Time to run to Wally World and buy milk and bread!
We call off schools, call the TV and news outlets to cancel work or start later in the day.
Our snowman will only be about two feet high, and it takes all the snow within a hundred feet.
And we sure as heck do NOT know how to drive in icy conditions!
People zoom up to stop signs and stomp their brakes, and are actually surprised when they slide right on through!
Oh, well.
That is the exact reaction you get here in South Louisiana too. People freak the hell out and completely forget how to drive. But it is fun watching the kids reactions. That is the best part.
Yumm.... Milk sandwiches
The greatest entertainment in the winter is watching the Weather Channel cover an ice event in Dallas traffic. Hilarious.
And maybe every five years or so we get lucky enough to see ice in Houston. Now that's funny!
:good:
Paden, on Monday
one of the crews was working just south of I-10 and just west of the Katy Mills Mall and called me to tell me sleet was falling on him.
About 3 hours later, he called to say the robotic TS wouldn't lock on the backsight because of the heat waves (about 3,000 ft. away)
I had to laugh.
Hi, Harold,
We're iced in here in my neck of the woods this afternoon, guess you are too.
Nothing to do but talk about the weather on surveyor connect dot com.
Well, actually got a lot of office work I could be doing, like cleaning it up, but that's no fun.
Hello, Terry!
I have been doing the "office boy" thing today. Reading stacks of deeds, importing old surveys (5000, 5000, 100) on top of GPS points and rotating a little, importing nearby SPSC points into the current project files, plotting stacks of deeds on top of field points, wondering why in the [#%¥£€#] my old solar observation was out by one DEGREE (!!!) and my field notes reduction checked, answering e-mails, explaining why the survey corners will not be set and plat finished today, fielding new projects (!), and wondering if I have time to go to the Chickasaw Chancery Clerk's office for more deed research. There is no down time in solo work. If it ain't raining, I work outside. If it is, I work inside. Fortunately, I have a stack of projects to do, ranging from lot surveys to five of over 100 acres each. It just needs to quit raining. It was 17* yesterday morning, but a beautiful day to be outside! I have been using GPS for about 2.5 years, and I like it a lot. It saves a bunch of time for me, and I can cover a larger area to tie in PLSS corners.
Drive 'em hard, and set 'em deep! B-)
Harold
Degree symbol is ° ALT+248.
And, that works lots of places, word processor, and acad.
Just handy.
N
In some parts of the world....(update)
For all of those folks out there that are interested...
Dallas, Tx. is expected to have a pretty significant ice event coming up. Stay off the freeway if you can...
In some parts of the world....(update)
West TN had a significant ice accumulation last week, and again Friday. We had tremendous rain today, thankfully, we were above freezing, or we would have really been in trouble.
They are saying snow again tomorrow night. Hopefully it will be light accumulations.
I can't complain, I feel for the folks up in the Boston area. I could not handle those types of winters.
Harold
I have an apple I-pad for looking at survey connect. I have two windows pc's back in my office. I wish I knew how to make a degree symbol on an I-pad. No "control" key or left/right arrow keys. Don't like! You gotta do the "finger bubble" thingy when you want to move the cussor around!:pissed:
°. Well, looky here! I "googled" it, went to the apple website, and some kind soul had posted where these special symbols are!
I switched to the numeric keypad and held down the zero key. Up pops an alternate symbol list! °
Now it is 69° outside and not 69 asterisks outside! 😀
Harold (asterisks)
Had a computer class from a professor who used the term "Nathan" in place of "asterisk". He told us this was in honor of Nathan Hale who had only one asterisk for his country.
