Storm Watch 2008...

It started snowing again yesterday afternoon. I had shoveled the walk and it was wet under the snow and ice. This morning where I shoveled there was another 4" and this afternoon when I returned home from work, it was more like a foot. Attached is a picture of the snow on my flatbed trailer. The yard stick is showing almost 15 inches of the stuff. There is about a 1/2" of ice halfway down under today's layer.

Now the forcast is for another 2-4" on Wednesday.

Lyle
 

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Here's the real test for the rambleall...

Tunnel out there...dig the fluff away from the tail pipe...crawl in...hit the foot feed once and hold for a few seconds and release...hit the key.

Report back what happens next. If anything.

Ultimate test for "cold soak".
 
michael mayben said:
here's the real test for the rambleall...

Tunnel out there...dig the fluff away from the tail pipe...crawl in...hit the foot feed once and hold for a few seconds and release...hit the key.

Report back what happens next. If anything.

Ultimate test for "cold soak".
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I can tell you the TBI in my Scout passed that test this morning. I reached in from the passenger door - stuck the key in - cranked it for 5 seconds - vroom!!!

I drove the Scout today to work after almost not making it home last night in the car. I had about 5 close calls on the drive home and shouldn't have actually made it home. At one point I was powering around a stuck truck that was spun out blocking 3/4th of the road -- I knew my lil' car was in over its head.
 
Just got power back last night. It's been off for 3 days. Almost ran out of wood. With no power the well wasn't going to work either. We didn't get the bathtub filled before the power went out so there was no flushing. I had to get creative to keep the horse, goats, dogs, cats with enough water to live through it.

Now that we have power I feel like dancing a jig.. There I just did it. Bring on the weather now! As long as we can keep the lights on.

The house is wired to be fed by a generator. Maybe it's time to invest in a good generator or at least wire on a pigtail to the water pump.

Talk at you guys later...
 
chris pucci said:
I braved the conditions and went to work today. For those not up on there oregon geography there is a small set of hills between newberg and hillsboro known as the chehalem mountians. The high point on the hwy 219 drive is 1272 ft. (for reference hwy 6 to the coast is 1586 ft). So there was a 'touch' more snow up there....

At times I was busting through drifts and the berm in the road with my lil' dodge neon - the snow would fly over the hood, it was awesome!!

I was the 4th car over the mountain today -- I am sure of that since I watched the 1st guy cuttting the downed trees out of the road with a chainsaw in front of all of us. So needless to say there has not been a plow down 219 in days.

I will probably not be going home that way - I May have to take the much longer route around the mountain.
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I drove over 219 tonight because of odot's brilliant idea to plow I-5.

If I had been driving IH, I would have been in the ditch.

Thank god for Ford power.
 
michael mayben said:
here's the real test for the rambleall...

Tunnel out there...dig the fluff away from the tail pipe...crawl in...hit the foot feed once and hold for a few seconds and release...hit the key.

Report back what happens next. If anything.

Ultimate test for "cold soak".
Click to expand...

Well, with the internet being down for a couple of days and since I didn't receive an email notification of your post (or any posts for that matter), I didn't see this until today (Sunday). Fwiw, I went out and just tried it. Fired right up. Was there any doubt?

Lyle
 
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