[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Ice storm (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 1/26/2009 12:47:16 PM EDT
| I hope everybody is home and holed up. It took me two hours to go 35 miles from Yukon to north of Edmond. Good luck! |
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About the time it started the freezing rain this morning, I had to drive my sons basketball uniform to Loyal. I got there just in time for the roads to get slick. I literally watched my wiper blades disintergrate before my eyes, smearing ice around the windsheild!
Of course the game was canceled and school got out an hour early. At noon I went to the Kingfisher Wal Mart, bought some easy to make food for the kids because I figure school will be out tomorrow, got me some new wiper blades too, and a twelve pack of beer, and some sidewalk salt too. Cars were having hell getting up the drive into Wal Mart. I've got a 4x4, so I could go, but stopping is a bitch! 
New wiper blades made it where I could drive without having to stop and scrape the windsheild. Put them on in Wal Mart parking lot like I normaly do. 
My wife said "screw it" and came home at 1:00, I worked until 3:00, went to the rural bus stop and waited forever for the Lomega bus to crawl across the county roads. School was out an hour early but the bus wasn't an hour early! I'm home now, can't decide whether to drink beer or eat a frito chili pie(didn't have lunch)! Screw it!!, I'm drinking beer! 
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| Okc is nice and slick. Why is it that most people loose their minds when the roads get moist, wether by ice or rain. People go super slow or drive like morons thinking they will do no harm till they cause the 6 'o clock news crash. Thats why Im glad I do the night shift and got off way before this crap landed. |
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Concrete was bad starting this morning, asphault was not bad until about 3:00. The further north in edmond, the worse it got. My neighorhood was horrible....couldn't get into my driveway until I put ice-melt on it. I hope you can get off of work earlier. It is bad out there. |
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I just got a call from my place of employment....They decided they are going to shut school down for a day......SO.......I am brewing me up a big pot of coffee and planning on watching a movie as soon the Mrs. is done with her shows tonight. I may actually get to sleep in tomorrow if the dogs will permit it.
On a more amuzing note...You should have seen my dogs out sliding across the porch tonight when they tried to stop in front of the door. I laughed so hard a little pee came out!!! 
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I busted a rim on the truck by hitting a curb trying to avoid a spin out by another car. I started to change the spare and then popped the cartilage in the chest cut. Said screw it and called the insurance road side assistance.
I got really lucky. They were there in 30 minutes. The guy was headed home and they were parking the trucks. Said it was too slick out even for the wreckers! 
They didn't want to wreck the trucks. It's some bad sh*t out there. |
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I busted a rim on the truck by hitting a curb trying to avoid a spin out by another car. I started to change the spare and then popped the cartilage in the chest cut. Said screw it and called the insurance road side assistance. I got really lucky. They were there in 30 minutes. The guy was headed home and they were parking the trucks. Said it was too slick out even for the wreckers!
They didn't want to wreck the trucks. It's some bad sh*t out there. Damn dude...call one of us next time before you try to do that crap yourself!!! 
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I busted a rim on the truck by hitting a curb trying to avoid a spin out by another car. I started to change the spare and then popped the cartilage in the chest cut. Said screw it and called the insurance road side assistance. I got really lucky. They were there in 30 minutes. The guy was headed home and they were parking the trucks. Said it was too slick out even for the wreckers!
They didn't want to wreck the trucks. It's some bad sh*t out there. Damn dude...call one of us next time before you try to do that crap yourself!!!
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I busted a rim on the truck by hitting a curb trying to avoid a spin out by another car. I started to change the spare and then popped the cartilage in the chest cut. Said screw it and called the insurance road side assistance. I got really lucky. They were there in 30 minutes. The guy was headed home and they were parking the trucks. Said it was too slick out even for the wreckers!
They didn't want to wreck the trucks. It's some bad sh*t out there. Damn dude...call one of us next time before you try to do that crap yourself!!!
No shit! Damn Dan I am right here. Call some of us next time.
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I busted a rim on the truck by hitting a curb trying to avoid a spin out by another car. I started to change the spare and then popped the cartilage in the chest cut. Said screw it and called the insurance road side assistance. I got really lucky. They were there in 30 minutes. The guy was headed home and they were parking the trucks. Said it was too slick out even for the wreckers!
They didn't want to wreck the trucks. It's some bad sh*t out there. Damn dude...call one of us next time before you try to do that crap yourself!!!
No shit! Damn Dan I am right here. Call some of us next time.
Rest Dan, rest. |
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Thanks, guys. I've felt the cartilage (bone forming) pop in that chest cut several times.
I didn't even think about the chest cut until I felt it "crunch". They call that crepidation when in a knee joint or shoulder. I can tell you about those too. So I'm not unfamiliar with what can happen. I was safe. Thanks to all. Okiehunter, I 'm doing fine. I'm at a point the last four or five days I'm seeing blue sky. But I am going in to the hospital for a cardioversion tomorrow. I'm going to try to get the doc to film the shock and catch me set straight up and say "fuck that hurt" like I did last time. I'll be out but will still respond. Not too unusual from what I've been told. My wife wants me to put that off tomorrow because of the ice. I want to get it done and get back to normal. I'm only a couple of miles from OCA. Wednesday I'm supposed to go to an aunt's funeral. Graveside services in ice. Now that really sucks. |
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stopped by my parents to check on them, plus feed the stock this evening, then had a hell of time getting back up the hill out of their place, they just live a mile or so from me,
but took approx 25 minutes to get from their place to mine, most of it getting up the steep assed hill out of their place and then getting up my driveway to a place I could turn my truck around in. once I made it to pavement had to drive with right rear wheel(s) off the on the grass to make a couple of hills. I slipped and fell walking up a little rise to my house, stepped on the concrete pad, and boom, my fat ass slid approx 20 feet downgrade, imagine I looked like a penguin in a backward skid .
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Better stay home, Brother L. It's a damn sight safer than being out. Glad you are ok. Just take it easy until things knit back together. Everybody, remember, no job is worth your life. Me and the ole lady are going to hole up at the house tomorrow, and you should as well. |
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Better stay home, Brother L. It's a damn sight safer than being out. Glad you are ok. Just take it easy until things knit back together. Everybody, remember, no job is worth your life. Me and the ole lady are going to hole up at the house tomorrow, and you should as well. I would but I get to be at the hospital tomorrow and watch all the nurses. There are some damn good looking women there. Unfortunately, my wife will be with me and I can only look at them. Usually when I'm alone women hit on me like I'm the last man on earth. I guess that just comes from my incredible good looks, superior intelligence, and endearing modesty. 
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Better stay home, Brother L. It's a damn sight safer than being out. Glad you are ok. Just take it easy until things knit back together. Everybody, remember, no job is worth your life. Me and the ole lady are going to hole up at the house tomorrow, and you should as well. I would but I get to be at the hospital tomorrow and watch all the nurses. There are some damn good looking women there. Unfortunately, my wife will be with me and I can only look at them. Usually when I'm alone women hit on me like I'm the last man on earth. I guess that just comes from my incredible good looks, superior intelligence, and endearing modesty. Naw, I spent some time there too. I think they just hire hot nurses! 
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Better stay home, Brother L. It's a damn sight safer than being out. that was my plan but I had to feed the animals, gonna wait until tomorrow afternoon before venturing out again when I got to go feed, probably drive the tractor back so I can blade my drive where I can get out wednesday. |
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Hey! The moistures good. About 90% of my customers are farmers/ranchers, pain in the ass for them too, however the wheat was about to croak from lack of rain/snow! At least this will help.  Hey if something will keep me out of the classroom and off the wrestling mat for a day I say God bless it. I'll be ready to go back to work tomorrow, but today is a much needed break for me. |
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So when the truck gets thawed out, I get to pack my stuff up and drive back to Lawton. Should turn an hour trip into a good two or two and a half hours. Sweet! It sucks having to get out in this crap, and the roads pretty sorry. Be careful getting home. |
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I just enjoyed the storm. Not all that bad today but still slick and nasty roads.
Still snowing at 5:00pm today, but just light. I went to work late(self employed), had not enough parts to accomplish much, left after about 2 1/2 hours. Went and checked on my retired partly disabled vet buddy in town. and drank coffee for a couple hours at his house. Then came home and thawed my 1984 Jeep full size pickup out and went and played on the dirt roads a bit, just to see how good the obsolete old shit-box would do on ice. The old truck does great on the ice, better than my K1500 Chevy 4x4 does. Then I cooked a pot roast for the evening meal, and tinkered on my old rifles this afternoon in the warm house. This is the sort of ice storm I like! |
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I drive a full size pickup. I am taking the wife's car to work tomorrow. The front wheel drive does better on the snow and ice. Pickup's suck! Even a limited slip rear end doesn't help a pickup on the ice. If I hadn't had 4WD on my Dodge Diesel, I wouldn't have gotten round hardly at all as bad as the ice was yesterday. And the 4WD sure didn't keep me from hitting a curb to avoid somebody else.
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This weather sucks, Dan, I am glad that you did not due too much damage. Nden, glad you are ok too.
Now Higgy, you know that this will have to be made up. I wish we were in school and on the mat. I will talk to you about it friday. On a side note, had to get out today and the windshield on the 07 Malibu cracked. Don;t know how, just sitting at an intersection and heard the crack. I am telling you that I am pissed at Chevy. How do I complain to––Chevy or the Mexicans that made it. Can I ask Obama for a check for this? |
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lost power around 9:30/10pm, didn't come back on until approx 3am,
I went to bed as there was nothing else to do, I had a dream about being on the beach or in the desert, turned out the electic came back on, the central heat kicked back in and the light in my room was shining brightly, all the time there I was dreaming I was baking under the sun, instead I was just sweating my ass off under the 5 comforters, had to get up and turn all the lights off and re-start the clothes dryer. the weather station out of norman says it's all of 12 degrees, could be as I'm not headed outside to find out. |
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Now Higgy, you know that this will have to be made up. I wish we were in school and on the mat. I will talk to you about it friday.
You see my employer built 4 days into our schedule this year. That means we miss a couple of days off in the spring....but....we still get out on time in May. OH......And you know my head coach! YEP!!! we still had practice yesterday. We have it today as well. Just thought I ws getting a break. |
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Crap. My pipes froze. I am home from work waiting for them to thaw to see the damage.  that sucks. at our previous place, the pipes would freeze whenever it got below 20f, until i finally put on the heat tape. house we're in now sits on a stem wall, so luckily the pipes haven't frozen. it was 8f, when i got up this morning. brrr. |