Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

New Polaris has tons of power and gets around fine in the snow and ice. Just a bit breezy .. w/o a windshield.






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[lostcreekranch]

I keep at least a dozen gallons of water on hand for flushing, etc, several cases of drinking water, and now I keep a couple cases of TP in stock. What I’m short on now is gas for the generator. But we aren’t supposed to get that cold.

I do have an old wood stove, and I have some firewood. I don’t have a chimney, but in an emergency I do have some stove pipe and I could probably rig something thru the basement window. I need to put up a chimney so I’m ready for an emergency.
I also have saws, fuel and trees.

I filled the bathtub in one of the guest bathrooms in case water to house froze so .. toilets could still be flushed with a 2 gallon bucket.

So far .. no issues. Knock wood!

 

[LouNY]

New Polaris has tons of power and gets around fine in the snow and ice. Just a bit breezy .. w/o a windshield.


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Nice looking Polaris, I don't think I've put 5 miles on my side by side since before Thanksgiving and it has a windshield,
but that cold air just whips right around. Truck or tractor for me, getting soft in my later years :dance1:

 

[txdon]

Some houses 'boom' when the temp gets really low. The house I grew up in did. The house we live in now does. Sounds like something falling on the roof...

BOOM!

Yes that is exactly what I thought. It was so cold that I thought a big bird died in flight and crashed onto the roof.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Nice looking Polaris, I don't think I've put 5 miles on my side by side since before Thanksgiving and it has a windshield,
but that cold air just whips right around. Truck or tractor for me, getting soft in my later years :dance1:

I got the cheaper plastic aftermarket windshield. Had it out in snow a little the other day, went right up a steep hill.

 

[rswyan]

Went out about two hours ago to run the trash up to can at the road (pick up delayed by a day due to weather)

Several inches of snow covered by a 1/4 to 3/8 inch of ice covered by another inch or so of snow. Had to let the car warm up for about 1/2 hour in order to get the ice off it.

The covering of snow was enough to get the needed traction to get up the incline.

The city plow guys left a mess up at the turnoff for the gas well ... 8 to 12 inches across the drive where they turned into the turnoff.

Was able to plow right through it but it will need cleaned up tomorrow.

Supposed to be partly sunny so that will make it a little less painful.

Really NBD ... considering what others are suffering through.

 

[rswyan]

Yes that is exactly what I thought. It was so cold that I thought a big bird died in flight and crashed onto the roof.

It’s the rear deck here ... happens every winter.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good.

I have filled our large master bathroom tub. Also filled3 large tea jugs.

Don, Lee county water supply issued boil water notice out to Fedor area, and on the northeast side of town too.

I am on Giddings city water, and we have no water pressure. A bare trickle. This is a crisis. If a town has no potable water, there should be large National guard movement to distribute such.

They said a water well backup generator had problems, due to the blackouts probably. I might go down there myself tomorrow, if they don't get it in gear.

No power, no water, no net, cell data service is very limited.

Sucks.

 

[check]

Some houses 'boom' when the temp gets really low. The house I grew up in did. The house we live in now does. Sounds like something falling on the roof...

BOOM!

We get that from our deck when it gets really cold.

 

[txdon]

Kyle the good news is Ron has closed the door. The temp has held at 18˚F for the last few hours so we are finished with the single digits. The wind has shifted and is coming from the SE. Also good news (for your kids) More snow predicted for tonight after midnight.


Also found this
"What happens is, during the cold winter months, wood trusses in your attic and/or on your outside deck contract and make a loud booming noise as they move. The same is true in the morning as they warm back up from the sun hitting the, they expand, making a loud boom or bang noise."