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· Föderation EN Sa 13.01.2024 15:54:35 It was below -50C windchill all night, and like... EVERYTHING is frozen. The drain in one sink is still frozen (heat gun blowing on it now), the well/house water line was frozen briefly (now thawed), the animal water is frozen - deicer seems to have crapped out, or maybe the outlet. It really feels like a battle against nature, and I don't like that! Need to figure out how to live with this better, with fewer crappy, old-school electrical systems. Tonight is supposed to be even colder... |
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Föderation EN Sa 13.01.2024 19:20:35 Wooo the drain just started working again! The animal waterer outside seems to be fucked in multiple ways, but we have ideas for how to set up something more reliable - AFTER this current cold snap. For now, the animals have lots of snow they can eat (and lots of hay to make up for the extra calories burned by eating snow instead of drinking water). Time to venture out for a scouts science thing with my youngest. Because everything just continues here, -50C windchill or no. WILD. |
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Föderation EN Sa 13.01.2024 22:42:08 One of the activities at my kids' scouts meeting was a snowball fight. But it's TOO COLD (-47C windchill right now), so they did the snowball fight indoors, with white pom-poms! Like I said before, this place is wild. I think part of what makes it so wild (to me) is that pretty much everyone here grew up here, so they all think this is totally normal! Gives the absolutely terrifying weather conditions a bit of a surreal feel, as everyone just goes about their business like a normal day |
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Föderation EN Sa 13.01.2024 22:59:42 Another funny extreme cold story: when I start up my super fancy "new" car and it's below freezing, it displays what the engineers no doubt thought was a very helpful message: "Caution: possible icy conditions" When the air temperatures are in the -30s and the windchill is approaching -50C, that message makes me laugh really hard. (Which is good, helps warm me up...) |
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Föderation EN So 14.01.2024 02:20:46 Upside to stupidly cold temps: very cool atmospheric optics! Here's a sun pillar with a faint upper tangent arc. It got pinker as the sun set further, but I couldn't convince myself to take my hand out of my glove to get another picture...
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Föderation EN So 14.01.2024 21:21:06 Water line to the house was frozen again this morning (thawed quickly though) and we managed to keep the one sink from freezing again by running a space heater on it all night, and a dumb "fix" kept the animal water from freezing. Sigh. Only 2 more nights forecast in the -30sC (for now), then Tuesday is supposed to be a gloriously warm -18C. (Pre-Saskatchewan me would either laugh or cry to hear me say that -18C is warm...) |
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Föderation EN So 14.01.2024 21:50:36 Fun with laundry at -45C windchill (damp clothes out of the washing machine froze solid in less than 1 minute. WOW.)
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Föderation EN Mo 15.01.2024 00:42:37 Beautiful fractal ice growing on the edge of the heated water trough, and also on all the gross cobwebs all over the barn ceiling right above the trough. Way prettier than Christmas decorations, good work spiders and physics! Too bad it has to be so cold for this to happen...
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Föderation EN Mo 15.01.2024 02:55:18 Forecast for the next few hours has the windchill solidly between -45 to -50C. Our school division won't run busses if the windchill is below -45C, but the schools NEVER CLOSE. (Except for the province-wide teacher's strike that's happening on Tuesday, that's a different story! Wooo! Strike strike strike!) *If* one of the cars starts, we can drive the kids to school and hope windchill is above -45 in the afternoon so the bus will bring them home. What weird Saskatchewan games... |
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Föderation EN Mo 15.01.2024 14:49:35 Windchill was -47 at 6am, so buses are cancelled for my kids' school, and the school where my partner teaches is cancelled altogether (tribal schools are often more sensible about weather than public schools). So everyone is staying home. But it's a normal work-from-home day for me so...this'll be fun. Tomorrow is a strike for all public schools here (but not for tribal schools, where teachers are not unionized), and I teach on campus, so it's bring-your-kids-to-work day for me. |
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Föderation EN Mo 15.01.2024 14:53:58 2 mysteries from morning chores: 1) How did I manage to get frozen milk all over the leg of my coveralls? 2) Weird satellites! I saw 2 bright satellites (Venus-bright) right next to each other, not moving relative to background stars. So weird it made me drop the bale of hay I was carrying and stare at them, despite the -50 windchill in my face. Over the course of ~20 seconds, they faded, so I guess they were geosynchronous sats that turned their bright solar panels? So freaking many sats... |
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Föderation EN Mo 15.01.2024 16:33:20 GOOD MORNING SUN DOGS!! (It hurt a lot to run outside and take this picture in -47 winchill, but it was WORTH IT)
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