Reality Wrote:
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> "You don't want facts and nuance, just hyperbole
> and knee-jerk idiocy"
>
> Facts =/= "nuance". You then pick out a few quotes
> that prove exactly what I said - the maintenance
> people seem not to have focused on what would make
> a bus operable in cold temps, such as batteries
> and fuel filters/water separators. Gee, why would
> someone running diesel equipment want to focus on
> those very points in the winter?
Perhaps because this has been an extraordinary occurrence, not that you want to admit it. I guess you live in Buffalo where the low temps are regularly in the single digits and every diesel pump dispenses EN 590 class D fuel.
You know, if these mechanics were as incompetent as you believe, completely unprepared for cold weather, you'd think we'd be regularly hearing about how the buses are out of order during the winter. Where are all the other times they've had hundreds of buses out of order? Why is this the first time we've heard about this? It's been cold before now. There were periods of cold last year.
No, you're right, the mechanics are morons who, if they got a clue, it would be the first time in their lives and they wouldn't know what to do with it. You really need to get over there and put things in order.
> "Platenberg said that in single-digit
> temperatures, diesel fuel will congeal in the
> tank"
> Perhaps academicians should defer to technicians.
> Unaltered diesel fuel will gel at extremely cold
> temps - generally around 0 or below (the EN
> standard is -4F, while the ASTM standard is for a
> cloud point some 10F above the mean low for a
> given period. If the fuel does gel, a bit of
> kerosene readily solves the problem.
> In this case, the PR spin is called "bullshit",
> not "news".
Oh, just add some kerosene? Wow, brilliant. I'll just go in my garage and get some kerosene to... Oh, wait, I don't have any in my garage. Let me go down to the Shell station and... Oh, wait, they don't have any either... Let me go to the Sheetz in Manassas and get some - boy that's a drive from Mount Vernon.
> I prefer to get my weather from professionals, not
> "bloggers". YMMV. Last I checked, if one end of a
> scale is above 60 with a median in the 20s, the
> other end of the scale has to be quite a bit
> lower. It's called "math".
The site doesn't say "median", it says "average". Average, in the absence of a specific identifier, usually refers to the mean. There's a huge difference between the mean and the median! I thought someone who knew everything would know something so simple.
Also, let's take a look at this list...
68, 63, 28, 27, 26, 25, 25, 24, 19
What's the mean?
33.89
What's the median?
26
What's the mode?
25
That list is full of double digit values. No single digit values in there.
Take a look at this link...
http://www.sercc.com/cgi-bin/sercc/cliMAIN.pl?va8737
At the bottom, it says the
MEAN for January is 25.75 - That matches up pretty closely to the 25.7 shown in your list.
Sorry buddy, you're at home plate but you're using a cricket bat. Right idea, wrong tool.
> You, OTOH, are a silly keyboard warrior who thinks
> they're funny. Har har. Par for the FFU course, I
> suppose.
I don't think I'm funny. I do think you're an ass with an axe to grind. "FCPS sucks, they put down turf instead of being prepared for historically bad weather." I bet you'd be upset that the buses aren't amphibious to deal with flooding after a hurricane. Obviously all of this is because of Astroturf.