Weathermania!

davescharf wrote:

You mean you aren’t in Palm Springs?

Not until next month and only for a week or so.

If the boss retires before I do (which I hope she does) I can work from home/any where including somewhere with a better climate!

Greyeagle wrote:

davescharf wrote:

You mean you aren’t in Palm Springs?

Not until next month and only for a week or so.

If the boss retires before I do (which I hope she does) I can work from home/any where including somewhere with a better climate!

I'll be there in 32 days. But who's counting?

Where do you stay? My parents have a place in Palm Desert, great vacation option for us!

We are thinking about going there some winter or for Spring Break. We opted to go to San Diego instead for a kid free weekend next month because we could get a relatively inexpensive non stop flight there

My sister owns a house in La Quinta. They were at PGA West but moved to a different place. This will be my first time at the new digs.

That's a neat area. My parents are in an area called The Lakes in Palm Desert, basically across Cooke from the huge Marriott complex.

Love San Diego and a great place to bring kids, we brought YE and his sister one year over Thanksgiving and had a wonderful time. We started there and ended in Palm Springs before going home and the trek up the mountain to see the Mt. Polymer observatory was wicked cool. If you're looking for a cool outdoor eating option look at George's Ocean Terrace in La Jolla. Great views, especially at sunset, and the food was tremendous when the boss and I ate there.

I didn’t know it could be too cold for blinkers to work. I turned on the right one, nothing happened for five seconds and then the left one started flashing. Sometimes they wouldn’t even come on.

Can you put antifreeze in the blinker fluid?

Is it a BMW? I've noticed BMW turn signals don't often work when the weather is warm.....

Definitely check the blinker fluid.

We just moved to a new house and the amount of condensation and some ice build up around the windows is concerning. Not sure what to do about it.

A new house recently built or a new home to you?

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I find that this blinker fluid doesn't freeze up. It’s a hefty penny, but worth every penny.

I think there was a pretty in depth convo about that a year ago on here if you search back. That’s about all the help I can provide except to move to a warmer climate.

If recent new construction & has an air exchanger then run the exchanger more often.

For frozen turn signals / blinkers, roll down the window and use arm signals like a old school biker. ?

I wonder if they even teach kids the arm signals in driver's ed anymore

If you have an in home humidifier checking the settings and turn it down a little bit. We usually have to do that in the winter but if you start getting shocked with everything then turn it back up

Is the ice build up on the inside? You may have some seals broken and the water is seeping up under them and freezing. We have a little bit of this every year but since the house still has the original windows (38 years old) we are planning to finally replace them this year I think

On the south side of Mille Lacs it was an invigorating -27 @ sunrise and has "warmed" to a balmy -17.

Have you ever been impacted by the spring ice migration? The videos are amazing/scary and I’d imagine the south and east shores are more susceptible.

No. We are in Wahkon Bay. I look out at Half Moon Island and I have seen ice piled up into the trees on the north end.

When the wind is the right way I've seen both Spirit ( the island you see off 169) and Hennepin (off 47) totally covered 30' + with ice. The videos out there really are something. Back when tBeliever was in grade school my parents came & took her and her older sister to see it at Izatys. Kate was on the news with the comment "It's cool".

Both, sort of. House built in 2010. New to us

"Any time you feel like your job is pointless, remember there are people that install turn signals on BMWs."

Right, [mention]Armadillo[/mention]?

Well the front windows are also frozen shut right now so maybe I’ll just slap a BMW logo on the hood and call it good.

It’s a little concerning for being windows installed 12 years ago. If you have a humidifier, I would check that like [mention]davescharf[/mention] mentioned. You could also look into insulating the windows for the remainder of winter.

Yeah... My windows will not be getting any ice. It's 5% humidity in here... :biggrin2:

Whenever I feel overwhelmed in my job, and wonder whether my meager efforts are in vain, I'm going to try to remember this video taken last week and try to remember that I don't have it that bad.

The Google says the Sahara is 25%

What in the Sam Scratch is a "turn signal?"

It's that extra thing that you have no clue how to use. Kinda like that extra screw or two when you build something you bought from IKEA.

That’s funny, I literally just finished building 2 things from IKEA minutes ago for the daughters dorm room. Lots of extra screws, I appreciate it but it’s also mildly concerning.

It appears we may get some snow out here in the sticks.

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Fargo cancelled schools for today last night about 9pm ahead of a predicted 6-8” of snow. Currently there is maybe 2” on the ground and it’s about done snowing.

I hate even bringing up how it was when I was a kid, but how soft we have gotten in this day and age is really worrisome.

Mankato did the same thing last night. We have about 3" of snow on the ground and the snow flakes are really small now, barely accumulating at this point. I don't see getting the 6"-8" they thought we would.

I don't disagree, but I'd guess that with the staffing issues going on right now, schools are probably looking for any reason to cancel in-person classes.

We also have become an extremely litigious society. Find a reason to sue anybody. If you are a Supt. of a school district I have to believe that there is legal advice rendered on calling off classes.

Our despicable EB neighbor actually told us once that she looks for class action lawsuits to join to see if she can get a few bucks thrown her way to go away. We no longer have anything to do with her. BTW.

Didn't Shakespeare write something about, "1st we kill all the lawyers."

[mention]SkiUMahLaw[/mention] , You excluded of course! ?

Based on the radar right now it looks to me like we're going to get more than what the weather guys were predicting last night on the 10:00pm news. Traffic to and from the game tonight should be lots of fun!

Let's not be hasty. He knew what he was getting into...

I'm a winter person through and through... I love the snow. The only real negative about the snow when I lived in Mpls. was when it snowed during the day. My apt. complex was in the downtown area and by time I got home the sidewalks were mostly trampled down, making it more difficult to shovel and remove the snow. Now it's a breeze living in the burbs and snowing during the day. Just get home, fire up the snow blower and run it up and down the drive way and shovel the walk way to the house!!!

Snow picked back up here in Mankato...big flakes falling now. Might hit that 6"- 8" mark now.

Some might put me first on the list even!

I would add to this that with distance learning now understood as a readily available option, why might districts even take the risks. Seems like we will see more snow days from districts going forward and being earlier to pull the trigger just to avoid problems, and go with the distance days instead. There was a limit of 11 total distance days in a year prior to covid, but I think the Dept of Ed has pretty much waived that since.

I believe that is why so many schools pulled the trigger last night to close schools. A four day weekend might make sense right now.

Downtown MPLS windy and blowing snow right now

Older generations crapping on younger generations is such a tired trope. It’s a different world, stop complaining about it.

I only have the observation of how distance learning went for my 3 grandkids. It went fine but the 2 oldest had both been NHS inductees as Jrs and very good students. Both in college when distance learning became prevalent.

Youngest just turned 10 & is in a Spanish immersion program in a STEM school. Stay at home mom & they have super turbo powered internet speed so again no problem.

I think it is the kids that need more 1 on 1 help who loose out on distance learning. Also kids in poor, rural districts. Then the rural districts are the ones that close. Last year in the worst of the shutdown the districts up here had buses deliver both lesson plans and meals to the kids at home.

Got about 6-7 inches in the Ridgedale area. Got windier as the day went on. Snow was a little heavy, too. Not quite heart attack snow, but it wasn't fluffy, either.

Haven’t had that good wet snow to make a snowman this year. It’s pretty much all fluffy and perfect snow for skiing.

As a person who has friends with children in preschool/elementary school, they seem to prefer early cancelation when it comes to work and planning childcare. Especially for those that are back to working in the office. Probably quite a bit easier to find someone who can watch the kids at 8-9pm the night before than at 530-630am the morning of.

I'd guess I got between 5-6" here, all told.

Not one single stinking flake.?I'm more than okay with that.

"Maybe" 3 inches. Fairly powdery and not a big deal.

….to easy…. ?