Whats your weather right now?

Mississippi.

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NW Florida neighborhood weather station at 27 degrees . 18 tonight. I was just watching a dove skittering around on my bird bath trying to figure out why the water isn't wet . I'll bet bird watching is great down along the river right now. That will be the only running water around here this morning.
 
Weather?!? Well, I drove to work today despite it being a balmy 44°F at breakfast. The rain will turn to snow around 1000 here for about two hours giving us the potential of 1" in the northern Virginia area. Then the temps drop into the low 20s and then teens overnight. The bike stayed home today as the road may be outside of my comfort zone going home.
 
I found this very interesting
How to power your furnace using you vehicle battery and an inverter

There fairly long videos but if you would have this all setup it would work great in case of a power outage
I would find a simpler way to make a jumper for the vehicle battery and have the inverter in the house ?
 
Beaucoup wind, rain just starting and supposed to get quite heavy, power yo-yoing up and down. Generator is not sure whether to scratch it's watch or wind it's ass.

Be less annoying if the damn power would just go out and stay out and let the generator do it's thing. If it gets too bad, I'll just open the main and force the situation.

OTOH, its 45 degrees so I've got that going for me...
 
45 degrees so I've got that going for me...
The coldest I have ever been in my life (on the misery index) was at Bangor, Maine in the winter of 2012. It was -27F with 7 knots of wind and somehow, what I remember as humidity! I was very busy in the great outdoors wearing a leather bomber jacket and a wool fedora. That's a day I'll not likely forget.
 
The coldest I have ever been in my life (on the misery index) was at Bangor, Maine in the winter of 2012. It was -27F with 7 knots of wind and somehow, what I remember as humidity! I was very busy in the great outdoors wearing a leather bomber jacket and a wool fedora. That's a day I'll not likely forget.
It ain't gotta be awful cold, temperature-wise, to be DAMNED uncomfortable with a stiff, damp breeze blowing it up yer skirt. We get that a lot here on the coast.
 
The coldest I have ever been in my life (on the misery index) was at Bangor, Maine in the winter of 2012. It was -27F with 7 knots of wind and somehow, what I remember as humidity! I was very busy in the great outdoors wearing a leather bomber jacket and a wool fedora. That's a day I'll not likely forget.
Gardermoen Norway in January... a stones throw from the Arctic. Don't remember the exact temps... -30°f sounds familiar. One of our F-111's had an engine decide it was done. No hanger space available. Changed it on the ramp. Normally an 8hr job for 4 men. Took us 3 days. They say you can dress for the cold. And that's true to an extent. There's tasks on an engine change that have you shimmy your way up 'tween the engine and frame to loosen and tighten stuff. You can't fit with a parka on and fiddling with 3/16" nuts and bolts ain't happening with gloves on.
Yeah... that was one of the memorable ones... 🥶


We just officially went above zero... ❤️‍🔥



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Gardermoen Norway in January... a stones throw from the Arctic. Don't remember the exact temps... -30°f sounds familiar. One of our F-111's had an engine decide it was done. No hanger space available. Changed it on the ramp. Normally an 8hr job for 4 men. Took us 3 days. They say you can dress for the cold. And that's true to an extent. There's tasks on an engine change that have you shimmy your way up 'tween the engine and frame to loosen and tighten stuff. You can't fit with a parka on and fiddling with 3/16" nuts and bolts ain't happening with gloves on.
Yeah... that was one of the memorable ones... 🥶


We just officially went above zero... ❤️‍🔥



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I worked line maintenance for Continental Airlines for a while.
Working graveyards, had to change a starter on a DC9 in a HARD downpour. 36° and heavy rain, with the wind whipping around, is pretty uncomfortable.
Like you said, a lot of it requires no gloves. We could only go about 15-20 mins at a stretch.
I'll never forget that night.
 
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