Brrrrrrr it went all the way down to 55* today ........... LOL. In a message dated 12/7/2013 5:39:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, elcam84@xxxxxxxxx writes: Nahh the quakes aren't cooperating. I went out and started the car and let it warm up. Still a foot of frozen sleet and snow on the hood and windshield. Drilled a hole in the ice on the driveway and it was at 4" thick the yard has more cause it was colder than the concrete. Yesterday there was a little give in it when walking but today it's solid with just a few creaks to be heard when walking to the shop. Been vacuuming the house, cleaning the kitchen etc just to have something to do. Haven't started on the bathroom. Saving that project for tomorrow. Right now I'm working on the kitchen plans and deciding if I want to build cabinets or buy premade boxes and make the doors and drawers(mostly drawers). Boxes are boring to make but a 15" wide one costs $30 and I can make 2.5 for the price of materials. IIRC I would need about 30 or so sheets of ply to build all the cabs. Not going to put too much $ into it but it will be nice just not as fancy as I normally would since she is really wanting to move to Charlotte. Geri is still stuck in Huntsville. They called and said they will try to get them out on a flight in the morning but... It starts out at DFW so it's still a maybe at this point. She might not get back until Monday at this point and she was supposed to be home friday mid day. She has been flying for 21 years and never had anything like this happen before. Her paycheck will be good next month though. DFW is having a hard time keeping one runway open and their de icing is basically wash trucks that they also use for de icing as it's rare here. The sent allot of the traffic through Ohare but they have enough trouble as it is with only having a couple runways operable at the same time where as DFW can operate 7 at the same time. DFW held the record for the most runways at any airport in the world till October when ORD opened their new one but they can't operate near as many at the same time. Robert Adams On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:53 PM, CTSVMONGO <_ctsvmongo@gmail.com_ (mailto:ctsvmongo@xxxxxxxxx) > wrote: Brr.. nuts to hear that its that cold and icy down there- Im sure you’ll find something to do to keep yourself out of trouble J The quakes aren’t shaking the ice free? From: _elky-bounce@freelists.org_ (mailto:elky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) [mailto:_elky-bounce@freelists.org_ (mailto:elky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) ] On Behalf Of Robert Adams Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2013 9:10 AM To: _elky@freelists.org_ (mailto:elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Subject: [elky] Re: Think yer cold? We were at 16* this morning. Won't be able to go anywhere till tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. The roads are still 1" or more of ice. Geri is stuck in Huntsville AL for another day. She was supposed to be home yesterday afternoon and now they are saying they will have a plane for 11 am tomorrow. The good part is she gets her per diem and 5hrs of flight pay a day for just sitting there. Bad part is there is nothing at all in downtown Huntsville. No restaurants (other than checkers), grocery stores convenience stores nothing at all. Google maps said there was a grocery and deli but there is not even a building at that address... I didn't have a chance to take my two 50lb propane bottles to be filled so I can't go work in the shop and boredom set in yesterday morning already... Propane delivery here won't deliver anything under 100 gallons at a time. Wish I had bought an inside unit for that minisplit heat pump I have. Robert Adams On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:23 PM, CTSVMONGO <_ctsvmongo@gmail.com_ (mailto:ctsvmongo@xxxxxxxxx) > wrote: Supposed to hit -4 tonight here, Sunday we finally get some snow but only about 2 inches- though they say it will be miserably cold, windy and hard to commute because of the blowing. Glad I can stay home and get some work done, I guess. -----Original Message----- From: _elky-bounce@freelists.org_ (mailto:elky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) [mailto:_elky-bounce@freelists.org_ (mailto:elky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) ] On Behalf Of Mary McCarthy Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 1:01 PM To: _elky@freelists.org_ (mailto:elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Subject: [elky] Re: Think yer cold? pretty boring here. About 25* and while nearby Portland is panicking through another Snowpocalypse we are snowless. not even a flurry. It did get down to at least 17* yesterday am. As my dear mother would snap "well, it IS the middle of winter you know! What did you expect??" Rules: Please play nicely with others. -List members page (text & pic links): http://www.myelcamino.net/eclist.htm -List members page (all pics): http://www.myelcamino.net/ec_list.htm Rules: Please play nicely with others. -List members page (text & pic links): http://www.myelcamino.net/eclist.htm -List members page (all pics): http://www.myelcamino.net/ec_list.htm