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#31 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Sun Jan 14, 2024 7:44 pm (Last edited: Sun Jan 14, 2024 7:45 pm)

Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #27
Zitat von soch im Beitrag #25
Zitat von Lee im Beitrag #22
Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #21
Looking at those winter photos above got me shivering..

Last night was a three dog night, -19F.
It's 16 F in our garage. Most winters it does not get below 32 F in the garage.

@Lee that's really cold. I think that last time I was even close to those double digit negative temps, was during my skiing years up in Lake Tahoe. Thankfully, and the nice thing, I can leave the snow, cold temps and high winds up in the mountains and come home to milder temps in the 50's and 60's.

Just think what the conditions were in the alpine regions of Iowa

It's flat and open up there so the wind can really howl.
Interstate 35 has gates at the on ramps in northern Iowa.

Lee
2022 R1250RS White Sport
Iowa, USA

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#32 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:45 pm

Zitat von Lee im Beitrag #31
Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #27
Zitat von soch im Beitrag #25
Zitat von Lee im Beitrag #22
Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #21
Looking at those winter photos above got me shivering..

Last night was a three dog night, -19F.
It's 16 F in our garage. Most winters it does not get below 32 F in the garage.

@Lee that's really cold. I think that last time I was even close to those double digit negative temps, was during my skiing years up in Lake Tahoe. Thankfully, and the nice thing, I can leave the snow, cold temps and high winds up in the mountains and come home to milder temps in the 50's and 60's.

Just think what the conditions were in the alpine regions of Iowa

Interstate 35 has gates at the on ramps in northern Iowa.

So, it wasn't some issue with the fine folks from Minnesota.

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#33 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Mon Jan 15, 2024 1:29 am

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It's flat and open up there so the wind can really howl.
Interstate 35 has gates at the on ramps in northern Iowa.[/quote]

Sounds like the Shirley Basin in Wyoming.

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#34 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:29 pm

In case you're wondering (or counting down like me), there are 66 days until the Vernal Equinox.

In other words....FOR-EV-ER!

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#35 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:32 pm

Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #34
In case you're wondering (or counting down like me), there are 66 days until the Vernal Equinox.

In other words....FOR-EV-ER!

You haven't even made it to the 29 weeks of February..........

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#36 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:43 am

Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #35
Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #34
In case you're wondering (or counting down like me), there are 66 days until the Vernal Equinox.

In other words....FOR-EV-ER!

You haven't even made it to the 29 weeks of February..........

Days, you mean? And if so, you're right...add a day...67. Even worse...lol!

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#37 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:49 am

Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #36
Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #35
Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #34
In case you're wondering (or counting down like me), there are 66 days until the Vernal Equinox.

In other words....FOR-EV-ER!

You haven't even made it to the 29 weeks of February..........

Days, you mean? And if so, you're right...add a day...67. Even worse...lol!

You missed it..

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#38 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:21 am

Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #37
Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #36
Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #35
Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #34
In case you're wondering (or counting down like me), there are 66 days until the Vernal Equinox.

In other words....FOR-EV-ER!

You haven't even made it to the 29 weeks of February..........

Days, you mean? And if so, you're right...add a day...67. Even worse...lol!

You missed it..

Wouldn't be the first time...

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#39 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Tue Jan 16, 2024 11:40 pm

Some snow days are better than others...

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#40 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:48 pm

Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #39
Some snow days are better than others...

Those are now called "Remote Learning Days" and are counted as completed school days. As COVID nearly killed the office cubical, snow days no longer delay the end of the school year.

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#41 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:26 pm (Last edited: Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:27 pm)

Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #40
Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #39
Some snow days are better than others...

Those are now called "Remote Learning Days" and are counted as completed school days. As COVID nearly killed the office cubical, snow days no longer delay the end of the school year.

I regularly joke, "Thank God for Covid."

My employer was supposed to have videoconferencing capacity from before my hire date. They were dragging feet deciding which vendor with which to go. Covid make them take action...it only took a pandemic to get them to make a decision. More so, where we were allowed to remote from home a maximum of 2 days each week, now we just have one person cover the office since virtually everything we do we do online. Covid proved we didn't need to physically sit in the office to work. My dogs and I are happier for it.

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#42 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:40 pm

Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #41
Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #40
Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #39
Some snow days are better than others...

Those are now called "Remote Learning Days" and are counted as completed school days. As COVID nearly killed the office cubical, snow days no longer delay the end of the school year.

I regularly joke, "Thank God for Covid."

My employer was supposed to have videoconferencing capacity from before my hire date. They were dragging feet deciding which vendor with which to go. Covid make them take action...it only took a pandemic to get them to make a decision. More so, where we were allowed to remote from home a maximum of 2 days each week, now we just have one person cover the office since virtually everything we do we do online. Covid proved we didn't need to physically sit in the office to work. My dogs and I are happier for it.

We were the same, using an ancient Cisco IP phone system and Windows 7 laptops connecting to a Citrix virtual environment. It worked for the small number of people working remotely such as field workers like me given a laptop with a data SIM. The system frequently fell over once everyone was connecting via home wifi, so they had to rapidly upgrade to Windows 11 and start using Teams. During 2022 I went to the office about 3 times a month and their insistence that we had to be there more often was a factor in me taking early retirement last March.

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#43 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:14 pm (Last edited: Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:19 pm)

Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #40
Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #39
Some snow days are better than others...

Those are now called "Remote Learning Days" and are counted as completed school days. As COVID nearly killed the office cubical, snow days no longer delay the end of the school year.

In Iowa it's up to each school district. Not sure if our school district has that policy.
They have missed 4 days due to snow or cold the last week.
They tried it during COVID but I thought they decided it didn't work.

Lee
2022 R1250RS White Sport
Iowa, USA

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#44 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:09 pm

I should have said, "Some days with snow are better than others...". I didn't mean "snow day" as in, school's closed. Semantics, I guess.

But speaking of "snow days", I recall a blizzard in the mid-1950's when I lived in Morristown, NJ. The snow piled up 3 feet high and not just schools were closed...it was like...everything closed. Being about 8 years old meant a great time, but for my father who worked in NY City at one of the big banks it was anything but.

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#45 | RE: Winter - It was just biding its time datum

Thu Jan 18, 2024 5:44 pm

Oh, boy...a weather change last night. Instead of more snow, we got sleet and freezing rain. Our deck and driveway are sheets of ice this morning. I had to put a "Deck closed due to black ice" sign out, to warn people, and had to tip-toe just to get out and do that. The morning commute (thank God we're retired) must be a nightmare today.

My RS cannot wait for spring.

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