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Sitting and Day Dreaming => Mud Puddle => Topic started by: F4? on January 26, 2021, 06:12:51 PM
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Alright you poor SODS in the hills.....show us flatlanders the white stuff...
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What kind of white stuff?
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Why?
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You should ask Mr. Mud how much ice he got to see this:
(https://i.imgur.com/CTs8LoS.jpg)
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Why Brad, so we can give you sympathy.
And laugh at that Mungie guy who I bet is stuck in his garage.
Heater on here, nice and toasty.
Washington, meh over rated it’s always snowing and cold there.
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That bird bath is freaky.
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What kind of white stuff?
One of our friendly counselors gave him a donut and told him to stick closer to church-oriented social activities
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Why Brad, so we can give you sympathy.
And laugh at that Mungie guy who I bet is stuck in his garage.
Heater on here, nice and toasty.
Washington, meh over rated it’s always snowing and cold there.
Sympathy is between sex and syphilis in the dictionary. We don't need sympathy, we choose to live up here.
We got 14 inches Monday and have more feet coming. Like Cooks with regard to Pinnacles, I have a fair amount of freedom to go into work or not. I didn't on Monday, did today and may not until Friday. Snow can be a pain IF you have to be somewhere. I usually don't.
Both wood fires are going full blast and I live with a very warm-hearted woman. Very toasty in here too.
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That bird bath is freaky.
Freaking awesome is what I said.
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I had to grab a camera when I saw that. To weird, how a leaf got frozen like that I do not know. It also looked like the leaf itself melted out. Was there for over a day.
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I had to grab a camera when I saw that. To weird, how a leaf got frozen like that I do not know. It also looked like the leaf itself melted out. Was there for over a day.
I was remarking about that protruberance that looks like the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate.
How the heck did that get there?
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It’s Washington, bit nutty up there....
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I was remarking about that protruberance that looks like the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate.
How the heck did that get there?
It was from a leaf, that is what is bizarre about it. From the right angle the leaf shape is obvious.
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I threw a snowball for her (keeps her busy for 20 minutes):
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50883081792_6353231009_c.jpg)
She loves her frisbee:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50882259073_5fea861429_c.jpg)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50882977321_7062a91920_c.jpg)
After spending almost two hours snow-blowing the driveway.... Another six inches. At least I managed to partially dig out my car:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50883082067_4a1785627f_c.jpg)
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WOW - that's a lot of snow. Sometimes I miss it. ;)
I was going to post last night and ask everyone to give me their prediction of how much rain Pinns would get today. I've been watching the gauge and since midnight 2.74 and it's still coming down.
We had a break in the rain this morning, but it started back up around noon here and has been coming down steady since then.
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I was missing it about a week ago.
To be clear, I'm not planning on taking the Subaru anywhere for a while. Vicki's Expedition is in the garage and snow-free. Its higher clearance and studded snow tires are pretty nice in this kind of stuff.
(John said "clearance Clarence" when he read that word up above.)
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Nice Brad, very nice. That’s what I was looking for....snowfall pictures.
I hope Mungie is okay since his truck is not in the garage....
I am thankful for the past 3months of dry weather allowing me as many pinnacles trips as I could.
Now I am faced with the prospect of spending time with my family.
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Now I am faced with the prospect of spending time with my family.
Horrors - spending time with family ... ;D
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Annnnd... there goes the power.
Right after we finished dinner and were just relaxing to read. Not bad timing, I suppose.
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Park is currently closed - not for snow, but for rain and rockfall. The alert posted on the Website:
Park Closed due to Flooding and Rockfall
Due to high rainfall amounts there have been rock slides and other events in the park that have created unsafe conditions for visitation. Once the area is cleared the park will reopen. Monitor the park website and social media for updates.
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I was able to cross country ski around the neighborhood for one day this winter (back in December). Other than that we have had some dustings in town. Up on the mountain there has been quite a lot of snow and a nice snowpack. It seems like we are getting more consistent storms than the Sierra. We aren't getting the classic Sierra mega dumps though.
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We aren't getting the classic Sierra mega dumbs though.
They must be stuck at home! :lol:
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Sheesh, blame on weak trees and squirrels.
Cant be any worse than the great flood of 97-98, when the floods blew out the eastside bridge and washed the campground out.
Park was closed from Jan to April!
Could JC take being kick out of the Pinns for 4 months?
The new bridge looks nice.
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They must be stuck at home!
LOL typo....fixed
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Cant be any worse than the great flood of 97-98, when the floods blew out the eastside bridge and washed the campground out.
Park was closed from Jan to April!
Could JC take being kick out of the Pinns for 4 months?
Didn't go from 3-13 until 6-29 last year.
The rain gauge hasn't shown much significant precip since the totally unpredicted downpour on 12-28 (that bumped it to 1.37 for the year). A series of smaller bumps over the last several weeks got it to 1.84 before this current storm moved in.
It is still raining down there and the gauge hit 7 inches this past hour. :yikes:
I'd love to see some pics of the rockfalls or whatever other kinds of mass movements have the roads shut down currently.
Is it possible clink was in the vicinity the last couple days? :lol: :arf:
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Vector Victor?
Snow Forum!!! YESH!!!
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Post up your picture Mungie......
Feel bad for the birds, out in the cold wind. I hope they roost out of the wind.....
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can't really. power was out. and the forum has a max size and file type limit, so I have to reupload to flickr, and I got work to do.
8)
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Holy smokes, that is a lot of rain. All the little falls will be active. Someone get a pic of Heatseaker
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Brad asked me to post this for you F4? (while he is without power).
He said for you to get your a$$ up there with a shovel...stat!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ACtC-3dh5F1-Hrx42PzbrbNQiQ0y5r6qq3cB-O7r1DqKHxjitoigqdKSMUOYs6YM6f2pE6O2J24CjM3X5j6vT-20ADND9br84E3uFsJe3zf5oS1J21_194P_Sdti0B54591E982FBzBGuIE9FRGKM2qLhjNL=w812-h609-no?authuser=0)
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Nice, now that is some snow.
Yeh, sorry, go live weekend, I am on call all weekend.
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Holy smokes, that is a lot of rain. All the little falls will be active. Someone get a pic of Heatseaker
Do you consider this a little water fall? I'm sure you've seen bigger (on Heatseeker)?
(https://i.imgur.com/PybRIKI.jpg)
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Nice, glad folks got out.
Some of us had to work..
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Nice photo!
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Well, after six days without, the electricity is on again here. And we've got internet (their stuff was knocked out too).
That was a lot of snow, but I've seen more here. But not this much with a lot of it very wet. Thursday morning especially, with 13 inches of snow it was like trying to snow-blow mud (Friday morning's 12 inches was significantly airier).
Here's Thursday mornings shot of the upper driveway. Note the two cedar tree tops that broke off and fell due to snow weight. Both tops were intertwined and locked up with that mud-like snow. And of all the times to have dropped off my chainsaw for work! I had to part out the up-to-four-inch diameter tree tops with an axe:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50908036508_c0305aa3d1_c.jpg)
By Thursday evening, full size trees were leaning with the snow weight. Here's our van then. Note the trees behind it; especially the one centered behind it:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50908035848_ec08cc06cd_c.jpg)
I woke up the next morning to see that that pine (16 inches in diameter) had snapped off 25 feet above the ground (the whole thing is covered with snow, but some bare wood can be seen at the breakoff point):
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50908731271_2935c2de51_c.jpg)
Fortunately the older trees out back seemed fine (and fortunately too, all of what crashed down missed the van, missed my car, and missed the house!):
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50910145911_480c3f8574_c.jpg)
The worst damage by Friday was a very large (eight inch diameter) oak top that had fallen across the road in front of our house. This shot shows the top of our driveway (the gap on the left) with the road as blocked:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50908861562_c6e09449d5_c.jpg)
The downed branches, tree tops and trees were/are almost like a barbed wire entanglement. Here's during the storm:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50910284217_a977d9df70_c.jpg)
The same general area this morning:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50908899042_02efb53fdb_c.jpg)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50908768916_47fd2e5ea6_c.jpg)
My car after a real load up:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50908731151_3a7acf91b8_c.jpg)
Clearing it off (a Subaru with a Mohawk?):
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50908036388_af504b7d5e_c.jpg)
Naturally the dogs loved every minute of it. Here's Charlotte digging for a thrown snowball (I can keep her busy for 20 minutes at a time this way):
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50883081792_6353231009_c.jpg)
Halifax just wants the frisbee:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50882259073_5fea861429_c.jpg)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50882977321_7062a91920_c.jpg)
I won't surprise anyone to learn that we love living up here. But could we do it without all of a season's snowfall at once?
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Wow
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Vicki and I did a burn pile yesterday. Luckily I had one pile of relatively dry material. It was tarped and stayed dry.
Normally I wouldn't need Vic to help with burn piles (or a burn pile). But the amount of just junk scattered everywhere by this storm was pretty exceptional. She gathered and fed fuel to the fire. I chainsawed and fed fuel to the fire. We fed the fire for six hours (it burned, with flames, into the evening and then slowly consumed fuel all night and even up to right now).
Six hours of feeding downed junk into the flames. And half the property is cleaned up.
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This seems like a handy thread for a post about snow here and A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE:
We had a foot of snow here, about twice what was predicted. And I have been so busy during the last few weeks that I had not gotten the snow blower up to the garage yet from under the back deck. So, wow, I've had a very physical morning. Over nearly two hours I first shoveled the way clear so I could drag the blower up. Then I got it moving and started (first time for this season). I snow-blew the whole driveway, and cleared two cars of snow. Vicki and Tricia worked with shovels, helping keep things clear (it was still snowing).
So by an hour ago, the driveway was pretty clear.
But not the road. Our street is plowed by the county, but we usually have to wait until they get here. They just did, and in 26 years of living in this house I have never seen what I just saw.
We are grateful for the county plowing. But part of the plowing is "the berm." The plow comes by and suddenly the clear driveway has a berm at its top, separating it from the road. The berm is always chunky and icey (it is snow that has been pushed along and then off to the side). The snow blower works poorly on the berm. Normally I have to go out and get rid of it with a shovel. I have to use a small square-nosed shovel because the stuff is way too packed to use a snow shovel. With these snow conditions we expected a three foot high berm which would take me another hour or so of hard shoveling to remove.
Not today though.
Today the county driver had the really big plow. Big overhead arching thing with two blades (a big one in front and a smaller one on the side). We were out playing with the dogs when we heard it coming up the road (always our side of the street first as it comes up from the left). And then it happened: the driver stopped about 10 feet before our driveway. We wondered why. He carefully and skillfully adjusted his blades and then moved forward, sweeping the snow to the left, into the left center of the road and away from our driveway. He'll get the berm that is still in the road on his next pass, going in the opposite direction and will sweep what would have been our berm off on to the opposite side of the road. Not an iota of a berm.
Such skill, and more importantly, such thoughtfulness! Thank you snow plow driver and merry Christmas to all!
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We bought a small fake tree with a white dusting of fake snow on the branches. I like fake snow. I spent 25 seconds clearing twigs that blew off the real tree out front. I like Monterey Bay Area.
Reading your post made me a bit sweaty though. Glad we moved from the Boston area to out West, when I was in grade school.
Did you wear pants or shorts?
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Fake news. Berms are real. Fairy tale plow drivers don
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Our weather changed from rain.
It is now snowing.
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Fake news. Berms are real. Fairy tale plow drivers don
I refuse to stop using contractions.
Can someone try the admin controlled word filter on common contraction words and replace them with something so the posts don't get lost? Worth a shot.
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I refuse to stop using contractions.
Can someone try the admin controlled word filter on common contraction words and replace them with something so the posts don't get lost? Worth a shot.
Refuse You Lose
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I had fun driving in the snow yesterday. I took over the driving in Barstow just as the rain started coming down. I knew I would be driving in some crappy weather, but had no clue what was in store the closer we got to Tehachapi Pass. It was almost white out conditions and there were several inches already on the ground and the road was wet and slushy. I took it slow and was thankful that JC reached down and put the truck in 4 wheel drive for me.
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^^^
Well look at that woman channeling her inner Vicki. Next you'll have studded snow tires.
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This seems like a handy thread for a post about snow here and A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE:
We had a foot of snow here, about twice what was predicted. And I have been so busy during the last few weeks that I had not gotten the snow blower up to the garage yet from under the back deck. So, wow, I've had a very physical morning. Over nearly two hours I first shoveled the way clear so I could drag the blower up. Then I got it moving and started (first time for this season). I snow-blew the whole driveway, and cleared two cars of snow. Vicki and Tricia worked with shovels, helping keep things clear (it was still snowing).
So by an hour ago, the driveway was pretty clear.
But not the road. Our street is plowed by the county, but we usually have to wait until they get here. They just did, and in 26 years of living in this house I have never seen what I just saw.
We are grateful for the county plowing. But part of the plowing is "the berm." The plow comes by and suddenly the clear driveway has a berm at its top, separating it from the road. The berm is always chunky and icey (it is snow that has been pushed along and then off to the side). The snow blower works poorly on the berm. Normally I have to go out and get rid of it with a shovel. I have to use a small square-nosed shovel because the stuff is way too packed to use a snow shovel. With these snow conditions we expected a three foot high berm which would take me another hour or so of hard shoveling to remove.
Not today though.
Today the county driver had the really big plow. Big overhead arching thing with two blades (a big one in front and a smaller one on the side). We were out playing with the dogs when we heard it coming up the road (always our side of the street first as it comes up from the left). And then it happened: the driver stopped about 10 feet before our driveway. We wondered why. He carefully and skillfully adjusted his blades and then moved forward, sweeping the snow to the left, into the left center of the road and away from our driveway. He'll get the berm that is still in the road on his next pass, going in the opposite direction and will sweep what would have been our berm off on to the opposite side of the road. Not an iota of a berm.
Such skill, and more importantly, such thoughtfulness! Thank you snow plow driver and merry Christmas to all!
Trying to wade through this post to the syrupy conclusion was more akin to shoveling something besides snow.
Uh-oh...here comes BAP telling me to "be nice".
I'd rather be on the naughty list any day. :devildevil:
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I found your Christmas present Brad.
The sign post ahead reads
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AM-JKLWNHKXKkpZlV8V1MbUXDyzP1eS-AnhOM5iN8bEWOvW5CiMMjf7czq1ADqM6t0o288sUGAcZZuKWZOm0jrvf_p9YJvmwgUgfCjn7yu2XbhD15rkLqoR8ih0GYiBpG8C03eIoJo06Q_OhXa6-q4KvOXvR=w834-h625-no?authuser=0)
Your future is certain
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AM-JKLWS2HGaGvMacrFppgQjapHn9KcfAjhRsuUZey6QWvAChqxL8N9Ca8A_KtX1pZP8POr15G_uw3z1eQLnInhCzJ_G5_N962NWFOiZZN6nY8wE5osdim7bir8chgwNkg8-IjzNTffAyth2V7W-cco92Yzp=w834-h625-no?authuser=0)
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^^^
Since this is a present that does not come with instructions, I can provide a little mentoring.
Be sure to connect and tighten the hose fully or you might give new meaning to the name Mr. Mud.
And do not worry if you have a little trouble at first. You will certainly become a Master of this new Mud in no time.
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...the syrupy conclusion was more akin to shoveling something besides snow.
Ah, so we up here are catering to your speciality again?
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we up here
Whoops!
Forgot you uppity types live in ivory towers and fart gold dust.
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Whoops!
Forgot you JUSTIFIABLY uppity types live in ivory towers and fart gold dust.
You seem to be skipping words in your old age. I fixed it for you.
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You seem to be skipping words in your old age. I fixed it for you.
Forgot you JUSTIFIABLY uppity types live in ivory towers and fart gold dust.
Seems the sentences on here are not the only things that are inflated.
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51752839302_e56db7fbcf_z.jpg)
None here tonight.
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JC, did you hear, no more RV parking on the west side.
They have to park in Soladad, I mean at the Obama visitors center.
Do you know someone who has an RV?
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Six to eight inches of snow so far on this white Christmas. Gorgeous. But it is the addition feet of the shit that we expect over the next week that worries me.
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addition feet of the shit that worries me.
Break out back issues of Mad magazine to read and keep blowing/shoveling.
Addition feet sounds like math in Kentucky.
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Luckily, it is not just me. Katie and her 6 foot 4 inch boyfriend Jesse are here through tomorrow at least. They're pretty strong and willing.
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51776121229_819919f621_z.jpg)
The succulents liked the Christmas rain.
Six to eight inches of snow so far on this white Christmas. Gorgeous. But it is the addition feet of the shit that we expect over the next week that worries me.
I would have been more worried about the rain but we got the roof finished on our largest project last week.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775482371_889319f79e_z.jpg)
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^^^
That is not a project.
That is a career!
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51792170801_79708c1492_z.jpg)
The guard at the mountain house reports no snow.
Happy New Year!
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Nice looking place.
This was Christmas morning. Kids had a blast. Rode the moto sled on the street like an outlaw. All the kids got to ride the 800. Such a fun time, but then the pge power stayed off
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51797778506_517471a1ea_z.jpg)
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Generator
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Yep. Kept the food from going bad.
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Yep. Kept the food from going bad.
You haven't adapted to "local" status up here yet if you need a generator to keep your food from going bad. You have a huge refrigerator that is connected to your house directly. Ours is about 22 by 28 feet and more than eight feet high. Unlimited cold storage (and right next to the car).
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On the other hand, I got tired of playing in the snow years ago and you still seem to relish it. So maybe you are more local than I am??
;) ;)
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It was a bit of test run. First use. Turns out I can probably run the whole house on this unit (minus perhaps hvac, but wood stove covers that in winter). Just need to redo the panel and add a cutover. (I say that as if I know what that really entails, but really need an electrician to check a few things out and provide some recommendations).
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Good idea.
I still just lay out extension cords.
My neighbors have sub panels with switch overs.
Got lucky and picked up a used Honda from the guy that sold us Porky.
Super quiet eco mode, built-in voltage regulator and easy to start.
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Honda is the way to go. Quiet.
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An Ondra is the way to go for high performance. Downside is that it's quite noisy when working under peek capacity.
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heh
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Mungie do you have a 1/2 pipe off the garage set up?
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No, but I could do a terrain park from the top of the driveway down to the ditch. :o
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Yeahhhh
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Brad and Munge, what are your homes elevations?
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Mine is at 4,300 feet. And why would you want to know?
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I'm at around 1,300 ft. You are 1 Captain above me.
I like icecream from my freezer, but not snow that lasts more than a day or two.
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Klink you are too high.1,300 is way, way to high.
It will impact your brain.
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3896 is what my phone says, but then it drops to 3881 a minute later.
You'll never find me with my stealth technologies!
My driveway melts pretty fast if the suns out after the storm for most storms. Occasionally we've gotten 2ft-ish which is a great time to have a fire, pre-actioned your shopping, organize my climbing gear, and wait for the snow plows to get around to the street I'm on.
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Thanks and good plans for snow days.
My stealth technology would be a pure white Easter Bunny suit.
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Klink you do get fog.
Low elevation means more oxegen.
Look at Mungie!
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January 15, 2023:
CHP just messaged:"Send every tow truck we have." Classic.
There's a 20 to 30 car pile-up near the end of the double lanes above Long Barn. No doubt caused by some BAP assuming that four wheel drive makes them bullet proof (hint - it doesn't).
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There's a Young's Towing?
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There's a Young's Towing?
Yeah, probably, somewhere.
But not in this situation. Just internal messaging posted on a "local events" website.
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20-30 cars. Wow. Maybe a visibility thing.
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I doubt it was visibility.
Word from locals is that it was started by a Prius driver driving without chains above chain line.
I have absolutely no problem with the Prius and no problem with Prius drivers (although I doubt that I'd purposely drive one in the snow!!).
But people who know nothing about driving in slick conditions come up here, get lazy, and think that they can "get away with" skirting the rules. And yes, even locals do it sometimes too. And it usually works out. Until it doesn't.
Know any climbers like that?
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HA, HA!
A Prius, of all things! Push it over the side!!!
How much snow you got Brad???
I was hoping this thread would get updated.
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Not that much snow. The storm in early December dropped eight inches and that stayed for two weeks (it was cold then!).
Lately it's been mostly rain until the end of each cycle. Then, as is common, it gets a little colder and turns to snow. So there was no snow here at the house when we went to bed last night and five inches when we woke up. It's stayed snowy this time though and we should get another foot in the next 24 hours.
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Hope the snow stays.
I need to drag my crew up there…
Pinnacles will need to drain.
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Well fucking, fucking A.
What a small town.
So damn much snow and a berm four feet high at the top of the driveway (we live on a county-plowed road - but when it plows, the plow creates a berm on the side of the road and, therefore, across the top of our driveway). I've been putting off snowblowing (and hand digging the berm - the action of the plow creates chunks and the berm usually takes some hand shoveling at least).
Loud sounds out front make me think the snow plow is coming by again and so I go look. And it's some guy in a four wheel drive, chain equipped truck, plowing our driveway! What the hell?
So I go out to thank him and offer some cash. But first I ask him why he's done our driveway? It turns out that he's supposed to have done the address that ends in 90, not 60. I offer him the dough in thanks anyway and he adamantly refuses. And then we spend 10 minutes talking about our community and all the many people we know in common (but isn't that last part mandatory in places so small)?
Thanks Rick, what a nice gift on a very snowy day.
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Does your house have a name? Like “See More Thigh Lodge”
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Does your house have a name? Like “See More Thigh Lodge”
Nothing so banal as that. But, every once in a while at the height of the season, Vicki will answer a call: "Climbing Central."
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Yesterday i was quite astounded to hear Gino(not a climber) say that he needed to get a pair of those 'OP' shorts. He knew not a thing about you, Brad. I, of course, had to ask him why he would want a pair and his answer was "i want to wear them in public to embarrass my kids, with that 1 inch inseam".
The context was the weather this year and the possibility of somebody having overdone a rain dance. One of his 4 kids was present.
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Well this coming storm may dump enough snow to set a record at our house. A few times over the 30 years we’ve lived there we’ve had four feet of snow on the ground and on the roof. Right now we’ve got two feet and the National Weather Service predicts another four or five feet by Wednesday night.
It’s enough to get me thinking about what snow loads our roof is rated for.
Luckily Caleb (the young Sonora climber, not the one who lives near Pinnacles) will be able to get up there and shovel off the roof for us tomorrow.
And yes “get up there,” not up here. Vicki and I just finished getting everything down to low elevation and are headed for the desert. Starting with Josh tomorrow.
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^^^
Not to take anything away from Mud's birthday celebration but...
Here's a few shots Caleb sent Brad while working on the roof shoveling task (Brad asked me to share).
I'm still sitting and watching the rain here at home while Brad is abusing his body in JTree.
It looks like the pile of snow Caleb shoveled off allowed him and his dog Opal to walk right up.
View down the front porch
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View along the garage door
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Opal on the roof above the massive pile (that should keep beer cold for a while)
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How much snow do you still have?
Rachel's snow people from the uncommon snowfall we had.
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^^^
She's good. That bears a striking resemblance to you!
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Okay. HHow much snow remains at your house?
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None that is still where it fell. Several two to five foot high mounds where it was blown and/or shoveled into piles.
New dog Digby loves peeing on the snow. Not sure what she's going to do when it's all gone ;)
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Have Munge come by and dump the ice from his beer cooler in your yard.
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Nah. He needs it more than I do.
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Jee I missed all the fun while in Hawaii.
I’d come up and visit Mungie, but it’s off the Hawaii in a week.
Maybe it will finally warm up when I get back!
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Where in Hawaii?
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Oahu, this time Ewa Beach
Working on Technical Diving cert.
Monterey is brown from the Salinas river, yuck.
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If you see the totem O'ahu's Your Daddy, please take a pic.
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Looking towards J&KC's house while they are climbing at Pinnacles and I'm walking at the beach.
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Stormy
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That's a lot of snow
^^^
Not to take anything away from Mud's birthday celebration but...
Here's a few shots Caleb sent Brad while working on the roof shoveling task (Brad asked me to share).
I'm still sitting and watching the rain here at home while Brad is abusing his body in JTree.
It looks like the pile of snow Caleb shoveled off allowed him and his dog Opal to walk right up.
View down the front porch
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View along the garage door
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Opal on the roof above the massive pile (that should keep beer cold for a while)
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OK, I drained the remaining gas out of the snow blower and stored it under the deck (stored the tool, not the gas).
Who's taking bets about whether we'll have a late snow storm or not?
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Since there is no such thing as “Climate Predictable” I’ll pass on the bet.