Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Pond Boss You guys down in Texas getting some snow?

Woke up this morning to -9°F. Supposed to be just as cold out tomorrow. I'm taking the big gun and going to the 1,000 yd range to collect cold weather shooting data.

Enjoy, I would!!!

Awoke this morning to 73 and calm. Rain and cold just set in and will be 38 by nightfall, cold enough for me. Can you feel any extremity when it is -9 ? I couldnt make it. Then again 99 - 106 with 99% humidity during the summer is my normal. I don't even own a heavy coat.

Scott, knowing you, that stuff has been carefully selected and works well. I've been in that stuff hunting but have no desire to do it again. I have some Mickey Mouse Boots for my feet and nothing is better. How do you move around in all of that?

I don't like the Under Armor as much as I do DaMart. But, I'm always on the lookout for something better.

Believe it or not, I find myself doing fine even in negative temps - it's the wind on exposed skin that can do some damage in a hurry and that I loathe.

Another bonus of temps 20 and below....most a-holes stay home/indoors - so one has a place on the planet largely to oneself. No loud motorcyles, no screaming kids in the neighborhood, no incessantly barking dogs, no subwoofers booming in a teenager car. It's an overlooked benefit in my book...the silence.

I fear the end is nigh, however - we have 50s scheduled all next week. Buh bye ice fishing and solace.

I very much agree with this. The other day it was zero degrees, but no wind. Loved it. Brisk, but not stinging. I think it's one of my favorite weather patterns.

For me, I use a combination of Under Armor 4.0 Baselayer and Ice Armor when I'm ice fishing. Been in 27 below and have yet to consider myself "cold".

Dave moving around isn't all that hard. You don't have the full 100% range of motion you do in shorts and flip flops, but plenty enough to do what you have to do.

I ve been trying to post a couple of pics from Friday when I got out to the farm but having some IPHONE problems. Time to go Android I think. This was all ice on all of the ponds. I've seen a little in past years but not like this.

FIH, I hope you got your boots handy! It was on the weather tonight that Dallas and points East are going to get a minimum of 2" of snow. NE suburbs of Atlanta, GA could see a FOOT of snow in the higher elevations!!! 4" is what they said Atlanta will see. 12" for Washington DC. CJ, I hope you have chains for your cruiser!

4 inches of snow in Atlanta Scott? It will be bumper cars again! Or this time everyone will stay home. 4 inches doesn't even call school off up here.

Did you see Chicago has had 21 days below zero this winter and set to be 22 days tonight? The record is 25 days.

Just saw on the local news that one of my "kids" got hit by a car while he was working a wreck on an icy overpass last night and died. He left a wife and 3 children. I never, ever miss my past life.

Please be careful on the roads.

Very sorry to hear that Al. Did you know the young man personally? Such tragic news.

No snow or ice in the forecast here for today, but it's 10 below right now.

Al, my condolences to you and prayers for his family.

Thermometer just hit -16.1°F here. It was -14.7°F when I got up. I'll be headed out the door in a short bit to collect some long range cold weather shooting data. No time like the present to find out what it does!

Yep! And they said the NE suburbs of Atlanta that are higher up in elevation could see 12". Was that record in Chicago set in the mid '80's? I remember a winter like that. Or was it around the time of the '78 blizzard?

Tony, the last 10 years I worked I drove a Battalion Chief and he was in our district. I saw him every shift, and helped him pick out his bass boat.

As CJB and other public safety guys can attest to, drivers get hypnotized at wreck scenes, and often drive straight into the flashing lights. What pisses me off about this is that a lot of people drive to fast on the ice, follow to close to other cars on the ice, and hit the brakes to much on the ice.

It's hard for civilians to understand, but if a building collapses on a fireman, or a flash over occurs, then that's just a risk we took. This was needless.

Nope 143 years ago in 1871.

And I was wrong;today made 24 days below zero.

http://blog.chicagoweathercenter.com/

I saw that last night on the news Al. So sorry. People around here just don't know what to do when it gets icy.

Al, the "hit a worker get X dollar fine and X time in jail" in Illinois came about because a good friend was flagging at a construction site and was punted by a drunk driver. He survived, but is missing his spleen, half his liver, part of a kidney (I think) and has multiple pins in his one lower leg/ankle. They are much more careful now when working, and have a guy watching oncoming traffic while the other guys work.

I saw a video from down there where a guy passed someone on glaze ice and then went out of control. You can't fix stupid!

I've had people pass me in on ice up here (didn't have a choice -- had to show up to work or get fired) thinking their four wheel drive would save them. Duuuuuh!

I called off a lunch with a friend today. Right now the roads aren't at all bad. However, freezing rain and sleet are due about 10 AM. With thousands of drivers in the metroplex, you know there are going to be wrecks. I don't want to be out in a traffic jam like that.

Here, we get a taste of what you guys further south experience as far as inexperienced drivers whenever we get that first snow/ice. People tend to forget how to drive on it over the summer/spring. I can't imagine how horrible it is when you have thousands of people driving on it for the first time ever.

Smart move Dave!

Sorry AL - that's stupid, senseless, and tragic. Sending you positive vibes.

My brother was driving from San Antonio to north of Dallas on Monday evening and hit ice and slammed into a guard rail. His exact quote was "crossing the last bridge and was 180 degrees before I knew it."

Uh, it was 82 and flip flop weather yesterday. The birds were singing and the CNBG were actively feeding. It's thunder-snowing here right now and 22 degrees. Supposed to hit 12 degrees tonight.

I'm officially ready for spring.