We got rain all night till about 1AM, then the temp dropped to about 14 degrees. About 4 " of snow are on the ground, and the wind is blowing like a sun-of-a-gun. Sure looks brutal out there, and I'm scheduled to work!
Hemi, its freezing down here also. The temperature down here is 56 degrees. YOOOHOOO, we get to take out our heavy jackets. We only get to wear them maybe one or two weeks a year. I have modeling question for you. What blue do I use for MRL. I am repainting a GP35 using Roberts decals.
Temps in the teens this morning too ... with a little skiff of snow, but supposed to get more for the next five days. Maybe a White Christmas this year. So much for global warming!
Earlier this week we had snow in the Houston area. So I fled to Roanoke, Virginia where I am now for a few days. Cold here too but no snow.
Started snowing here about 3:30 yesterday afternoon. Can't measure an accumulation, as the winds are blowing. Roads closed. Trees down. Not unusual. But we won't even make the news. Boxcab E50
I have yet to paint a MRL unit, but I would guess that Modelflex or Polly Scale should have a good blue that would be close. If all else fails, tint your bottle to match a photo. 56?!? It was 5 degrees this morning, wind chill of -18. Tomorrow's supposed to be a high in the NEGATIVE double-digits..... http://www.weather.com/weather/loca...WeatherLocalUndeclared&from=searchbox_localwx Just another day in Montana.
It's getting cold here in the Pacific Northwest, too. We may get snow this evening. This is kind of unusual this early in the year (before it's even officially winter) here on the marine climate side of the Cascades. I am considerably relieved because I got my furnace back to working last night. It's about a fifty year old oil furnace, the kind that, if you take care of them, is basically unkillable. It hadn't been sustaining a flame, so it had been shutting itself off. I found that we had allowed the tank to get a little too low. I had to clean out the filter and then nurse the thing through a bunch of air bubbles in the line, and then it fired right up the way I am used to seeing it. I am glad. It was going to be a COLD weekend for us.
You think you have it bad? We are down to 53 degrees here, and they are talking maybe rain and colder tomorrow! I use Tamiya paint, just plain Blue! Tamiya Blue looks like MRL Blue to me. Some people like Floquil BAR Blue for MRL Blue. -Robert
Well, I'm not too cold, just windy. It's supposed to snow big time here--for the last two days. Must be stalled up around Hemi. My bed now has two down comforters. The dogs left today, so I'm thinking I'm facing a three dog night without the dogs.
Right now it's gusty and 60 degrees- tomorrow I've got to head back to Muskogee to get ahead of the cold front bringing freezing rain to that area (I live in an area of the world whose snow removal device rises in the east every morning). Hemi and Ken, do you have to plug your vehicles in? (only someone who has lived north of Kansas in the high country can understand that comment).
I did tonite, as the truck didn't like the thought of turning over after work today.. Wind chills are getting brutal.
Bob- No. Never have. Actually, most folks don't. I just keep a strong battery. Start it, and let idle gently. Go back inside, and do some brief chore. In was outside a while ago. It wasn't bad, (+4 at the time), as humidity is usually low. Shoveled a little snow. No hat, no gloves, nothing special needed. Boxcab E50
Wind's still going--not as bad as this morning, but wind chills are still rough. I was in my work garb (heavy parka, bibs, and heavy gloves) for almost 2 hours with the snowblower this afternoon. I plugged mine in, as the battery is a 5-6 years old. Sure eases the cold starts, too. I had to plug mine in a lot when I lived in North Dakota.
Once back in college we drove my girlfriend's old Plymoth up to Logan, Utah to go skiing. There was a cold snap where the old slant 6 in the car would not turn over. We borrowed a steam iron from the people we were staying with and set in on the slanted side of the engine block braced by the oil pan flange and plugged it in. Half hour later it started right up.
Well, it's here cold enough - below zero - :angel: to have some ice at the garden pond. And the walk with the dog in the morning was without mud, frozen mud. :angel: Wolfgang
The snow kept stalling, and wasn't even here by 6:45 this morning (they were telling us it would snow yesterday evening) but it came. While there isn't much at my elevation, it's kind of a mess in the hills. (I am near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, so I am relatively low elevation.) It was raining a lot yesterday and is hovering right around freezing so it's perfectly slippery conditions. I am glad my furnace is working. It wasn't two days ago.
It's a cozy -14 out right now--with the sun shining, it looks mighty deceiving! Church was cancelled today--about 90% of our congregation wouldn't come out in this cold. Myself included, for Isaac's sake.
We were minus 11 this morning. NWS/NOOAA says minus 6. But that's at the airport, in another valley miles away. So obviously very inaccurate for our town. A clear and sunny day. Supposedly to not break zero. But I am betting we will. This "blizzard" was a farce. Yawn.... Boxcab E50
Have you ever seen snow blowing so hard and powdery that it sifts thru the tiniest of crevices? There was a 4" snowdrift INSIDE my truck yesterday!
Once a group of us were staying in a cabin at Clowdcroft, New Mexico. There was a good blizard one night. In the morning I went to the out house and found a nice drift had blown in a crack in the wall and right across the toilet seat. Was too pretty to sit on so I brushed it away. No lingering on the throne that morning.
