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Post by BHU on Mar 15, 2023 17:01:14 GMT -5
If you don't have a vehicle with 4x4 winter tires are a must around here, imho.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 15, 2023 22:43:31 GMT -5
I never owned a 4WD until 1997. Before that I always drove 2WD pickups with studded tires and about 400lbs of bagged sand over the rear axle. Most of that time I lived up North or out around Verona. I was only in the ditch once. I was coming down the big hill into Schuyler from Newport and a rear tire went flat. Needless to say, having a rear wheel flat while going down
hill on slippery roads is not much fun. I went off the road and through a fence into a field.
I DID have to do much more shoveling on snowy mornings than I did after I bought the 4x4 Ford in 97.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 16, 2023 8:51:18 GMT -5
I only remember being in a ditch once. I drove into it deliberately. It looked a lot softer than the truck in front of me sliding perpendicular to the traffic flow.
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Mar 16, 2023 15:30:58 GMT -5
I only remember being in a ditch once. I drove into it deliberately. It looked a lot softer than the truck in front of me sliding perpendicular to the traffic flow. CB be careful: A giant floating blob of seaweed is heading toward the coast of Florida. What is sargassum? www.cbsnews.com/news/seaweed-blob-florida-sargassum-what-is-it/ |
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 17, 2023 8:27:47 GMT -5
Don't worry, I am not near the coast and I don't care for swimming in the ocean. I should be safe.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 17, 2023 10:59:26 GMT -5
When I was stationed in Key West in the 60's Sargassum used to wash up on the beaches, but not in the quantities mention or shown in the article. The beaches around Key West were normally cleaned fairly often and as a result that stuff didn't accumulate in huge quantities. In the hot sun it DOES smell pretty bad, but I don't remember it ever hindering swimming or keeping people away from the beach.
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Mar 17, 2023 11:05:35 GMT -5
Next will be a giant squid on the east coast
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Post by Clipper on Mar 17, 2023 11:57:30 GMT -5
Next will be a giant squid on the east coast That would be great. Just think how big the calamari rings could be from a squid that size.  |
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Mar 17, 2023 15:51:41 GMT -5
I love squid. For a Christmas eve dinner at my sisters house I made stuffed squid in tomato sauce. I use crab and an Italian bread crumb mixture. Was that delicious. We still do the seven fish Christmas eve feast except my brother in law will not eat fish so he get steak!
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Post by Clipper on Mar 17, 2023 16:26:44 GMT -5
How do you cook it? Simmer it in the tomato sauce? How long do you cook it for in order to avoid making the squid tough?
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Post by BHU on Mar 19, 2023 12:55:41 GMT -5
We've been under whiteout conditions for the past couple hours with heavy snow & high winds. Same deal last night about 10 but it only lasted less then a half hour or so. We've probably picked up a good 5 inches & there's no sign of it letting up.
Tomorrow is the first day of Spring. Sheesh!
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Post by Clipper on Mar 19, 2023 14:16:52 GMT -5
Someone on FB was saying that they left Camden to go to Sylvan Beach and turned around at McConnelsville because of zero visibility. Same thing happened to someone going from Whitesboro to Rome. They got on 49 at route 291 and turned around at the next exit and came back because they couldn't see.
It is not exactly spring weather here either. I got up to 18 degrees this morning at 8 am. It hung in the 20s for most of the day and is just now reaching the predicted high of 33 degrees.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 19, 2023 21:55:08 GMT -5
Has the snow let up? Sounds like it was a horrible day to be driving with the wind and the whiteout conditions. I heard that in addition to the 20 car pile up that there was an accident on the Thruway involving a school bus with students aboard. Was anyone injured in that incident?
It was just cold and windy here today. I spent part of the afternoon in the shop. I took the tines off both rototillers, cleaned them up and sharpened them a bit with an angle grinder. I changed the oil and air filter in the 6 hp and shot some grease into the bearings on the shaft that holds the tines, and took off the wheels, smeared the axles with grease, and put a coat of car wax on the painted surfaces to prevent rust. I took out the gas grill, cleaned the winter's dust off of it, lit all 5 burners, shut the lid, let it get up to 600 degrees, and burned the cooking oil off the grates that I had put on there last fall to keep them from rusting.
We thawed a couple of rib eyes yesterday and rubbed them with Longhorn Steakhouse steak seasoning. They flavored up nicely overnight. Steaks on the grill really hit the spot, other than freezing my patooty off while I cooked them. haha.
I hope everyone stayed safe from the storm and that they have things cleaned up and roads cleared by morning. It is just going to be another night with the low at 18 degrees again. Tomorrow it will warm to 50 so it will be much more tolerable. I just can't take the cold anymore. I laid another fire to light in the morning. Probably another day of puttering in the shop.
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