I need a shot of hot glycol (MD-80 at Tulsa a few days ago)!

[DemoTex]

Yet another reason I am SO happy to be retired!

[Redstone]

1. EE-Yowzah! Was that preflight, or was it on a layover?

Redstone

[DemoTex]

2. It was a friend who still flies the MD-88.

Looks like the morning after a bad ice storm. It will take $1000+ of hot glycol to get that ice off (or a few days in the sun). I've seen worse.

[Coyote_Bandit]

3. That ice storm

caused my electricity to be out for a week.

Still haven't cleaned out the two freezers and tossed all the spoiled food. Still recovering from the bronchitis I got while shivering and trying to stay warm in my cold dark house. And I got a $250 gas bill. It was $50 last month and the highest it has ever been is only about $125. But then I had the gas logs burning as hot as possible for a full week - and still only managed to keep the den about 50 to 55 degrees during the day. It was colder at night.

There are still broken tree limbs hanging. And falling. It is windy here the last few days. And my neighborhood still looks like a war zone. Lots of downed tree limbs. Some in the street. Some piled on the curb.

[Droopy]

4. I used to have a dedicated haul from Ohio to Arkansas and back

I always did it on one tank of fuel with probably about 30 gallons left over. About a 1000 mile round trip. One day they had an ice storm down there in Arknasa and Tennessee. As I was closing in on Cincinnati I noticed that my fuel gauge was nearing empty. But it was off a little bit anyway and I figured I could make it back to Dayton. I ran out of fuel about 15 miles south of Cincinnati. There must have been 20,000 pounds of ice on that truck.