COLD!

[Eddo Rogue]

Battery powered underwear = problem solved.

Amazon.com

With bluetooth.

 

[Curious Hound]

With bluetooth.

I don't think there is anything down there with which I want to communicate via bluetooth.

 

[Eddo Rogue]

I don't think there is anything down there with which I want to communicate via bluetooth.

Pretty soon even milk cartons will have bluetooth, and an app....to tell you when its empty or gone bad.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Yeah. 24 degrees here (and dropping) means most of you guys are REALLY freezing your nutz off.....

GF said when she lived in Nebraska, they didn't cancel school till it got to negative double digits, because some kids had to walk!

When I was in grade school some enterprising individual figured out a trick. When it is freaking burr @$$ cold and you unplug the school busses... school gets canceled.

They are better than they used to, generally when I was in school it took an act of god to get school cancelled and I didn't even have A/C until my senior year, last year it seemed like they canceled if the wind was too strong. Now they just go to remote learning so it has kind of came full circle.

 

[Dirtman]

Pretty soon even milk cartons will have bluetooth, and an app....to tell you when its empty or gone bad.

My generator has bluetooth and for the life of me I cannot figure out why.

 

[RonD]

I get Blue tooth now and then, especially in blueberry season, but never really used for anything

 

[Dirtman]

Some STD medications can turn your teeth blue...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Some STD medications can turn your teeth blue...

Probably not how ol Herold got his name way back when...

Harald Bluetooth - Wikipedia

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[cbxer55]

Six degrees and snowing like a muh-fugger here in Oklahoma City area. Supposed to be -7 tonight. We've never had a low that low, so it's a new record.

More than 150 million Americans under Winter Storm Warnings, Ice Storm Warnings, Winter Storm Watches, or Winter Weather Advisories

Welcome to the new Grand Solar Minimum "Many areas east of the Rockies and west of the Appalachians will witness dangerous and record-breaking cold into the first half of the upcoming week," warns the National

www.iceagenow.info

 

[RonD]

Going to be some busted water pipes in Oklahoma City area

 

[19Walt93]

I went to grades 3-6 in a school built in the 1850's with a heating system slightly newer. One day it was -40 so we wore our coats in the classroom because the heating system couldn't keep up. By 10 am it was cold enough that they sent us home, once there I took off my coat, put on a sweater and went skiing on the hill across the road . Waiting for the bus that morning was tough. We didn't even hit -20 last winter and this year I think -6 has been it. The last week of January and first week of February are usually the coldest.

 

[Roert42]

I went to grades 3-6 in a school built in the 1850's with a heating system slightly newer.

So it was only a few years old at that point?

 

[cbxer55]

Going to be some busted water pipes in Oklahoma City area

Not if people are smart enough to keep their faucets dripping. We've been below freezing since Monday the 8th. And all the local snews channels constantly remind everyone to drip their faucets. Mine have been since last Monday.

 

[MikeG]

They don't bury the pipes deep enough here. Fortunately, the ground doesn't freeze all that often but when it does.....

Got out a little this morning which wasn't the brightest idea on my part, but the roads had been dry the previous couple of days. We had mist coming down when it was just over 20 degrees.... can you guess what that did to the roads? 2wd was fun, the BFGs did OK, and verified that RABS is working Frankly I was surprised it started at all. I was a little concerned on one long uphill, but at about 25mph it never slipped a tire. Automatics are definitely superior to manuals for feathering the throttle, and also don't cause surprise engine braking when you let off.

Among other strange things, near the top of the same hill, was a Cherokee slid off and abandoned on the shoulder. There was hardly any slope at that point. Pretty sure my truck would have just driven right off if I had stopped it in the grass there, ground wasn't frozen and the tires of the Cherokee had barely made a rut. Dunno. Probably scared the crap out of the driver and someone else came and got them? It had been there a while and red-tagged.

The Mazda 3 did a little better on the return trip. 4 wheel ABS is a huge improvement over RABS, but the tires on the car don't have squat for traction and maybe less than the truck does. Probably wrong tread compound. First and second are treacherous, too much torque. Third is much better if you can get to about 20 mph.

Coming down a long downhill in the 3, of course there was a car that appeared to be stopped at the bottom in the slow lane. A Super Duty was gaining on me pretty fast in the left lane (I guess people who own full sized 4x4 trucks don't think about the truck weighing 6,000 pounds) so I eased over on the shoulder and just let off the gas. Catching up to the car, it was moving, barely, with the hazards on, just before a bridge. Oh and TxDOT likes to put curves on the road just before bridges, whoever does that ought to be flogged.

By then the Super Duty had passed, so got in left lane and went around the crawling 5-series Beemer. I mean the dude was barely crawling, so yeah I guess he was a hazard...... I think people don't realize that you don't have turn signals when you have hazards on?

About the time I cleared the bridge, and got back in the right lane at about 25 mph, a 3-series Beemer whizzed by both of us. Go figure......

You know it's icy when the WIND is blowing your vehicle around. Turned north and it was a hell of a time keeping it pointed down the road, cross-wind must have been just about right (or wrong as the case may be).

Thought I was done with this shit when I moved south. Spent the rest of the afternoon splitting some wood, just in case we lose power, and (re) covering faucets and thawing one of them out with a hair dryer.

 

[Blmpkn]

When I was in grade school some enterprising individual figured out a trick. When it is freaking burr @$$ cold and you unplug the school busses... school gets canceled.

They are better than they used to, generally when I was in school it took an act of god to get school cancelled and I didn't even have A/C until my senior year, last year it seemed like they canceled if the wind was too strong. Now they just go to remote learning so it has kind of came full circle.

Someone crafty "gave" us a snow-day when I was in high-school by using (presumably) their pops plow truck to push 7 foot snowbanks in front of all the doors of the school. All the other schools in the district had to go except us lol.