Subj : snow.. To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Dec 17 2025 10:55:00 Hi Daryl! BM> Freezing rain is no fun, even for people (semi-)accustomed to BM> winter confitions: ice - essentially no grip when walking. DS> Freezing drizzle or freezing fog is even worse...as it doesn't DS> take much of it to cause problems. Agree: with snow can push through and get some grip whereas the frozen layer is solid with nothing to grasp. BM> The sneaky form if ice! At least with regular ice one can see BM> it and (hopefully!) slow down, walk gingerly, etc. Black ice: BM> wham! surprise! DS> Not the way to get another crack in your butt. :P "New! For Christmas! Holly-decorated donut-pillows! Also available in Christmas trees, angels tooting, Minorahs to light!" (Sinc you;ve been reasonably good this year I've left you a few openings!) BM> Of course! I wouldn't say all of them were careless: some BM> cautious but Physics got the best of them. DS> I think I need to clean my glasses...I thought that said DS> "psychics"... but I guess they didn't see the danger coming. You must have Dionne Warwick playing on your phonograph! (Spokeswoman for the Psyhic Hotline ages ago -- the company went bankrupt.) BM> We're having a "First Alert Weekend", or a least one of the BM> local TV stations uses that name -- this morning (Saturday) BM> it's 7 , with a wind chill of -5 , Those will also be the high BM> through Monday morning. DS> In the south, you get far more instances of hypothermia and DS> fires. People don't dress for the weather and the cold...or in DS> the case of fires, they let creosote build up into the chimney DS> from previous fires...or their pipes froze, and they used a DS> blowtorch to thaw them out. Right: part of the problem is if not used to cold don't have the clothes, removal hardware like shovels and ice scrapers. As for the creosote and blowtorches, they do the same in the cold parts of the country. The news reported a fire in a homeowner's shed - homeless person went in, apparently lit a fire in the grill to keep warm, something managed to catch fire. Homeowner hadn't a clue someone was in his shed. DS> Creosote is what they put on the wooden crossties on top of the DS> ballast, that support the rails for train travel, to keep the DS> ties from rotting. I love the smell of it, but it's EXTREMELY DS> CORROSIVE. Many railroads are going to concrete crossties now. DS> While they are more expensive than the wooden ones, they last DS> much longer. My parents had a terraced retaining wall made from old railroad ties. Hired someone to do the job; Dad explained what he wanted, maybe a sketch -- I was probably in 3rd Grade at the time so not really in on it. Guy built it, quite proud of the exacting results: even tiers, flat terraces.... From street level looked like one continuous 12-15 foot wall! ...Dad paid. Parents rebuilt with visual spacing and angled terraces: muuuuch better! DS> ... HELP!! MY KEYBOARD CAPS LOCK KEY IS STUCK!! BM> Stop yelling! It's not that great of an emergency!! DS> If I don't finish this QWK mail soon, I won't make it to the DS> potty in time. :P Reading or typing? BM> Drove in a storm to get a part for my computer. It was a hard drive. DS> Hard Disk?? Lady, I misunderstood you!! I ain't no lady, bub! DS> Junior!! Quit playing with your floppy!! Mother!! Quit playing with your joystick!! ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® .... Q: What's brown & lies on piano bench? A: Beethoven's first movement. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com (454:1/1) .