Snowed a little more last night. Currently a balmy 34 F. At least the sun is making an appearance. Then too, this is NE Ohio and this is late January. Went out to the garage and looked at my bike which looks unhappy but started it and let it run for awhile. Friday should bring some low 50s so maybe I can pull more wire as I am wiring the garage. Still have more outlets to install on the back wall and make allowance for the overhead lighting which needs installed. A few more months and April should start showing nicer weather.

Ron

 

47F today and a Sunday and no rain! It was actually since and sunny here. I took a chance that we weren't going to get more rain and got the bicycle out and took it for a ride along the bike trail along the river into the city. It paid off, it was glorious. The bad news is 2-3 miles of the bike trail were totally trashed due to recent flooding. There were still huge chunks of ice piled up on the trail . Lots of mud. I went around the trashed area on the streets.

It turns back to hell tomorrow. 1-3 inches predicted.

 

It turns back to hell tomorrow. 1-3 inches predicted.

Yeah, they say the afternoon commutes from work may be a mess. Bummer about the ice blocks. Every year we get the same where rivers enter the lake. The low lying areas along the rivers flood and that is where most of the nice park and bike paths are. The force and power behind those ice flows is unreal. Today was real nice, I got a little more wiring done in the garage.

Ron

 

About low 20s F, still showing light. Woke to about 6" here which the dogs are enjoying. Mornings like this it is nice being retired as I enjoy coffee and watch the traffic circus on the morning news.

Ron

 

Going down to 44F tonight. Grrr! Very inconvenient for people who live in a sauna most of the time.
I moved to Florida to be warm! (and laugh at people who own snow blowers).
Oh well. The temperatures will be back to normal in a couple of days. 55F to 75F for about a week...then we'll see what happens next.

 

Going down to 44F tonight. Grrr! Very inconvenient for people who live in a sauna most of the time.
I moved to Florida to be warm! (and laugh at people who own snow blowers).
Oh well. The temperatures will be back to normal in a couple of days. 55F to 75F for about a week...then we'll see what happens next.

55°F this morning. I'm wearing a long-sleeve shirt today with my shorts.

 

Snowing snowing snowing.

This is my parents front yard.

 

Frozen in today. Not a lot of snow but a lot of ice!



No grilling today.

 

I have three cars, a Ford Freestar minivan, an Audi A4 and an old, battered, ready-for-the-junkyard 1997 Grand Prix that I allow my son to drive ... well, three weeks ago my wife got distracted, drove through a stop sign, and hit a guy on an SUV (who was driving well above the speed limit) and his seven year old daughter in the back seat. My wife t-boned the SUV while the driver tried to avoid her, and the crash flipped the other car. Leaving our minivan severely damaged.

Thank God, all of the airbags in the SUV were deployed, and no one was seriously hurt in the accident. Other than both drivers having a mild neck pain afterwards.
The girl was safely strapped in the back seat, and besides the obvious emotional trauma, she was perfectly alright. In fact, she was happily playing with another girl in one of the neighboring houses 30 minutes after the accident.

After much bartering and negotiating back and forth with our insurance company, it was agreed that they were going to pay a ridiculously small sum for our minivan, and right now the car is being taken care of by a guy I know who is a real artist at repairs. He'll probably finish the job in a couple of weeks.

But, sadly, that is not the end of the story...

Last week I had to go on a work trip to visit a client. While I at was in a meeting, doing delicate negotiations, my wife called telling me that she had just crashed my A4 (this time it was not her fault) ... another distracted lady t-boned her, spinning the car once and sending it crashing into a telephone pole ...
Again, no injuries, thank God ... other than an even sorer neck for my wife ... who is now wearing a neck collar ...

Right now I'm negotiating with the insurance company... see what's gonna happen to my car ...

To add irony to loss ... my kid rear-ended another car the same day that my wife crashed the Audi ... but fortunately nothing came of it. The paint on either car's fenders was unaffected, and both drivers happily went on their ways afterwards...

So now I'm driving the garbage-tin-can, rattling-bucket-of-bolts, demolition-derby-worthy crappy Grand Prix whose sun-baked white-turning-yellowish paint, clunky shock absorbers and stinky-greasy interiors make it a perfect prop for a modern Beverly Hillbillies cheesy Hallmark Channel rom-com movie...



Why, anyone here would righteously ask, am I posting this sort of comment in the weather thread???? It is indeed a fair question...

I'm posting it here because the stupid's GP windshield wipers don't work and there's a 90% chance of rain today!!!!


I guess there's always an app for that ... and this one's called Uber ...

 

I have three cars, a Ford Freestar minivan, an Audi A4 and an old, battered, ready-for-the-junkyard 1997 Grand Prix that I allow my son to drive ... well, three weeks ago my wife got distracted, drove through a stop sign, and hit a guy on a SUV (who was driving well above the speed limit) and his seven year old daughter in the back seat. My wife t-boned the SUV while the driver tried to avoid her, and the crash flipped the other car. Leaving our minivan severely damaged.

Thank God, all of the airbags in the SUV were deployed, and no one was seriously hurt in the accident. Other than both drivers having a mild neck pain afterwards.
The girl was safely strapped in the back seat, and other than the emotional trauma, she was perfectly alright. In fact, she was happily playing with another girl in one of the neighboring houses 30 minutes after the accident.

After much bartering and negotiating back and forth with our insurance company, it was agreed that they were going to pay a ridiculously small sum for our minivan, and right now the car is being taken care of by a guy I know who is a real artist at repairs. He'll probably finish the job in a couple of weeks.

But, sadly, that is not the end of the story...

Last week I had to go on a work trip to visit a client. While at was in a meeting, doing delicate negotiations, my wife called telling me that she had just crashed my A4 (this time it was not her fault) ... another distracted lady t-boned her, spinning the car once and sending it crashing into a telephone pole ...
Again, no injuries, thank God ... other than an even sorer neck for my wife ... who is now wearing a neck collar ...

Right now I'm negotiating with the insurance company... see what's gonna happen to my car ...

To add irony to loss ... my kid rear-ended another car the same day that my wife crashed the Audi ... but fortunately nothing came of it. The paint on either car's fenders was unaffected, and both drivers happily went on their ways afterwards...

So now I'm driving the garbage-tin-can, rattling-bucket-of-bolts, demolition-derby-worthy Grand Prix whose sun-baked white-turning-yellowish paint, clunky shock absorbers and stinky-greasy interiors make it a perfect prop for a modern Beverly Hillbillies cheesy Hallmark Channel rom-com movie...



Why, anyone here would righteously ask, am I posting this sort of comment in the weather thread???? It is indeed a fair question...

I'm posting it here because the stupid's GP windshield wipers don't work and there's a 90% chance of rain today!!!!


I guess there's always an app for that ... and this one's called Uber ...

Bad things come in threes. You're clear.

 

Paris in the snowfall.

 

You're clear

I hope so ... right now I'm waiting for my well-deserved, three-good-things-in-a-row to happen ...

Say, maybe now's a good time for me to buy a lottery ticket ... see what happens ...

 

I have three cars, a Ford Freestar minivan, an Audi A4 and an old, battered, ready-for-the-junkyard 1997 Grand Prix that I allow my son to drive ... well, three weeks ago my wife got distracted, drove through a stop sign, and hit a guy on a SUV (who was driving well above the speed limit) and his seven year old daughter in the back seat. My wife t-boned the SUV while the driver tried to avoid her, and the crash flipped the other car. Leaving our minivan severely damaged.

Thank God, all of the airbags in the SUV were deployed, and no one was seriously hurt in the accident. Other than both drivers having a mild neck pain afterwards.
The girl was safely strapped in the back seat, and other than the emotional trauma, she was perfectly alright. In fact, she was happily playing with another girl in one of the neighboring houses 30 minutes after the accident.

After much bartering and negotiating back and forth with our insurance company, it was agreed that they were going to pay a ridiculously small sum for our minivan, and right now the car is being taken care of by a guy I know who is a real artist at repairs. He'll probably finish the job in a couple of weeks.

But, sadly, that is not the end of the story...

Last week I had to go on a work trip to visit a client. While at was in a meeting, doing delicate negotiations, my wife called telling me that she had just crashed my A4 (this time it was not her fault) ... another distracted lady t-boned her, spinning the car once and sending it crashing into a telephone pole ...
Again, no injuries, thank God ... other than an even sorer neck for my wife ... who is now wearing a neck collar ...

Right now I'm negotiating with the insurance company... see what's gonna happen to my car ...

To add irony to loss ... my kid rear-ended another car the same day that my wife crashed the Audi ... but fortunately nothing came of it. The paint on either car's fenders was unaffected, and both drivers happily went on their ways afterwards...

So now I'm driving the garbage-tin-can, rattling-bucket-of-bolts, demolition-derby-worthy Grand Prix whose sun-baked white-turning-yellowish paint, clunky shock absorbers and stinky-greasy interiors make it a perfect prop for a modern Beverly Hillbillies cheesy Hallmark Channel rom-com movie...



Why, anyone here would righteously ask, am I posting this sort of comment in the weather thread???? It is indeed a fair question...

I'm posting it here because the stupid's GP windshield wipers don't work and there's a 90% chance of rain today!!!!


I guess there's always an app for that ... and this one's called Uber ...

You are lucky she did not get tagged for the first accident. She hit him. Plus she went though a stop sign. That is huge. That is big here regardless if the other driver was speeding or not. If it were here she would have likely faced a lawsuit for pain and suffering. Of course she would have been able to sue back on the second accident.

What counts is everyone is OK.

 

What counts is everyone is OK.

Exactly ... whenever something bad happens ... I always think it could've been worse, and give thanks that it wasn't.

 

We decided to skip winter this year. I think it was 80F today. We finally got a little rain a week or so ago because we washed the windows.

 

We decided to skip winter this year. I think it was 80F today. We finally got a little rain a week or so ago because we washed the windows.

You just solved drought problems throughout the world. They should just wash their damn windows!

 

Excellent weather right now. I've been running the local junque yards trying to find a mounting bracket for the front, interior, ceiling lights in my Exploder. Close, but no cigar. So many brackets available depending on whether your car has power sun roof, dual air conditioning, garage door opener pocket, etc. Oh well. it's good exercise walking around with a tool box, using a map to find the right year and model. Kind of like a treasure hunt except when I find the treasure, I'll have to pay them for letting me find it.

 

Lots of fresh snow on the ground. I hope we don't get any more soon, I'm seriously running out of places to put it. But temperatures have been OK - about -31°C for a low night before last, but very little wind so none of the -40°C wind chill of a few weeks ago (was about -42°C still-air temp not too far from here on New Year's eve). Spring will be here in another 8 or 12 weeks, with luck.

 

I'm seriously running of of places to put it.

Ship some down here. I need something to help keep my beer cool.

 

@atferrari, I don't know about Argentina, but we have a saying down here that goes: "Febrero loco, y Marzo otro poco" (crazy February, and March a bit more)

Today it peaked at 33*C (91*F) at 3 p.m., and then it plunged to 8*C (46*F) at 7 p.m. !
That's a 25*C (77*F) differential in just four hours!