Oh, the weather outside is...

Oh, joy. Tonight's forecast is -56C (with wind chill). Without wind chill it's -45C.

The one good thing about this is that it will kill the pine beetles. They need prolonged exposure to -40C to die.

I canceled my home care appointment for today. I'm not making anyone come out in this weather for something that can wait a few days.
 
Supposed to be 31. Arrived at camp think it's supposed to be 28.

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Saturday not sure what I'll drink on Monday.

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So we're supposed to get 10-15cm of snow followed by rain which will freeze it into an indestructable mass that i will have to shovel tomorrow....... Anyone know where i can get a cheap jackhammer?
 
Lest anyone decide to complain that it's too hot or too cold, here's the overnight hourly forecast here, at 2:45 am:

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Flew from Syracuse NY to Oregon yesterday to help my wife drive back to Syracuse. I landed at Chicago O'Hare during a blizzard - this was the aircraft about 20 minutes after landing:
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There were lots of delays and cancellations because of the storm:
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This actually ended up working in my favor as I saw one of the delays was for an earlier flight on my next leg (Phoenix), so I was able to get put on standby, and it proved to be no problem getting onto the flight as there were 30 empty seats even after all of us standbys were loaded (i.e. a lot of other people didn't make it to Chicago for this flight).

Made it just in time into Phoenix: went right to the airline help desk, got my ticket upgraded for the earlier flight to Redmond OR, went to the bathroom (right next door to the help desk), and even though the gate was literally next to the bathroom they were already halfway thru the boarding for the flight. Long story short I made it into Redmond 6 hours sooner than originally planned, which considering the mess Chicago was is pretty incredible.
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And that's where my luck ran out. My wife and I toyed with trying to beat the storm hitting Oregon today, but we're going across Rt 20, which is an absolutely god-forsaken stretch of poorly maintained highway, so we're going to wait out the storm here in Madras, then head out on the heels of the storm tomorrow.
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Darsnan said:
Flew from Syracuse NY to Oregon yesterday to help my wife drive back to Syracuse. I landed at Chicago O'Hare during a blizzard - this was the aircraft about 20 minutes after landing:
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There were lots of delays and cancellations because of the storm:
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This actually ended up working in my favor as I saw one of the delays was for an earlier flight on my next leg (Phoenix), so I was able to get put on standby, and it proved to be no problem getting onto the flight as there were 30 empty seats even after all of us standbys were loaded (i.e. a lot of other people didn't make it to Chicago for this flight).

Made it just in time into Phoenix: went right to the airline help desk, got my ticket upgraded for the earlier flight to Redmond OR, went to the bathroom (right next door to the help desk), and even though the gate was literally next to the bathroom they were already halfway thru the boarding for the flight. Long story short I made it into Redmond 6 hours sooner than originally planned, which considering the mess Chicago was is pretty incredible.
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And that's where my luck ran out. My wife and I toyed with trying to beat the storm hitting Oregon today, but we're going across Rt 20, which is an absolutely god-forsaken stretch of poorly maintained highway, so we're going to wait out the storm here in Madras, then head out on the heels of the storm tomorrow.
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I have no real idea of the practicalities of such a trip, but I suspect if you are seriously going to drive for about 3,000 miles you will have more stories of the drive than the flight!! Good luck and take care.
 
Samson said:
I have no real idea of the practicalities of such a trip, but I suspect if you are seriously going to drive for about 3,000 miles you will have more stories of the drive than the flight!! Good luck and take care.
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Thanx! Oregon is great in that their Department of Transportation has a very well developed travel website which has webcams and current travel conditions, so we can "see" what our Rt 20 trip would have been like for today, and per the below it would be intimidating.

This will be our 4th trip from Oregon back to Syracuse, the previous 3 all done in late December and 3hrs farther west than we are now, so we've dealt with the weather before, and we've been making distance trips together now for over 30 years, so are well seasoned travelers in that sense. Usually this trip from Oregon takes us 3 days, I'd budgeted 4, but I'm thinking at least 5 days now what with us not leaving Oregon for the first day. We will see.
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Kyriakos said:
-40, -50, that is beyond death for me.
I am already very annoyed by -5 or how it feels atm.
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It's -43C here now. Supposed to get down to -45C. I added a doubled-over fleece blanket to the bedding last night, plus a sweater to what I was wearing. Maddy slept on top of me, which helped. I'm currently wearing 5 layers plus a fleece blanket and I'm still cold. And I am not one of the people in this building who lost heat. I'd suspect the warmest rooms in the building right now are probably the laundry rooms. They don't have windows.

So I don't have a lot of sympathy for anyone experiencing a piddling -5C. That's chilly in September/October. In January it would be considered a nice, warm day. Even -20 with no wind chill is a nice warm day as winter temperatures are reckoned here.

Provided you dress for it, of course. There are lots of places that carry inexpensive gloves, mittens, and toques, for instance, since you never know when you're going to need extras. I have two sets of gloves - one for warm-winter days, one for medium-cold days, and on the coldest days I wear both at once. One pair is knitted; the other is fleece.
 
I am wearing two layers, I just don't like the cold at all ^^
Sure, if I was wearing five layers, I wouldn't feel anything (other than on my face). But it's something I never had to do, as the temperature never gets lower than -10 something in this city.
 
Kyriakos said:
I am wearing two layers, I just don't like the cold at all ^^
Sure, if I was wearing five layers, I wouldn't feel anything (other than on my face). But it's something I never had to do, as the temperature never gets lower than -10 something in this city.
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Let me clarify, @Kyriakos. I am wearing 5 layers IN MY APARTMENT. In addition, I have a fleece blanket wrapped around me. I'm STILL cold. My hands are cold, and even my nose is cold.

The only things I can do to get warm would either be to do some laundry and hang out in the laundry room (noisy, but I do have ear protection, so it's doable), or go to bed. It's just past 8 pm, so it's far too early to go to bed.

If necessary, I can put a layer of newspaper between my blankets. That would make the bed toasty warm, but I wouldn't do it unless things get dire because it annoys Maddy to walk on blankets that crackle. But wearing a layer of newspaper in one's clothing is awkward at best. It doesn't really work if you have to move around.
 
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