@#12 (a.k.a @Number11+1 ) Do you have a smart phone that you can check your e-mail on?

 

Well, yesterday we had our storm. Wondering how @killivolt did south of me.

Yesterday it snowed so hard that it almost completely covered the grass. This morning there's no trace of yesterday's killer storm. 2 to 6 inches. Yeah right! Not even 2 millimeters. But I guess it all depends on where the clouds go. But we DID get a lot of drizzle. Still cloudy but the sun finds gaps to shine through.

 

 

@joeyd999 DUDE! SHUT the HECK UP!

 

@joeyd999 DUDE! SHUT the HECK UP!

 

Well, yesterday we had our storm. Wondering how @killivolt did south of me.

Yesterday it snowed so hard that it almost completely covered the grass. This morning there's no trace of yesterday's killer storm. 2 to 6 inches. Yeah right! Not even 2 millimeters. But I guess it all depends on where the clouds go. But we DID get a lot of drizzle. Still cloudy but the sun finds gaps to shine through.

Ya, same. Mostly 30's 40's and rain, occasional snow but nothing more that rain hitting a cold band of air. Sunny today but I last night forecast said, 20's not sure if that's at night. Time to get the defrost chemicals, all I need is to wake up with frozen rain or melted snow. You don't just scrape it off, I get this orange stuff in a squirt bottle. Seems to work pretty well. It's my door locks I have to worry about, I've kept my care clean, once a week washing it at Super Sonic, but if the temp is going to dip as they said, then I don't want water getting into the locks.

I wish I had a two car garage to solve that issue, but my garage was built for Model A's. I could purchase a John Deer Gator, but it's not practical if my job is in another town.

Anyone have a good solution for locks that freeze up?

kv

 

Bic Lighter on the key... Old School trick.

 

Bic Lighter on the key... Old School trick.

Ya, I've done that, my old Buick, I just took the key off the key ring and then heated it with my barbecue ignitor. But, my Lexus key has a plastic cover (No Electronics, 1992) Makes it even more difficult if somehow I were to use maybe a 12v resistive circuit to heat the key. To bad they don't make heaters that can be installed inside the door around the lock itself, sort of like those heaters for your roof.

kv

 

I just give the keyholes on the trucks a shot of WD 40 to displace moisture. Heck, I do the same for all outdoor locks. Good for another year. One downside of Cleveland is they love salt, they mine it under the lake bed and go ballistic with salt and brine on the roads during snow and ice. While it eats the undercarriage of vehicles it also loves eating and corroding key locks on vehicles. Cleveland got better once I retired.

Ron

 

Cleveland got better once I retired.

So you're the guy responsible for all that rust ? ? ?

 

@joeyd999 Now you're just being cruel!

 

I just give the keyholes on the trucks a shot of WD 40 to displace moisture. Heck, I do the same for all outdoor locks. Good for another year. One downside of Cleveland is they love salt, they mine it under the lake bed and go ballistic with salt and brine on the roads during snow and ice. While it eats the undercarriage of vehicles it also loves eating and corroding key locks on vehicles. Cleveland got better once I retired.

Ron

What else can't WD-40 do? It's like the "Duct Tape" of Liquid oil stuffs.

kv

 

And you didn't stop to say hello ...

Glad to hear all's well with you #12 ...

jrap got my account working again. I'm not seeing descriptive phrases on my avatar but I know not to try to fix it with this antique computer.
Got the filter circuit I needed. Back to winter chores.

 

So you're the guy responsible for all that rust ? ? ?

Pretty much. Just glad there is no more morning commute. Yeah, that salt they go ballistic with eats everything. Growing up Long Island when a blizzard hit they used road graders to grade the snow on the roads. As people drove on it the snow became hard packed and it is easy to drive on and get some traction. Then a large dump truck would come by with two shovel guys in the back and at intersections they shoveled sand. This worked fine. Since Long Island is an island we had plenty of sand which eventually found its way back to the beaches.

The salt corrodes everything and a salt mist builds up on utility poles to a point some have caught fire. So much salt that we now have vegetation growing on road sides normally only found in coastal beach areas.

Ron

 

jrap got my account working again. I'm not seeing descriptive phrases on my avatar but I know not to try to fix it with this antique computer.
Got the filter circuit I needed. Back to winter chores.

Yay, it works again. Been there and done that. I had email notifications my email wasn't valid, the same email I used here since day one. OK, so I changed it and things began working. Then I changed it back to the original and it has worked ever since. Took staff to help me unscrew things.

Ron

 

Pretty much. Just glad there is no more morning commute. Yeah, that salt they go ballistic with eats everything. Growing up Long Island when a blizzard hit they used road graders to grade the snow on the roads. As people drove on it the snow became hard packed and it is easy to drive on and get some traction. Then a large dump truck would come by with two shovel guys in the back and at intersections they shoveled sand. This worked fine. Since Long Island is an island we had plenty of sand which eventually found its way back to the beaches.

The salt corrodes everything and a salt mist builds up on utility poles to a point some have caught fire. So much salt that we now have vegetation growing on road sides normally only found in coastal beach areas.

Ron

Yeah, living in Connecticut for 20 years, I'm familiar with salt. The ugly dirty salt and sand stuck to the side of the car.

It was in 2004 when I left CT for California. Two weeks before leaving we got a 10 inch snowfall. After cleaning that mess we got another 10 inches. More shoveling. When that was done I had a few days where I had to fight with neighbors over the spot I shoveled out so I could park. Then we had a third 10 inch snowfall. All within two weeks. I shoveled out one more time, packed my truck and left for CA. Los Angeles County (not the city). One evening coming home from work traffic had come to a stop on the 105. After a while we began to creep forward. I couldn't believe what I was seeing - about 4 inches of hail. Not snow - hail. FOUR INCHES of it. Of course Los Angelino's had no idea how to cope with such a thing, so that pretty much stopped traffic for a few hours. The weirdest thing of all was that this hail fall was in an area about a quarter mile square. Almost as if someone got a hold of Santa's Snow Machine.

Since living in Utah for 13 years now I have to wonder what made me move back into the snow belt. But I haven't seen anything weird like back to back to back snowfalls of significant size or inches of hail in a quarter mile area. But this morning some of the lake effects snow fell in my area. This is a little unusual as typically the lake effect falls to the south and rarely to the east. But it's cold out. In the 20's I believe. But I've been in colder. Wisconsin - with a wind chill of MINUS 56 DEGREES (F). (incidentally, -40C is the same as -40F)

 

Yeah, living in Connecticut for 20 years, I'm familiar with salt. The ugly dirty salt and sand stuck to the side of the car.

It was in 2004 when I left CT for California. Two weeks before leaving we got a 10 inch snowfall. After cleaning that mess we got another 10 inches. More shoveling. When that was done I had a few days where I had to fight with neighbors over the spot I shoveled out so I could park. Then we had a third 10 inch snowfall. All within two weeks. I shoveled out one more time, packed my truck and left for CA. Los Angeles County (not the city). One evening coming home from work traffic had come to a stop on the 105. After a while we began to creep forward. I couldn't believe what I was seeing - about 4 inches of hail. Not snow - hail. FOUR INCHES of it. Of course Los Angelino's had no idea how to cope with such a thing, so that pretty much stopped traffic for a few hours. The weirdest thing of all was that this hail fall was in an area about a quarter mile square. Almost as if someone got a hold of Santa's Snow Machine.

Since living in Utah for 13 years now I have to wonder what made me move back into the snow belt. But I haven't seen anything weird like back to back to back snowfalls of significant size or inches of hail in a quarter mile area. But this morning some of the lake effects snow fell in my area. This is a little unusual as typically the lake effect falls to the south and rarely to the east. But it's cold out. In the 20's I believe. But I've been in colder. Wisconsin - with a wind chill of MINUS 56 DEGREES (F). (incidentally, -40C is the same as -40F)

I did enjoy my CA years, about 5 years Anaheim and 5 years San Diego areas. Couldn't beat the climate and while I was not thrilled with the earth moving under my feet or taxes CA was real nice. The last maybe 30 years of my working career my money was here in Cleveland so here I am. Considered NC after a close friend down there passed away as I always loved his house. Then too, like my wife explained the kids are here in Ohio and the grand kids are here in Ohio as well as my siblings and really anytime I get sick of winter I can go visit friends in Florida or other warm climate. We also were enjoying winter time in the Caribbean which I learned to like real fast.

So while NE Ohio winters do suck it's not like I am outside in them. I spend the winters when home hand loading ammunition and playing around with my other hobbies. Looking forward to the holidays and going down to my sister's (formerly my mother's) house in Columbus so family and friends are a 2 hour drive south. The snow here can be strange as the other day we had zero snow while 5 miles NE they had 9 to 12 inches. That's the lake effect / snow belt thing. The lake is still pretty warm and until we get enough bitter cold and it freezes over we can expect lake effect snow. They are predicting tomorrow's morning rush to me a mess, I will just hang out, watch the morning news and traffic and enjoy my coffee.

Ron

 

Yay, it works again. Been there and done that. I had email notifications my email wasn't valid, the same email I used here since day one. OK, so I changed it and things began working. Then I changed it back to the original and it has worked ever since. Took staff to help me unscrew things.

Ron

My account is fixed, but AAC still doesn't like my email program (Windows Mail). Now I get notifications on my threads and always, the pop-up box, "you can't get there from here. Please retype the address". Meh. I just won't try to use the link in the email to open the AAC web page.

 

@#12 (a.k.a @Number11+1 ) Do you have a smart phone that you can check your e-mail on?

No. My nephew got me a flat cell phone that operates 100% from a graphics touch screen, but I have no idea how to get on the internet with it. I couldn't even get it to take a picture in the widescreen mode.
"Swipe up or down to change modes."
swipe...swipe...swipe...swipe...swipe...swipe...swipe...swipe...swipe
Nothing happens. It's just a black screen. Fuggit. I think I'll die before I learn cell phones on the internet.

 

Normally I don't carry around a phone. However, this year I retrieved an Apple iPhone 5 from the waste bin.
It has a cracked front plate. Otherwise it makes for a handy 8M-pixel camera. With a WiFi connection I can read my email, surf the internet and connect to AAC. I have downloaded a language translator and maps for any region in the world. Both the translator and the maps are usable offline without WiFi or data connection. If you have a partner with an iPhone you can Message and FaceTime with them.

To connect to WiFi, you go to Settings > Wi-Fi > and connect to your router.