Sisco Posted July 1, 2018 Report Posted July 1, 2018 5 hours ago, 308kiwi said: ?yeah our cat is particularly smart, she's been around a long time and knows what’s best. Screw that Sisco, -32F, coldest I've ever seen the mercury here was -21C, (-6 F) and that was cold enough for me, spent that day thawing out diesel fuel lines and filters to get machinery running and stock fed. Here we use diesel deicer starting in January just as a precaution. Nothing like a fuel tank full of jelly to screw things up. Had a car delivered to me from California once when it was -28F. Wouldn’t start. Turned out it had straight 40 weight oil in it. Had an oil pan full of jelly! A big no no up here. We always use a 10 weight or 5 Weight blend.
392heminut Posted July 1, 2018 Report Posted July 1, 2018 13 hours ago, Sisco said: Kiwi, that wet cold is the worst. Goes right into your bones. That right there is what broke me of working on the oil rigs in Kansas!
98Z5V Posted July 6, 2018 Report Posted July 6, 2018 Wild that it's winter there, and I'm dealing with this shiit... Fuk me, man, it got hot here today. Hottest day we've had all year. I just heard the news say 114, AZCentral is reporting 115... Fucking miserable at work - even with AC. The damn AC couldn't keep up. On top of that, we got hit with a haboob. Couple highways on the way home closed due to dust- but I've already figured out my backroads-route home now, just because of traffic. What usually take 1:15 to drive took 1:30 - not bad.
jtallen83 Posted July 6, 2018 Report Posted July 6, 2018 1 hour ago, 98Z5V said: One of the many reasons I want nothing to do with deserts. "Sandstorm" my arse, fuk'n rocks will fly through the air!
98Z5V Posted July 6, 2018 Report Posted July 6, 2018 It's pretty sweet driving through those things, though - seriously. It shows you how stupid some people really are... Gotta service the K&N air filter on the little Nissan tomorrow, though...
DNP Posted July 6, 2018 Report Posted July 6, 2018 (edited) My chevy's front end is peppered through to the steel from something like that. Was headed back from a race near Vegas and the freeway was shot down for a few hours due to wind. They opened it back up and in the middle of the night I drove into one head on. I was doing 75...who knows how fast it was moving. Got a new windshield when I got home. It was so pitted you couldn't see crap when the sun hit it. No dice on paint or chrome touch up. That POS wears it proudly. At least it was dry and dusty Tom. Edited July 6, 2018 by DNP
MikedaddyH Posted July 6, 2018 Report Posted July 6, 2018 (edited) It was 114° in the shade today but I was on the blacktop of our parking lot had to be 125° or more !!! Just finish around 4:30pm then this blow in from the south !!!! Edited July 6, 2018 by MikedaddyH
DNP Posted July 6, 2018 Report Posted July 6, 2018 Damnit AZ...you sent your heat this way. 5:30 and it was already over 80.
98Z5V Posted July 6, 2018 Report Posted July 6, 2018 10 hours ago, DNP said: At least it was dry and dusty Tom. When those things kick up, during monsoon, it's raining mud... 2 hours ago, DNP said: Damnit AZ...you sent your heat this way. 5:30 and it was already over 80. I think this is that "Heat Dome" thing that's crushing the midwest right now - it's expanding, and getting us both!
DNP Posted July 6, 2018 Report Posted July 6, 2018 I blame all the Zonies coming here for the weekend. They're creating a tail wind and dragging that crap with em.
392heminut Posted July 6, 2018 Report Posted July 6, 2018 13 hours ago, 98Z5V said: Couple highways on the way home closed due to dust- but I've already figured out my backroads-route home now, just because of traffic. What usually take 1:15 to drive took 1:30 - not bad. Yup, life in the desert! They shut the highways down but us locals always know how get around that and go on about our business. That's just what you do out here. On another note, I told my wife that if she ever got caught on the highway in one of these things to get as far off the road as possible, clear over to the fence! I don't mind paying for a wrecker to get her out later if she gets stuck.
98Z5V Posted July 6, 2018 Report Posted July 6, 2018 2 hours ago, 392heminut said: On another note, I told my wife that if she ever got caught on the highway in one of these things to get as far off the road as possible, clear over to the fence! I don't mind paying for a wrecker to get her out later if she gets stuck. Exactly, these dumbasses here... I'm telling you... Phoenix. So many people that live in Phoenix are not from here. Hell, I'm not, I'm a Southeastern Ohio boy, myself. It's a city of "transplants." These stupid fuckers here - if it rains, they can't drive. Holy shiit, where YOU CAME FROM it rained all the time, and NOW you can't drive in this shiit?!!? If the dust blows... they can't drive. Okay, I get it - just play like you're in Mad Max, and put the fucking pedal to the floor, and watch your lane... They will STOP IN THE LANE, and put their hazard lights on. Come on, get THE FUK off the road here, so I can put my foot to the floor and get away from you as$holes... Or, they BARELY get off the road - like one tire still on the line! - and put their hazards on... I think I need to rent a Blackhawk helicopter in order to train some of these shiitheads. I'll just have it hover over them, or match their speed - over them -and brown-out everything near them. Learn to function, so the rest of us that already CAN function, can continue on with our day... Off my soapbox now...
sketch Posted July 7, 2018 Report Posted July 7, 2018 8 hours ago, 98Z5V said: Exactly, these dumbasses here... I'm telling you... Phoenix. So many people that live in Phoenix are not from here. Hell, I'm not, I'm a Southeastern Ohio boy, myself. It's a city of "transplants." These stupid fuckers here - if it rains, they can't drive. Holy shiit, where YOU CAME FROM it rained all the time, and NOW you can't drive in this shiit?!!? If the dust blows... they can't drive. Okay, I get it - just play like you're in Mad Max, and put the fucking pedal to the floor, and watch your lane... They will STOP IN THE LANE, and put their hazard lights on. Come on, get THE FUK off the road here, so I can put my foot to the floor and get away from you as$holes... Or, they BARELY get off the road - like one tire still on the line! - and put their hazards on... I think I need to rent a Blackhawk helicopter in order to train some of these shiitheads. I'll just have it hover over them, or match their speed - over them -and brown-out everything near them. Learn to function, so the rest of us that already CAN function, can continue on with our day... Off my soapbox now... that's funny suckafish here cant drive in the rain.. 2 lane freeway is a wreck waiting to happen almost everyday. im so sick of rtards driving . im considering rbs bumpers for the work truck to push my way through the protesters/ cant drivers..merge this dumbass!
shepp Posted July 7, 2018 Report Posted July 7, 2018 9 hours ago, 98Z5V said: Exactly, these dumbasses here... I'm telling you... Phoenix. So many people that live in Phoenix are not from here. Hell, I'm not, I'm a Southeastern Ohio boy, myself. It's a city of "transplants." These stupid fuckers here - if it rains, they can't drive. Holy shiit, where YOU CAME FROM it rained all the time, and NOW you can't drive in this shiit?!!? If the dust blows... they can't drive. Okay, I get it - just play like you're in Mad Max, and put the fucking pedal to the floor, and watch your lane... They will STOP IN THE LANE, and put their hazard lights on. Come on, get THE FUK off the road here, so I can put my foot to the floor and get away from you as$holes... Or, they BARELY get off the road - like one tire still on the line! - and put their hazards on... I think I need to rent a Blackhawk helicopter in order to train some of these shiitheads. I'll just have it hover over them, or match their speed - over them -and brown-out everything near them. Learn to function, so the rest of us that already CAN function, can continue on with our day... Off my soapbox now... Same with snow, it snows here every MOTHER FUCKING YEAR!! October to April expect fucking snow!!! Yet mid January some dumb fuck is doing 50 in a 70 with there flashers on, IF ITS THAT FUCKING BAD IF YOUR THAT SCARED, GET THE HELL OFF THE ROAD DUMMY!!!! theyll do the same in the rain here too like they’re from the middle of the dessert where it never rains..........but it rains all the time here!!! fuck stupid people
Sisco Posted July 8, 2018 Report Posted July 8, 2018 We are lucky if you live up here and don’t know how to drive in the snow your’e a statistic. After the stupidity of the first snow every one is pretty good.
ARTrooper Posted July 8, 2018 Report Posted July 8, 2018 Don't get this trooper going on people's driving behavior, I'll loose my mind in this thread
Sharpshooter Posted July 8, 2018 Report Posted July 8, 2018 I've always loved watching the idiots with 4-wheel drive on their first(?) snow-covered road. They're all, "Watch this suckers, I can go and you can't!" Then they try to turn or stop. That's when they figure out that the laws of physics don't give a tinker's damn how much money they spent on their fancy trucks. Just because you can go doesn't mean you can whoa. The only downfall was having to write the accident report.
392heminut Posted July 9, 2018 Report Posted July 9, 2018 (edited) On 7/6/2018 at 11:18 PM, shepp said: theyll do the same in the rain here too like they’re from the middle of the dessert where it never rains..........but it rains all the time here!!! fornicate stupid people Shepp, rain all the time is a good thing! Down here it rains very little so when it does rain the oils in the pavement come up and makes it REALLY slick! I never experienced schit like that in Kansas! Edited July 9, 2018 by 392heminut
98Z5V Posted August 3, 2018 Report Posted August 3, 2018 (edited) Got one coming up on me right now, heavy and hard, from the southwest. Hopefully, the rain is behind it. 5:30pm here: EDIT - I was gonna wait until 5:45pm here for another pic, but it's already on me. This is 5:41pm. NOW it's 5:45... My trees out back started moving pretty good, so I snapped another pic out front... Edited August 3, 2018 by 98Z5V
98Z5V Posted August 3, 2018 Report Posted August 3, 2018 (edited) Damn.If I trust weather.com, there's a wall of water headed my way - I sure hope so. Vis out front went to shiit a few minutes ago. Went out back to check it out - that 2-story above my wall, right where my right cactus is - that 114 yards away. Vis sucks right now, and I'm glad I'm not driving with these idiots here, in rush hour. HAHA! Fuk me, here's that house now, a few minutes later... Neighbor is about to lose a tree... News said we could get gusts of 60mph - I'll but that... Edited August 3, 2018 by 98Z5V
98Z5V Posted August 3, 2018 Report Posted August 3, 2018 Damn power just came back on. What an adventure that was. Went from 110 to 88 in about 30 minutes or so. Fucking Desert...
308kiwi Posted August 3, 2018 Author Report Posted August 3, 2018 I used to live in an area of New Zealand called The Canterbury Plains, huge flat area that borders the coastline, we used to get dust storms like that when the North Westers blew, picking up all the dirt from farm fields and blowing it in a huge wall across the plains to the Pacific Ocean, scary as hell as a kid. I'll swap ya for a day or so 98, it's been raining and 2 deg (35F) here for the last 4 days.☔
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