Weather Emergency
Lars Eighner
freezing rain/sleet/snow. Big emergency. More than 100 auto
accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the
morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many
staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4
p.m. It might get as cold as 24 F before morning.
In Austin this is major winter storm disaster.
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Blinky the Shark
> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of
> freezing rain/sleet/snow. Big emergency. More than 100 auto
> accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the
> morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many
> staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4
> p.m. It might get as cold as 24 F before morning.
>
> In Austin this is major winter storm disaster.
In Canada that's time to go swimming.
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Tim Wright
> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of
> freezing rain/sleet/snow. Big emergency. More than 100 auto
> accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the
> morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many
> staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4
> p.m. It might get as cold as 24 F before morning.
>
>
> In Austin this is major winter storm disaster.
>
Same in Dallas. It's now 22F, with a wind chill of 7F. Roads are
slicker than greased owl shit. At least the precip has stopped, for now.
Saturday it was 89F and sunny. We call this "thermal shock season".
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Blinky the Shark
> Same in Dallas. It's now 22F, with a wind chill of 7F. Roads
> are slicker than greased owl shit. At least the precip has
> stopped, for now.
>
> Saturday it was 89F and sunny. We call this "thermal shock
> season".
Ever see the record(s) for biggest-quickest temp changes? They're
insane, I tellya. IIRC, the record is something like 100 degrees in
less than two hours. Whatever the numbers are, have I mentioned
that they're insane? :)
Tim Wright
> Tim Wright wrote:
>
>
>>Same in Dallas. It's now 22F, with a wind chill of 7F. Roads
>>are slicker than greased owl shit. At least the precip has
>>stopped, for now.
>>
>>Saturday it was 89F and sunny. We call this "thermal shock
>>season".
>
>
> Ever see the record(s) for biggest-quickest temp changes? They're
> insane, I tellya. IIRC, the record is something like 100 degrees in
> less than two hours. Whatever the numbers are, have I mentioned
> that they're insane? :)
>
>
country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the north, and
you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry and get done
before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops 20-30 degrees before
you can get down.
I don't miss it.
Joe Shimkus
Tim Wright <tlwri...@verizon.net> wrote:
'Round these parts we call it Tuesday.
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Les Albert
wrote:
> There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in the
>country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the north, and
>you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry and get done
>before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops 20-30 degrees before
>you can get down.
>I don't miss it.
Were you a lineman for the county driving the main road,
Searchin' in the sun for another overload?
Did you hear you singin' in the wire, did you hear through the whine?
Were you the Wichita Lineman who was still on the line?
Les
Tim Wright
No, just your run of the mill telephone man.
Lars Eighner
and talented Tim Wright broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:
> Les Albert wrote:
>> On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 04:38:03 GMT, Tim Wright <tlwri...@verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in the
>>>country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the north, and
>>>you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry and get done
>>>before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops 20-30 degrees before
>>>you can get down.
>>>I don't miss it.
>>
>>
>> Were you a lineman for the county driving the main road,
>> Searchin' in the sun for another overload?
>> Did you hear you singin' in the wire, did you hear through the whine?
>> Were you the Wichita Lineman who was still on the line?
> No, just your run of the mill telephone man.
It does rather provoke the question, what kind of lineman was
the Wichita line. I cannot think of any lines in Texas that are
the county's responsibility. In Austin we have a municiple
electric service which is fairly rare, and in rural areas we
have electric co-ops, which aren't part of county government.
I think there once were telephone co-ops, but telephone service
has largely been swallow by SBC, and in a few tiny places by
General Telephone. The state has an interagency telephone
network, but I think they use SBC's lines and it is nothing to
do with county. So what was the Wichita lineman up to?
bill van
Joe Shimkus <j...@shimkus.com> wrote:
> In article <yCOlf.21708$Oq3.13286@trnddc05>,
> Tim Wright <tlwri...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > Lars Eighner wrote:
> > > It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of
> > > freezing rain/sleet/snow. Big emergency. More than 100 auto
> > > accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the
> > > morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many
> > > staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4
> > > p.m. It might get as cold as 24 F before morning.
> > >
> > > In Austin this is major winter storm disaster.
> >
> > Same in Dallas. It's now 22F, with a wind chill of 7F. Roads are
> > slicker than greased owl shit. At least the precip has stopped, for now.
> >
> > Saturday it was 89F and sunny. We call this "thermal shock season".
>
> 'Round these parts we call it Tuesday.
You're not a dollar short by any chance, are you?
bill van
Les Albert <lalb...@aol.com> wrote:
> Were you a lineman for the county driving the main road,
> Searchin' in the sun for another overload?
> Did you hear you singin' in the wire, did you hear through the whine?
> Were you the Wichita Lineman who was still on the line?
You should post this in the thread where Opus is too embarrassed to
admit which performer he paid to see twice.
bill
Tim Wright
The Wichita Lineman was up to his ass in Kansas.
Opus the Penguin
> There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in
> the country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the
> north, and you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry
> and get done before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops
> 20-30 degrees before you can get down.
>
> I don't miss it.
How can you see a cold front coming? What does it look like? (Please
don't tell me those arrows and things on the weather map are real.)
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Blinky the Shark
>> There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out
>> in the
> country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the
> north, and you could see the cold front coming. You try to
> hurry and get done before it hits, but that never happens. Temp
> drops 20-30 degrees before you can get down.
Yow.
> I don't miss it.
I wouldn't either!
Greg Goss
>Tim Wright (tlwri...@verizon.net) wrote:
>
>> There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in
>> the country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the
>> north, and you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry
>> and get done before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops
>> 20-30 degrees before you can get down.
>>
>> I don't miss it.
>
>How can you see a cold front coming? What does it look like? (Please
>don't tell me those arrows and things on the weather map are real.)
Some people can see differences in cloud shape or colour on the two
sides. Sometimes the sky on one side of the front has no clouds and
even us colour blind guys can see it.
Calgary is famous for its "chinook arch" where the incoming warm front
tunnels under the dreary cold clouds. I don't know whether the arch
shape is real or an artifact of perspective. But that's a warm front,
not a cold one. I expect that a lineman would learn the equivalent
images for cold fronts.
http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?id=chinook-arch1
The three shots in the second row of the first link below combine to
show the "arch".
http://community.webshots.com/album/52339790vAzSmw
http://www.calgaryarea.com/community/weather/chinook1.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/65568511/
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Bill Turlock
>
> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of
> freezing rain/sleet/snow. Big emergency. More than 100 auto
> accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the
> morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many
> staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4
> p.m. It might get as cold as 24 F before morning.
>
> In Austin this is major winter storm disaster.
<yawn> See my posts on the blizzard of '75 and the cold snap of '85
Bill "although it has been in the mid 40s overnight here in the bay
area, cold for this time of year, and I've been a wee bit uncomfortable"
Turlock
Michael
> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of
> freezing rain/sleet/snow. Big emergency. More than 100 auto
> accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the
> morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many
> staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4
> p.m. It might get as cold as 24 F before morning.
>
>
> In Austin this is major winter storm disaster.
& yes, I also heard it's colder in Dallas than in Anchorage.
It's been hovering around 0© F® in Northern Indiana for several days.
It's usually closer to 30© F® until January, so it's been chilly by our
standards, here.
But, I gotta switch gears:
*Am I the only person who receives the following type of lists from Texans*
The example below is but one of many.
Nope, nuttin' from any other country, state or city...only Texas.
One was forwarded to me and several others (everyone else on the CC was
from Texas).
I had some fun with it.
-----
I reply with the following: (I kept the whole text, below)
My Subject Line:
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
Hebrew Proverbs, 16:18
Then, (above the list, below):
Hello, I'm George W. Bush and I endorse the following:
Further, I urge all non -Texans to petition their elected officials
to change the name of the country from:
"The United States of America", to: "Texas".
1. It would save billions of dollars in ink on all Federal documents
and currency. (Could could save on paper and too - Everything would
be be smaller? You know, fewer letters?)
2. Do we really need fifty stars on the flag? If we only have one
star on our flag, anyone can make their own flag.
3. Isn't is obvious? Everyone from The Bronx to Puget Sound secretly
wishes they were a Texan. Let's formalize it!
(Next, we must change the spelling of "nuclear" to "nuculure".)
-----
Well, I got murdered.
The dozen people on the CC sent my amended note to a dozen other people
(Texans)...I was getting hate mail for days.
-----
So...
1. am I the only person who only receives the following from Texans
about Texas?
2. If so, what is it about 'Texas' (and no other place) which generates
this type of bravado?
3. It appears they are bragging to each other, (Why?) - - - (I'm usually
part of a CC which is all about Texas for Texans)?
[I'm not asking Lars to explain or defend. This was a convenient time
to inject my curiosity]
Michael >>>-------> The 'list':
___
When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like,
Do you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of
guns, eh?"
They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched Dallas.
Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me
just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast,
and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as
anything ever will be.
As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it
is. It is Texas. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a
picture of Texas in the dirt and he'll know what it is. What happens if
I show you a picture of any other state? You might get it maybe after a
second or two, but who else would? And even if you do, does it ever stir
any feelings in you?
In every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a person who
wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or
ride off in a pickup. There is some little bit of Texas in everyone.
Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa?
Cool, tell me about it?" Do you know why? Because there's no place like
Texas.
Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing
thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance
to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for
the cause of freedom. We send our kids to schools named William B.
Travis and James Bowie and Crockett and do you know why?
Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to cross it
and be heroes. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself. That is the
Spirit of Texas.
Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Ana at San Jacinto.
Texas is "Juneteenth" and Texas Independence Day.
Texas is huge! forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National
Forest
Texas is breathtaking mountains in the Big Bend.
Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas
Hill Country.
Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas.
Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.
Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.
Texas is Mexican food like nowhere else, not even Mexico.
Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, the Ballpark in
Arlington and the Astrodome.
Texas is larger-than-life legends like Michael DeBakey, Denton
Cooley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris
Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, ZZ Top, Eric Dickerson, Earl
Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Sam Rayburn, George Bush, Lyndon B.Johnson, and
George W. Bush.
Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and
Compaq.
And LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE,! Home of the F-16 Jet Fighter and the
JSF Fighter.
Texas is NASA.
Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.
Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer.
Texas is a place where towns and cities shut down to watch the local
High School Football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday
Night Football, and for the Night In Old San Antonio River Parade in
San Antonio.
Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lake s and rivers, mountains and
prairies, and modern cities.
If it isn't in Texas, you probably don't need it.
No one does anything bigger or better than it's done in Texas.
By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its
flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. Think about that for a second.
You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, California, or
Maine and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17 feet. You fly t!
he Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview or anyplace
else at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20 feet. Do
you know why? Because it is the only state that was a republic before it
became a state.
Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here. Our
capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol
building in Washington, D.C. and we can divide our state into five
states at any time if we wanted to! We included these things as part of
the deal when we came on.
That's the best part, right there.
Texas even has its own power grid!!
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Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote:
> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of
> freezing rain/sleet/snow.
1/4 what? Inch? Foot? Mile?
> Big emergency. More than 100 auto
> accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the
> morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many
> staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4
> p.m.
Followed by the shelves collapsing at 4:01 pm.
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Support the troops. Bring them home NOW!
D.F. Manno
wrote:
> Les Albert wrote:
>
> > Were you a lineman for the county driving the main road,
> > Searchin' in the sun for another overload?
> > Did you hear you singin' in the wire, did you hear through the whine?
> > Were you the Wichita Lineman who was still on the line?
>
> No, just your run of the mill telephone man.
Hey baby I'm the telephone man
I can do it where you want it,
I can do it 'cus I can,
I can do it in the bathroom,
I can do it in the hall,
I can do it in the bedroom,
I can hang it on the wall.
Dhubghall
> In Austin this is major winter storm disaster.
Hey apparently people are actually learning a little. There were only 5
cars stranded on Spicewood springs this morning. During the last ice
storm there were over 20. For those of you not familiar with Austin
Spicewood springs has a hill that is damn near vertical and generally
freezes up when the weather gets like this. For some reason Texans think
you can drive up ice. I sat there at the light this morning and watched
two trucks try it even after watching another fail and slide off the road.
God this town is filled with morons!
Dougall
Dhubghall
> > There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in
> > the country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the
> > north, and you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry
> > and get done before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops
> > 20-30 degrees before you can get down.
> >
> > I don't miss it.
> How can you see a cold front coming? What does it look like? (Please
> don't tell me those arrows and things on the weather map are real.)
They tend to look cold and blue. No really. Sometimes they really do
come in with a wall of bluish clouds that just look evil and cold. Can be
quite ominous.
Dougall
Lars Eighner
<dfm2a3l0t2-B8E3F...@news.x-privat.org>,
the lovely and talented D.F. Manno
broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:
> In article <slrndpfch6....@goodwill.io.com>,
> Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote:
>> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of
>> freezing rain/sleet/snow.
> 1/4 what? Inch? Foot? Mile?
Inch. Collisions so far: 725.
>> Big emergency. More than 100 auto
>> accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the
>> morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many
>> staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4
>> p.m.
> Followed by the shelves collapsing at 4:01 pm.
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try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
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Tim Wright
> Tim Wright (tlwri...@verizon.net) wrote:
>
>
>>There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in
>>the country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the
>>north, and you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry
>>and get done before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops
>>20-30 degrees before you can get down.
>>
>>I don't miss it.
>
>
> How can you see a cold front coming? What does it look like? (Please
> don't tell me those arrows and things on the weather map are real.)
>
Some times there is a wall cloud, some times it's just getting darker in
the distance, and you can tell that the wind has picked up out there.
The first few times it happens you kind of go, "Huh, I wonder what that
is?" After a while you start going, "Crap, I gotta get done and down in
the truck before I freeze my ass off!"
Opus the Penguin
Spindler of Kittens
news:billvan-717950...@news.telus.net...
: In article <jlefp15u5fgmqg1rb...@4ax.com>,
He likes rhinestone cowboys?
Tim Wright
With the size of my ass, it'd register on the Richter Scale. ;)
groo
> So what was the Wichita lineman up to?
>
Here's a clue: To adherents of the One True Faith, telephone poles are
religious icons.
--
Pastafarians, of course.
Blinky the Shark
> In article <slrndpfch6....@goodwill.io.com>,
> Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote:
>
>> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of
>> freezing rain/sleet/snow.
>
> 1/4 what? Inch? Foot? Mile?
1/4 of freezing stuff. The other 3/4 was just rain. :)
>> Big emergency. More than 100 auto
>> accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the
>> morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many
>> staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4
>> p.m.
>
> Followed by the shelves collapsing at 4:01 pm.
Well, that's what they get for trying to staple them to the walls.
Charles Wm. Dimmick
> Tim Wright (tlwri...@verizon.net) wrote:
>
>
>>There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in
>>the country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the
>>north, and you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry
>>and get done before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops
>>20-30 degrees before you can get down.
>>
>>I don't miss it.
>
>
> How can you see a cold front coming? What does it look like? (Please
> don't tell me those arrows and things on the weather map are real.)
>
The sky to the west turns black. 20 minutes later the wind
picks up, and then all hell breaks loose.
Charles
Greg Goss
>In article <slrndpfch6....@goodwill.io.com>,
> Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote:
>
>> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of
>> freezing rain/sleet/snow.
>
>1/4 what? Inch? Foot? Mile?
If it's dimensionless, wouldn't it have to be radians or c?
Hactar
Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> wrote:
> "D.F. Manno" <dfm2a...@spymac.com> wrote:
>
> >In article <slrndpfch6....@goodwill.io.com>,
> > Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote:
> >
> >> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of
> >> freezing rain/sleet/snow.
> >
> >1/4 what? Inch? Foot? Mile?
>
> If it's dimensionless, wouldn't it have to be radians or c?
Or Mach.
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and he who dares not is a slave. -Sir William Drummond
Greg Goss
>In article <3vtnv8F...@individual.net>,
>Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> wrote:
>> "D.F. Manno" <dfm2a...@spymac.com> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <slrndpfch6....@goodwill.io.com>,
>> > Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of
>> >> freezing rain/sleet/snow.
>> >
>> >1/4 what? Inch? Foot? Mile?
>>
>> If it's dimensionless, wouldn't it have to be radians or c?
>
>Or Mach.
Bel?
Hactar
Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> wrote:
> ebe...@tampabay.ARE-ARE.com.unmunge (Hactar) wrote:
>
> >In article <3vtnv8F...@individual.net>,
> >Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> wrote:
> >> "D.F. Manno" <dfm2a...@spymac.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >In article <slrndpfch6....@goodwill.io.com>,
> >> > Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of
> >> >> freezing rain/sleet/snow.
> >> >
> >> >1/4 what? Inch? Foot? Mile?
> >>
> >> If it's dimensionless, wouldn't it have to be radians or c?
> >
> >Or Mach.
>
> Bel?
IIRC a Bel is defined at a certain distance, hence it has a m^-1 part.
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Bill Kinkaid
wrote:
>Tim Wright wrote:
>
>> Same in Dallas. It's now 22F, with a wind chill of 7F. Roads
>> are slicker than greased owl shit. At least the precip has
>> stopped, for now.
>>
>> Saturday it was 89F and sunny. We call this "thermal shock
>> season".
>
>insane, I tellya. IIRC, the record is something like 100 degrees in
>less than two hours. Whatever the numbers are, have I mentioned
>that they're insane? :)
I arrived in Banff one February during a mild chinook which had raised
the temperature to about 10C (around 50F). A couple of hours later,
after it had passed, it was down to 40 below (same in both scales).
That evening we went to the hot springs pool. The air temperature
remained at about -40 but the water was 42 above (about 105F) [1]. It
was an extraordinary experience; people were making sculptures out of
each other's hair as the steam rose form the water and froze to it.
[1] hot springs are best in dry fall or winter conditions as the lack
of precip or runoff to dilute the spring water keeps it nice and hot.
--
Bill in Vancouver
Bill Kinkaid
<use...@larseighner.com> wrote:
>In our last episode,
><dfm2a3l0t2-B8E3F...@news.x-privat.org>,
>the lovely and talented D.F. Manno
>broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:
>
>> In article <slrndpfch6....@goodwill.io.com>,
>> Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote:
>
>>> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of
>>> freezing rain/sleet/snow.
>
>> 1/4 what? Inch? Foot? Mile?
>
>Inch. Collisions so far: 725.
>
before things go to hell.
--
Bill in Vancouver
bill van
Bill Kinkaid <billk...@telus.net> wrote:
> I arrived in Banff one February during a mild chinook which had raised
> the temperature to about 10C (around 50F). A couple of hours later,
> after it had passed, it was down to 40 below (same in both scales).
>
> That evening we went to the hot springs pool. The air temperature
> remained at about -40 but the water was 42 above (about 105F) [1]. It
> was an extraordinary experience; people were making sculptures out of
> each other's hair as the steam rose form the water and froze to it.
>
> [1] hot springs are best in dry fall or winter conditions as the lack
> of precip or runoff to dilute the spring water keeps it nice and hot.
Was that the Upper Hot Springs on Sulphur Mountain? Much better (meaning
hotter, more sulphuric) than the Cave and Basin pool. I've sat in the
upper pool after dark, hot water up to my chin, watching huge snowflakes
drifting down out of the darkness. Heavenly. The only thing that
improved on it was a pasta dinner with a nice red wine after we finished
soaking.
bill
Bill Kinkaid
That was the Upper Hot Springs. They spend $BIGNUM to restore the Cave
and Basin pool and reopen it for the Parks Canada centennial in 1985
but they just restored the big pool as a cold swimming pool. The Cave
and Basin itself is fabulous, and the pool just north of the swimming
pool, but you can't swim (at least not legally) in them.
--
Bill in Vancouver