petitepedal Posted January 16, 2020 Share #1 Posted January 16, 2020 Air temp..windchill is like - 28. News says black ice is starting to form... I think yesterday was our only day without commute issues due to weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudge Posted January 16, 2020 Share #2 Posted January 16, 2020 Dang!! We are at 15° today. I have to get going. HoSmudge is at camp, so I have to do all the shoveling at home before work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted January 16, 2020 Share #3 Posted January 16, 2020 It was 1 F when I drove in to work. Driving is usually better for us at that temp as the black ice kind of freeze dries away below 15. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted January 16, 2020 Share #4 Posted January 16, 2020 Judas priest that's cold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr Posted January 16, 2020 Share #5 Posted January 16, 2020 Mid forties and rainy in Dallas. Camp is going to be muddy this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted January 16, 2020 Share #6 Posted January 16, 2020 12 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said: Judas priest that's cold And it's heading your way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted January 16, 2020 Share #7 Posted January 16, 2020 1 minute ago, BR46 said: And it's heading your way. coldest forecasted day in the SE mitten is Monday, 24°/13° Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal Posted January 16, 2020 Author Share #8 Posted January 16, 2020 Damn...forgot my purse and phone and to turn around only 3/4 of a mile from home...parked outside to run in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder Posted January 16, 2020 Share #9 Posted January 16, 2020 -5F and -23F at 9:00am MST, 10:00am not posted yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD Posted January 16, 2020 Share #10 Posted January 16, 2020 8 hours ago, petitepedal said: Air temp..windchill is like - 28. News says black ice is starting to form... I think yesterday was our only day without commute issues due to weather. Fortunately, I've had few days like that since I finished grad. school at IIT in Chicago. One bitterly cold night, I had to work in my lab at IIT until about 2 am and went to my car in the parking lot to drive to my apartment only to see a flat tire. I got out the 4-way spinner lug wrench which always had worked but never seemed to fit really tight - maybe it was metric. The spinner just spun around the lug nut! Somehow the exposed nut contracted more that the wrench. I didn't know if that was due to being exposed vs in the trunk or due to different alloy composition or for some unconsidered reason. After this incident, I never had a problem with it! I remembered we had a huge adjustable crescent wrench in the lab for some big equipment that was no longer in operation. I was about 1 1/2 feet long. With it, I was able to grab just enough of the lug nuts to remove and then replace them. I kept the borrowed crescent wrench in my car for several weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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