What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

Good morning hoarders! I hope you all have a good day!

Looks like I have a couple hundred pages to catch up on in the thread Gasifier fault

 

Is it snow? Nope.... Is it sleet? Nope ... Is It snow balls? Nope... it’s freezing fog/mist.... made it work safely.... but there was a few 3 or 4 times I had the Ol’ Pucker factor.... it was a interesting ride to say for sure... any touch of the gas would literally send you in the down hill slope of the road way.... thank goodness I leave before most people are up and at it...

 

x2, and you as well Pete

 

Kiddo got a tablet for her birthday last summer. Wants to play a game on the school bus. I'm 3 hours into installing "Google Family Link" . I am technologically challenged

I was almost all the way through after learning along the way how to navigate a tablet that talks with my cell phone (family does not work with my pc unfortunately) and it said I have update the tablet. Except you need to sign out and do it another another user since I set the tablet up on the family safe kiddo account

 

For sure if you don't ride often, the saddle is the worst part on the bike! That's another good point about recumbents. Wide seat rather than a saddle and never get a sore behind!

I see you also have eggbeaters on the cranks. That is what I use too on all my bikes.

 

Really strange thing this morning. After getting 3" snow, we then got some freezing drizzle and the temperature was 15 at the time. I've never before seen freezing drizzle at that low of a temperature.

 

I'm sure everyone remembers the high winds that swept through most of the United States. Here is a story from last weekend that was put out by our DNR:



Snow and strong winds during Marquette’s most recent winter storm created blizzard conditions so intense, several snowmobilers became stranded.

Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officers responded to several emergency calls to aid snowmobilers Sunday, working through the night into the early hours of the next day.

“There were multiple people lost and stuck on the trails in Marquette County,” said Sgt. Mark Leadman. “None of these were quick rescues; everything was dragged out due to the extreme winter conditions.”

The storm raged through the area, shutting down traffic along M-28 between Marquette and Munising, dumping nearly 20 inches of snow near Negaunee and producing wind gusts over 60 miles per hour along the Lake Superior shoreline.

In one rescue mission, two Marquette men, ages 30 and 31, were snowmobiling near Trail No. 8 when they got separated from each other due to low visibility from the blowing snow. Both of the riders' snowmobiles became stuck in 6-foot-tall snow drifts.

Around 11 p.m., Conservation Officer John Kamps began assisting Marquette County Search and Rescue personnel in locating the two men. After looking for about an hour, one of the riders was found near the Lindberg Gravel Pit, north of Marquette County Road 480.

It was several hours later before the second snowmobiler was located, about a quarter mile from where the first man had been found.

“Both men were cold, but in good condition,” Kamps said. “Unable to get their snowmobiles out of the deep snow drifts, both of the men were taken by first responders to a warm location near the gravel pit.”

Kamps then left the first search-and-rescue effort to respond to a second call for help along Trail No. 8, this one from a 52-year-old Marquette man who was stranded near the crossroads of County Road 480 and M-553.

The man had been snowmobiling home when he became lost in whiteout conditions. His snowmobile got stuck in a 3-foot snow drift. Kamps and a volunteer search-and-rescue team member entered the trail on their snowmobiles in the crossroads area.

After about 90 minutes of searching, they located the man, cold, but in good condition. The man had abandoned his snowmobile and walked the trail for 3 or 4 miles, searching for help. The man was given a ride back on the volunteer’s snowmobile. He was dropped off at a warm location around 1:30 a.m., where he was able to call for a ride home.

In another incident, farther west, Leadman and conservation officers Josh Boudreaux and Brett Delonge responded to a Marquette County Dispatch call about three men from Ohio who were stranded along Trail No. 5. The men made several calls for help to emergency dispatchers after their snowmobiles became stuck in drifted snow covering the trail.

“The roads weren’t passable,” Leadman said. “Conditions were blinding with extreme drifts.”

Using GPS coordinates obtained from the 911 call, the conservation officers searched the trail for several hours before they located the three men around 1 a.m.

With the sleds stuck in the snow, the conservation officers transported the men on their patrol sleds a distance of about 7 miles before arriving at a convenience store located at Koski Corners.

They got to the store, which is situated at the intersection of M-95 and U.S. 41 West, at about 3 a.m. There they were able to call a ride to pick them up. Neither of the snowmobilers required medical attention.

“Conservation officers receive unique search and rescue training, as well as training on how to operate snowmobiles and ORVs in intense weather conditions,” said Chief Gary Hagler, DNR Law Enforcement Division. “We are thankful to have officers located in every Michigan county, who are able to use their department resources to navigate into difficult environments.”

During the storm, which was one of the fiercest to hit the area in some time, the Mackinac Bridge had also been closed, while countless local roadways were choked with snow and drifted over. Police and weather forecasters warned motorists that travel would be difficult to impossible during the storm, urging drivers not to travel unless necessary.

While the sun broke through the clouds Monday afternoon over Marquette County, whiteout conditions persisted near Munising, with M-28 remaining closed. Sections of several snowmobile trails remained impassable for trail groomers, with trees downed and drifts higher than 8 feet in some places.

 

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