Hangar Camping at the Airport !

Kim Tue Dec 25, 2012 8:51 pm

Well, looks like the Mayans only missed the apocalypse by a few days! If the Weather Channel is calling it right, we got us a World-Ending Blizzard bearing down on us!

So...rather than being trapped on the hill, I locked down the Skunk Works, loaded up the Assault Van with adequate supplies, and hoofed it to the airport for a night, or maybe two.

We got the airport manager, my boss, the airport maintenance boss, me, and a couple cohorts running around here. There's popcorn popping and lots of hooting going on. Sort of a Blizzard version of a Gulf Hurricane Party.

My buds are gonna have to make due sleeping on couches (when they're not driving plow and spreader trucks) while I shall be retiring to the luxurious accommodations of my air mattress-equipped cargo van...unless I get drafted into some spreader-truck driving.

Above all, we have plenty of coffee ! It's a good night to not go anywhere !

**Cribbs74** Tue Dec 25, 2012 9:19 pm

Man, I thought the storm was more south of you, guess not. It bitter cold here in Tuttle OK and we had snow earlier, right now it's just crazy windy! Really, in OK it's windy LOL.

My chickens are spending their first cold night in the coop. Hope they fare ok as they are kinda young still. I have no way of putting heat out there.

Stay warm Kim, hope the Skunk Works still exists upon your return.

Ron

andrew Tue Dec 25, 2012 9:20 pm

We've got plenty of wind and wind and wind and rain on this side of the river. According to the weather gurus, we may end up on the eastern edge of the snow. I'm prepped for the snow, but the wind over the past 3 years has blown just about everything off the house that can be blown away. I've got stuff loose from the wind storms from last week --- this one may finish it off.

I hope you have your van parked in the hanger -- temps and weather look pretty nasty over there.

**RknRusty** Tue Dec 25, 2012 9:27 pm

cribbs74 wrote:...My chickens are spending their first cold night in the coop. Hope they fare ok as they are kinda young still. I have no way of putting heat out there....
Ron

Can you run a drop cord with a 100 watt light bulb out there and put it under the coop?

**Cribbs74** Tue Dec 25, 2012 9:30 pm

I still have a Couple brooder lamps, but I think the blowing snow would crack the bulb. Maybe I can hang it inside somehow.

Kim Wed Dec 26, 2012 7:16 am

And...we survived. Slept deep in the van with nobody kicking me out to move a plane or drive a truck. Looks like there is almost as much snow on the side of our buildings as on the ground.
I should have some dramatic photos...somewhere past my third cup of coffee...and maybe a shower...

John Goddard Wed Dec 26, 2012 7:37 am

Kim wrote:
I should have some dramatic photos...somewhere past my third cup of coffee...and maybe a shower...

I know what you're thinking Kim, did I have 5 coffee's
Or 6? I'm feelin lucky, Make my day and go straight out
With camera.
Rudolph

Kim Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:10 am

Temps are coming up...so maybe we'll just have to deal with the wind.

Hangar Camping at the Airport ! Snow10

My buds are out and hard at it while a I enjoy my coffee!

Hangar Camping at the Airport ! Sam_2211

My metal sleeping bag:

Hangar Camping at the Airport ! Sam_2210

John Goddard Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:49 am

I love the way you guys Take it in your stride
And just get on with it Kim.
Over here the country would just stop for 3
Weeks when faced with that.
Snowman

Kim Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:13 am

Thanks John...the guys' first priority is the ramp, then the runways, so that pilots of Medical Helicopters can land with some visual clues rather than a blank white sheet of snow. We probably won't see many today, but have to keep it all ready just in case.

It isn't as bad as our local, breathless Weather Girl predicted, and I was able to hoof it home to check on stuff here. Still, better a less-than-accurate call in this direction, rather than the horrendous 3-foot + blast we got in 1979 when forecasters were predicting "flurries and some light accumulation"!

Right now, the thing is this blessed wind !!!!!!!!!!

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