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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2021 11:13:01 GMT -5
 Winter storm warning issued in Utica and Mohawk Valley A winter storm is expected to move through New York on with snow accumulations up to 12 inches for the Mohawk Valley region. The parade of snowstorms continues for the region. A winter storm is expected to bring more snowfall to the Mohawk Valley region Monday and Tuesday. Meteorologists at the National Weather Service say up to a foot of heavy snow is possible for parts of the area. Cold weather:Central New York environmentalist wonders if deer are cold during the winter Winter fun:Snow tubing brings good, clean fun in the great outdoors The NWS issued a winter stormwarning that covers Oneida, Herkimer and Madison counties. The Oneida and Madison warning is in effect from 10 a.m. Monday to 4 p.m. Tuesday, while the Herkimer warning spans 7 p.m. Monday to 4 p.m. Tuesday. The storm watch is in anticipation of significant accumulating snowfall beginning Monday night. In Herkimer County, snow could mix with sleet for a short time early Tuesday morning. The precipitation is expected to cause a difficult Tuesday morning commute, the weather service said. "The snow will come in multiple rounds with a period of light snow Monday with steadier and possibly heavier snow late Monday evening into Tuesday morning," the NWS said. How many inches of snow? According to the National Weather Service Utica: 8 inches Rome: 9 inches Herkimer: 7 inches Boonville: 11 inches Hamilton: 8 inches Cooperstown: 6 inches Syracuse: 10 inches Canajoharie: 6 inches Cobleskill: 6 inches Follow along with the latest snowfall count below. www.uticaod.com/story/weather/2021/02/13/mohawk-valley-weather-winter-storm-watch-issued-how-many-inches/6723521002/?utm_source=uticaod-Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_term=heroGet out the shovels and snow blowers. |
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Post by Clipper on Feb 15, 2021 11:52:16 GMT -5
Ya may need taller boots to get to the bus stop PB. My winter boots dry rotted in the closet. I put them on a couple of years ago when we had 10inches and they cracked right across the middle of the sole I sure miss having to wear boots and long underwear.  |
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Post by artsyone on Feb 15, 2021 12:24:00 GMT -5
Ya may need taller boots to get to the bus stop PB. My winter boots dry rotted in the closet. I put them on a couple of years ago when we had 10inches and they cracked right across the middle of the sole I sure miss having to wear boots and long underwear. I oncet had a big ol' roach in my boot when I was living in the Olbiston. Grandpaw had one in his red Johnnies too. Yup. Ya need taller boots to wade through this stuff. Gettin' mitey thick around here. |
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Post by Clipper on Feb 15, 2021 13:19:46 GMT -5
Red Johnnies with a trap door in the back? I remember my dad's uncle's long johns with a trap door hanging on the clothes line. Thank goodness by the time I needed long johns for hunting or working outside they had been improved and came in two pieces. I don't need long johns here but I still have a couple of the shirts to wear on chilly days. Thank goodness there are no roaches in them. Did grandpaw smoke a little weed and hide a roach in your boot for later?  OH, you mean the other kind of roach. The kind with legs. |
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Post by Ralph on Feb 15, 2021 14:04:03 GMT -5
At least it will hit on my days off and I won't be pressed to fight it on the way to work.
I was never overly fond of winter weather, and the older I get, the more I hate it.
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Post by Clipper on Feb 15, 2021 14:15:03 GMT -5
I feel your pain Ralph. I would never be able to tolerate NY winters any more. I freeze my ass off if it drops below the fifties. It was 50 this morning when I took the dog out and I wore my winter jacket and a ski hat pulled down over my ears, lol.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2021 16:11:38 GMT -5
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Post by BHU on Feb 15, 2021 16:34:18 GMT -5
A noon today Jill Reale of WKTV predicted 2-4 inches. I checked the NWS a liitle while ago & they're predicting 7-12. Another storm is predicted for Thursday & Friday. This month is really dragging.
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Post by artsyone on Feb 15, 2021 16:56:08 GMT -5
Ayup. There they be a hanging on the door. Only, my grandfather washed his out and hung 'em from the stove pipe in the kitchen where they dripped into a pan all night.
Hmm. A precursor to modern day humidifiers. Smart grandpaw. He should have patented the idea.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2021 20:09:27 GMT -5
3.7 million without power across Texas as snow, ice blanket southern Plains DALLAS (NewsNation Now) — A frigid blast of winter weather across the U.S. plunged Texas into an unusually icy emergency Monday that knocked out power to more than 3 million people and shut down grocery stores and dangerously snowy roads. The worsening conditions halted the delivery of COVID-19 vaccine shipments and left some Texas providers scrambling to find takers for doses expiring within hours. Rotating power outages were initiated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, early Monday morning, meaning thousands went without electricity for short periods as temperatures fell into the teens near Dallas and 20s around Houston. The outages began as rotating outages but ERCOT had to switch to controlled outages — which can be much, much longer — due to the magnitude of the demand. “Every grid operator and every electric company is fighting to restore power right now,” ERCOT President and CEO Bill Magness said in a statement. NewsNation affiliate KXAN reports some Texans without power Monday afternoon could be forced to remain without it through Tuesday, according to an emergency update from Oncor. “The Texas power system is currently facing an unprecedented shortfall of electric generation,” Oncor said in a statement. “The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has requested Oncor and utilities across the state to implement controlled power outages to reduce high demand and protect the integrity of the electric grid. All Texas electric utilities could face similar extended outages, ERCOT said in a news briefing Monday morning. Texas family hospitalized after using charcoal grill to heat apartment “That’s what they did in my neighborhood … my understanding is that the blackouts are because of that concept, that it was to be a rolling blackout,” Travis County Judge Andy Brown told NewsNation affiliate KXAN. “And then the power situation was so grave at the state level that they weren’t able to follow through on that plan for some reason and they weren’t able to turn some of the power back on in the way they had anticipated.” Brown did the live interview from his car to stay warm because the power had gone out in his home. “These outages will continue until there’s sufficient generation being able to be brought back online to meet the demands on the system,” said Dan Woodfin, ERCOT’s senior director of system operations. “At this time we anticipate that we’ll need to continue these control outages at some level for the rest of today and at least first part of [Tuesday], perhaps all day tomorrow.” More than 3.7 million customers in Texas were in the dark as of 5:25 p.m. EST, according to poweroutage.us, a utility tracking site. Around 5,000 Oklahoma Gas & Electric customers were without power overnight, and Entergy Arkansas logged about 3,000 outages. Both states have much smaller populations compared with Texas. 6 killed in Texas pileup involving at least 133 vehicles Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Monday that the Public Utilities Commission said “about 500,000 residential customers are having power restored at this time. They said to expect even more this evening.” Abbott maintains the power grid is not broken, but said that parts of the grid had to be shut down, including natural gas and coal generators. www.newsnationnow.com/weather/power-cut-across-texas-as-snow-ice-blanket-southern-plains/Moving Northward to Maine. Hopefully the blackout will not be our future. |
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Post by BHU on Feb 16, 2021 9:02:17 GMT -5
A big ado about nothing. We got less then 4" inches here with some freezing rain. WKTV nailed it.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Feb 16, 2021 9:36:39 GMT -5
My connections in Texas report a lot of problems, in addition to snow and ice they have periodic blackouts.
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Post by Clipper on Feb 16, 2021 9:46:55 GMT -5
It's going to get worse when we have nothing but windmills that freeze up and won't turn, and solar panels that are covered with ice and compromised. Is Biden going to give everyone a wood stove so that they don't freeze to death when the power is out after he has eliminated kerosene or fuel oil as an alternative?
Just asking for a friend.
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Post by BHU on Feb 16, 2021 11:23:33 GMT -5
Yep, Texas was hit big time with ice storms, etc causing major power outages. Lyin Ted & Gov. Abbott appealed to President Biden for federal aid which has been approved. Interesting, considering Cruz ranted & raved & opposed federal aid when Hurticane Sandy hit N.Y. & Jersey. He also threw one of his tantrums when federal aid was requested for aid when the wildfires ravaged California. The absolute hypocricy from that bunch is astounding.
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Post by Clipper on Feb 16, 2021 12:32:38 GMT -5
Of course the aid has been approved, and rightfully so. Ted Cruz did nothing other than to represent his district and state as ANY elected official should. There seems to be a mistaken impression that assumes to portray Ted Cruz as being representative of the entire Republican party. I don't know who "that bunch" is but any republican could easily take a bit of offense at all republicans and other conservative thinking people being lumped into that vague and all encompassing group. I hate to think of all the "tantrums" we have witnessed over the last 4 years by Schumer, Pelosi, all the actors that took part in the Schiff Show, as well as butt-hurt loser Hillary.
My question that prompted your retort would be why does our illustrious president have to feebly attempt to solve the worlds climate problem with a premature, overbearing, destructive swipe of a pen that puts thousands out of work and hits us all in the pocket book with higher prices for fuel oil and gasoline, while the tax increase that will be necessary to fund his folly will bring even more hardship to those who are struggling already and heavily impacted by the pandemic. (how's that for a run-on sentence?) lol
Oh yeah, pardon me. I had forgotten that President Biden's present agenda is all about politics and revenge, mainly fueled by the hatred for Trump, and with no regard for what is good for "the people," and that encompasses ALL the people, not just the Trump hating liberal democrats. This administration may have had the support of a majority at the polls, but I am relatively sure that they don't have the support of a majority of the working class citizens of the country with all this misguided bullshit attack on the oil and coal industry. It is an issue that needs to be addressed with caution, forethought, and over a period of time, not with a hateful pen and ink hand grenade.
I hope the president has prepared the White House and his many other real estate parcels with solar panels and windmills and has done away with any generators that burn any form of carbon based fuel. When I am freezing my ass off during any rolling blackout, I hope his ass is frozen to his chair in the oval office and his coffee maker is without power. Maybe his hands will be too cold to sign anymore premature and radical executive orders.
It seems that we have gone from a president that took NO marching orders from ANYONE, to a frail little puppet whose strings are pulled by left wing demagogues on capitol hill. They might was well expand the oval office, move a couple of extra desks in and Nancy and Chuck won't need to run back and forth in order to get their hate mongering dirty work done.
Not intended to offend or fuel any arguments among friends. I respect your opinions and simply disagree with some of them. Just stating an opposing opinion. MY opinion.
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