Post Race!

So, to get there we would mother-board?

I'm pretty sure that most (if not all) hybrid and fully electric vehicles still have a 12 volt battery and wiring system for the growing list of computers and "accessory" systems such as lighting. Things could get chaotic fast otherwise, since the drive battery packs barely provide the same voltage two model years in a row and that part of those cars is an ongoing broken-field running race.

It isn't just computers that stay powered either, there are multiple radios from the keyless remote control system to cell phone radios in more "managed" platforms with perpetual subscription crap like OnStar. These may also contain small heating elements active at low temperatures to keep them functioning. So yeah, plenty of small parasitic power drains.

We had a high probability of snow last night. We got nothing. The mountains had an even higher probability of significant snow. They got nothing.

Living in a desert can be weird.

Ohio's snow forecast for this weekend:

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We're looking at 6 to 10 inches. I'm betting on 4 but won't be shocked to get more.

Warming Thursday morning, so I can prepare for high winds and take the car for another battery-charge run then. Not sure I can expect my kid to make the trip from Wisconsin this weekend though, it's a long loop through Chicago and the teeth of this storm.

People are nuts.

I can remember when thrift stores tended to have a pile of bags and buckets and open tables of Lego bricks almost sold by the pound. Flash forward to today and there are specialty shops selling wacked-out "kits" that can only make one thing, one size of new buckets'o'parts, and used raw bricks and plates individually marked with shocking prices.

I've long wondered about the trends in Lego. When I was a kid, I wasn't involved with buying them directly. They showed up as presents, and I barely remember anything about what kinds of containers they came in. What I do remember is that there was some hierarchy about which of us had more (between houses, as my sister and I shared), and it was largely by pounds of Lego. These days, it seems like ALL Lego is sold as kits. If you just want to get a load of various sized, rectangular, bricks...can you even get that? When everything is specialty pieces, it doesn't seem like it would enhance creativity but rather suppress it. When A only fits with B, then where's the creativity?

The last storm we were supposed to get, delivered nothing at all down here. It remained well north. A better chance will get to us tomorrow.

And then, after Christmas, it's supposed to warm up enough that some might melt away. Perhaps I'll finally be able to finish raking my leaves? I was away when I should have been raking them, and they've been covered in snow since then.

We got up near 38F and I should have raked leaves too. Got caught up in a family holiday meet that got moved up though.

In the last hour we got a few drops of rain but not anywhere near a mist. Once the Low passes things will wrap around and then we'll drop to about 8F with wind and snow. How much snow is still anyone's guess. 3 to 5 inches predicted yet tonight with another 2 to 4 on Friday.

It was freezing in Colorado Springs today. I’ve never experienced anything like it and there was a ton of snow.

It actually makes it hard to breath with this elevation and cold air.

The high today was 3 and the low is -14. Right now it is -3 with a “feels like” of -16.

I remember being at a hatchery when they were working up fish at -10 F. I wasn't in the water, that time. I've been in the water when it was mighty cold, but not THAT cold. Had to wear thin cotton gloves, too, as the fish were too hard to hold onto otherwise.

Great weather to experience John Carpenter's "The Thing" for the first time.

Well, we got snow. Not much snow, as yet, but there's snow on the ground.

So far we've had it easy where I am, at least for snow and winds. Snowfall is at about 5 inches so far, without sustained nasty winds to blow it into deep drifts. Cold though, around 5F tonight.

Saturday will brings us more snow and probably the bitter taste of high winds though slightly warmer. Prognosticators are saying that a week from now we may be pushing 50F after steady rises from Wednesday onward.

We're going to get that even earlier. It's looking like Tuesday could see temperatures up near 50, with an atmospheric river pushing in large amounts of rain. That could make life interesting. We're well above normal for snowpack. Getting a warm..ish rain in the mountains could cause some impressive flooding.

Hope you guys are all OK. Thought we had a cold snap over here last week but, from the news, what you're being hit with is extreme. Stay safe y'all.

I got about 1/3 of what I intended cleared of snow Friday night, but the cold and high winds made me settle for that. Right now we're close to 0F.

Once we rise to 10F or more I'll get the rest unless winds are even higher then. It might take two more passes since the blowing tends to fill snow back in even if nothing new falls. We aren't really expecting more than maybe another inch between today and Sunday.

I got about 1/3 of what I hoped for on the ground. Didn't clear a thing, as it will be warm and raining in a couple days. Heck, it might be warm and raining tomorrow, though it sounds like a cold air pocket will remain in the valley....which means that we might end up with a sheet of ice over everything.

A fatal 50-car pile-up closed down the Ohio Turnpike yesterday and today Cleveland police had to close Brookpark Road by the airport because of blowing snow and stuck vehicles everywhere. So here I sit nice and toasty watching the Browns-Saints game in front of a roughly half-full stadium even though it is officially a sellout. 4th coldest game in Browns' history.

Nothing like January, 1994, though.