Mean While on Hoth....

[dripley]

11 hours ago, KATOOM said:

We actually got a few inches of snow this year already.  Nothing to write home about and it only sticks for a day or two, but its sure fun to see my kids get excited.

Its kind of a good thing we dont get very much snow around here either because people cant seem to drive when there's white stuff on the ground.  Cal Trans literally shuts I-5 down north of Redding every time we get anything more than rain falling from the sky.

 

And I'm not sure I want any of the fat tweakers running around in bikinis either.....

When you have 9 grandchildren nobody notices you looking at the "fat tweakers", for the most part anyway.

8 hours ago, AH64ID said:

It looks like we're pushing 6" so far. The Boise airport has the most snow on the ground since 1985!! And it's still coming down. 

 

No school for the kids today so it's about to be quad hookie-bobbin time!

Quad hookie-bobbing time????? This hillbilly aint sure what that means.

[KATOOM]

Thankfully I live too far out to have to glimpse at those possibilities.....

[Killer223]

first one was x-mass day.

second one is today. melts fast.

 

we got a lot of rain that melted a majority of it.

Edited January 5, 2017 by Killer223

[AH64ID]

57 minutes ago, dripley said:

 

Quad hookie-bobbing time????? This hillbilly aint sure what that means.

 

Dragging the sled behind the quad.  Drifts are 2'+ and got stuck a few times but the kids had a blast!

[dripley]

3 minutes ago, AH64ID said:

 

Dragging the sled behind the quad.  Drifts are 2'+ and got stuck a few times but the kids had a blast!

gotcha!! In my younger days we called that grabbing the bumper of a passing car on the snow covered street. Of course my parents were'nt looking at the time. 

[AH64ID]

I guess the "sport" has gone soft over the years :-) 

[Me78569]

apparently Colorado Springs has a different classification of Hoth than me.  

 

I can currently still see my grass, less than 1" on the ground, and all schools are closed and the local new station has "weather watch!" on all morning......

 

 

 

[Wild and Free]

18 minutes ago, Me78569 said:

apparently Colorado Springs has a different classification of Hoth than me.  

 

I can currently still see my grass, less than 1" on the ground, and all schools are closed and the local new station has "weather watch!" on all morning......

 

 

 

 

Ha Ha yeah here if there is 3 feet of snow on the roads they announce rural buses are running a couple hours late. Unless the visibility is really bad blizzard conditions and or combined with extreme cold then schools are on, has to be pretty bad to close schools down.

[Buzzinhalfdozen]

14 minutes ago, Me78569 said:

apparently Colorado Springs has a different classification of Hoth than me.  

 

I can currently still see my grass, less than 1" on the ground, and all schools are closed and the local new station has "weather watch!" on all morning......

 

 

 

Well safety first you can't have people out in those deadly conditions...

We had a two hour delay on Tuesday because the county roads still had 12" of snow on them. What did it take to call off school up in I. Falls?

[Me78569]

I had 1 day off in the time I went to school there.  It was -55*f before windchil hahahaha... I am pretty sure school would have been on if the buses would have run.

Edited January 5, 2017 by Me78569

[Wild and Free]

Whats funny is they will shut down the big city schools before the rural schools.

[CSM]

31 minutes ago, Wild and Free said:

Whats funny is they will shut down the big city schools before the rural schools.

 

City people.  

 

Farm kids are like, well, i had to get up and do xyz chores anyway... might as well go to school and see my friends.  

[Wild and Free]

Pretty much sums it up, Rural folks will go through purgatory to get their kids several miles to a main road to meet the school bus where town kids are endangering life and limb if they have to walk 6 blocks in the elements lol.

Edited January 5, 2017 by Wild and Free

[01cummins4ever]

w & F   any truth to this

 

 

 

 

 

 

North Dakota Temperature Conversion Chart

60 degrees F: Southern Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in North Dakota sunbathe.


50 F: New Yorkers try to turn on the heat.
People in North Dakota plant gardens.


40 F: Italian & English cars won't start.
People in North Dakota drive with the windows down.

32 F: Distilled water freezes.
The water in the Red River of the North starts getting cooler.

20 F: Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves,
wool hats.
People in North Dakota throw on a flannel shirt, buttons open.

15 F: New York City landlords finally turn up the heat. People in North Dakota have the last cookout before it gets cold.

0 F: All the people in Miami die.
North Dakotans close the windows.

10 below zero: Californians escape en masse to Mexico.
Girl Scouts in North Dakota sell cookies door to door.

25 below zero: Las Vegas disintegrates.
People in North Dakota rummage around the attic to find some winter coats.

40 below zero: Washington DC runs out of hot air.
People in North Dakota let the dogs sleep indoors.

100 below zero: Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Some North Dakotans are frustrated when they can't start their cars.

460 below zero (absolute zero on the Kelvin Scale): All atomic motion stops.
People in North Dakota start saying . . . "Cold 'nuff for ya?"

500 below zero:

Hell

 freezes over.

( kids still go to school with possible 2 hr delays)

Vikings win Super Bowl.

[Me78569]

4 minutes ago, 01cummins4ever said:

 

Vikings win Super Bowl.

impossible.

[KATOOM]

The weather is seemingly kicking everyones behind.....

Example, we're supposed to get a severe downpour over the next few days.  The snow level is dropping down low and then a few days later, raising way up to 7000.  With all that warm rain melting the fresh snow, that means its going to flood for sure.

[IBMobile]

55 minutes ago, 01cummins4ever said:

60 degrees F: Southern Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in North Dakota sunbathe

 Correction: It's 52 degrees F for Southern Californians to start shivering.  People start wearing winter coats when it gets below 60° F. 

[Wild and Free]

36 minutes ago, IBMobile said:

 Correction: It's 52 degrees F for Southern Californians to start shivering.  People start wearing winter coats when it gets below 60° F. 

It was mid 50's in november the first couple days we were in Florida and they were dressed like we would for sub zero with wind, was funny as heck, wife and i had long sleeve shirts on.

It is relative to the season as well. First month few weeks of winter and it feels cold but in a few weeks when it will hit 10* no wind and sun we will all be so acclimated to the cold you will definitely see t-shirts, Shorts and flip flops once it hits mid 20's to 30 ish is normal after sub zero temps for a few weeks.

[Mopar1973Man]

It was only +7 to -10*F the whole way home today. It was barely -24*F in New Meadows this morning. Boise was having heat wave compared to home...

[Wild and Free]