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Posted by: morphenspectra Jan 15 2005, 12:50 PM
Freezing rain hit us here, now we can't go anywhere. 
HIEDI
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Posted by: rick 918-S Jan 15 2005, 01:00 PM
What's that blue/green color in the distance in that picture? 
Posted by: Bleyseng Jan 15 2005, 02:04 PM
cow pasture.
Posted by: Rhodes71/914 Jan 15 2005, 02:25 PM
I was watching the Portland news this morning and saw that it looked like a mess over there. Looks like a good day to stay home and relax.
Over here in central Oregon we got about an inch of snow overnight then ice pellets this morning. Now it is just raining and turning everthing to slush. Not freezing which i'm sure it will do tonight.
I'm looking foward to the 50 deg temp that they are calling for next week, maybe I can finish my rust repair.
Sean
Posted by: Porsche Rescue Jan 15 2005, 02:31 PM
Went out this morning and shined up my driveway. How's it look?
Going down for the paper at 6:30 was an adventure. Much worse now, 23 degrees. Great day for NFL games!
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Posted by: pete-stevers Jan 15 2005, 02:33 PM
just up a little ways north... but when my romaine and green leaf came in to the store today, the top of the boxes had been frozen/ could have happend in transit or from sitting oustide for a few minutes/ minus five here plus wind chill 
Posted by: Bleyseng Jan 15 2005, 02:44 PM
Hey Jim, good day for a topoff drive to the CAMP914! haha I would even dream of a 914 drive on ice! BTDT which is good for 360 spins.
Geoff 
Posted by: boxstr Jan 15 2005, 03:01 PM
Hey Jim thats one way to get rid of all of that Armorall. 
CCLINSHINEYMONKEY
Posted by: campbellcj Jan 15 2005, 03:04 PM
WooHoo! 72 ° and blue skies here today! Nicest day we've had in WEEKS 
Posted by: boxstr Jan 15 2005, 03:06 PM
Chris why don't you drive over to Corona and play on the dam.....
CCLINFROZENENTREE
Posted by: soloracer Jan 15 2005, 03:14 PM
It was -42 C here last night. It's warmed up to a balmy -18 this afternoon. It's amazing how -18 can feel so warm after a week of temperatures that were below -40. I remember when winter started that -5 felt damn cold. I guess the body adapts.
Posted by: Dave Blackburn Jan 15 2005, 04:24 PM
Hey soloracer,
I sure don't miss the weather in Calgary! It is wierd to have winter without snow although.
It is +3 here today, I was planning to go for a motorcycle ride today, but it started to rain.
Take care,
Dave Blackburn
Posted by: SpecialK Jan 15 2005, 04:45 PM
| QUOTE (soloracer @ Jan 15 2005, 01:14 PM) |
| It was -42 C here last night. It's warmed up to a balmy -18 this afternoon. It's amazing how -18 can feel so warm after a week of temperatures that were below -40. I remember when winter started that -5 felt damn cold. I guess the body adapts. |
Yeah, but that's a dry cold
If I'm not mistaken (not sure of your latitude), you don't have much daylight up there this time of year either.......I'd have to hibernate until spring
Posted by: morphenspectra Jan 15 2005, 04:56 PM
| QUOTE (Bleyseng @ Jan 15 2005, 12:04 PM) |
| cow pasture. |
Top of picture is land being prepped for expansion of a vineyard.
How can anyone function in -42. It was 12 here once, and I had a hard time making it ten feet to my car. I guess a little freezing rain isn't so bad after all.
Posted by: Dave Blackburn Jan 15 2005, 05:11 PM
Last winter when I still lived in Calgary, I went to work and it was -55c with wind chill. That is -67 Fahrenheit.
Coldest temperature I have been in. My wifes car would not start even with the block heater on. I think it was down for a week. Nothing wanted to work at that temp, including me!!
Dave
Posted by: 914GT Jan 15 2005, 05:32 PM
Beautiful sunny 71 F here in http://www.airinfonow.org/html/picsbigpan.htm right now. Been outside cleaning the pool and drinking Pacificos. The kind of day that makes me glad I'm still not back in Illinois...
Posted by: dinomium Jan 15 2005, 07:12 PM
I know that there are colder places, but when it goes from rain to sleet to snow and back to rain, nuttin is WORSE! Damp cold YUCK!
I have to go pick up my wife at the south end of Hood's Canal. Could be dicey!
Posted by: soloracer Jan 15 2005, 10:03 PM
Dave you traitor, come back to calgary. You know you miss it.
Currently sunrise is around 8:00 in the morning and sunset is around 6:00 in the evening. On the bright side the days are getting longer as we get closer to spring. The company I work for has operations up in the arctic (Inuvik, NWT) and they are getting very little daylight (if any at all) up there right now. They were actually warmer than us last week.
A few years ago I made a road trip to California. I was stopped by a lady in San Francisco who asked where I got the electric car from. I was driving my Honda Prelude at the time and told her it was gas, not electric. She then asked what the plug in/cord sticking out from the front of the car was for. Trying to explain what a block heater is and why you would need one to someone who has never seen freezing weather proved to be beyond my abilities. I'm sure she thought I was some kind of canadian nut case.
Posted by: GWN7 Jan 15 2005, 11:17 PM
My dad used to tell my cousins from down South frost shields were radar detectors.
Warming up here...."Extreme wind chill minus 44 this evening"
Posted by: rick 918-S Jan 15 2005, 11:33 PM
It's very cold here today. Drove the soft top jeep up to the lake lot and plowed the 10" of snow we got last week. Just about froze on the way back. Slept the rest of the day. Too cold to go outside. Out of propane in the garage. Won't be delivered until next week. 
I hate this crap!
Posted by: Rhodes71/914 Jan 15 2005, 11:40 PM
Well it cooled down here in the late afternoon. After raining all day on top of the inch of snow last night. Now it's crunch, crunch, crunch when I go out behind the garage to get firewood.
Posted by: Seagrave Jan 15 2005, 11:44 PM
Good pic of your driveway JP. Wish I'd thoughta that. I can see your garage doors are down and tight. Nice to be retired, right? If this is still in play Monday AM (doubtful), I'm calling in with a weather related absence. Not a good day for a AWD, let alone a 914, if you gotta come down off the hill.
Posted by: morphenspectra Jan 16 2005, 01:17 PM
Was watchin CNN this morning and Portland made news on CNN with its little Ice rain storm.
HIEDI
Posted by: Sammy Jan 16 2005, 06:39 PM
It hit 78 in my backyard a couple hours ago, yesterday this was the hottest place in the continental US (well it was Anaheim, just a few miles away at 80 degrees).
Yes, I did manage to drive the "stuff" out of the P-car and enjoy it
Posted by: sgomes Jan 17 2005, 12:57 AM
It was so cold this morning here that I decided to put my slippers on to go get the paper!
Posted by: mrobin Jan 17 2005, 05:35 AM
gee....i really feel bad for you guys..
it's 70 here just got back from a ride with the top off (of course).
Posted by: Bruce Allert Jan 17 2005, 08:42 AM
It finally warmed up in Boring yesterday! Left the GDB campus at noon for lunch seeing the few cars here encapsulated in ice. Came back an hour later and all ice was gone 
Had a skeleton crew of 11 people to take care of the 160+ guide dogs for 2 days in this mess of icy crap. Dogs were sure happy to get out once it warmed 
Worked for the City of Dickenson ND way back when... fixin water mains in the winter.... Giant hole 8' deep with 2-3' of water in the bottom... we all wanted to be down in it when it was below zero on top of the hole. Water was 50 degrees & felt like a hot tub! Go figure 
.....b
Posted by: Howard Jan 17 2005, 01:29 PM
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Posted by: Aaron Cox Jan 17 2005, 01:35 PM
high of 83 here today 
Posted by: J P Stein Jan 17 2005, 01:45 PM
You PRofCA best quit braggin' or we'll send our NW weather back down.
It's back to normal here.....gray, wet, green.... the cold didn't seem to hurt the moss none.
Posted by: Thomas J Bliznik Jan 17 2005, 04:11 PM
Just got back from our Petoskey, MI place and boy was it cold. Temp. was -0 to -4 with a 20mph wind for a -18 wind chill. I wish our Canidian friends would keep it North. Looking out the window the ice fisherman were in their shanties. You got to know these guys are crazy. Of course they probably had a little heat (candles), it's just the trip getting from shore to the center of the lake that's unbearable, Burrrrrr!!!
Tom
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Posted by: SpecialK Jan 17 2005, 05:03 PM
This is for anyone above freezing... 
(just jealous I guess)
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