My God it's cold!

[perry]

I begin heating my strike water this morning and the temperature outside is four degrees F!

I got me fingers stuck to the side of me mash tun! (I Know you guys in the midwest deal with this all the time, but for here, this is cold.)

No licking the boiler today!

-p

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Where are you? Actually, we haven't been that cold yet this year. I personally like "real" winters so I'm quite disappointed with the weather this year. Although I know I'm in the minority.

 

[Orfy]

I've got annual plants that have kept going and are ready to bud again.
A lot of my perennial plants are budding already, not good if we get a late winter.

I've never licked my boiler. I have caressed my fermenter though. (Only when full of beer)

 

[Hopfan]

Where are you? Actually, we haven't been that cold yet this year. I personally like "real" winters so I'm quite disappointed with the weather this year. Although I know I'm in the minority.

No minority, I love the snow and can't wait until we get some.

 

[david_42]

We're on our fourth day without getting above freezing and nights around 16F, with another week of the same. Not all that cold, but way colder than normal. I think my RV's water system is history. I drained it, but don't normally blow out the pipes and the emergency heater died.

Ever notice how emergency equipment almost always fails during emergencies? Never during preventative maintenance.

 

[drummer3]

Do you often lick the boiler, or is that a local term for something else?

 

[perry]

Oh, yeah! Boiler-licking is a local tradition here in the Eastern Sierra! No, I just remember this story about this little kid who got his tongue stuck to a pump handle.... I think that was a Minnesota story....

I love winter too, and snow, and last year at this time we had about six feet already... this year, squat. Six feet of wind, and until yesterday, warm temps... Blech.

The only bad part about the cold this morning is the fact that my picnic tap is frozen and I have to wait a bit to draw a pint.... I'm gonna check it right now.

cheers, -p

 

[david_42]

Sounds better than my plans, roadside trash pickup at 30F. Thought I'd take the RV down. Started fine, ran for 30 seconds & now electrically dead.

 

[drummer3]

Eastern Sierra! Man, you don't know how lucky you've got it! I would LOVE to live out there. Except for trips I've lived in the midwest forever. Don't get me wrong, I'll always like it here, but it's time to move, probably south west.

 

[boo boo]

Very little snow here this year. In fact the temps have been hovering around the freezing point and up. The artic cold that is hammering the praries is supposed to move east and I guess we'll get it soon. I hate the cold. Me and Sam McGee would have got along.

 

[John Beere]

Nice day here is South GA - I never even put the top back on my Jeep and actually pulled the doors back off this morning... :cross:

 

[Ol' Grog]

FFFRRREEEZZZZZZING here!!! The whole state shut down yesterday. When it ices up, Oklahoma just closes.

 

[Reverend JC]

Scooped about 2" off the driveway this morn. Temps in the low teens, and actually i used a stiff bristle broom on the snow around the front of the garage. worked like a champ.

Shoule be getting another 5" or more tomorrow. If we hit 20 degrees i am going to brew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

 

[Brewtopia]

Snowing downtown Seattle right now. It's actaully been snowing for about 3 hours now. Light but steady. Fine with me though. I'm in the middle of my second batch, got the Football game on TV and beer in hand.

 

[david_42]

Listen BT, NO MORE SNOW! Keep it up in Seattle, OK! I've got Ice on top of 5" of snow on ice on mud & the crazies want to go for another walk.

 

[Rhino17]

The wife and I just watched the gobal warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" last night. It pretty much sums up why we're having the crazy weather we are experiencing.

I live in Southern Ontario, and first week of the new year, a bunch of local golf courses re-opened for the week, it was so damn warm.

If you haven't seen "An Inconvenient Truth", you should rent it. Looks like we're all going to hell in a hand basket pretty quick.

Rhino

 

[dirtymartini]

I just sold my snowmobile....before it's too late and there really are no more winters here in the Northeast.
I'll use the money to buy a AG system

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

Ever notice how emergency equipment almost always fails during emergencies? Never during preventative maintenance.

Isn't that one of those "It's always in the last place you look for it" things? At what other time do you use emergency equipment than an emergency?




BTW, it's -10F here...

 

[John Beere]

The wife and I just watched the gobal warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" last night. It pretty much sums up why we're having the crazy weather we are experiencing.

I live in Southern Ontario, and first week of the new year, a bunch of local golf courses re-opened for the week, it was so damn warm.

If you haven't seen "An Inconvenient Truth", you should rent it. Looks like we're all going to hell in a hand basket pretty quick.

Rhino

Not starting a global warming debate, but we are currently experiencing El Nino / La Nina conditions - http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ - which is more likely what is causing the erratic weather right now...

Quote from article:
"There is an increased probability of observing El Niño-related effects over North America during January-March 2007, including warmer-than-average temperatures over western and central Canada, and over the northern United States, wetter-than-average conditions over portions of the U.S. Gulf Coast and Florida, and drier-than-average conditions in the Ohio Valley and in portions of the Pacific Northwest."

 

[david_42]

Emergency equipment should be routinely tested, with the exception of Purple K fire extinguishers. They're way too messy.

 

[Pumbaa]

Nice day here is South GA - I never even put the top back on my Jeep and actually pulled the doors back off this morning... :cross:

Cheesefood,
You want to post the graphic for this guy or should I?:fro:

If you haven't seen "An Inconvenient Truth", you should rent it. Looks like we're all going to hell in a hand basket pretty quick.

You couldnt get me to watch that BS if you cut off my eyelids and glued a HD TV to my face

Emergency equipment should be routinely tested, with the exception of Purple K fire extinguishers. They're way too messy.

TEST THE PKP! TEST THE PKP!!
better yet . . . get the new guy to test it in the special "testing booth"

 

[John Beere]

Cheesefood,
You want to post the graphic for this guy or should I?:fro:

If it makes you feel any better, I'm flying to Madison, WI for work next week...

 

[user 574]

Probably not going to get any better for you guys east of me either. We're supposed to be in the 50's during the day and upper 20's at night for the next couple o days and its really windy. That usually spells bad news for everyone east of me .

 

[user 574]

If it makes you feel any better, I'm flying to Madison, WI for work next week...

Gotta head down to State St to warm your bones!!

 

[Ize]

If it makes you feel any better, I'm flying to Madison, WI for work next week...

Yer gonna LOVE this then JB....

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick.php?site=MKX&map.x=158&map.y=148

Sorry man...

Ize

 

[John Beere]

WHEW!! At least the weather looks clear... last december my colleage flew up there in a bad storm and the flaps on the wings froze up where they couldn't open for the landing - so they had to land at full speed. She said they first circled the airport for about an hour to slow the plane down as much as possible, dumped the fuel, told everyone to "assume the position", and came barrelling in for a landing! And as they are circling the airport, all she's watching is the emergency vehicles out on the run way preparing for the worst.

They were fine, but man that would have sucked...

 

[Ize]

WHEW!! At least the weather looks clear... last december my colleage flew up there in a bad storm and the flaps on the wings froze up where they couldn't open for the landing - so they had to land at full speed. She said they first circled the airport for about an hour to slow the plane down as much as possible, dumped the fuel, told everyone to "assume the position", and came barrelling in for a landing! And as they are circling the airport, all she's watching is the emergency vehicles out on the run way preparing for the worst.

They were fine, but man that would have sucked...

Wow, that's nightmare. Pass. Roughest I've had was sitting on the tarmac at O'Hare 2 nights before Christmas a couple of years ago in the blowing snow. Hour and a half sitting there with a pregnant SWMBO and a 7 year old. Trust me, it was a party...

Ize

 

[EdWort]

We're getting into bunker mode here in Austin, TX. The grocery store was chaos with empty shelves. We're expecting our annual ice storm this weekend. Figures it would happen on a holiday weekend the very first time my company decided to give us the day off.

Shouldn't affect my brewing day tomorrow. I do my mash & sparge in the kitchen and the boil just outside the door out of the wind.

In any case we have food, beer, & gas for the generator.

 

[Pumbaa]

We're getting into bunker mode here in Austin, TX. The grocery store was chaos with empty shelves. We're expecting our annual ice storm this weekend. Figures it would happen on a holiday weekend the very first time my company decided to give us the day off.

Shouldn't affect my brewing day tomorrow. I do my mash & sparge in the kitchen and the boil just outside the door out of the wind.

In any case we have food, beer, & gas for the generator.

When I was in the Navy I spent about a year in Corpus Christi and laughed me arse off when they got their "annual ice storm". The whole town was shut down and I swear I was the only one out on SPID when I was making my normal after work trip to B&J's for beer and pizza. When I got there (in my usual 5 minutes) there were only 6 cars in the lot. 2 of them had Wisconsin plates, 1 from Minnesota, 1 from Illinois, 1 from New York, and 1 from Texas (the owner who "got trapped there")

 

[perry]

Well, here's the update... the temp never got above 15 during Saturday's brew session..... the hardest part was keeping water off the deck and keeping the hose thawed. I did spill some rinse water all over the place which froze almost instantly- damn near broke my neck.

But now! Now I've got ten gallons of stout bubbling happily away. I've never had a dull moment while brewing!

cheers- p