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Unusual winter weather.

We hit 35c today. (I can't take anymore clothes off, else indecent exposure. The heat rash between the legs is starting up again.)
No sign of rain, although the soil is still damp from Monday storm.
 
The extreme in temps is vast. The rain must have pushed the humidity higher?

It does.

We have had devastating rain and floods in the Kruger Park area and Mozambique suffers the worst as it all goes in their direction.

The crocs are wading through all the water into villages and attacking people, very sad.
Also cuts off water and food supplies.
 
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We had 9" of snow yesterday with a low of 8F/-13C. Temp now is 14F/-10C. We're not expected to go above freezing until next Sunday, and that only briefly. I may climb on my roof to clear my solar panels at least part of the way, because if they start generating they'll melt the snow off of themselves.
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The first pic is a little misleading. The snow pile (I'm thinking of naming it Donner Summit) is only about 3 feet tall. Clearing my driveway is only an aspiration at this point. The city hasn't plowed my street yet and may not do it today. But at least the sun is out.
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Hope all you stateside folk are weathering this storm without incident. It’s headline news over here too.
Thank you, the snowblower wouldn’t work today so 18” had to be shifted by shovel, the bit where the snow plough had piled it at the side of the road- across the drive was the worst, 3’ high and compacted.
And now there’s another 6” to clear in the morning.
I used to love it when it snowed, the attraction has definitely worn off grrrrr.
 
Thank you, the snowblower wouldn’t work today so 18” had to be shifted by shovel, the bit where the snow plough had piled it at the side of the road- across the drive was the worst, 3’ high and compacted.
And now there’s another 6” to clear in the morning.
I used to love it when it snowed, the attraction has definitely worn off grrrrr.
Ian, now if you had one of these in your garage .....
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...then you could push it all back into the road ;)
 
Thank you, the snowblower wouldn’t work today so 18” had to be shifted by shovel, the bit where the snow plough had piled it at the side of the road- across the drive was the worst, 3’ high and compacted.
And now there’s another 6” to clear in the morning.
I used to love it when it snowed, the attraction has definitely worn off grrrrr.
Any idea what is wrong with the blower?
 
Yeah it’s old old petrol, blocked jet-s, pump the primer and it starts on the electric but instantly stops again if you don’t continually keep pushing the primer, managed to get it going the other day but it’s obviously not happy and the engine is hunting. But nothing will persuade it to keep running now. Anyway the driveway has been cleared enough to use, the Hare has taken up residence under my snowed in Mazda, pic of its tunnel, smoothed the snow in front of his front door and yes there’s the tracks back again.
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Ian….get yourself a small ultrasonic cleaner. Take the carb off and stick it in. Sorted.
 
Very resilient animals, lets hope the fox or the coyote don't have it for a meal.
Ever tried Seafoam in the petrol Ian?
 
Ian….get yourself a small ultrasonic cleaner. Take the carb off and stick it in. Sorted.
There lies the problem, too difficult and don’t have the ultrasonic thingy.
Very resilient animals, lets hope the fox or the coyote don't have it for a meal.
Ever tried Seafoam in the petrol Ian?
No, will look it up! But “ there’s a hole in my bucket dear Liza” had to clear the driveway to get to the shops lol
 
Yes, run till dry, it’s our fault that we didn’t do it over a year ago. Stupid!
I raised this issue on here some time back, looked but cant find the thread. My father used to run his Atco lawnmower dry after every use and not just at the end of the summer. I’ve had a Honda mower for 18 years and have never ran it dry and never had a problem starting it in the spring after 5 months of nonuse. (Tempting fate here) i do not know enough about such things to advocate and perhaps different engine /carb combinations, storage conditions, extreme temperature variations etc can play a part, or even quality of fuel.
 
I raised this issue on here some time back, looked but cant find the thread. My father used to run his Atco lawnmower dry after every use and not just at the end of the summer. I’ve had a Honda mower for 18 years and have never ran it dry and never had a problem starting it in the spring after 5 months of nonuse. (Tempting fate here) i do not know enough about such things to advocate and perhaps different engine /carb combinations, storage conditions, extreme temperature variations etc can play a part, or even quality of fuel.
Yes me too with the Honda mower, now that’s a bombproof engine.
I shall be running the snowblower on that special petrol that doesn’t go off in future, it’s the sort of mc that’s only rarely used.
Been working on the mc this morning, what a difference a bit of sunshine makes! Minus whatever but didn’t really bother me. Anyway the carb is off and will fit the new one tomorrow.
 
Ian, guess you got lucky with not having hydro outage, not like Texas and other states.
Reminds me back in summer of 2004 I was on the road doing a gardening television show Room To Go season 2 and 3 and a storm hit and my wife was all alone without power. Tried to tell her how to get the back up generator going but she gave up. She said she would manage without hydro. Thank god we had a out house which I built in the early 90's.
Fast forward to now, she couldn't deal with the same situation. :(
A tough old Brit she was to deal with no hydro for 10 days.
 
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Ian, guess you got lucky with not having hydro outage, not like Texas and other states.
Reminds me back in summer of 2004 I was on the road doing a gardening television show Room To Go season 2 and 3 and a storm hit and my wife was all alone without power. Tried to tell her how to get the back up generator going but she gave up. She said she would manage without hydro. Thank god we had a out house which I built in the early 90's.
Fast forward to now, she couldn't deal with the same situation. :(
A tough old Brit she was to deal with no hydro for 10 days.
10 days! Yes you’ve got a tough one there. Mines like that, I always joke about it and that we should have a Winchester over the mantle piece!
 
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