Kansas Crimson

jhawks99 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 7:52 pm Was -12 this morning. Supposed to be -16 tonight. Calling for -30 to 40 with wind chill.

And you forgot to change your antifreeze, and drain your well pump!

The Camry fired right up and drove around town today.

City water, pipes have not froze.

jhawks99 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 8:06 pm The Camry fired right up and drove around town today.

City water, pipes have not froze.

I was projecting the well pump part, from my childhood.

Current view looking out one of my windows. That's Lake Michigan. "Air" temperature is 5 degrees.

My daughter’s daycare called at Noon and said they were closing today, tomorrow, and possibly Wednesday because they can’t keep it warm enough inside to meet State regs. Days like this, I miss Kansas even more than usual.

Got an email today saying they want employees to work remotely tomorrow. Supposed to be -6/-7/-8 at 8:00am. Typically Tuesdays are mandatory in the office for everyone.
I have to go in to the office. I'm an adult. I can get to work safely.

Co-worker in New Orleans. Was supposed to fly back to Chicago tomorrow. Weather starting late tonight in New Orleans is supposed to be shit. Told her she could potentially be stuck in New Orleans until Friday if she didn't leave today - so she got out today but had to fly to Denver.

-18 F here, that's -29 C
Wind chill is around -30

They closed school here today for those that are in. My kid was already out due to a teacher workday attached to the three-day weekend so no changes here overall.

-6 with a "feels like" of -21 right now. The dog wasn't super happy to go out but we'll manage. Glad I got my errands run yesterday.

I dunno the exact temp here last night, but it was at least cold enough for boiling water to vaporize before it hit the ground.

You know it’s extreme when Celsius and Fahrenheit are equal.

record highs today and tomorrow…mid-60s at the beginning of february

nbd

KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:21 am record highs today and tomorrow…mid-60s at the beginning of february

nbd

If Trump forbids the EPA from using the expression, it's not happening.

9 effin deeegreees here F. With lots of North wind.

Sposeda get colder tonight.

Geebus

22 and snowing here. amazingly, the first snow of the winter

-2F this morning. We've had very little snow this year. That is supposed to change this weekend.

80-degrees here again. Sigh.

heard on the local news this morning that Alta had two straight nights where it didn’t get below freezing

i’m just waiting for the avalanche reports that are likely to follow

KUTradition wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:45 am heard on the local news this morning that Alta had two straight nights where it didn’t get below freezing

i’m just waiting for the avalanche reports that are likely to follow

Is Alta still considered where the heads go?

When I first skied there ~ 1990, before the 2002 Olympics ruined everything, a lift ticket during the week was $10, and there we no lift lines. You'd ski down, get on the lift, and ski down again, until you were so tired you couldn't any more. And the bus from SLC was only $1.00, there, and $1.00 back.

best part about the snow is i can tell where the animals are moving again. The last month of 15 degree temps, solid frozen ground and no chance for tracks makes it more of a guessing game than an ahah..here they are sort of deal.

Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 11:34 am

KUTradition wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:45 am heard on the local news this morning that Alta had two straight nights where it didn’t get below freezing

i’m just waiting for the avalanche reports that are likely to follow

Is Alta still considered where the heads go?

When I first skied there ~ 1990, before the 2002 Olympics ruined everything, a lift ticket during the week was $10, and there we no lift lines. You'd ski down, get on the lift, and ski down again, until you were so tired you couldn't any more. And the bus from SLC was only $1.00, there, and $1.00 back.

wild!

I dunno if to was the Olympics that ruined everything, or mostly just the mega-corporate takeover and consolidation of the entire ski industry.

my first season in CO, tickets at the resort I worked were $87 a day. Vail was the biggest bougiest resort in the state, and they were charging $103. The ski community largely shunned vail, shaming the audacity to charge over a hundred bucks a day. That was (remembers who was on the team that season) Sherron and Cole, so...2010?

Nowadays, pretty much every resort charges around $300+ a day for a ticket. It happened mostly cuz damn near every ski resort in the world is now owned by one of two parent corporations. They price gouge on day tickets, cuz they want you to instead drop $1000-$1500+ on various levels of "mega-pass" packages that get you to all the resorts everywhere.

Related, but just the other day some former mom-and-pop/now Vail-owned ski hill in New Hampshire had a guest-occupied chair just fall right off the lift.



Sounds like the resort guest survived, but was/is hospitalized.

Where it gets even more interesting, is that the word on the street is the lift had not passed inspection for 2 straight seasons, and lift mechanics have been bugging management about it, but management instead opted to not invest in the required maintenance and repairs but keep the lifts running anyway.

In other news, that resort guest and/or his family are about to become considerably wealthier.