Annarchy Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 How is everyone handling the extreme weather? Hoping everybody is doing OK and wishing I had some cold weather. I sincerely miss snow. Our forecast is predicting the 80's & 90's for the next couple of days and it's supposed to break records back to before they kept records. That is NOT a good sign for the desert in February. I am already dreading to see how hot we get this year. Quote Link to comment
CrabGrassAcres Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 50s yesterday, 60s today, 70s tomorrow. Freezing overnight last night again. Most of it is missing us again. We rarely see very cold here. Quote Link to comment
WormGuy Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 22 and going to 45 today. Mid 60's next week. John Quote Link to comment
Daylily Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 (edited) We have 8-9" of snow and still snowing off and on. 30 degrees. Edited February 13, 2014 by Daylily Quote Link to comment
ArmyOfFive4God Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 7" near Knoxville. It's already mid-30's & going fast. We packed as much clean snow as we could in pots & buckets earlier to run through the Berkey. Shoveled walks & drives (just like "old time" ...er... when we were in Wyo, hehe). The boys are out having a BLAST sledding down the neighbor's hill. With her permission, of course She actually offered it to them. She has an amazing sledding hill! Quote Link to comment
The WE2's Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 (edited) Been ranging in the 20's or so during day and about 3 at night...BUT...it's supposed to get alot warmer today and tomorrow! There's still alot of snow on the grounds (we got a total of about 8" throughall of episodes) but roads are clear. It won't be long before our March weather starts to arrive...oops..."supposed" to ariive arrive? :-) Edited February 13, 2014 by Philbe Quote Link to comment
Mt_Rider Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 We packed as much clean snow as we could in pots & buckets earlier to run through the Berkey. AO5? Did you lose power/water? Or are you just doing a trial run for iffen ya have to some day? Cuz otherwise, it would be extremely better to fill those pots/buckets with WATER. You'll get *maybe* an inch or two of water in each container when it melts. Depends on if it's wet or dry snow. Snow does not really contain that much water. It's mostly air. Our weather is snow covered, sunny, getting warmer each day and some Chinook [snow-eater] winds. Slowly melting. It will be above freezing most of today. So....warmer weather is coming eastward...... Sending hope to y'all that are getting mighty tired of snow/cold. MtRider Quote Link to comment
ArmyOfFive4God Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 (edited) AO5? Did you lose power/water? Or are you just doing a trial run for iffen ya have to some day? Trial run (just got the Berkey for Cmas, so I'm doin' all sortsa trials). We packed it in HARD! We made out with about 1/3-2/5 water to snow ratio. Really isn't too bad, but I wanted to know This WAS a packable snow, but I know for drier snow, it will be much different. As soon as I am where there is a dry snow, I'll test that theory, too, LOL! One day, we may need to do this, so I think it's good info. Edited February 13, 2014 by ArmyOfFive4God Quote Link to comment
Mt_Rider Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Good then! Trial runs are sooooo informative! I wish I had the energy to "play" more. MtRider Quote Link to comment
CrabGrassAcres Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 (edited) When I was hauling water and ran out during snow season (because the road was too bad to pull the water trailer over) , I would keep a large pot next to the stove, full of snow. Have some HOT water on the stove and add snow to it until it is full of slush. Let it get hot before using if you aren't running it thru a really good filter. If no filter, boil whatever you are using for cooking or drinking. Edited February 13, 2014 by CrabGrassAcres Quote Link to comment
ArmyOfFive4God Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Good then! Trial runs are sooooo informative! I wish I had the energy to "play" more. MtRider I agree!!! Wish I could send a boy. They are such a help! Quote Link to comment
ArmyOfFive4God Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 When I was hauling water and ran out during snow season (because the road was too bad to pull the water trailer over) , I would keep a large pot next to the stove, full of snow. Have some HOT water on the stove and add snow to it until it is full of slush. Let it get hot before using if you aren't running it thru a really good filter. If no filter, boil whatever you are using for cooking or drinking. I would also add that regardless of the method you use to run your water through flour sack towel or other tight knit cloth to filter out the larger particles- dirt, leaves, sticks, or as in our case- dog fur (yeah, that thing SHEDS ALL OVER!) + other debris. Especially good for extending the life of your filter cartridges Quote Link to comment
ArmyOfFive4God Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 ^^ We came across Jethro fur & a couple small twigs in our batch, even though we scooped clean snow from the top Glad I was pre-filtering it (so to speak). Quote Link to comment
kyles mom Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 It's in the high 30's today, first time in a long time. We are getting some melting. Yay! Quote Link to comment
Suncat Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 High's in the 40's low's in the 30's cloudy but not really rainy though it sprinkles now and again. Could really still use more snow pack. It's not looking pretty for this summer (drought!) unless we get more snow pack and in general more moisture. I mean look at this.. most of OREGON is showing severe drought. Quote Link to comment
dogmom4 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 We are in the extreme drought area. Today the weather was in the 60's and humid after 4 nice days of rain. We are also battling mosquito's...very early for our area. That is one of my big fears. We're pretty much having no winter at all...I wonder if the bug situation will be bad.... Quote Link to comment
Andrea Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 It's bad, dogmom. The flies have already hatched and the slugs have already eaten all of my lettuce. AUGHHHH! Quote Link to comment
CrabGrassAcres Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 We had barely pulled out of the drought, hit extreme this past summer, and are sliding back in. Quote Link to comment
Mt_Rider Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Other than weird times like last September, CO has pretty much been in drought for NINE YEARS. MtRider Quote Link to comment
Annarchy Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share Posted February 14, 2014 Ugggg.... NOT looking forward to 90* today. The one lettuce plant that sprouted, withered in the 85* heat yesterday. Nothing stops the heat stroke. I guess they deem us as moderate drought because it is a desert anyway. We are already having to water the garden, at least two times a day. Quote Link to comment
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