Weather where you are?

motoddrob said:
In the good old days we would hydrate every time we past a pub!! Can't do that anymore, well not every pub.
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Riding from Cairns to Darwin on our RT2 360 Yammy trail bikes. Endless hours of the flat empty plains, but you'd see the '5 Miles to Swan' sign and know you had an oasis coming up. Yay!! Pretty sure it was Swan(?) - a brand of beer. Didn't drink back then, but a cold drink of any sort always went down well?
 
I used a 3litre camelback on every dirtbike ride I did, it was absolutely indispensable as you work 1000% harder riding extreme offroad than even pushing along relatively hard on a road bike in the twisties. Get stuck on a hard hill climb and you fast approach heart attack pulse rates. We would regularly end up doing 150k of single track and more in a day on the pegs. But for some odd reason I just cannot go camelback on the road bike.
 
Yeah they are copping a hammering in the States now, just as our cold snap is ending. From minus 10 to plus 8 here within the next few days. Snow atm, going over to sleet and then rain.
 
Just the usual extreme weather that comes along from time to time ... nothing new, nothing to see here :).

Er, what's that about internal combustion engines disappearing some time soon?!

:oops::oops::oops::oops::oops:
 
Stuck in Dallas TX with my 747-8 because there is no de-icing fluid (being trucked from Denver).
We've been here for 48 hours in a grand hotel with no power, no hot water etc. not even cold beer.
Minus 18c ATM. With another storm on the way, it might be another 48 hours or more of 'bags of chips'.
I guess the news says it all but millions wihout power and the place is just about shut down.

My last flight before some time off ... wish I was home, only minus 2 there and cold beer.
 
Wow, that's crazy! We're seeing some snow, but now just freezing rain. Temperatures have been right at the freezing mark most if the winter.

Staying inside and working on parts clean-up today!
 

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1200 JOTA said:
Stuck in Dallas TX with my 747-8 because there is no de-icing fluid (being trucked from Denver).
We've been here for 48 hours in a grand hotel with no power, no hot water etc. not even cold beer.
Minus 18c ATM. With another storm on the way, it might be another 48 hours or more of 'bags of chips'.
I guess the news says it all but millions wihout power and the place is just about shut down.

My last flight before some time off ... wish I was home, only minus 2 there and cold beer.
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I have a friend down there doing some simulator training ........ he's in the same boat with no power and bloody cold.

Who would have thought you could be held up because of no de-icing fluid. I'd be out on the wings with a broom ....... then just use full power on take-off ......... but that's the old days.

Jim
 
Don't you just use the exhaust heat from the plane taxiiing in front to do the de-icing? :eek::eek::eek:. Seem to recall something about the Potomac disaster and iced wings ....
 
BTW, 31 degrees and humid here in Melbourne - same as yesterday, same tomorrow. Bit warm in my tin roof garage but I have to be in there to get my wiring finished. At least our 5 day lockdown ends tonight. My son was tested yesterday after mild symptoms, but zero new cases in Victoria so I'm assuming I'll get the 'negative' text for him soon.

Texas sounds unbelievable!
 
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piranha-bro2 said:
Don't you just use the exhaust heat from the plane taxiiing in front to do the de-icing? :eek::eek::eek:. Seem to recall something about the Potomac disaster and iced wings ....
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Yeah ...... but if he'd flown the plane by the seat of his pants ..... he might have gotten away with it ..... IPR's were reading high so he thought he had takeoff power. If he'd firewalled the throttles he might have made it. (they don't like to talk about pilots actually flying ...... they're just supposed to follow the manual)

Jim
 
I wouldn't have thought cold beer would be a problem at -18C. Just don't leave it outside long enough to freeze.

BTW, how does your internet connection work when there's no power? Is the mobile network still powered up?
 
I had no idea what an Ice Storm was till I saw a Doco on some big one years ago. Crazy shit, rain freezing, and ice mounting up to massive weights till it starts collapsing stuff under the weight. The electrical grid taking huge damage and taking months to repair. The heat we get isn't so bad methinks.
 
1200 JOTA said:
Stuck in Dallas TX with my 747-8 because there is no de-icing fluid (being trucked from Denver).
We've been here for 48 hours in a grand hotel with no power, no hot water etc. not even cold beer.
Minus 18c ATM. With another storm on the way, it might be another 48 hours or more of 'bags of chips'.
I guess the news says it all but millions wihout power and the place is just about shut down.

My last flight before some time off ... wish I was home, only minus 2 there and cold beer.
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I'm picking oranges and making fresh juice, same country different state Southern California.
 
GregT said:
For riding in heat snd staying hydrated, try a CamelBak. Couple of mates here who do as much long distance as can be done in NZ, swear by them.
Tube inside the helmet works well they tell me.
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Haha yeah I’ve used a camelback (well, homemade) and instead of stopping for water, had to stop to piss 🤣
 
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