Author Topic: freaking ice storms (Read 4156 times)

Otto · « **Reply #25 on:** December 15, 2008, 10:42:50 AM »

Uncrash,

All is well. Lit up the wood stove and put all that was on the floor up high. Once I had power back, everything dried out in about a day.

bc

ProTeal55 · « **Reply #26 on:** December 15, 2008, 11:29:54 AM »

12/15/08
Overnight rain turned to ice and coated EVERYTHING !
Had to crawl in the truck from the back door becasue the drivers door was under a sheet of ice. Thank god for autostart and that I cranked the heat on full blast last night when I parked the truck..

Inst winter grand !

alltherightpills · « **Reply #27 on:** December 15, 2008, 11:52:47 AM »

You Chicago folks got that thing that came through last night too? It was crazy, temps dropped 40 degrees in 2 hours. Rain, then ice, then snow. Windchills last night were around -30. They were still around -20 when I left this morning. Winter storm watch for tomorrow too. Supposed to get around 6 inches of snow.

So far it's not as bad as last year. We had a total of 60+ inches, which is a lot for Iowa. Iowa City's snow plowing budget for the winter was spent by the end of December. I remember walking past a Coke machine that showed the temp on the inside of the machine. It was 45 degrees warmer in it than it was outside (actual temps, not windchill, which would have been around -50 or 60.)

martino1972 · « **Reply #28 on:** December 15, 2008, 12:14:54 PM »

we hit -29 f yesterday,without windchill that is......

ProTeal55 · « **Reply #29 on:** December 15, 2008, 01:38:55 PM »

Yeah - said to snow 2''-6'' around Chicago tomorrow...

nickjtc · « **Reply #30 on:** December 15, 2008, 03:10:04 PM »

Quote from: void909 on December 12, 2008, 07:20:35 AM

You guys should really consider relocating. Its suppose to be 65 around here today and my windows are open.

That is just plain unkind! I'm surprised we haven't had Terry in Australia rubbing it in too.

74cb750 · « **Reply #31 on:** December 16, 2008, 07:50:50 AM »

Damn Martino, -29F? Too cold to be out riding the cb750 then?

Steve F · « **Reply #32 on:** December 16, 2008, 09:52:33 AM »

Quote from: 74cb750 on December 16, 2008, 07:50:50 AM

Damn Martino, -29F? Too cold to be out riding the cb750 then?

He probably won't need an OIL COOLER then? Or maybe he'd need to use synthetic?

mystic_1 · « **Reply #33 on:** December 16, 2008, 05:00:57 PM »

Time for an Oil HEATER thread!

<runs away>

mystic_1

Steve F · « **Reply #34 on:** December 16, 2008, 07:20:30 PM »

Quote from: mystic_1 on December 16, 2008, 05:00:57 PM

Time for an Oil HEATER thread!

<runs away>

mystic_1

ProTeal55 · « **Reply #35 on:** December 16, 2008, 07:21:16 PM »

6-10' of snow this afternoon turned my 45min drive home from work to 2 1/2 hours !
Pretty sad when it takes ya 2 1/2 hours to go 15 miles eh ?

74cb750 · « **Reply #36 on:** December 17, 2008, 07:00:51 AM »

Maybe you should have stayed at work ProTeal.

alltherightpills · « **Reply #37 on:** December 17, 2008, 07:49:51 AM »

We got 5 inches yesterday and are under a winter storm watch from tomorrow afternoon till Friday morning. Supposed to get 1/4 inch of ice followed by a couple more inches of snow. That should be fun.

ProTeal55 · « **Reply #38 on:** December 17, 2008, 08:10:56 AM »

Quote from: 74cb750 on December 17, 2008, 07:00:51 AM

Maybe you should have stayed at work ProTeal.

Believe me, I thoght about it.
Said to get a wicked ice storm tomorrow just before rush hour.
Oh how I love this time of year !

UnCrash · « **Reply #39 on:** December 17, 2008, 10:33:28 AM »

Time to start packing snowshoes in the car with me....

seaweb11 · « **Reply #40 on:** December 17, 2008, 02:48:18 PM »

It's been snowing here again all day again

Supposed to stop some time after Christmas

UnCrash · « **Reply #41 on:** December 17, 2008, 07:26:55 PM »

We got some snow today while I was at work, so when I came home I tried to fire up the snow blower.

I looked in the gas tank -- no gas... Easy enough, I'll just fill up with this handy dandy gas can over here that's full of gas.

Tank full, I plug the electric starter in to the wall socket and she fires right up. I head out of the garage and she starts to sputter, then dies. Pull, pull, pull, pull -- nothing. Drag it back towards the garage, plug it in, prime it up, fire it up, start down the driveway -- it dies.

Crap. I realize the gas is leftover from when I drained my K6 gastank after a torrential storm drove water under the filler cap into the tank http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=37958.0

Crap, double crap, triple crap.

I drained the gas with my handy dandy "kerosene only" siphon pump back into the gas can and siphoned out a gallon of fresh gas with Seafoam from my k6. Poured it in the snowblower tank.

Crank crank crank crank -- nothing.

Pull the plug -- completely dry and dark / rich.

Pull the cover off the carb.

Fuel arm spring un-attached so I re-attach it. Fuel bowl has a spring activated thingy on bottom, I press the spring in and gas pours out. Good, the bowl has gas. Bad, the bowl has bad gas. Drain, drain, drain, drain.

Finally purged all bad gas -- pumped the primer bulb -- pressed the electric start button -- Chug, chug, chug, sputter, chug then it settles out to idle. I adjust the idle screw which was out too far.

Yay I have a working snow blower again!

What the heck can I do with this crappy gas in my spare can before I forget about it and put it in my lawn mower in the spring and relive this all over again?

alltherightpills · « **Reply #42 on:** December 17, 2008, 07:52:52 PM »

Quote from: UnCrash on December 17, 2008, 07:26:55 PM

What the heck can I do with this crappy gas in my spare can before I forget about it and put it in my lawn mower in the spring and relive this all over again?

Step one: Get some Beer

Step two: Call your buddies

Step three: Get a huge ass pile of wood.

Step four: Light the wood on fire

Step five: Put the gas in balloons (like water balloons but a hell of a lot more exciting)

Step six: Throw the gas balloons at the bonfire

Step seven: Get drunk and feel good cause of your totally awesome fire.

I'm planning on doing this at a party in January, except the gas balloons will be hung above the fire from some trees.

seaweb11 · « **Reply #43 on:** December 17, 2008, 11:44:44 PM »

That's how I get rid of mine

Steve F · « **Reply #44 on:** December 18, 2008, 02:46:28 AM »

Quote from: seaweb11 on December 17, 2008, 11:44:44 PM

That's how I get rid of mine

Pour it in your A$$hat neighbor's car!

alltherightpills · « **Reply #45 on:** December 18, 2008, 09:09:12 PM »

So in a stroke of genius, I decided to cover my car with a drop cloth, so that tomorrow I don't have to try and chip a 1/2" of ice off of it.

seaweb11 · « **Reply #46 on:** December 18, 2008, 10:53:49 PM »

Cool.....now you will find a use for that cold chisel in the shop.

I can just see you tomorrow morning with a sheet frozen over your car

UnCrash · « **Reply #47 on:** December 19, 2008, 05:35:08 AM »

Heh, you're going to mummify your car!

alltherightpills · « **Reply #48 on:** December 19, 2008, 08:09:41 AM »

Ha ha, it worked like a charm, though if I were to do it again I would use a heavy duty plastic tarp rather than a drop cloth, because now my drop cloth weighs about 100 pounds, and I was thinking that the plastic might be harder for the ice to stick to. The drop cloth I was using was a really heavy canvas one from work (I'm a house painter) so there was a lot of texture in the fabric for the ice to stick to.

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Author Topic: freaking ice storms (Read 4156 times)