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02-14-2021, 06:54 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 3,860
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Thomas Built Bus
Chassis: Freightliner FS65
Engine: Caterpillar 3126E Diesel
Rated Cap: 71 Passenger- 30,000 lbs.
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Help identify this myserious white powder!
I went out the garge door here in Texas and saw all of this white powder on our bus.
Any clue as to what it is and what I can do about it?
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02-14-2021, 07:14 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Virginia
Posts: 2,431
Year: 1971
Coachwork: Wayne
Chassis: International Loadstar 1600
Engine: 6v-53n detroit
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Was it raining asbestos?
Maybe you're not in Texas anymore....
I just steam cleaned our bus, snow, ice, and freezing rain up here for the last week and the bus is white from road salt, yuck. Heading south tomorrow.
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02-14-2021, 07:28 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 7,033
Year: 2003
Coachwork: International
Chassis: CE 300
Engine: DT466e
Rated Cap: 65C-43A
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Careful, I've heard you can drown in that stuff.
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02-14-2021, 07:55 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 639
Year: 2001
Coachwork: Thomas
Engine: 3126b 210hp
Rated Cap: 48
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The horror!
You need to move immediately!
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02-14-2021, 07:57 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Athens, TN
Posts: 1,573
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Amtran
Chassis: International RE
Engine: International T444e
Rated Cap: 76
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We're just about to be slammed by round two of this winter weather here in KY, and I hear there's even a round three. We just got the power back yesterday after a three day outage....
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02-14-2021, 07:59 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Feb 2019
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 1,349
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Thomas 4 window w/lift
Chassis: G30~Chevy cutaway
Engine: 5.7/350 Chevy Vortec
Rated Cap: Just me and my "stuff"?
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Be careful, very careful, driving in it.
It can be hazardous to your bus's health if driven too long on the salt thrown down on roadways to fight it!
Hear its heading our way in a day or two...
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02-14-2021, 10:39 PM
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#7
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 3,860
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Thomas Built Bus
Chassis: Freightliner FS65
Engine: Caterpillar 3126E Diesel
Rated Cap: 71 Passenger- 30,000 lbs.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Meathead
The horror!
You need to move immediately!
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We're using the bus as our moving van. Headed to Florida. This white stuff is keeping us from making a run. Heck, we were supposed to be there by now (for this trip). We are now running the risk of not making it to the Skoolie Swarm in Melrose, Fl that starts Feb 21, 2021. Sigh ... perhaps a few days?
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02-14-2021, 11:39 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: Rapid City, SD
Posts: 993
Year: 2001
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: CS RE
Engine: ISC 8.3 L 260 hp
Rated Cap: 36
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IT IS SNOW-MAGEDDON!
But seriously be careful if you have to drive and don't go out if you don't have to. Too many nasty wrecks and pile ups in the news.
Here in SD there is not much snow just lows in the -20s.
Ted
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02-15-2021, 02:19 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 20,046
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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Lots of Snow and lots of cold here in the Chicago-town. most nice though the customer site letting me (insisted) that I keep my bus in their dry heated garage.
I arrived yesterday Just as the snow was beginning.. my whole trip travelling, the temps were around 0 to -5f, I keep power-service additive in my fuel and unlike some, i didnt remove my bus heaters.. (in fact I restored them).. so absolutely no issues driving in short sleeves the whole way. I did find that during stops while wanting to work that I had to leave the engine run and have the webasto on to keep it 75-80 inside.. and thats with my air shutters closed..
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02-15-2021, 02:22 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Nov 2020
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 50
Year: 1939
Coachwork: new paris indiana coachworks
Chassis: stock
Engine: undecided
Rated Cap: 18
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it is the same here
not in Vietnam anymore
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02-17-2021, 11:53 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 3,860
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Thomas Built Bus
Chassis: Freightliner FS65
Engine: Caterpillar 3126E Diesel
Rated Cap: 71 Passenger- 30,000 lbs.
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We were without power for 56 hours. The power just came back. No heat, no internet. We had to cook by the fireplace. It was between --2F and 18F degrees the whole time! I did take a short drive down the street to get some firewood ... and that was a nasty drive. Looks like it will start to melt in two days. This weekend, it is to get into the 60's. Welcome to Texas!
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02-17-2021, 11:59 AM
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#12
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 7,033
Year: 2003
Coachwork: International
Chassis: CE 300
Engine: DT466e
Rated Cap: 65C-43A
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Native
We were without power for 56 hours. The power just came back. No heat, no internet. We had to cook by the fireplace. It was between --2F and 18F degrees the whole time! I did take a short drive down the street to get some firewood ... and that was a nasty drive. Looks like it will start to melt in two days. This weekend, it is to get into the 60's. Welcome to Texas!
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Glad you're still alive, man. Lookin' rough down there - worse than anything we've gotten in Philly for a few years now.
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02-20-2021, 04:13 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: Rutland, Vermont
Posts: 27
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I think it's something Ted Cruz brought back from Cancun in his luggage...
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02-20-2021, 09:44 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: BC Rockies
Posts: 125
Year: 93
Coachwork: Corbiel
Chassis: Ford
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 36 pass
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Native
Attachment 53986
I went out the garge door here in Texas and saw all of this white powder on our bus.
Any clue as to what it is and what I can do about it?

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Jeez, hard to say man, I regularly see stuff that looks similar but never in such skimpy quantities!
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02-20-2021, 10:59 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 1,449
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Crown, integral. (With 2kW of tiltable solar)
Chassis: Crown Supercoach II (rear engine)
Engine: Detroit 6V92TAC, DDEC 2, Jake brake, Allison HT740
Rated Cap: 37,400 lbs GVWR
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Excuse me, what is this "snow" that you mention? I don't understand - how can water be white and solid? Mind you, I'm very familiar with cold: recently the days here have been much colder than normal, with the temperatures plummeting into the low-70s. Brrr. At this rate I'll have to wear my thermal insulated flipflops, and I may even need to wear a slightly thicker T-shirt. Damn, only the toughest can survive a Southern California winter here. And I've got no more sunscreen left - woe is me.
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02-21-2021, 12:37 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Clearlake, Northern California
Posts: 2,531
Year: 1992
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: TC-2000 Frt Eng, Tranny:MT643
Engine: 5,9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 84
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For those who have developed a fresh interest in cold weather stories, I can mention that I posted an old Texas-related cold-weather-story a few weeks ago. It is post #1079 of the Millicent Chronicles.
https://www.skoolie.net/forums/f11/t...e-1564-54.html
I sure hope everyone affected by the current cold-snap are recovering all right.
By the way, I have friends near Houston. As I understand it, as their lumber thaws out, they are building a pillory for Mr. Cruz. If I had a way to contribute to that effort, I certainly would.
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02-21-2021, 08:52 AM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: May 2018
Posts: 15
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I was heading out west from Fla. Nope! Staying right where I am for awhile!!
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02-21-2021, 10:14 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,830
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Man that weather out there is brutal. Yall stay warm.
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02-24-2021, 01:03 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 3,860
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Thomas Built Bus
Chassis: Freightliner FS65
Engine: Caterpillar 3126E Diesel
Rated Cap: 71 Passenger- 30,000 lbs.
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Here we are, a week after hitting a low of -2 degrees F, we hit the 80's!
There is a saying ... "If you do not like the weather in Texas, wait 5 minutes."
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02-24-2021, 05:49 AM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Nov 2020
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 50
Year: 1939
Coachwork: new paris indiana coachworks
Chassis: stock
Engine: undecided
Rated Cap: 18
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hope your going to be ok now in texas
We have never had a power outage where i live in Minnesota for more than a couple of hours.
So i would not be able to relate to the discomfort.
I thought of the idea Of Skoolie life style when I turned the key in the Gerstenslager Monday morning for winter road trip from Minneapolis St.Paul area back to West Central Minnesota
I could turn on the heat and the drive was great so did the Duluth trip on the way.An extra 425 miles turn in the road.
Had no problems filling a few times with propane and had to tell persons at the gas station that this was road tax propane not just heat fuel.
But the idea that we could use the Gerstenslager for heat during the winter will make me keep a coach at home from now on in the winter'
Your storm taught me something about where to park my vehicle in the off season.
Home is the best place to be [sometimes]
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