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I’m in Florida and don’t have clothes for the forecast we have. It’s all relative I guess. But I know my truck will start and I won’t get stuck in snow. Originally from around Buffalo, NY so I understand. Don’t miss it except for snowmobiling.
 
prb51 said:
It is warm here but we live at the end of the grid and if there are any issues no power..we also have a deep well that needs power to work. We invested in a 24k Generac and it will power the whole house (100 amp service)...it has only been used once but worked perfectly...15 second interruption and it is on...power on it goes off.
I am actually more concerned about some hackers playing with the grid and holding it hostage as happened out east with the pipeline.

I hope the power comes on for ya'll pretty soon.
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Thanks. It came on for good around 2:30 yesterday afternoon.

I don't have central heat, so luckily that isn't dependent on the power. I keep oil lamps full, have a gas stove, and own a Victrola. I'm on city water, but do have a hand pump on the old well out bank. Where I live we used to lose power for a few days at a time every winter. As the area has been built up over the past fifteen years they've run more power lines out this way. Now we'll only lose power for a day at a time.
 
waltesefalcon said:
Thanks. It came on for good around 2:30 yesterday afternoon.

I don't have central heat, so luckily that isn't dependent on the power. I keep oil lamps full, have a gas stove, and own a Victrola. I'm on city water, but do have a hand pump on the old well out bank. Where I live we used to lose power for a few days at a time every winter. As the area has been built up over the past fifteen years they've run more power lines out this way. Now we'll only lose power for a day at a time.
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Sounds like how I used to live. I had a spring though and a generator.
 
waltesefalcon said:
Thanks. It came on for good around 2:30 yesterday afternoon.

I don't have central heat, so luckily that isn't dependent on the power. I keep oil lamps full, have a gas stove, and own a Victrola. I'm on city water, but do have a hand pump on the old well out bank. Where I live we used to lose power for a few days at a time every winter. As the area has been built up over the past fifteen years they've run more power lines out this way. Now we'll only lose power for a day at a time.
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Oil lamps, gas stove, Victrola, hand pump on the well - now that's my kind of life!

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Recognize the guy in the photo?
 
Deanr said:
I’m in Florida and don’t have clothes for the forecast we have. It’s all relative I guess. But I know my truck will start and I won’t get stuck in snow. Originally from around Buffalo, NY so I understand. Don’t miss it except for snowmobiling.
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We've got some "winter clothes" as a just-in-case. Left western PA over forty years ago, but there've been some winter days to remind us why we left! Just ran over the Palmetto bridge (I-75) this AM on the way from Tampa to Miami. BRRRR!! Cold down here as well. This weather is an odd twist but won't last long. A couple days of shoes & socks. Back to the mid-seventies next week. 😉
 
Turned out to be much less serious here in Toronto, hardly any snow but definitely wind and ice. OTOH on southwestern Ontario

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My brother lives in prince Edward County and literally every road in the county was closed.

We talked my mother into going to see my brother a day early - by train - which was good because

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I just don't get why most of these stranded people didn't stay home,
or where they were visiting.They've been warning us that this was going
to be a really big one.I've also wondered why a lot of the truck drivers
don't do the same.
The weather reports said this will pass in a few days.
 
Truck drivers don't have that option. Get the load as far as you can, protect it from pilagers. Time is money, couple days load may be worthless.. Got to take the chance.
 
LarryK said:
Truck drivers don't have that option. Get the load as far as you can, protect it from pilagers. Time is money, couple days load may be worthless.. Got to take the chance.
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agreed. And the conditions can change in an instant or in a very few miles
 
I was thinking more of when it's REALLY bad,& truckers
don't slow down,& get into/cause a serious accident,& maybe
even die.Isn't it better to be delayed,or total your rig & not get
there at all.
I watched some videos of these major accidents happening,
& noticed how the drivers were driving way to fast for the conditions,
& end up plowing into other vehicles.
Do truckers not use CB radios anymore?Seems to me that you could
warn those coming up to slow down,or pull off.I've also noticed
that a lot of the truckers aren't the professionals that used to be
the norm.
 
We were driving to Fla from St. Louis. Were on 65S, and past Nashville,actually abiut 12 miles from Ala. state line. Was snowing pretty good, by the time we hit the State line we had 4" down. I was driving my Land Rover Lr4 and had swiched to snow mode and slowed down to 60mph from 75, and the semis passed me like I was sitting still. Got off at Athens, checked into Holiday Inn Express, cancelled Cullman Holiday Inn and stooped for the night with 8" down. Went out the next morning and cleaned 12" form the roof of the Rover and packed to leave. A couple in a Honda van coming from Fla. Told me I could not leave as there was an accident near Cullman. I looked up and saw the National Guard Humvee in Huntsville, and if they can do it I will have no problem. Snowmen allover the median for miles, accident gone by Cullman, trip clear after that. Feb 2015.
 
Southbound I-75 yesterday between Tampa and Naples was bumper-to-bumper, three lanes across. Three separate incidents of crashes causing miles long parking lot conditions. Too many over-anxious Snowbirds!

Coming back north to Tampa from Miami, traffic was moderately heavy but no delays. 80MPH seemed to be average north bound traffic speed, too. :unsure:
 
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