Voyager

Thanks for the reply... Hopefully you're enjoying retirement. I can't wait until I can do so. As for my travels, I don't know yet where I'm going today, but I most certainly want to be off the roads before the flakes and/or pellets fly. As long as those restrictions hold, I can drop loads accordingly and shut it down. Legally, I suppose, I'm protected from any harsh repercussion from my employer.

Depends on one's view of low impact. For me, as a tractor trailer driver pulling a bulk liquid tanker, a sleet and ice mess isn't quite low impact. Now, since you're a Penndot guy, do you see the Tier 3 restrictions holding, or do you think they might be downgraded? As of right now, legally, I should be off the roads by 2pm, loaded or empty. That to me is a blessing as it gives me leverage to park the truck without (hopefully) any repercussions from my employer as it'll technically be illegal for me to be out on the highway. I may be an experienced, professional driver, but I really don't want to play in sleet and ice in the mountainous region in which I run.

I'm hoping Penndot leaves the level 3 restrictions in place. That gives me a legitimate excuse to tell the boss I'm parking the big truck before things get bad. This is one storm I don't want to be out in in a tractor trailer.

Unlike those who work in an office or other enclosed building, and have a short commute to work and home, I work outside for a good portion of my day and drive 10-12 hours in whatever winter throws at us. Cold and snow makes what I do for a living exponentially more difficult (and dangerous sometimes) than on warm days. That being said, even though it's imperative that I know how the weather is going to affect my day, perhaps it's time for a break from this forum until spring. My apologies...

I do, but I can't. I'm stuck...

To say I am not amused at the continuing weather pattern is an understatement. Does anybody see a break on the horizon, or are we locked in? If something doesn't change after the new year, I might end up in a really bad place...

Started snowing about 20 minutes ago. Jeep is coated. Roads and sidewalks are a wet/white mixture.

Nary a flake in Tamaqua yet. We had a super light dusting on the vehicles that looked more like frost than snow. That has since melted due to the current temperature of 32.5

I got you. Here it is... hopefully.

Ha. Just screenshotted it, and was going to post it.

The random posts about people being in the wrong forums, and I think I'm on the wrong board. I'm beyond depressed with seeing Friday's temps dropping. it doesn't help when Phoenix has three consecutive weeks of record pushing warm temps and the midwest torches this week. I like all of you, and I get good weather analysis here, but I'm a straight up warmanista, and am the antithesis of what this board was founded on and stands on. In reality, I live in the wrong part of the country, too, and should have NEVER left Arizona after my mom passed...

Finally looked back at Fridays stats for Tamaqua (my backyard). Max wind, as I mentioned earlier, was well below most places due to houses and nearby mountains sheltering my neighborhood. High temp: 57 Low temp: 24 Wind gust: 16.2 mph Rainfall: 1.26"

Much to my chagrin, that beautiful warm air just can't get east of the mountains. Seeing Iowa and Nebraska in the 60s depresses me.

I speak only for myself, but you can kindly escort yourself out of the forum for posting that...

Mine is quite sheltered too. I had a peak wind gust of only 16.2 mph yesterday in my backyard.

Up my way in northern Lehigh and Schuylkill Counties, downed trees, wires, and even some snapped power poles in New Tripoli on PA309 played havoc with the last two deliveries of my trucking work shift.

Everywhere. It's totally messing up my afternoon/night.

Don't forget 15 in Tamaqua...lol Not complaining, but my backyard is so sheltered by the neighborhood houses and the nearby mountains that I rarely get over 20 mph here

We need that, especially in the liquid form. Some of our wells have really taken a hit with the dryness, and now frozen precipitation and ground. One of the wells can only handle one truck per hour. If we don't space the trucks, we'll draw from the ground and not the silo. If the water lever gets below the pump in the bore hole, we'll burn it up, which will be a major and expensive problem. Even with the warm up, I'm not sure how much of that liquid gets into the water table and how much runs off.

I'm thinking we warm for the holiday weeks when I have multiple days off. Then, come January, when it's back to regular work weeks, we tank again. It's just my luck...

I am really looking forward to this warm up. In addition to frozen caps and valves in the trailer, we have to deal with an icy ground truth, and salt just won't cut through that much ice because each load puts more water on the ground. The is what we deal with at the loading locations.

Dropped into the singles if you don't do the official round up/down. 9.9 at 7am.

Lots of single digits on personal weather stations this morning along the Susquehanna and in the Harrisburg area this morning. Coldest one I saw was +2 in Holiday Park near Linglestown. Here in my backyard, though, I'm sitting at 14.

Good on him. I could use some conditioning myself. I'm quite out of shape. Shovelling yesterday kicked my ass.

There you go antagonizing people again... Just kidding. I chuckled when I read this. And I see Sauss thought it was funny, too.