Iceman, JC! Give us a break!

Post by **Greg D** » March 3, 2007, 12:16 am

Can't you guys keep some of this stuff up there where it belongs? Just nasty out there, lol. I was outside moving snow for 3 hours yesterday and we have a snowblower! Imagine it's even worse up by Matt & Kid according to the weather. Seriously though, hope everyone is OK out there. Been pretty dangerous round here. No picnic down south either though.

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » March 3, 2007, 8:54 am

greg check the temp dealie on my sig. It's gorgeous up here! Payback time for those who were golfing in December

Take care ya'll, even up here it's unusual to get backto back storm like that.

mikecarson · Post by **mikecarson** » March 3, 2007, 9:13 am

Been in the high 70s here all week, but cooled off last night. Only sposed to be in the 50s today, back up in the 60s/70s next week.

Gotta go mow the grass!

Willy_B · Post by **Willy_B** » March 3, 2007, 10:01 am

I see the problem Greg. You need to sell the snowblower, buy an ATV, and put a plow on it. I tend to have fun playing in the snow with it. When the snow starts hitting hard like this it just means Harley seasons right around the corner.

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » March 3, 2007, 12:38 pm

we have had hurricane strength winds all week here, seems to have stopped for a bit right now.at least its warmer when its windy.
i hope everyone is doing ok but have to say some places have had too much warm weather this winter, and are expecting it to always be that way and not preparing for it.

i have no idea why everyone does not just stay home or where they are when it gets that bad outside.taking chances driving makes absolutely no sense.if you are traveling in bad weather and get stranded in your vehicle
its your doing, you should have stayed home. if everyone did that there would not be so many problems.
also too many people expect the lights to always turn on with the flip of a switch and are clueless as to what to do when they dont.they think a power failure will never happen and therefore have no preparedness plans or skills.
do you have a generator?
do you have water stored or a way to get it without electricity?
do you have an alternate source of heat that does not need electricity to operate?
can your cooking stove even work without power? some new gas stoves need electricity because they have ignitors instead of a pilot light.that is plain dumb unless you have another way of cooking.
an all electric house is a bad idea.
get your act together, think, and make some plans as to how to deal without things you take for granted.it could save you.

Post by **Greg D** » March 3, 2007, 1:56 pm

In all honesty I really can't imagine living where Ice does, months of this on end. You do have some serious intestinal fortitude! If you have lived up there all your life I imagine that you're somewhat used to it, but still.... Those high winds must make for some really insane wind chills. At least down here even with the back to back storms it will be in the 40s and fifties the next few days, gonna get sloppy out, yuck. We do have a wood stove (the heating type) which has a blower for extra efficiency but it still heats the whole house with out the fan. I agree wholeheartedly on not traveling unless absolutely nessicary, it can be darn dangerous out there (especially with the morons who have no clue what they are doing out there). Stay warm and safe all.

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » March 3, 2007, 4:06 pm

Greg, i have only lived here 10 years and its not as bad as you all make it out to be.the summers make up for the winter by far.
also the worst cold is with no wind, even a light breeze brings up the temp a lot.
we have considered moving south, but only down to Homer by the ocean.a little warmer in the winter but a little cooler in the summer.i would like to live by or on the water and have a fishing boat and not need to pull it on a trailer all the time.

Post by **Greg D** » March 3, 2007, 6:25 pm

The snow and the cold still must be much worse up there, but I do know also that it makes a difference where in Alaska you are. Still you have my respect for doing it, but then I have seen the kind of scenery you have up there, I would almost consider that a decent trade. Some of the things that make up my spare time would not be as practical up there, but then moving to the southwest would make them even better. I am sure some of you can remember some of the RC Plane discussions that Skip, Lance and I have had from the old site.

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » March 4, 2007, 11:18 am

Greg D wrote:In all honesty I really can't imagine living where Ice does, months of this on end. You do have some serious intestinal fortitude!

I suppose if a guy is the outdoors, one with nature sort of guy, who likes to be constantly camping & foraging for one's self, it would be a dream come true to live there.
Then I see documentaries on the REAL hardcore folks in Alaska & the Yukon, who get their mail flown into them once a month & have to take a beat up snowmoslug across dangerous terrain, with the possible reality that with one slip in a river, they could freeze to death before they get thawed out...those people are absolutely NUTS!

Me, I'm damn near the polar opposite. I originate from Arizona & my motto has always been "I'd rather roast to death than freeze to death".

My idea of being "one with nature" is to live far enough out, where I can't see a nosy neighbor with the naked eye...but still be able to drive an hour for supplies.
To me, summertime means the kind of temperatures where you could easily fry an egg on the sidewalk...where you can sleep with the windows open, no covers & a fan blowing across the bed to keep the sweat from pooling. AAAAHHHHH!

Where whatever you're working on is warm to the touch & the gloves you wear are to keep you from bloodying your knuckles...not to keep your fingers from freezing when grasping a frozen wrench hard.
Where you can ride your motorcycle down the freeway during the daytime & it feels like you're in the world's largest blast furnace...that 80 mile an hour air coming at you is actually HOT!
Where the air can be so hot, you have to invent ways to keep your beer cold...where sitting in the shade, things can still be hot to the touch.
I love it!

Man, I feel warmer already.

No, none of my cars have working a/c either. I'm juuuust fine with that.

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » March 4, 2007, 12:41 pm

i dont know if you had a view of the lunar eclipse last night, they said on the mews that it would be too dark in the west before it happened to see it but here at 62 latitude the sun is still way in the south so because of that we had an extremely bright moon with strange shadows due to the angle.it was an excellent thing to see, almost as good as the northern lights we see on a regular basis.

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » March 4, 2007, 6:05 pm

i thought i would add that i met a guy from your area last week,he was a turkey farmer in Carthage,Mo. and sold his farm and brought his 4x4 kubota tractor up here with him.
said he has been here 2 years.we met him because he had an ad for firewood and we bought from him, lives only 3 miles away so he pulled the trailer load of wood behind the kubota, had hydraulic dump on the trailer and backed the whole thing over the snow and dumped it right where we wanted. turns out he bought a state land firewood lease and so we will likely get more wood.
i asked him about starting the kubota in the cold, lots of guys wont start their equipment below 0 he said he had the engine covered with heavy blankets and it fired up fine @ -20.

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » March 4, 2007, 6:51 pm

A guy from Missourri with a Japanese tractor, cutting wood in Alaska.

Sounds like a Canadian in a Kimono, making mint Juleps in Australia to me

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » March 4, 2007, 7:42 pm

JC what did you do with the extra 30 degrees you got today? you had me beat 50-20 so you should have been outside in a t-shirt working on your truck.

just 17* difference in the metric version but i only like that in the summer because its a lower number.

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » March 4, 2007, 7:59 pm

Ice Was flat-on-my-ass sick all last week tues-sat. Anitbiotics finally kicking in today, trying to catch up on some work I brought home. Strep throat, making it's way in to my lungs. My daughter has Pneumonia, was home for the same time. So.. not the healthiest place around here..

DocDave · Post by **DocDave** » March 5, 2007, 8:39 pm

Hasn't stopped snowing here for a month. I cant find my truck anymore, it's just a big drift. Up to 0 today though callin for a bit of rain in a few days and on the + side. Yehaa

ezernut9mm · Post by **ezernut9mm** » March 6, 2007, 12:32 am

ICEMAN6166 wrote:Greg, i have only lived here 10 years and its not as bad as you all make it out to be.the summers make up for the winter by far.
also the worst cold is with no wind, even a light breeze brings up the temp a lot.
we have considered moving south, but only down to Homer by the ocean.a little warmer in the winter but a little cooler in the summer.i would like to live by or on the water and have a fishing boat and not need to pull it on a trailer all the time.

my dispatcher's daughter lives in homer. says it's a real nice place to visit.

he's got a bumper sticker that says "spit happens". had to ask him what that meant.