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Central PA - Winter 2021/2022


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16 minutes ago, canderson said:

I get my water from sinks. I don’t need a damn tanker. People need to get with the program.  
 

Also I’ve had lots of gin. If that makes no sense blame Mr Hendricks. 

Well played lad. Hendricks is the only gin I can drink, on the rare occasion I actually drink gin ha. I’ve got the Manhattans flowing over here tonight. 

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7 hours ago, Voyager said:

If it's down near zero, all it takes is an hour for the valve to freeze up. Then we need to heat it with a torch just to open it. Even the outlet pipe cap will be frozen on. At 20 degrees or less, we need to either hit it with a mallet or dead blow hammer, or hit it with the torch as well. If the vent freezes up, and we don't know it, bye bye trailer as it will implode when unloading.

Plain and simple, in the summer, water hauling is a great gig. In the winter it kind of sucks...

Where I used to work( I since retired early I took an early retirement from being a supervisor) We had tankers coming in from the mid-west states, Ohio, and Canada. We used to use Hot water on the outlet valve and if that didn't work to open a frozen outlet we used air. Hooked up an air hose with a special fitting an applied over 100psi to open it up. when that let go and shot up towards the front of the tanker it sounded like a gun going off. We also got tankers from the southern states too but the chance they were froze was not great as the ones from Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, New Jersey and Canada .These tankers were loaded with liquid egg and had to be loaded at 33-36 degrees for shipping. In the summer that was a different story as we had spoiled egg come in to the plant. Especially from a plant in Arkansas.. Somehow the tankers were usually loaded and till we got them it was 5-6 days later, I don't know if trucking was the issue or the drivers just didn't care when they got there  So you can imagine when you have 48,000-50000 lbs of spoiled egg thats a big loss and depending on the fluctuating market value sometimes even a bigger financial loss. .But I can definably relate to the frozen valve situation. I'm sure you seen tankers from where I used to work on the road. Papetti's and Michael Foods.

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URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service State College PA
322 AM EST Sat Jan 8 2022

PAZ028-036-056-057-059-063>066-082200-
/O.NEW.KCTP.WW.Y.0002.220109T1000Z-220109T1700Z/
Juniata-Franklin-Perry-Dauphin-Lebanon-Cumberland-Adams-York-
Lancaster-
Including the cities of Mifflintown, Chambersburg, Newport,
Harrisburg, Hershey, Lebanon, Carlisle, Gettysburg, York,
and Lancaster
322 AM EST Sat Jan 8 2022

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM TO NOON EST
SUNDAY...

* WHAT...A brief period of mixed precipitation, changing to
  freezing rain. Total snow and sleet accumulation of less than
  one inch and ice accumulations of up to one tenth of an inch.

* WHERE...Portions of central Pennsylvania.

* WHEN...From 5 AM to noon EST Sunday.

* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and Pennsylvania
Turnpike Commission remind motorists to adjust speeds based on
driving conditions as winter weather impacts Pennsylvania
roadways.

Call 5 1 1 or visit www.511pa.com for the latest travel, roadway
and traffic conditions.

To report snow or ice, post to the NWS State College Facebook
page, use Twitter @NWSStateCollege, or visit weather.gov/ctp.

&&

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46 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Holy moley!!!

As for the tankers, yes, I've seen the Papetti trucks around. I also knew Michael Foods was near there. Indian River Transport goes in there I guess from time to time.

yes they do. Years ago they were dependable probably one of the best in the nation, originating from Florida. But before I retired the procurement and dispatchers were reluctant on getting them as a carrier as they fell from elite status. always late not in hours, but days!  

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Hoo boy.

 

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE

National Weather Service State College PA

322 AM EST Sat Jan 8 2022

 

PAZ004-010-017-024-033-082200-

/O.NEW.KCTP.WW.Y.0002.220109T0700Z-220109T1500Z/

Warren-Elk-Clearfield-Cambria-Somerset-

Including the cities of Warren, St. Marys, Ridgway, DuBois,

Clearfield, Johnstown, and Somerset

322 AM EST Sat Jan 8 2022

 

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 10 AM EST

SUNDAY...

 

* WHAT...A brief period of mixed precipitation, changing to

  freezing rain. Total snow and sleet accumulation less than one

  inch and ice accumulations of up to one tenth of an inch.

 

* WHERE...Warren, Elk, Clearfield, Cambria and Somerset Counties.

 

* WHEN...From 2 AM to 10 AM EST Sunday.

 

* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.

 

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The mixed precipitation should change over

  to plain rain shortly after daybreak along and to the west of

  Route 219, while the icy conditions linger into the late morning

  hours further east.

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57 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

@Blizzard of 93, the Euro is still teasing us with Jan 15/16.   Very sharp trough down into Florida, a front ready made for a monster from the South.  Snow maps suck this Am but potential does not.  It is tilted the "wrong way" unfortunately.  (Euro 204)

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The surface is not far away from something better next weekend on the 0z Euro.

This period needs watched for sure.

 

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This morning my temperature dropped to the coldest reading in nearly 2 years at 10.2 degrees.  Even up to 4:30 it was still 19 degrees.  Then the winds must have gone calm because the temp started dropping pretty rapidly and didn't bottom out until almost 8:00.  During all of last winter my coldest reading was 12.6 F.  I'm pretty sure most of us will see single digits upcoming this week.  The snow cover definitely plays a big role in helping temps to drop.  Just before 10:45 I'm back up to 23.2.

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