[AT] Sleet

Wed Feb 2 08:57:58 PST 2011

We had the lightning and thunder with the sleet.  It snowed here until about 
2pm yesterday with a 40mph wind most of the day.  I had ewes lambing in 3 
diferent barns and had to move the snow out to get to one of them.  It was a 
shed about 3 ft tall and they stayed warm, but the drifts went ove the top 
of the open end to the east and they could not get out.  I had 4 to have 
lambs in all of this.   I got out the old Cat 944 and moved the snow with it 
until I got within 2 ft of the snowed in barn and the filters stopped up. 
Don't know if it is gelled fuel or ice in the lines.  That loader last had 
fuel put in it in the summer.  At about 5 I had to quit I was so cold I was 
shaking all over.  Wet feet and face freezing from the North Wind.  We tried 
to attach the loader bucket to the Belarus but the quick attach latches were 
never greased and they were frozen with Ice.  So another day will begin here 
to try to thaw things out and get some water to those old girls.  Haven't 
assessed the damage as I can barely move from walking through 4 ft drifts 
yesterday.  The snow drifted from a 1 ft drift to a 4 ft in about 1 hour 
yesterday.  Wind is still really cold and the double wide i use as an office 
is about 68 deg with the furnace on 72.  The drafts are getting worse.... 
Even with the skirting....

Cecil in OKla

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Sleet

>    The sleet here in Ohio stopped last night when it warmed up enough to
> turn to freezing rain. Have a heavy crust on the sleet thick enough to 
> walk
> on without breaking through. At least the sleet is not drifting any more. 
> It
> is colder and now snowing and near whiteout conditions with 40 MPH plus
> winds. Have limbs scattered all over the lawn. Earlier I was out and 
> watched
> the limbs blowing across the ice. Had everything but the hail and 
> lightning
> so far.
>
>                        Gene
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charlie V" <1cdevill at gmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 10:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Sleet
>
>
> And that it did.  We ended up with 5-6 inches of very fine powder,
> almost like dry sand.  Our temperature hung around 20 degrees.  Now
> the weather guys are saying "Guess what?  The Storm missed us."  I was
> in hopes all of the hype yesterday was overdone.
>
> The current predictions now are for possible scattered freezing rain
> and / or sleet. That offered extra incentive to get out at daylight
> and get the shoveling, blowing, and plowing finished just in case.
> The character of the snow might get ugly if it gets rained on and our
> DSL internet was out as well so no second cup of coffee.  Now the snow
> work is finished for the moment and the DSL is up so it appears all is
> well.........except with all of that I forgot to feed the big dog and
> give her her pills.  She probably thinks her throat is cut so we best
> go feed her.
>
> Charlie V.
>
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Charlie V <1cdevill at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We are up to perhaps two inches of very fine snow now. Radar shows
>> the heavier snowfall is almost to us. I am going to try to get back
>> to sleep now. The snow can fall O.K. without my help. Nite all.
>>
>> Charlie V. in WNY
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Gene Dotson <gdotsly at watchtv.net> wrote:
>>> Charlie;
>>>
>>> I have never seen so much sleet. Probably 3 inches now. Better than
>>> freezing rain though. Opened the back door a little while ago. Sleet was
>>> above the bottom of the door. Got dressed and shoveled part of the walk.
>>> Was
>>> easy to shovel. Very grainy, just had to throw it up in the air and let
>>> the
>>> wind blow it away. Still coming down. My dog won't even go out and he is
>>> a
>>> cold weather dog. Hope he makes it till morning.
>>>
>>> Gene
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Charlie V" <1cdevill at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 10:19 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Stationary engine recordings
>>>
>>>
>>> I did a little google reading on the ring tone subject, Gene. With
>>> older phones like I have, it looked like more of a project than I
>>> need. My phone usually only rings occasionally when a telemarketer
>>> calls and I do not answer them. Neat thought though.
>>>
>>> I hope what we get for weather is snow, rather than sleet or freezing
>>> rain. When it gets here it is supposed to no longer be in the
>>> blizzard category. The weather guy is calling for 10-15 inches in
>>> Rochester, but possibly much less South of I-90. South of I-90?? Hey,
>>> that's me. I would be great to miss the bullet yet another time, but
>>> I guess we will take whatever we get.
>>>
>>> Charlie V.
>>>
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