What's the temperature where you are???

[Debbie292d]

Not sure if you are able to get 'bear bangers' - but those can be fired from a rifle, and scare the bears away. They also use rubber bullets here to encourage them to move along.

Electric fencing can keep them from your property if they become too much of a nuisance.

Love those cubs - great photo! nothing more dangerous than a mama bear (unless it's a mama moose!).

The DNR has a contract with a bear relocation team. If they get too out of hand, we can call them and they'll trap and relocate. In the beginning, they destroyed some bird feeders, as they're 100% sunflower seeds they love, but hubby strung those up in the air on pulleys. That day, the suet was fresh and within reach. She knocked one down but didn't destroy it trying to get it out. I suppose she thought it would be easy.

 

[Debbie292d]

High is 31°F, but we're under a Hazardous Weather Advisory too. This one's in pink. The one with the map is yellow as well.

We're supposed to get 1/4" of ice and 1" of snow.

We're going nowhere today!

 

[Ponypoor]

....and here, too. I would love to have an actual winter (Texas winter, at least - 40s/50s). We've had 70s/80s. Crazy stuff.

I have seen that, I know you can get frosty at times but haven’t seen that with you this winter.

High is 31°F, but we're under a Hazardous Weather Advisory too. This one's in pink. The one with the map is yellow as well.

We're supposed to get 1/4" of ice and 1" of snow.

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We're going nowhere today!

That’s a good amt of ice accretion - I told my mum Thursday is her day to go places. She’s frustrated with not being able to go where she wants, but her truck doesn’t have snow tires so better safe than sorry!

Wish she would learn to drive Ol Blue, but she is leery of the gadgets in my
Truck and she tells me she is too old to try to figure them all out. Her truck is a 2008 but in exceptional condition.

That truck never saw a winter until Covid, she spent 23 winters in AZ.

 

[akroberts1085]

Wet and windy. Rain off and on all day

 

[Jenbirdee]

Well if the house door at the front is frozen then I hope someone is home to let me in! If not then I go find the back door key trudge around the back (usually through a couple feet of snow) and go in that way.

If the vehicle doors are frozen from let’s say freezing rain then I remote start my vehicle and hope the heat inside warms the vehicle enough to soften the ice encasing the vehicle. Sometimes condensation freezes the door seal to the vehicle, and again hope the vehicle warms it up enough to melt it.

If you don’t have remote start then you have to either wait for the sun to melt the ice or carefully chip the ice but you run the risk of damaging the paint doing that!

There’s also ice melt spray

 

[Jenbirdee]

 

[Jenbirdee]

There’s also ice melt spray

Or a blow torch

 

[Ponypoor]

There’s also ice melt spray

Locked in the truck most likely! Or inside the house

 

[Ponypoor]

Or a blow torch

I like how you think!

Locked in the garage alas…..

 

[007Sean]

Monday: 5:20pm, 78°F, dew point 60°F, humidity 55%, wind S @ 5mph, partly cloudy, partly sunny! High today was 80°F. Low was 64°F