-day! Most of the ice has melted off the pavements.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Forty-six here at mid-day! Most of the ice has melted off the pavements.

Yup! Was just outside --> 49 degrees! 40 degrees higher than just 2 day ago.