corndog1
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The ole arctic blast had me currently waiting in the airport with four kids. It is not warming up much in Belgrade....
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Hem
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We have to fly Saturday from Belgrade.
Sure hope our layover in Chicago doesn't become a chitshow.
Elkmagnet
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Wish in one hand....
Hem
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Meanwhile interstate heading East between Logan and Manhattan locked in with river fog. Visibility 25'.
Locals beware.
Locals beware.
CorkyM
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Not near as bad as out west, but here by 5:00pm tomorrow, 6° and -25° wind chill with 40mph gusts. I just blew 5” of snow and now the rain comes this afternoon with a high of 38° and hopefully washes the film of ice off the driveway until the bottom falls out tomorrow afternoon. 14° Saturday pm at 3:00 when we drive the six miles to the kids for Christmas Eve.
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CorkyM
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I never heard of that, how can that happen?
I’m miffed as well. There’s a few rock chips, but none near the bottom of the windshield where the crack neatly formed along where the defrost vents are. There has been the issue of some condensation forming and freezing inside the car, but I’m not sure how that would’ve contributed. Nor was any present yesterday.
Weird thing was that it happened a good 15 minutes after we’d already had the car warmed up and had been driving around.
Hunting Wife
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I don’t think it takes much when you’re talking this kind of temperature differential. I’ve been sitting in the car or driving along on a couple of occasions with the defroster on, and there’s just a sudden loud pop and it cracks right across the whole thing.
Stuff just breaks when it’s this cold.
Glad to hear it’s not just us so folks won’t think I’m BS’ing when I mention it!
Was happy it was just the glass when I heard that pop, expected any number of things could’ve frozen and cracked right off.
CorkyM
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Thanks for the info. I guess when I leave to drive home about 10:00 pm Christmas Eve and it’s -10° chill factor I will keep the heater turned down a bit.
Nick87
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Hunkered down in this pit blind, for all i know there is 20 geese in the decoys I haven't poked my head out in an hour or so...
CorkyM
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Show ‘em just how tough you are.
Wyoming Highway Patrol dashcam footage.
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Hunting Wife
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Nope. Whiteouts are the worstWyoming Highway patrol dashcam footage.
View from Troopers car 12/21/22 | Current view from a Troopers car in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Current conditions outside of Cheyenne are -18 with zero visibility. Please stay home if you... | By Wyoming Highway Patrol | Facebook
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Went through last year coming back from Washington...Rogers Pass was a white knuckler and now the wife refuses to travel anywhere if it snows. Scared her bad...Wyoming Highway Patrol dashcam footage.
View from Troopers car 12/21/22 | Current view from a Troopers car in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Current conditions outside of Cheyenne are -18 with zero visibility. Please stay home if you... | By Wyoming Highway Patrol | Facebook
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Straight Arrow
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Brings to mind one of my favorite cross country helicopter trips, flying from Helena to Corpus Christie during the winter. Luckily I was familiar with the Casper airport, as we had to follow power lines to the runway during a whiteout. Overnight at Casper the air was humid, then went subzero, so the aircraft was covered in a coat of rime ice in the morning. I traded a nice leather handled survival knife to the maintenance guy on the ramp. He ground-handled the helicopter into the heated hanger, while we went to breakfast. When we returned to the airport, he wheeled the warm helicopter out for us to fly out of there ... desiring to head south as soon as possible. He was so pleased with his new knife that we found a plate of doughnuts on the dash. It was good to fly down to southern Colorado's warmer temps that day. The other highlight was great seafood at warm Corpus Christie.
Enduring Mom Nature's subzero temps does take some logistics, warm clothing, and doughnuts help too.
Enduring Mom Nature's subzero temps does take some logistics, warm clothing, and doughnuts help too.
I used to put about 1500 miles a month on in WY regardless of the month. The route from Casper to Cheyenne was never fun, especially during the winter months. 180 miles in 6 hours is not relaxing at all.
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