Busse Combat Closed Due to Weather

Damn,

I am going bush for a week today and the forecast for where I will be says close to 100F each day and snakes in the mornings and evenings....!!!!!
 
Damn,

I am going bush for a week today and the forecast for where I will be says close to 100F each day and snakes in the mornings and evenings....!!!!!

Talking about snakes... Last week was the first time I have ever been scared of a snake in my life. I have seen hundreds of venomous snakes in my life spending a lot of time outdoors. (Just so you get the picture.)

I was helping a friend fell a tree next to some wetlands. All was well and the tree was cut. We walked off and came back after we ate some lunch. I had the chainsaw running and was pointing into the woods at another tree, when all of the sudden he yells slaps me on the shoulder and jumps back. I look down to see a water moccasin about 4' long traveling about as fast as a black racer. (I didn't know water moccasins could move that fast.) It was about 6-8" from my boots.

If it wanted me, it had me. I instinctively lowered the chainsaw with one hand and reved it while jumping back at the same time because I thought It was going to jump up and strike me. Too close.

He told me he stepped on it and thought it was a vine until it coiled up. When he jumped back, it took off towards me. That was just a bad day all around. Haven't been back in there since:)
 
Damn,

I am going bush for a week today and the forecast for where I will be says close to 100F each day and snakes in the mornings and evenings....!!!!!

Thanks for makin' me feel better... ;) ...Think I'd rather the ice & cold, mate! :D:D
 
36hrs. & counting...no power. Man, it's getting cold.
Chester Co., PA got frakked up.
Sitting in my truck to warm up, probably ggonna bug out for a warmer spot tonight...hope my water pipes don't freeze up!
Stay warm & safe folks. :)

Hey Jaxx! If you still have running water and you don't want the pipes to freeze, just leave a small trickle of water run in each faucet. That may be expensive if your town/ city charges for water though..... Running water will be much less likely to freeze

...or ... Shut off your main water inlet and open all the faucets and let them empty. Just saying.... From experience .... Luck
 
Hey Jaxx! If you still have running water and you don't want the pipes to freeze, just leave a small trickle of water run in each faucet. That may be expensive if your town/ city charges for water though..... Running water will be much less likely to freeze

...or ... Shut off your main water inlet and open all the faucets and let them empty. Just saying.... From experience .... Luck

Wise words, I've had pipes freeze many times. Especially with a second story bathroom with no heat on that floor. Letting water trickle is worth it just to have water at all.
 
We get frozen fog in the outer west Portland Metro area a lot, in rock creek and the more rural areas it's common. It's fog that exists at the edge of freezing temperatures, so that the fog develops, drifts down onto something as a small droplet and freezes there, it's so light that it can drift upward on the lightest breeze and stick to the undersides of things. Think light snow that coats every single surface (including the undersides of leaves), instead of just the tops of things through gravity. It will take a normal landscape and create a pure completely white winterscape in the matter of an hour - whiter than you get during heavy snowfall because of the non-gravity induced sticking nature of it.

Freezing fog is different than "Ice fog", which is where the air is so supercooled that the fog is literally a cloud of ice crystals. Freezing fog is just normal fog that freezes on contact, or freezes then falls onto things.


Hey, LVC! Where you been? Missed you around here.
 
Talk about weather, I live on the Oregon Coast and we just got bombed with 6" of snow in under 4 hours.

It's almost never that you see snow on the beach here.

Stay warm everyone....
 
"We're having a heat wave, tropical heat wave...." It's finally going to get above freezing today...supposedly!:cool::thumbup:
 
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