Baymule
Herd Master
It is true. We are idiots.
Coffee anyone ?
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rachels.haven
Herd Master
(Northern) Midwestern temps! Cover up, use you those Hot Hands, and stay warm until you can get to Texas.
2:30? Uh, no.
Alarm at 5:45, up to get ready for work.
Took a pitcher of hot water to the coop to thaw the waterers before I left, Silas crowed, Zack joined in ("stereo") and then my neighbor's rooster piped up.
Got to work, cleaned the brewer and filter
... doesn't anyone do more than a cursory rinse of the basket and urn? Ick.
Made coffee.
Hard to believe I was out for five weeks.
Looking at 2-3" here, but I don't drive when it snows because no one knows how!
And we don't have much snow removal equipment, either.
Alarm at 5:45, up to get ready for work.
Took a pitcher of hot water to the coop to thaw the waterers before I left, Silas crowed, Zack joined in ("stereo") and then my neighbor's rooster piped up.
Got to work, cleaned the brewer and filter
... doesn't anyone do more than a cursory rinse of the basket and urn? Ick.Made coffee.
Hard to believe I was out for five weeks.
Looking at 2-3" here, but I don't drive when it snows because no one knows how!
And we don't have much snow removal equipment, either.
SageHill
Herd Master
Wellllll, I was a member of the 3:30(?) club. Checked my phone and saw there was a fire. Looked closer at the Watch Duty ap and there was ANOTHER fire - closer. Lilac Fire (I'm in the Lilac area - but safe and up wind). HOLY MOLY. I got up and looked out the window......
Watched for a bit - LOTS and LOTS of helicopters dumping on that one. Seems to be holding at 80 ac.
Now here's the thing --- we get these Red Flag Warnings saying conditions are ripe for fires, be careful ...
And I swear - every single time, EVERY SINGLE TIME we get a fire. I'm not wearing a tin hat, but I do recognize patterns -- I get Mother Nature and fires, but this is not just Mother Nature. I say, and very often say it's arson.
So - there was not the one fire, not two fires, but THREE fires all close to the interstate, and all within maybe 15 miles of each other all started within one hour. Wind direction does not support ember ignition.
Lilac fire is now 10% contained.
So coffee almost done, going to load up 7 lambs to go to the auction.
Watched for a bit - LOTS and LOTS of helicopters dumping on that one. Seems to be holding at 80 ac.
Now here's the thing --- we get these Red Flag Warnings saying conditions are ripe for fires, be careful ...
And I swear - every single time, EVERY SINGLE TIME we get a fire. I'm not wearing a tin hat, but I do recognize patterns -- I get Mother Nature and fires, but this is not just Mother Nature. I say, and very often say it's arson.
So - there was not the one fire, not two fires, but THREE fires all close to the interstate, and all within maybe 15 miles of each other all started within one hour. Wind direction does not support ember ignition.
Lilac fire is now 10% contained.
So coffee almost done, going to load up 7 lambs to go to the auction.
Mini Horses
Herd Master
Ya know -- smokers toss lighted butts out the window while driving!!! Just like an ember, it can ignite dry grasses.
Once I was driving a long and came upon a pickup truck towing a trailer of hay...a front bale had ignited!! I'm frantically blow horn & pointing to it!!! He pulled over. Hard to say how that went, I drove on. But
weather was great, middle of a highway -- you know how that happened -- cig butt, driving winds fanned it.
Once I was driving a long and came upon a pickup truck towing a trailer of hay...a front bale had ignited!! I'm frantically blow horn & pointing to it!!! He pulled over. Hard to say how that went, I drove on. But
weather was great, middle of a highway -- you know how that happened -- cig butt, driving winds fanned it.
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murphysranch
Herd Master
My friend in Vista says its HOWLING right now!!
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Sourland
True BYH Addict
Coffee is fresh, hot, and ready for you. Stay safe.
Weldman
Herd Master
Not bad till you get to 0°F then you keep an eye on time exposure on how long you have been outside. Plastic becomes brittle around -10°F depending on the type it is, be very careful around -40°F when simple things as flipping the choke on a carburetor will break off in your hands, rubber is brittle and batteries start dropping off to non existent.
What they don’t tell you is LCD screens become unreadable at around -15° F, welding metal that cold causes cracks in the weld, propane stoves aren’t full propane anymore so if your power goes out your stove does too. After -4°F most electronics will fail to run i.e. inverters charge controller and solar panels will go into hyper mode when sun comes out.
Seen 500VDC turn into 680VDC at -30°
Frost starts crawling up the cracks of your doors around -5°F and windows. Funny I see temperatures hotter than Texas up here on the opposite end of the spectrum.
I guess that’s why out of 330M in the US only a million or less live in this climate and about 10 percent go on thriving in it and the rest just exist to tolerate it. The .0001% here.
One last thing, clean the snow off your propane tanks, they start dropping pressure and your propane heater won’t burn right cause CO2 to kill you. So keep air flow going around propane tanks.
So...back up heating for severe cold should be wood. Got it.
Baymule
Herd Master
Not only are you a Texan, you are from southeast Texas, hot humid, barely a frost in winter and snow is a freakish event. What the heck are you doing up there on the Polar Ice Cap????
