Blizzard check-in

O yea around 6" nice new snow this morning after last night , would get some pics up but my phone camera and son are still missing since MONDAY after noon . Had to call him in this morning Missing

getback wrote:...my phone camera and son are still missing since MONDAY after noon . Had to call him in this morning Missing

KariFS wrote:I hope your son is OK Eric.

I hope so too, keep us updated. How old is he?

Eric I hope everything is ok with your son, I'll keep you all in my prayers. (Bandit)

Snow melting to more MUD now ,, Thanks guys he is 16 going on 20 according to facebook also found he posted there yesterday he has his own place and his fam has his back . Court Monday  I hope they have his back for that too !!! I am relieved he is OK stupid stuff goes through your head when you think some one you love may be in trouble . Had to go get me a camera Friday because he has my phone  Just 75- I didn't have for that but have to have it its a Nikon L30 the Red one Found a place to get the alum. rod here well in Greensboro out at the airport , then I can make that wing jig and move along with building airplanes (I need the therapy) Post some pics later . Eric

getback wrote:Snow melting to more MUD now ,, Thanks guys he is 16 going on 20 according to facebook also found he posted there yesterday he has his own place and his fam has his back . Court Monday  I hope they have his back for that too !!! I am relieved he is OK stupid stuff goes through your head when you think some one you love may be in trouble . Had to go get me a camera Friday because he has my phone  Just 75- I didn't have for that but have to have it its a Nikon L30 the Red one Found a place to get the alum. rod here well in Greensboro out at the airport , then I can make that wing jig and move along with building airplanes (I need the therapy) Post some pics later . Eric

Glad you know where the boy is.. Does your new camera have a phone?

http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/coolpix/l/l30/spec.htm

That's a nice little camera! Easy upload of pix to your computer with the USB connection/cable.

Last Monday, my brother Jeff needed a snowblower for cutting a trail through the woods.. to his cabin. I offered my old 1968 Allis/Simplicity. We loaded it and the gas jug into the back of his pick-up and headed over to his cabin, about 3mi. from my house.. and set-back into the woods about 50 yards. The cabin has electricity and a wood stove.

(that's my brother, back there on the left)



If you look down the trail.. you can see a catwalk the he built, where a brook flows in the springtime. It zig-zags for a run of about 40 ft. and is about 2" narrower than the rear axle on my machine.


No tire chains.. The L/H wheel-hub disengages manually for ease of steering if needed.


Check out the 2nd-stage paddle-wheel type impellor on this "old girl"..


Here's the cabin right after he built it; late summer 2013. (sorry about the sideways pic)  


It's currently snowing at home here in N. Smithfield, RI.. and the forecast is 3-6" (4-8" in Providence)

roddie wrote:
It's currently snowing at home here in N. Smithfield, RI.. and the forecast is 3-6" (4-8" in Providence)

Just had 5-6" here on the North shore, and now it's
coming down ice/sleet.
Bob

dckrsn wrote:

roddie wrote:
It's currently snowing at home here in N. Smithfield, RI.. and the forecast is 3-6" (4-8" in Providence)

Just had 5-6" here on the North shore, and now it's
coming down ice/sleet.
Bob

Hey Bob, It stayed below freezing here last night. We woke to 4-6" of fresh powder this morning. I brushed both cars off and warmed them up to find that the "blower" is not working in my Chevy Trailblazer again.

This blower problem originally exhibited an intermittent condition "once".. about 2 weeks before finally stopping altogether. The resistor that I replaced is a common failure-part. Now I think that there's a bad connection somewhere between the switch and the resistor.

Warm rain took all the existing snow away Wednesday, turned cold and gave it all back yesterday and last night.





Come on Spring.................

I really like that cabin    I have wanted one one the back 7 acres for a long time , I have cinder blocks but with out a lot of HELP it just ant going to happen . We are cold now and tonight but , starting tomorrow up in the low 60sand that is good enough for now . Could possible fly something Sunday ? Need to break this new camera in right  Eric

My son called last night after 11 days and got a ride home some 20 miles away from a nice lady at a Exxon, Glad to have him home and he is even willing to turn himself in if has too . Going to try and do things different this round he is no baby anymore , but will always be mine  Eric

Sure could use some of that blizzard right about now.

Nice.....

That seals the deal for me, never going to live in AZ.

fredvon4 wrote:

I was also amazed at how quick I adapted to 121F in Iraq but admit I never got used to drinking gallons of water a day

I was in Seattle two months ago and drank the amount of water I'm accustomed to in Phoenix. I've never peed so much in my life.

Jim

 memories O not that far way , Looks GOOD compared to the 98,99,94, with humidity 65 or so  we been having

I used to do a lot of work in PNG and Irian Jaya.  High up in the Owen Stanleys the temp never goes above about 25°C - day or night.  However, the humidity never gets down to 99%, 99.7% being a typical day.  Many of the villages we operated in received >300" rainfall per anum.  Working in those conditions is so draining, and one constantly feels as though one is dying of heat exhaustion.  

Being from West Oz, and being well used to temps well above 40°C, I can assure you that the major factor in "feeling the heat" is humidity, NOT the actual temperature.  Summer humidities in most of WA seldom reach 50% and are usually below 30%.  Up in the Pilbara they'll have 3 or 4 months each year above 40°C, but the humidity will be about or below 10%.  When I was working up there it was far more bearable than in PNG.  One must, however, drinks gallons of water.  I drank about 10 litres just during each work day.

One memorable mid-summer day, in western NSW, I was involved in "grunt shuttles" (shuttling soldiers into a "war zone" for a military exercise - I used to fly Caribous) requiring to stay below radar (<100' AGL).  We did 7 x 100nm shuttles, op stops at each end and with the cockpit temperature up 57°C in the middle of the day.  I think all 200+ grunts chundered on the cabin floor that day - it was almost ankle deep!  At the end of the day we jacked up the aircraft nose, opened the under-(cockpit)floor escape hatch, called for a fire truck and hosed it out.  Man-O-man!! What a day!  Any'ow, the point was that 57°C is the hottest temp I've ever had to work in.  I did experience a -ve (celsius) temp a couple of times in Canberra.

Dinsdale. I'm sure they probably worked out what you were talking about, but for the sake of the uninitiated, you may want to interpret "chunder". Gee we talk about some great stuff on here

Oldenginerod wrote:... you may want to interpret "chunder".  Gee we talk about some great stuff on here

According Bazza McKenzie, a reputable bloke if ever there was one, on the old sailing ships transporting convicts to Oz, when one felt nauseous one would run to the side of whatever deck one was on and shout out, "Watch under".  This warned those on lower decks that someone was about to spew/vomit/have a charlie chuckle/do a technicolor yawn over the rail, and to watch out below.  "Watch under" was soon abbreviated to just "Chunder", which is now the standard Ozzie noun or verb referring to vomit.

See also:  http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0050975/quotes
Look for movies:  "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie" 1962  and also "Bazza McKenzie Holds His Own" 1964 and also "Bazza Pulls it Off" 1971

I think I'd like AZ. New England is nice if you like roller-coaster climate change.. but I find myself now; liking warm weather much more than cold. This past Winter's blizzard was epic in my region. The most beautiful climate I've ever experienced.. was when I spent a week in Aruba. Dry heat (avg. mid 80's F) with a constant southwesterly breeze.. all the time. It's almost guaranteed. There's very little rainfall.. and only rained once (for about 2 minutes)during my stay.

Jim, I imagine your climate to be similar to George's over in Clovis, NM.. but he mentions it being constantly breezy where he is. Too breezy for small flying-models.