extreme cold pending for DFW...

[ammolab]

TEXAS!

 

[SubieRubyRoo]

1.4 F here in central PA this morning!

Sounds like we better make some more CO2!!

 

[4wd]

Do houses in your neighborhood have basements ?

We can’t without doubling home cost - it becomes commercial concrete construction -vs- wood frame on slab …
Houston is the foundation repair capital - soil never rests - no way would I want pressurized pipe under the slab - mine runs in the gap between the ceiling and R30 insulation/decking … I have very reliable power, plus natural gas, and some duel fuel gens … great run here since 1996 …

 

[4wd]

TEXAS!View attachment 321070

Actually it snows allot in the panhandle

 

[4wd]

Nope, basements in North Texas are very rare & expensive, because the soil here is clay and expands & contracts with the weather. If a house here has a basement, then it would usually be a wine cellar in a multi-million dollar home.

Post-tension slab foundations are typical because they are cheap and “float” on the clay soil.

We have one in our town - massive Mediterranean mansion - they needed some place for the bar assisted bowling lanes …
(Huge game room for all ages) …

 

[Wylie6G72]

We can’t without doubling home cost - it becomes commercial concrete construction -vs- wood frame on slab …
Houston is the foundation repair capital - soil never rests - no way would I want pressurized pipe under the slab - mine runs in the gap between the ceiling and R30 insulation/decking … I have very reliable power, plus natural gas, and some duel fuel gens … great run here since 1996 …

Driving on pretty much any Texas Road will give you a good idea of what the soil would do to a regular basement. Most Dallas inner city streets are like a roller coasters. Old wooden roller coasters.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

We're going to get a decent cold snap here in upstate NY. Not going below 0F, but a couple night near there.

We need a REALLY good cold week to kill off the ticks.

 

[spasm3]

Calling for freezing rain sat and Sunday here in N.C.

 

[Capt W]

Anybody else getting tired of these "winter storm" names we've been subjected to over the past few years? So this one is apparently Winter Storm Fern. Imagine that...cold temps, snow, and ice in January. Remarkable...who would have thought this could happen?

What's amusing is these goofy names aren't coming from the National Weather Service; they're coming from The Weather Channel.

It's not a hurricane or tsunami; it's a winter storm. One of these springs we'll be hearing about Rainstorm Ralph, Thunderstorm Thomas, and Windstorm Wendell. Good grief.

 

[CleanSump]

They named this Winter storm Fern after my aunt. If you ever met her, cold and Fern are perfectly matched.

 

[ammolab]

Actually it snows allot in the panhandle

It does. I should have put, “Dallas / Austin / Houston” I drove to work at the Texas Medical Center in the 1970s in Houston on about 2” of snow on the roads and I was shocked at how many drivers ran right through red lights. I mentioned this to my co workers on arrival and they said, “sure it’s impossible to stop on snow, right?”. I grew up in Buffalo and thought differently.

 

[MolaKule]

-45F here with wind chill today.

We have had a lot of snow and cold temps for the last three months. Not really typical.

Last time I recall it being this cold was when
we moved here in 2006.

 

[CleanSump]

And people here are worried the prediction is lows in the single digits and highs in the teens starting Saturday. It's 55F here today. Weather is just weird. Glad I grew up in Nebraska and Minnesota, doesn't bother me one bit.

 

[facility1]

move to north .central Wisconsin if you want a REAL winter,you will realize what its about, just staying safely warm and getting around is a priority to most.

 

[JHZR2]

Why bad it gets cold in N Texas.

Snow plow availability.

I narrowly escaped dfw back last time, got out from Austin. I would have been stranded for days. Just left dfw today.

 

[Rand]

Oh man, my camping group and I drove from DFW to Big Bend Ranch State Park in that 2021 snowpocalypse. We left DFW at 3am in the morning (later during the morning rush hour traffic was that massive 133 vehicle pileup on I35W in FtW).

Everyone got a little squirrelly outside Midland on I-20 and after seeing a few FedEx and UPS tractor trailers in the ditches on their side, we decided it was time for a donut & coffee break.

Weather at BBRSP was sunny and in the 70’s when we arrived, but that cold front rolled in overnight and brought the snow & freezing rain with it. We did as much wheelin’ and sight seeing we could, then called an audible to head home at 3pm. We drove the entire night back and I made it home at around 7am.

The entire drive home was uneventful except the last 30 min where I hit some black ice and got sideways in 4Hi. The irony of driving all night through freezing rain only to get sideways in the last 30 min.

Funny note- we were barely able to keep freezing rain from accumulating on the windshields despite running defrosters on high and heated windshield wipers on. The only GX470 in the group didn’t have heated windshield wipers, and when he found out that the 4Runners had them, he was not a happy camper.

Crazy, but fun memory.

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Up here the cars look like that just from the road salt spray.

 

[Japanese]

15W is OK for 10F ... no need to go full 0W Stay warm!

Here, temps in Fahrenheit.

Let me know what oil to use because I need to go to work or should I just call off next week? @tired
Stay warm!

 

[tired]

Let me know what oil to use because I need to go to work or should I just call off next week? @tired

You must be incredibly flexible from all the gymnastics necessary to continuously manipulate my and @Hohn 's recommendation to use high quality, low VII oils in specific conditions! From a recommendation for a man living in LA with no cold starts ever, to extrapolating this to Chicago weather! Impressive!

But I will entertain this request as though it was made earnestly.

I only see two days with modestly cold weather. Single digits below 0 isn't too bad.

Let me know what oil to use

I continue to recommend Valvoline Restore and Protect 5W-30 to you, as I have in the past.

There's only two possible starts in below 0 weather. One is on a weekend, so probably easier to avoid, and the low on Friday is going to be that night, so zero cold starts on a weekday, although I don't know what line of work you're in, so for all I know, you work on weekends. You could probably get away with HPL PCMO 10W-40 easily in your weather, as previously discussed. You would probably need to step up from the 15W-40 Hohn is running to 10W-40 to be safe 99% of the time in Chicago, since you're a bit farther north than him.

 

[ATex7239]

I can’t wait to see all the guys with 4x4 trucks with highway tires try to be heroes and go out in the snow/ice for some milk. It’s always good a laugh.

 

[facility1]

You must be incredibly flexible from all the gymnastics necessary to continuously manipulate my and @Hohn 's recommendation to use high quality, low VII oils in specific conditions! From a recommendation for a man living in LA with no cold starts ever, to extrapolating this to Chicago weather! Impressive!

But I will entertain this request as though it was made earnestly.

I only see two days with modestly cold weather. Single digits below 0 isn't too bad.


I continue to recommend Valvoline Restore and Protect 5W-30 to you, as I have in the past.

There's only two possible starts in below 0 weather. One is on a weekend, so probably easier to avoid, and the low on Friday is going to be that night, so zero cold starts on a weekday, although I don't know what line of work you're in, so for all I know, you work on weekends. You could probably get away with HPL PCMO 10W-40 easily in your weather, as previously discussed. You would probably need to step up from the 15W-40 Hohn is running to 10W-40 to be safe 99% of the time in Chicago, since you're a bit farther north than him.

0w-20 around here is a plus, have Pennzoil Ultra Platinum in my ride, works fine at cranking, no unusual noises on starts.any 15w-40 etc is not a good idea in sub zero temps.