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Post by ShrimpBrime on Feb 24, 2023 14:46:50 GMT -5
I am exhausted. Haven't slept in two days/nights. We had a nasty ice storm here that took down trees and power lines. I had no power for over 24 hours. No hot running water, no heat, no lights, internet.........nothing. It got freaking cold in here. Thank God the lights came back on this morning. I wasn't supposed to get electricity back til tomorrow. I am fortunate to have it. www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/news/local/2023/02/23/nearly-27000-left-without-power-as-freezing-rain-snow-continues-in-mchenry-county/Crews are out trying to clear the roads. Lots of trees down and lots of power lines down. I took a ride around town this morning. What a mess. It was eery trying to sleep and in the darkness you could hear the loud crashes and pops as trees came down. Transformers were exploding around me. I don't know where you live, but we had power. Crystal Lake was nailed hard. I watched a power line roasting on the ground 12:24am on McHenry Avenue. It lit the night sky orange from a distance. Looked spectacular! Ah well, half the guys at work had no power. Think most of its back on now.
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Post by Bones on Feb 24, 2023 16:13:43 GMT -5
I am exhausted. Haven't slept in two days/nights. We had a nasty ice storm here that took down trees and power lines. I had no power for over 24 hours. No hot running water, no heat, no lights, internet.........nothing. It got freaking cold in here. Thank God the lights came back on this morning. I wasn't supposed to get electricity back til tomorrow. I am fortunate to have it. www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/news/local/2023/02/23/nearly-27000-left-without-power-as-freezing-rain-snow-continues-in-mchenry-county/Crews are out trying to clear the roads. Lots of trees down and lots of power lines down. I took a ride around town this morning. What a mess. It was eery trying to sleep and in the darkness you could hear the loud crashes and pops as trees came down. Transformers were exploding around me. All that "Green" energy bullshit on your roof was really working for you during the actual power outage wasn't it? Wait - I can answer that one already ..... NO. I'm glad to hear though you got power back and some heat again. It's nice-n-balmy here with temps up around 80 with lots of humidity around. If it were really summertime with these conditions and higher temps we'd have at that time we'd be in total misery right about now.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Feb 24, 2023 17:00:19 GMT -5
Same here.
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Post by zila1 on Feb 24, 2023 18:56:11 GMT -5
ShrimpBrime : Right near Washington and MaryAnn Street Jon. Just the other side of where the Dairy Queen is. The power kept flickering on and off all night at first. Heard a couple of explosions just behind the house, sirens and then Thursday morning power went out. Finally got it back this morning. All of us over here were out. 47 was closed just North of Judd St. Cause of downed trees and power lines too.
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Post by zila1 on Feb 24, 2023 19:03:02 GMT -5
Bones: No, they don't do shit. They are tied to the grid so when the grid goes down so do the stupid solar panels. Useless as tits on a bull. I'm looking into having a Generac whole house generator installed here.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Feb 25, 2023 2:57:24 GMT -5
ShrimpBrime : Right near Washington and MaryAnn Street Jon. Just the other side of where the Dairy Queen is. The power kept flickering on and off all night at first. Heard a couple of explosions just behind the house, sirens and then Thursday morning power went out. Finally got it back this morning. All of us over here were out. 47 was closed just North of Judd St. Cause of downed trees and power lines too. What's weird about it, we've probably seen each other and don't even know it. Should have called Eddie. I would have brought you some power. You're literally 10 blocks away on the same side of town...... I don't bite ya know.
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Post by zila1 on Feb 25, 2023 12:11:34 GMT -5
You're probably right Jon. We've probably seen each other a hundred times. I'm always running errands all over the place in town. This is too weird. LOL
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Feb 25, 2023 12:16:55 GMT -5
You're probably right Jon. We've probably seen each other a hundred times. I'm always running errands all over the place in town. This is too weird. LOL I'll be driving past your place tomorrow. Will be taking my old VW 02 MK4 Jetta to the junk yard, Rt 14 autoparts. Has 298,852 miles on it. Finally got the wife something new. It's done me well for 3 years only paid 500 bucks for it. The junk yard will give me 445$ for it if I drive it in, which I'll do. Anyhow, Rob (Bobby bluz) from TPU forums is on his way for some hardware trading. He lives up by Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Feb 25, 2023 14:05:00 GMT -5
Anyhow, Rob (Bobby bluz) from TPU forums is on his way for some hardware trading. He lives up by Milwaukee Wisconsin. Tell him Scotty says hi.
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Post by zila1 on Feb 25, 2023 16:55:24 GMT -5
You got damned good service out of that one. Nearly 300,000 miles on that sucker. Wow. Yeah, that place is like 2 minutes from me. I have to be in Schaumburg tomorrow. The weather will be nice. I have to clean up a place I'm putting up for sale there. Gotta finish emptying it out. I got a couple more trips I think before it's ready. Don't want to own property anymore......except for the place I'm living in. I'm so glad this ice storm is done with. Sheesh.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Feb 25, 2023 17:55:00 GMT -5
I'm so glad this ice storm is done with. Sheesh. We're getting another one Monday night. O boy.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Feb 25, 2023 19:04:01 GMT -5
You got damned good service out of that one. Nearly 300,000 miles on that sucker. Wow. Yeah, that place is like 2 minutes from me. I have to be in Schaumburg tomorrow. The weather will be nice. I have to clean up a place I'm putting up for sale there. Gotta finish emptying it out. I got a couple more trips I think before it's ready. Don't want to own property anymore......except for the place I'm living in. I'm so glad this ice storm is done with. Sheesh. Yeah, we may buy some property and maybe open an airbnb or something. Just some thoughts the wife and have had lately. I hope to retire from working for other people in the next 5 to 10 years. An early retirement would be pretty nice. See what life brings.... Good luck with your sale though. I'm hoping you make the best profits from your property sale!
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Post by george on Feb 25, 2023 19:50:05 GMT -5
Forecast seem here at 60th+ degrees north indicate that coming week might be mild in temperatures here. Often the Jan-Feb is the toughest, night temps dip "pretty" good. But we surely have had a fair share of snowfall(OTOH this not the worst, over the past decades). Here we have this effect, the "warm" sea pump the clouds, then clouds dump their load over these coastal regions.
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Post by zila1 on Mar 10, 2023 9:21:55 GMT -5
This time of year is always weird here. On Wednesday I was washing my cars in my driveway. It was a beautiful sunny 45 degrees. Today it's cold and I have about 9 inches of snow out on my driveway. I'm sitting here sipping my coffee and getting myself ready to go out and start my snow blower and clean up my property. My nerve damage is gonna be bitching at me today. That's okay, I have plenty of whiskey and rum in the house.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Mar 10, 2023 10:26:24 GMT -5
It's comming for me too.
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Post by zila1 on Mar 10, 2023 12:55:09 GMT -5
It's that heavy stuff Scottie. Heavy wet snow on top with a few inches of slush underneath it. I had to quit. I can't do anymore today. I used my snow blower but even that was bogging down. In the back I can't get the snow blower in there so it's all by hand back there. Got most of it done but I couldn't finish up in the back part of the house. I got the important part done and that's what matters. I'm aching now. I think I will have a soak in the jet tub later.
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Post by zila1 on Mar 31, 2023 15:32:29 GMT -5
Well, Jonny and I are under an EXTREME TORNADO WATCH from 3 P.M. - 11:00 P.M. today. We're looking at some possible very severe weather headed our way. The atmosphere is really churned up here. We went from cold to warm in a very short period of time. I was wearing a jacket last night when I went out to get some dinner to now having shirt sleeve weather. Spring is trying to make it's break thru appearance here. I was outside a few minutes ago and you can just feel it. The air feels like it's all charged up. Our cell phones are all charged up, fresh batteries in our flash lights, backup sump pump has a fully charged battery and candles are set around the house in case I need to light them. Gonna batten down the hatches here. That changing between Winter and Spring.
Edit: it's getting really dark now and it's only 3:30 in the afternoon.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Mar 31, 2023 17:06:03 GMT -5
I won't be in town until tomorrow. Hope I don't come home to a missing house and dogs and house sitter. My old man's over there lol.
No place like home, no place like home.... oh look it just went by on the toll way!
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Post by george on Mar 31, 2023 17:44:50 GMT -5
Over here, at 60th north, winter does not want to budge. Night time temp. goes down to -10-15'C, while at daytime, barely gets close to 0'C.
Usually by now, all snow would be gone, ice cracking etc. Not this year. The average for over the years, the daily temp would stay above 0'C after 15-24th of April at my locations.
The sun trying hard to keep the cold at bay.
Those people around&below 66th parallel here have even more shitty, snowfall almost every day, temps hovering around -25'C.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Mar 31, 2023 18:00:34 GMT -5
Winter finally over where I'm at. Thank the gods.
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Post by Bones on Mar 31, 2023 20:00:08 GMT -5
Well, Jonny and I are under an EXTREME TORNADO WATCH from 3 P.M. - 11:00 P.M. today. We're looking at some possible very severe weather headed our way. The atmosphere is really churned up here. We went from cold to warm in a very short period of time. I was wearing a jacket last night when I went out to get some dinner to now having shirt sleeve weather. Spring is trying to make it's break thru appearance here. I was outside a few minutes ago and you can just feel it. The air feels like it's all charged up. Our cell phones are all charged up, fresh batteries in our flash lights, backup sump pump has a fully charged battery and candles are set around the house in case I need to light them. Gonna batten down the hatches here. That changing between Winter and Spring. Edit: it's getting really dark now and it's only 3:30 in the afternoon. Yeah, you know what to do. Will probrably be that way Sunday if not tomorrow for us, the frontal boundary line is once again on approach and raising hell all the way. ATM they say it will weaken as it approaches but I'll believe that when it happens. You guys right now are in the mixing bowl part of it with the hot and cold stuff coming together. Stay alert and be safe.
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Post by zila1 on Mar 31, 2023 20:06:22 GMT -5
Yup, all the alarms are going off now. Tornado sirens in town are going off. My phone is going crazy with that emergency alert going off.
Edit: My street looks like a river. Looks like it's coming apart. Kinda pretty though. Looks like white water rapids in front of my house. Tons of water out there. It's coming down in buckets.
Nice and quiet now. Looks like the major stuff is over now. Coming out of winter can be dangerous sometimes.
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Post by Bones on Mar 31, 2023 23:37:05 GMT -5
Yes it can be, we're about to get into the dangerous time of the year when you have Winter and Summer slugging it out.
If we get through April OK it's much better afterwards, we may have a few storms at the beginning/first few days of May but the end of April for us is normally the end and the worst of it. We always get the worst of it about then.
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Post by zila1 on Apr 1, 2023 1:02:46 GMT -5
This storm was huge Rods. It covered the entire state at one time. In fact part of the storm was in Wisconsin as well. Huge! Fast moving with 75-106MPH straight line winds. At one point when the tornado sirens were going off I could hear that freight train sound everyone talks about when there is a tornado around but of course it was too dark to see and I'm sure if it was out there it was rain wrapped. Pretty scary night here Rods.
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Post by Bones on Apr 1, 2023 1:52:37 GMT -5
The one we had come through during the outbreak of 4-26-2011 was BAD - I personally believe it was the worst we've ever had come through here to date. The tornado was at least a mile wide (Possibly wider) with seriously powerful winds but also wasn't rain-wrapped as you'd think except if you were really close to it. This thing was so black it could be seen anyway even though the sun was down and gone - That's how black it was and had a look almost like a black liquid quickly spinning in a caudron while bubbling/boiling. We got a really sinister "Feel" from it while watching and to this very day I cannot recall EVER seeing lightning bolts coming down and going sideways at the same time before or since that one came through. And another thing I recall was this eerie "Silence" while it was passing where we saw it. The funnel from where we were was about 2-3 miles max away from it at one point but even with the lightning flashing we didn't hear any thunder - I mean none during the time we could see it until it had passed on to the North towards the lake (Lake Martin). I know the ones today were bad too and things are only getting started this year with them.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Apr 1, 2023 9:40:38 GMT -5
This storm was huge Rods. It covered the entire state at one time. In fact part of the storm was in Wisconsin as well. Huge! Fast moving with 75-106MPH straight line winds. At one point when the tornado sirens were going off I could hear that freight train sound everyone talks about when there is a tornado around but of course it was too dark to see and I'm sure if it was out there it was rain wrapped. Pretty scary night here Rods. It was really close to you Eddie. In Belvidere looks like 1 person lost their life and some 20 or more injured. Ah yes, the start of spring is here. Nothing new for the NW suburbs of Chicago though. It's not really new news in my opinion.
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Post by zila1 on Apr 1, 2023 10:29:48 GMT -5
No nothing new for us here Jon. It's only new when the 90MPH winds are stroking your ass. ROFLMAO. But yeah, it was really close Jon. When the tornado sirens went off here I could hear that wall of wind going over us here. Thank God it went over us. Yeah, The Apollo Theatre in Belvedere took a direct 90MPH hit. That's only 20 miles away.
Edit: it's strange to say but when something like that is close to you, you can feel it. The air has a different feel to it. I knew it was close. But that roof on The Belvedere Theatre was probably very old. Just peeled right off.
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Post by revin on Apr 1, 2023 11:44:11 GMT -5
I was in the Joplin Mo 2011 tornado. It was hell. Never in my life did i think i'd get lost on roads i rode my bike on and drove on for 5 decades. 160+ people died But the scariest part was it took 40 minutes to pass 13 miles There was so much wierd shit that happened, like 2x4 go thru a curb , Street Level ! And concrete parking stays Staked into the ground removed. Some said there was 300 mph winds in it. I forget how many thousands of feet the debris cloud high was, People found shit 70 miles away
Also i have some videos of it, and before it "started" I had my grandson outside, and we kept hearing this "thunder", non stop, it was clear over us, but west was "cloudy, my grandson said "Why that thunder be so stupid. Yea stupid thunder, we're gonna die, we all gonna die" I Kid you not !! he is on tape sawing that, then we hear the tornado siren's start, still just "cloudy" over us, 5 min later it was hell starting.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Apr 1, 2023 12:41:04 GMT -5
Ain't scared of tornados. Hurricane is different for me. We went on this cruise and that's all I can think the entire time was gonna die. Even in the off season. Not even a single rain cloud the whole time....
The occasional little tornados we have up here in the top of the plains are usually pretty small and half don't touch down and more than half that do are minimal damage and low winds.
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Post by zila1 on Apr 1, 2023 13:20:48 GMT -5
I'm the opposite. The hurricane gives a warning that it's coming so you can prepare for it. You can get out of it's way. The tornado on the other hand is on you within minutes to even seconds and has the same destructive force or better than a hurricane and concentrates that on you in just a few minutes time. And as big as they can be they can actually sneak up on you. I have had experiences with tornados. I don't like them at all. I was around for the one in Plainfield, Il. Not Good. That was a summertime one. I was in a hurricane once while visiting my grandmother in Puerto Rico. I was young and stupid and was outside playing in it. I thought it was a joke. But you mention tornado to me and I'm looking for cover. Weird how that works. Big winter snowstorms scare me pretty good too. I guess cause the cold turns me into a helpless, crippled old bastard. Ain't this a bitch, we had a Springtime storm yesterday and it was cold and snowing this morning. And we have 50MPH wind gusts. It sure does feel like winter out there. Hands hurt like hell today.
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