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Re: Northern weather

Postby Mitch » Sat Jan 13, 2018 5:07 pm

And Joshua did enter the house with tools and a large crate, and with his hands did he install a new boiler, and with his mouth proclaimed, "Let there be heat", and there was heat throughout the house.

Heating and AC god? Naw, just the brother of my grand daughters' mother, and self-employed. Man! That was fast and efficient service. :D Don't have to worry about the pipes freezin' now.

Phone rang at 3:30 this AM; daughter who lives in town right on 1st street needed sanctuary. She had to evacuate due to flooding. Things are really a mess here. All the rain yesterday, then it got really cold and when I went to work this morning, I had to rake 6" of snow off the truck, chisel out the windshield and wipers, and beat on the drivers' door to get it open without bustin' the door handle off. The roads are still shitty, but we'll weather it out.
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Re: Northern weather

Postby rogruth » Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:22 pm

Mitch,
Just saw on TV about flooding and other events in the upper Ohio Valley.
I am originally from the Wheeling area. I don't miss that stuff.
If I remember you are northeast of Pittsburgh.
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Re: Northern weather

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:57 am

Back down to 16 today........and snow in the distance...
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Re: Northern weather

Postby rogruth » Mon Jan 15, 2018 10:05 am

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Back down to 16 today........and snow in the distance...

That's a good place for it. The snow, that is.
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Re: Northern weather

Postby E7 » Mon Jan 15, 2018 10:45 am

rogruth wrote:Mitch,
Just saw on TV about flooding and other events in the upper Ohio Valley.
I am originally from the Wheeling area. I don't miss that stuff.
If I remember you are northeast of Pittsburgh.


I spent one delightful winter at Slippery Rock in the mid 1960's.......don't recall a lot of snow, but that was eons ago and my memory is fuzzy. I have made a ton of early January trips across Ohio on I-70 and seen everything from minus 26 to 55 degrees. Some pretty abominable weather.

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Re: Northern weather

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Jan 15, 2018 10:51 am

E7 wrote:.......... a ton of early January trips across Ohio on I-70 and seen everything ...........


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Re: Northern weather

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Mon Jan 15, 2018 10:55 am

E7 wrote:
rogruth wrote:Mitch,
Just saw on TV about flooding and other events in the upper Ohio Valley.
I am originally from the Wheeling area. I don't miss that stuff.
If I remember you are northeast of Pittsburgh.


I spent one delightful winter at Slippery Rock in the mid 1960's.......don't recall a lot of snow, but that was eons ago.... I have made a ton of early January trips across Ohio on I-70 and seen everything from minus 26 to 55 degrees. Some pretty abominable weather.

Back in my college days, in Ohio, in the 60's, I had to take a Winter's motorcycle ride from Springfield to Yellow Springs, which isn't very far, but I did it during one of those Ohio snow storms that blows horizontally across the farms and seems to pass right thru a person. By the time I made the return trip to Springfield, the whole Honda90 (30mph max in a wind :roll: ) was shivering along with me. I parked the weak contraption in front of the Student Union and went inside for food and warmth. I was still so cold that when I sat down at a diningroom table, after traversing the hot food cafeteria line, on the second floor, no less , the student next to me said so much cold was radiating off me that he had to move away. Others remarked about it, too, that I was giving-off cold. That was the coldest I have ever been.
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Re: Northern weather

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:00 am

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Re: Northern weather

Postby v8vega » Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:00 am

That sounds bad, I've never been anywhere near that cold.

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Re: Northern weather

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:05 am

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Image

Yes, except for the colleges, that seems about it.

Oh, and then there is that part alongside Lake Erie. I went with s gaggle of other undergrads on a pointless car excursion from Springfield to the lake during the dead of winter. That visit afforded me another uniquely frigid experience. That is, when we walked up to the shoreline, it was so cold that when the water broke on the shore and threw up a wide and tall spray, it froze instantly and fell to the frozen ground, which was already covered in ice, and we could clearly hear the mist-spray go "CRACK" in the frigid air as it froze instantly, falling to the ground with a rat-a-tat-tat sound , like a bucket of B-B's had just been unloaded. I liked that. We stood there for as long as we could bear :mrgreen: to do so, listening to the wonder of it all; then left when we could barely move from the frozen mist covering us, too.

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Re: Northern weather

Postby rogruth » Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:46 am

There was a time when Ohio was one of the leading industrial states but that is gone. Industry seems to be gone in most states.

Scenicely Ohio has much more than flat lands but the farms on those flatlands are doing very well.
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Re: Northern weather

Postby chuck » Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:52 am

Industry seems to be gone


Not gone, just massively changed.

Same is technically true for agriculture. Family farms/farmeres are gone but Agribusiness is doing quite well.
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Re: Northern weather

Postby robert. » Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:11 pm

I like Ohio. Every summer i spend a few days in Wauseon Ohio. The people there are nice. Broke and under employed but nice. At one time they were part of the supply chain to Detroit.
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Re: Northern weather

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:44 pm

chuck wrote:
Industry seems to be gone


Not gone, just massively changed.

Same is technically true for agriculture. Family farms/farmeres are gone but Agribusiness is doing quite well.


Driving across and back twice a year......and it's a flat wasteland that stretches from end to end of farming interspersed with the occasional outpost of pseudo-civilization and a handful of actual cities. Rt. 70 might be used at some point as a tool for hypnotists and/or as a prep session for lobotomies....
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Re: Northern weather

Postby Tom Dempsey » Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:49 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Driving across and back twice a year......and it's a flat wasteland that stretches from end to end of farming interspersed with the occasional outpost of pseudo-civilization and a handful of actual cities. Rt. 70 might be used at some point as a tool for hypnotists and/or as a prep session for lobotomies....


You should probably avoid road trips through Montana or West Texas.


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