'Brutal' arctic surge to send temperatures plunging, bring 'life threatening' cold snap

Discussion in 'Truckers' Weather & Road Conditions' started by Chinatown, Jan 27, 2019.

  1. Hulld

    Hulld Road Train Member

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    My advice to you is to resist the urge to put your tongue on that shiny hydraulic piston.

    *Hammer cannot be held responsible if you freeze your balls off.
     
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  3. homeskillet

    homeskillet Road Train Member

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    Yeah. Around here it's usually the same Frequent Poster.

    The one WITHOUT a CDL......
     
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  4. Snailexpress

    Snailexpress Road Train Member

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    Yeahhh it was time...... Survived only because girls were not so feministic. Always was someone willing to heat you all night.
     
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  5. bzinger

    bzinger Road Train Member

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    Gee no shat ? Lol....kmew about this days ago ..
     
  6. Hammer166

    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    Yeah, hoping this one fizzles like the one from last weekend. We ended up 20 degrees warmer than they initially expected.
     
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  7. bryan21384

    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    Oh yeah....I remember having a conversation with some other drivers. I told them it was thirty below in Michigan, just shooting the breeze. An ex Jarhead said we could keep all these cold temps. As soon as I told them the temp, he he goes..."You can operate in that. I had to deal with colder when I was a Marine." All of a sudden his balls of steel came on. Sheesh man, it's already been teens and single digits for much of January in those territories. Once it gets below 20, it just sucks all the way around. This ain't no balls of steel contest, this ish can kill you
     
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  8. x1Heavy

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    Mississippi actually has a winter weather advisory up for tomorrow. Around maybe a inch.

    Arkansas expects half in ch to a inch give or take east of mountain home-littlerock-pine bluff around 10PM until 2 AM. After the temps breach freezing and flips rain to snow at 10PM, whatever is wet will be ice until 11 am Tuesday when it gets back above 32.

    HOWEVER.

    Tues will be cold. WED will be colder than that. How cold? Let's say I have three space heaters of the oil kind, one behind the computer running 500 watts and two others ready. When it gets that cold on Wed all three will be up and pulling 1000 watts each with oil lamps on hand for a back up should power fail. I don't think I have to flip the space heaters to 1500 watts each on wed night. But that might happen yet.
     
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  9. KillingTime

    KillingTime Road Train Member

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    You survived the Ice Age with nothing but a loin-cloth. Modern era tho, and you need pills to keep your sense-of-self stable. :confused:
     
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  10. LDLWells

    LDLWells Heavy Load Member

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    Let me tell you about the time I had three cdls...
     
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  11. otterinthewater

    otterinthewater Road Train Member

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    I know this one...

    Three CDL’s walk into a bar. The first one sits down at the bar to order a drink. The second one trys to find the bathroom using GPS and ends up locked in the dumpster, the third seeing the issues the second one had, stops, sits down in the middle of floor and ####s his pants. The police show up and arrest the 1st CDL for ordering a drink.
     
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