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Central Florida temps at 10am:
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I heard on one of the national news broadcasts that parts of Texas are experiencing a once in generation winter storm. Is this three years in a row with a once in generation winter event?

I guess they shut down part of 75 in Tennessee, at least the part where one of my sisters was traveling to Florida on. No idea how/where she is holed up now, but I guess actually being Florida wouldn't be any better for her, huh.
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Woke up at 5:45 am this morning to no heat; furnace won't fire. Finally managed to get a technician to answer the phone and will hopefully be back up and running this afternoon. Current temp in the house: 59 degrees.

Would not recommend. Current guess - gelled fuel line (heating oil).
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Was 11 degrees when I checked at 9 a.m. Now up to a balmy 14. We might hit 20 today!

Fortunately this isn't supposed to last more than a couple of days.
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We're up to six! High suggested in 18.
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Power was out twice this morning. Once before daylight and once a few min ago. Im not sure how long they stayed out as I was asleep when they started. My guess is the same as yesterdays...15 or so. But its screwing with staying warm or keeping this old house any temp.

Im not sure if its problems causing these power outages or they are doing rolling blackouts. Usually we dont lose power like these blips.

EDIT: https://www.clevelandutilities.com/news ... T6_R65.php
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I dont think thats ever happened here.
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Daehawk wrote: Sat Dec 24, 2022 12:29 pm Power was out twice this morning. Once before daylight and once a few min ago. Im not sure how long they stayed out as I was asleep when they started. My guess is the same as yesterdays...15 or so. But its screwing with staying warm or keeping this old house any temp.

Im not sure if its problems causing these power outages or they are doing rolling blackouts. Usually we dont lose power like these blips.

EDIT: https://www.clevelandutilities.com/news ... T6_R65.php
TVA Initiates Step 50 Again - Rotating 15-Minute Interruptions in Electric Service 12/24
I dont think thats ever happened here.
Yep, dealt with our first rolling blackout this morning at 7:30. Lasted 30 minutes. First I can recall in my 50+ years. Oh, to see the people complain on Facebook. A lot of ignorance.
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I saw something on Emergency Twitter about the power outages in TN being related to generation issues, not downed wires.

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my kitchen hot water line is froze. The very long line on the unheated back porch to the bathroom is fine. Lucky the kitchen line is accessible and short so got a heater in the area on it and using a hair dryer a good ways from it...and I moved the kerosene heater to the back porch to warm that area up
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Pull up! Pull up! We seem to be pulling the nose up so to speak. Getting warmer as we go. Friday is shorts and t-shirts and croquet

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23 out. Ice and snow aren't melting but the house temp is up to 63.
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My hot water came back to the kitchen. Took all day. I was standing there eating turkey and it started to drip then in a bit a tiny stream and finally ran good.
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It's 5X warmer than it was three days ago.
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Alefroth wrote: Sat Dec 24, 2022 8:51 pm It's 5X warmer than it was three days ago.
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Max Peck wrote: Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:14 pm I used to have a pretty comprehensive collection of SFB magazines (Nexus and Captain's Log). When Star Fleet Command was in development the devs were seeking out some specific SFB references. I still have some emails that I exchanged with Chris Taylor back in 1999 that culminated with me sending them my stash of Nexus magazines in exchange for a copy of the game manual signed by the dev team. I did take the time to photocopy everything before shipping it to them. Me-now is more than a little miffed with me-then for sending them the originals instead of the photocopies.
Off topic again :roll:

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jztemple2 wrote: Sun Dec 25, 2022 1:41 am I fired up my copy of Starfleet Command 2 Community Edition and gave it a whirl. I forgot how to play, so the Klingon got the drop on me :roll:. And then the game locked up so I spent the last fifteen seconds trying to end the game and avoid rebooting, but failed.
I theoretically have a copy of SFC2: Orion Pirates with the Dynaverse.net patches, which is the high point of the franchise, but I don't know if I ever got it running reliably on this particular PC.

While it's been ages since I played it, the ship combat in Star Trek Online has a nice SFB vibe to it.

Meanwhile, we've returned to regular winter weather here. It's cold out, but not Icepocalypse 2022 cold by any means, although it never really got that bad compared to what thit the US. The worst of it for us was the freezing rain and wind on Friday, and most of the fallout from that was cleared up by Saturday.
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We woke up here to temps again in the thirties. Not as breezy as yesterday but it is overcast so no nice warming sun. It might be warm enough for my morning walk tomorrow, but I'm afraid I won't be seeing any lizards for awhile (my small lizards, not falling iguanas :wink:). Still, it is supposed to be in the low eighties by next weekend.
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Something I've never seen here before, frost on the pool screening. It rarely gets to freezing anymore and when it does it is usually very dry outside, but it is overcast and there is more humidity than I normally see at these temps.
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My kitchen hot water is fine today but now the feed line to the toilet is frozen. It wont refill. Back to my old friend bucket flushing until it does.

EDIT: Toilet unfroze by itself..yay!
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jztemple2 wrote:
Max Peck wrote: Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:14 pm I used to have a pretty comprehensive collection of SFB magazines (Nexus and Captain's Log). When Star Fleet Command was in development the devs were seeking out some specific SFB references. I still have some emails that I exchanged with Chris Taylor back in 1999 that culminated with me sending them my stash of Nexus magazines in exchange for a copy of the game manual signed by the dev team. I did take the time to photocopy everything before shipping it to them. Me-now is more than a little miffed with me-then for sending them the originals instead of the photocopies.
Off topic again :roll:

I fired up my copy of Starfleet Command 2 Community Edition and gave it a whirl. I forgot how to play, so the Klingon got the drop on me :roll:. And then the game locked up so I spent the last fifteen seconds trying to end the game and avoid rebooting, but failed.

I still have my old Star Fleet Battles binder with all the ships in mylar sheets for grease pencil damage, as well as the initial book! Not sure if I still have a map tho.

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I have all 3 SFC games here. Loved them. And Orion Pirates. Its a shame 2 was so buggy when it came out.
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Pyperkub wrote: Sun Dec 25, 2022 4:52 pm I still have my old Star Fleet Battles binder with all the ships in mylar sheets for grease pencil damage, as well as the initial book! Not sure if I still have a map tho.
About twenty-some years ago I had to make a decision about how I was going to use the space in my office, whether to keep several hundred old wargames or to get rid of them so I could make room for the books I'd started to collect. The books won and I boxed up all the games and the loose binders and whatnot. Since I was busy at work, my wife contacted the owner of Enterprise 1701. He came over, surveyed what I had and filled up his van with all of them after making her an offer. In the boxes was all my old Starfleet Battles content, but that was fair since he had sold me almost all of it :wink:

Meanwhile, it is still cold outside, with a solid overcast keeping it from getting warmer. The overcast is expected to continue until Tuesday when we might see temps actually reach into the sixties again. Here in Central Florida we normally get a cold snap that starts one night, lasts the next day and night and then starts warming up. This is really something unusual for us.
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The bomb cyclone dumped 22.7" of snow on us. More than The Blizzard of '78!

I haven't left the house since Thursday...
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Im loving our forecast.

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Freezing in the single digits to sweating in the 60s now

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No highs below freezing for the next 10 days here. I'll take it.
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Struggling for the next week... with the tourists :wink:

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60 degrees today. WTF.

Opened the garage, which is somewhat insulated and thus was still much colder than the outside air, and it created fog.
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We're getting back to our "warmer normal" with highs around 60 on New Year's Eve. Was in the 50s today.
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So on X-mas Eve I went back to Greensboro to spend the night at my brother's house for Christmas. Prior to that I was talking to my ex about visiting her/my cats (we divided our cats when we split). She was without power and her house was around 50 degrees. In any event, while she was out of town and I was in town, I dropped in on her house on both Xmas Eve and Xmas day. The cats were fine despite it being about 49-50 degrees inside. On Christmas Day her power was restored but her heat pump wasn't working. In any event, after I was back home and she was back home, he repair guy suggested she get a couple indoor heaters to heat up the house - which would help her heat pump (which is of course outside) get running again. This apparently eventually worked.

So to summarize, because of a power outage during extreme cold, the device she has to heat her house didn't work. Once the power got back on, it still wouldn't work until she increased the temperature in her house, despite the fact the heat pump itself is outside. So, in order to get the device that warms up her house to work, she had to first warm up her house. WTF?! I am glad I practically never lose power in my house... and that I have gas heat...
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Got up to 69f today.
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Almost 60 here in Chicago. Wife said she wanted to take the kids downtown skating this weekend. I told her, "skate in what? A puddle?" The next 10 days the daily highs are expected to be above freezing.

At least the kids followed my suggestion a few days ago and went sledding when it was still below freezing. Most all of the snow we got last week is melted now, and my walk-in beer cooler, which was freezing things solid last week, is now malfunctioning the other way and not keeping the beer cold enough.
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Heater died. Fortunately temp rather mild. Guy got out here fast and an easy fix.
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I got a house full of broken and half working heaters I keep limping along. When Im out of debt my plan it to toss every last one of them and replace them. Heaters are one product that is easy to see is part of use and toss items. No one repairs them now and they are cheap.
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Talk about a turn around. It's 71 out there!
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Massive storm hitting CA with 100% chance of rain on Thursday, don't see that very often. Possibly 60" of snow in the mountains.

Is the drought over yet?
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Jaymann wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 6:34 pm Massive storm hitting CA with 100% chance of rain on Thursday, don't see that very often. Possibly 60" of snow in the mountains.

Is the drought over yet?
No, they need regular intermittent gentle rain that the ground can absorb. Flash floods just run off. Although a serious snowpack will certainly help.
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Kraken wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 10:34 pm
Jaymann wrote: Tue Jan 03, 2023 6:34 pm Massive storm hitting CA with 100% chance of rain on Thursday, don't see that very often. Possibly 60" of snow in the mountains.

Is the drought over yet?
No, they need regular intermittent gentle rain that the ground can absorb. Flash floods just run off. Although a serious snowpack will certainly help.
Good, it's been raining steadily for the last 2 weeks.
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