mahantango#1

6 here!

Where I used to work( I since retired early I took an early retirement from being a supervisor) We had tankers coming in from the mid-west states, Ohio, and Canada. We used to use Hot water on the outlet valve and if that didn't work to open a frozen outlet we used air. Hooked up an air hose with a special fitting an applied over 100psi to open it up. when that let go and shot up towards the front of the tanker it sounded like a gun going off. We also got tankers from the southern states too but the chance they were froze was not great as the ones from Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, New Jersey and Canada .These tankers were loaded with liquid egg and had to be loaded at 33-36 degrees for shipping. In the summer that was a different story as we had spoiled egg come in to the plant. Especially from a plant in Arkansas.. Somehow the tankers were usually loaded and till we got them it was 5-6 days later, I don't know if trucking was the issue or the drivers just didn't care when they got there So you can imagine when you have 48,000-50000 lbs of spoiled egg thats a big loss and depending on the fluctuating market value sometimes even a bigger financial loss. .But I can definably relate to the frozen valve situation. I'm sure you seen tankers from where I used to work on the road. Papetti's and Michael Foods.

At least your water isn't sitting on that tNker for over 12 hrs freezing up the valve at the outlet.

Where is this at in Tower City?

Thank you!!

That looks like a problem. I know the models underestimate how long it takes to get rid of the cold air, is this gonna be another one of them too? But will the warmer air eventually win out in the Susquehanna Valley?

Cad?

23 this morning and the wind is starting to crank up

Wow, morning wood or snow?

3" here in the greater Pillow area!

1/2 in here @10:30

If we only get 2 in here I don't anticipate to many problems but we get 3 or 5 in then that's a different situation on drifting.

Yes the road from Eville to Berrysburg does drift and from Berrysburg to Pillow at spots also. Rt 147 basically has not much drifting except the big hill leaving Sunbury and when you get on top of the hill on that flat top. But it's nothing like Eville to Berrysburg IMO.

First flakes in the Pillow area

31 here dp 23

A few years ago I stopped there to piss. And while I was in the bathroom this older woman came in spraying a spray bottle on the toilets and urinals. No warning she was coming in. She didn't say anything either. She just kept spraying away.

Probably there thinking of a prolonged ice event. Even just a light coating coating of ice on the roads is just enough to cause problems.

You think it will be a prolonged one, will the Susquehanna Valley be cold air dammed?

Will there be a threat of a ice on Sunday or will the warm air win out saving us from a prolonged icing threat?

15 here!

23 here

One thing for sure it has gotten a lot colder. I got up at 5:15 it was 29 now it's 25 with that wind it's a brutal reminder that it's winter. The last few days or should I say most of December spoiled us. Now it might be the beginning of we will have to start paying the piper.

People would suffer from dehydration if you took off.

What kind of station you have I got a accurite

You can have it this year. What made it bad was my son was having his land excavated with a dozer at the time. And that sits on a hill. And there was no grass planted yet, so you can imagine what happened. I had to get the tractor out with the front end loader to clean off the ground and mud off our lane at several spots. It was terrible and disgusting. So when they were calling for thunderstorms we cringed at that thought of going through it again.